Buckbeak

Here's a picture of Buckbeak! The Sun has a closeup picture of Buckbeak the hippogriff from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

I have a lot of New Year's Resolutions, and one of them is not to let this happen at our house.

Gollum

Andy Serkis has a book tour here in the US in January. He is not coming anywhere near Texas. To read about his book go to the Houghton Mifflin site. His book,
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum: How We Made Movie Magic sounds v. cool. We enjoyed watching the "extra" feature about him on the TT Extended DVD.