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Reading is a necessary part of many airplane trips. And books haven't made the list of prohibited items - yet. But for some reason, airport security at one of the area airpots (probably JFK) gave Harry Potter author JK Rowling a hard time about her manuscript for the seventh book in the series. On her website, she writes:
The heightened security restriction on the airlines in August made the journey back from New York interesting, as I refused to be parted from the manuscript of book seven (a large part of it is handwritten, and there was no copy of anything I had done while in the U.S.). They let me take it on, thankfully, bound up in elastic bands.Was her manuscript encased in some sort of protective gel exterior? That's pretty nice of the screeners, though we're sure a call to the British Consulate would have facilitated the situation, too, though, given the heft of Harry Potter books lately, we could understand the sight of a Harry Potter manuscript being threatening. Rowling had been in the NYC for a reading she did with Stephen King and John Irving, and she told fans she was toughening them up with two more character deaths to get them ready for King's and Irving's books.
And LaGuardia and JFK Airports are getting just under $40 million for projects to improve the airports and their surrounding neighbors. The NY Times reports the money "will pay for landscaping, street improvements, traffic studies and upgrades to the AirTrain at Kennedy."
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Just pointing this out.
"she was toughening up them up"
Well if she put it in her luggage, we the next Harry Poter book would have been "written" by some TSA schlub, who is about a half step up from a square badge.
Thanks!
How about an LGA AirTrain with that money?
I thought the reason there was no subway or Airtrain to LGA was because of NIMBYism in Queens.
And the TSA isn't taking orders from the British consulate. Buy a clue.
improvements to airtrain... that's alright with me.
Why would TSA want to make her check a manuscript? I paper now forbidden?
Of course none of this would be a problem if she just made a copy of the manuscript. Come on, J.K. you're a billionaire. Charter your own jet, or scan the damn thing and email it to yourself or put it on a flash drive.
Hooray for the TSA screeners...
who know a bomb when they see one.
yeah i didn't understand the press coverage of this at all. why would they have given her a problem??? makes no sense.
What's with the special treatment stars get? If I tried getting on a plane with a book/manuscript--finished or unnfinished-- and I was told no, that would've been the end of the discussion. It's sickening. We need to stop giving preferential treatment to these idiots and start treating them like any other Joe. Like last week, I was at a fashion/pop concert and Drea DeMateo was taping a segment for the televised version and she kept messing up her lines and laughing. Everyone in Radio City started booing and yelling for her to stop boozing it up. That made me feel good because that's the way "stars" should be treated.
#10 - I agree with you about celebrities and how they shouldn't be treated specially, but JK Rowling is not in the "idiot" category. She is not in the league of Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, et al. She does not strike me as a diva but as a down to earth woman who has had deserving success.