Archive for April, 2008

Emma Watson responds to Radcliffe rumours

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

films, suggested that their desire for such a romance was responsible for much of the press speculation which surrounds her friendship with Radcliffe, best known for his role as boy wizard Harry in the movies.
“Dan Radcliffe is very charming, and very, very sweet and knows how to handle it,” Watson explained. “We’ve been handling this situation for six years now.
“Everyone has been going, ‘Are you and Dan together?’ Because it doesn’t happen in the books, everyone is so desperate for it to happen in real life that any opportunity to come up with a story about it is taken.”

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TV review: Son goes to war in ‘My Boy Jack’

Friday, April 18th, 2008

My Boy Jack:
A “Masterpiece Classic” film, starring Daniel Radcliffe, David Haig and Kim Cattrall. Written by David Haig. Directed by Brian Kirk.
9 p.m. Sunday on KQED.
At the start of World War I, Rudyard Kipling’s reputation, power and influence in the United Kingdom were such that his impassioned public disdain for the readiness level of the British forces prompted the prime minister to beg him to tone down the rhetoric. Kipling would not, however, either in public or at home with his American wife and two nearly grown children.

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Harry Potter - Watson Radcliffe I Will Never Be A Couple

Friday, April 18th, 2008

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Emma “Hermione” Watson to star in Napoleonic drama

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Emma Watson will take temporary leave from the familiar confines of Hogwarts to film the Napoleonic period drama Napoleon and Betsy this autumn.
Watson is known to millions around the world for her role in J K Rowling’s fantasy series as the impossibly precocious Hermione Granger. However unlike Daniel Radcliffe, who plays Potter and raised eyebrows with his naturalistic turn as a sexually deranged youngster in last year’s revival of Peter Schaffer’s stage play Equus, the 18-year-old actress has yet to graduate to adult drama.

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A Different Kind of Kipling Adventure

Friday, April 18th, 2008

of “Sex and the City” shows up on “Masterpiece” (formerly “Masterpiece Theater”) wearing cameos and high collars, the jokes write themselves as easily as if
Judi Dench
were appearing in the life story of
Doris Day
. From the trailers for the coming “Sex and the City” movie, we can see that Ms. Cattrall, at 51, still has a body that could forge peace treaties. If there is a crime in her casting, it is that she has been forced to stand around in front of William Morris wallpaper in floor-length, high-waisted solid cottons.

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Kim Cattrall: a mother haunted in the drama `My Boy Jack’

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Kim Cattrall: a mother haunted in the drama `My Boy Jack’ By FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer 1 hour, 43 minutes ago NEW YORK -
Kim Cattrall
found many reasons to seize the role of Carrie Kipling, wife of British literary superstar
Rudyard Kipling

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People: Daniel Radcliffe, Eminem, Damien Hirst

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

most famous works, ran into an unlikely obstacle on its way to a Tokyo museum: Japan's import ban on British beef. Hirst's “Mother and Child, Divided,” consisting of a cow and a calf each sliced in half, is part of a retrospective of Britain's controversial Turner Prize. Japan stopped beef imports from Britain after an outbreak of mad cow disease there. The Mori Art Museum had to convince customs officials that even the most adventurous gourmets were unlikely to tuck into Hirst's cow, said the museum's director,

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Daniel Radcliffe to Make Broadway Debut

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Daniel Radcliffe, the star of the “Harry Potter” movies, will make his Broadway debut on Sept. 5, playing the disturbed stable boy in a revival of Peter Shaffer’s play, “Equus,” it was announced Tuesday.
Radcliffe, 18, earned rave reviews for his performance in the London production of the Tony Award-winning play. He also received loads of media attention for appearing naked onstage — a departure from his wholesome image as the bespectacled boy wizard in the big-screen adaptations of J.K. Rowling’s best-selling fantasy novels.

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Radcliffe to Make B’way Debut in Fall

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Actor Daniel Radcliffe arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of “December Boys,” in this Sept. 6, 2007,file photo in Los Angeles.
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NEW YORK
April 9, 2008, 07:23 am ET ·
Harry Potter is headed to The Great White Way.
Daniel Radcliffe, the star of the “Harry Potter” movies, will make his Broadway debut on Sept. 5, playing the disturbed stable boy in a revival of Peter Shaffer’s play, “Equus,” it was announced Tuesday.

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Daniel Radcliffe set to bare all on Broadway

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actor Daniel Radcliffe will make his Broadway debut in September in a reprise of his London role in “Equus,” a performance where he shed not only the mantle of Harry Potter but also his clothes.
Radcliffe, 18, won rave reviews for his performance as a tortured teenager during an eight-week run of Peter Shaffer’s gruelling psychological thriller in London last year and will perform a 22-week run in New York City.

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