4:00AM STV | We don’t traffic in empathy much around here — especially for studio heads — but you can’t help but feel a bit sorry for Alan Horn these days, who has been reduced to peering under his car in a paranoid state before each trip to and from the Warners lot, searching for some Harry Potter fan’s homemade peat-moss explosive affixed to his gas tank with frog spit and the hovering air of revenge. Surely he knew what he was getting into when he
pushed Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from this November to July 2009 (he’s already
apologized), but still, no one deserves to live under the type of shrieking death-threat duress graphically laid out by
The Wall Street Journal:
