Sam Shepard: 'America is on its way out as a culture'. As his seminal 1980 play, True West, is revived in London, the influential playwright reflects on the diminishing global role of the US, and the deaths of his friends Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Williams. Laura Barton.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Released. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling, published on July 8, 2000. The book attracted additional attention because of a pre-publication warning from J. K. Rowling that one of the characters would be murdered in the book.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was first published  in the UK on the 26th June 1997. It was released on the 1st  September 1998 in the US with the title Harry Pott â¦ er and the  Sorcerer's Stone.  The movie was released on the 16th November 2001 in the UK and US.he first book and movie in the Harry Potter series, in  America it is known as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's  Stone.    The story follows Harry, an eleven year old â¦ boy who discovers he is  a wizard and begins attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and  Wizarding.