Oscar's Injustice

I think I am the most disinterested as I have ever been in this year's Academy Awards. I have seen none of the Best Picture contenders and am actually only interested in changing that fact for 4 of them. That, plus my being buried under schoolwork, plus my having only just returned from Vegas (more on that later) only yesterday, PLUS the outright snubbing of Deathly Hallows Part 2 equals a very uninformed Lauren filling out this year's RHI ballot. I am absolutely incensed that DH2 received only three nominations and, only in the technical fields at that. I know the Academy is a bunch of old, white dudes but if LOTR's final film can win 900,000 awards, including Best Picture, why can't Harry?! I am gobsmacked at its exclusion from any 'big' awards. It was the best-reviewed film of 2011 (according to Rotten Tomatoes) and had a pretty heavy 'For Your Consideration' push around the beginning of the year. Plus, the franchise has been nominated only 9 times over the first 7 films and has won ZERO Oscars thus far. Nada. Zilch. Bupkis. Inconceivable!!! The film should have garnered at least a pity nomination! Though such a thing wouldn't have even been necessary for anyone who saw the movie and watch Alan Rickman give such a fantastic performance as Severus Snape.

(S P O I L E R  A L E R T: Do NOT - I repeat, do NOT - watch this video [or read the small print below it] if you haven't yet finished the franchise, either books or movies-wise. That means you, Blackards.)



Dan once said in an interview that he, too, felt Alan should have been nominated, as he had the undesirable task of embodying a moment so beloved and imagined in the minds of millions of readers but that he did so brilliantly. And I agree 100%.

Dan thinks DH2 was snubbed because it was "too commercial" and maybe that's true. But I think the Academy writes it off as a children's story and just doesn't think about it at all. Which is a pity. Because the movies were (and are!) absolutely amazing and I think Dan should have at least had the courtesy of being nominated for carrying such a massive franchise on his young shoulders. The man became an excellent actor throughout his work in the films and he helped make them as wonderful as they are. His work should have been acknowledged in some way. And so while I think Rise of the Planet of the Apes may very well take the little bald man on Sunday night for Best Visual Effects, Robert and I stand by our man. Because Harry Potter will only be gone once those of us are no longer loyal to him.


And, now that I have stepped off my soapbox, here is this year's completed RHI ballot.

Wish us luck!

I WANT TO GO TO THERE!!!

I first heard this rumor last week on my satellite radio but now it's confirmed and I WANT TO GO!!!!!!!!! Ohmygosh. I want a wand, I want some Butterbeer and even though I'll be in my mid-thirties by the time it opens I will still want a wand and some Butterbeer. And if we have kids by then, they're gettin' wands, too. I totally think there are enough of us Potter geeks to support two parks even if the franchise has 'officially' ended. It's like Star Wars - a very detailed universe unto itself that fans (new and old) will want to see in the flesh.

Image Credit: Jason Redmond/AP Images

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando opened its doors just a year and a half ago, but executives are already planning to build a similar Potter-themed wonderland in Los Angeles. Earlier today, Universal officially announced its intention to bring Potter to Universal Studios Hollywood, while also announcing a planned expansion of the Orlando Potter exhibit. The announcement comes at an interesting moment for the franchise since, for the first time in its history, there are no new books or films on the horizon — which is to say, there are no more real Potter events left to celebrate. The big new Potter product — the interactive game/social media website/potential publishing venture Pottermore — remains trapped in beta.

Potter has been a a lucrative mega-franchise for a long time, and since the planned Hollywood park won’t open for at least three years, it’s worth asking: Is the Potter franchise big enough to support to separate parks? And can a franchise with a fundamental endpoint ever be as big as the Disney theme park global empire?

Universal is plotting this major construction project at a particularly fraught time in California’s economic history. As noted by the Associated Press, Governor Jerry Brown appeared at the announcement just a day after he suggested raising taxes. The park will reportedly generate 1000 jobs, and there is certainly a potential for a wand-induced halo. If the park does help the California economy, it might be a helpful roadmap for some of our troubled brethren in the eurozone. (Elevator pitch: What if Greece rebranded itself as “Harry Potter Land,” and everyone there carried a wand and pretended to speak with an English accent, or they could pretend to be Bulgarian and wear “I HEART VIKTOR KRUM” T-shirts? Instant bull market.)

