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OLBERMANN: Turning to our nightly round up of celebrity and entertainment news, Keeping
Tabs. And the peak of Potter-mania, 72 million copies of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"
sold out worldwide in 24 hours. Thousands of kids lining up at midnight Friday, prevailing
local time, to be the very first to read the very last installment, probably, of J.K. Rowling's'
wizard saga.
Many not even waiting until they got home to start reading. Thousands of adults, likewise,
gathered across the country, some at the Scholastic bookstore in New York City, patiently lining
up to get the book. Not - some of them even waiting they got home to start the reading.
And yes, that was Salman Rushdie, to his great relief, virtually unnoticed in line ahead
of me.