More importantly, fellow Potter fans: Are there any rides you’d like to see in the new park? Or corners of the Potterverse that Wizarding World hasn’t explored yet? I’d like to see one corner of the park dedicated to the thrilling climactic Hunt for the Horcruxes. You’d start off visiting the Horcrux Cave from Half-Blood Prince, which would be a freaky kiddie pool with scary zombie puppets lurking in the water, where you’d find a locket. Then you’d realize that you have the wrong locket, and infiltrate the Ministry of Magic to remove the actual locket from a life-size puppet of Dolores Umbridge. Then for some reason you’d also have to find three Deathly Hallows, and there’s a snake involved, and something something the Elder Wand something something. Just like being in a movie!

I Am Harry Potter

Okay, okay, okay I know I said the Harry Potter posts would cease once the movie came out but my friend Kris sent this to me so it's totally not my fault!!! And I love it too much not to post it. You're welcome. 

And this one is just another set of mini-interviews with some of the cast. I can't help myself! It's a sickness, really.

Movie Morsels 69: HP London Premiere

I'm going to skip right over my obligatory apology for more Potter stuff and get right into the meat of things:

And here's the link to everything Potter at EW.com. I am Dork Supreme!!!

What's That, You Say?

You want to see MORE Harry Potter stuff? *tsk* Well, if you must!

Movie Morsels 67: More HP

I'm sorry - I'm probably wearing most of you out with my fangirl Harry Potter posts. But it's the last movie! Ever!! So you'll only have to suffer through it for a few more weeks. For that one lonely soul that is interested, EW.com has an exclusive behind-the-scenes clip of Harry, Ron and Hermione in Gringotts. Have I mentioned I'm excited? Cause I am! So excited!! :o)

Movie Morsels 66: Final Deathly Hallows Trailer

LESS THAN A MONTH, PEOPLE!!!!! Oh, and I thought I couldn't get more excited... LOVE this trailer!

Only 234 Days Til Part 2!

I just wanted to post a little addendum to my last post because Robert and I ended up seeing Deathly Hallows not on Sunday afternoon but Saturday night. As it turned out, I had my head up my ass when I bought the ticket on Fandango because I had the PM Animal Care shift on Sunday (I thought I was AM) so there was no way I was going to be able to see Harry at 3:45. So, Robert was near the theater (Dublin IMAX) on Saturday afternoon and stopped in to have a chat with Customer Service. They were actually very amenable to letting us swap times, so we chose the 10:15 Saturday night showing and go to see the movie in spite of my stupidity. SCORE! (The movie was soooo good. I have been in a Harry Potter fog all weekend...) Fandango mentions in teensy tiny print that exchanging tickets at the theater's box office may be an option but is "unlikely." But we did it so I thought I'd let you all know in case you ever find yourselves in a similar bind.

And because I can rarely have an HP post without a video, here's part 1 of "Behind the Magic: Deathly Hallows":

Harry Potter Cast Speaks 'American'

Robert drove by Union Landing last night (around 8 or so) and said the street next to the movie theater was completely shut down. People were wiaint in line with sleeping bags and folding chairs to see Deathly Hallows. I don't think that's ever happened here in the poky ol' Tri-Cities! I, of course, bought our tickets several days ago and Robert and I are seeing it in IMAX on Sunday afternoon. (How much do 2 IMAX tickets cost when you buy'em through Fandango? Click the 'Comments' to find out!) I CAN'T WAIT! And, seriously, I'm suuuuuuuper excited that I have no tests the following week. Sunday can just be Harry Potter all day! Woohoo!

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And I Won't Have Any Tests the Next Week, Either! Woohoo!

Two weeks from today, people!!! I CAN'T WAIT!!! I am a dork and I don't care.

Movie Morsels 63: There's Another DH Trailer?

Indeed there is. (For part 1, anyway.) And it's a doozy!! SO GOOD. Oh. I can't wait for November! And then June. :o)

Movie Morsels 62: New DH TV Spot

It doesn't add much to the already-released-and-super-awesome trailers but a new Deathly Hallows TV spot has been released. Only 70 days to go! Woohoo!!!

Movie Morsels 61: New DH Trailer!

The first official trailer (for parts 1 and 2!) went online at 4 PM PST but I was away from a computer. Now I'm here and I'm posting the new AWESOME trailer ASAP. Did I mention it's awesome? 'Cause it is. AWE.some.

Movie Morsels 60: More Deathly Hallows!

I am old so I haven't watched the MTV Movie Awards in quite some time. However, my interest in all things gossip gives me a pretty good idea of what happens each year - usually nothing that's very interesting. But! This year, there was a sneak peek of Deathly Hallows! Yay!! I'm a geek! I'm still about 200 pages away from the end of DH and I can tell I'm sort of dragging it out because I don't really want to finish the series. 'Cause then it's done*. :o(

* As much as I love finishing a good book (or, in this case, series) and finding out how the story ends, I'm always sad that the good story is over. I hate starting new books - you just never know how good it's going to be! I'd rather stay in one that I know I'm enjoying. (Sort of perfectly exemplifies my 'no change is good change' credo, doesn't it?)

Forgotten Post #2

Here's an interview with Daniel Radcliffe from MovieFone... from July 15th. You know I always enjoy Daniel Radcliffe interviews - though, let me stress once more that he is most definitely NOT a 'hot man' - so here goes:


Daniel Radcliffe became world famous overnight when he was cast in the lead of the movie versions of J.K. Rowling's monstrously popular 'Harry Potter' novels -- he was just 11. Yet somehow, in a movie industry where super-sized egos and a grand sense of entitlement are often excused, Radcliffe remains grounded, genuine and self-deprecating.

As movie no. 6, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, makes its way to a sure-to-be blockbuster opening, a grown-up Radcliffe, now 19, speaks candidly to Moviefone about transitioning from child star to sex symbol, dropping trou on stage in 'Equus' -- and why he really thinks Dumbledore was outed.

You became rich and famous so quickly and at such a young age. How in the world did you avoid turning into a raging a-hole?
[Laughs] Thank you very much. Nicely phrased. I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have. They are shouting at an idea of you as a famous person. They don't know me. They might still like me if they got to know me, but it would be a different person than the one that they're cheering for. If you think they're cheering for you and all your flaws, and the slobbishness, and everything else that goes with you, that's when I think you start to become thick-headed and believe your own hype. Also I just think I've been lucky enough to have great parents, and I've had good people around me who have always been honest with me, who would give me a purely metaphorical slap if I ever got too big for my boots. I really think that's what it comes down to. I think England is a place that is not tolerant of arrogance, and also the reaction to arrogance in England is different than it is in the States, because sometimes in the States, people can be a bit freaked out by that thinking and back off, whereas in England, they become more aggressive at you and take the piss out of you. In England, anybody's arrogance is just lampooned, constantly. When you grow up in that culture, you know that's not what you want to be.

Where do you think 'Half-Blood Prince' makes the biggest departure from earlier Harry Potter movies?
I think it's in the comedy. We really go all out on the comedy this time. It's a very funny film, there are some really funny moments in it. And there are more drug references in this film than there have been [laughs]. It's very strange trying to explain them to people sometimes. Also, I think in terms of Harry's character, individually, before he's always been Dumbledore's student, whereas here he becomes Dumbledore's lieutenant. In this one he's a fighter. He's starting on the path to becoming the warrior that he is in part 7.

How has the dynamic changed for you, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson on set, going from child actors to adult stars?
It's been great, actually. But what's great is that the people we work with, in terms of the crew, have seen us when we were kids as well, and so I think it's been interesting for them to see the journey of starting to take it seriously and going from being kids who were having a great time on a film set to suddenly really wanting to do this for a living, which me and Rupert certainly do. I think Emma does as well, though she's going to study for a few years as well. I think that's the main difference, is that I take it much more seriously. The more seriously you take it, the more fun it becomes. It's a very, very rewarding profession when you feel that you're getting better at it. I feel like I've made a big jump since the sixth film, I got better since finishing the sixth film, doing 'Equus' on Broadway, and now doing 'Harry Potter 7.'


How do you feel about Dumbledore becoming somewhat of an icon for the gay rights movement?
It's wonderful. I grew up around gay people my entire life, basically, that's possibly why I'm quite camp, and some people think I'm gay when I meet them, which I think is awesome. It's always good to keep them guessing [laughs]. I don't go on any blogs or chats or anything, but my friends are demons for them, and apparently someone said "Daniel Radcliffe is gay. He's got a gay face!" [Laughs] I really don't know what a gay face is. But I think it's wonderful that Dumbledore was outed as gay ... Half of me thinks Jo Rowling just did that to see if she could piss off the right wing, but I'm not sure how true that is. I think she had it planned, I think she always knew he was gay.

What do you make of the 'Harry Potter'-'Twilight' rivalry that's been brewing?
It's very funny. It's very much like the Lord of the Rings rivalry, in that it was a rivalry mainly built up by the media, for the media. I met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they're all really cool. Did we talk about the rivalry? Did we [ever]. Having Rob Pattinson be in both films is quite funny. I've never even seen 'Twilight,' to be perfectly honest with you, and it's actually really interesting to me. Being such a central part of the 'Potter' thing, being so in the middle of it all, I have no idea how the rest of the world sees the 'Potter' franchise, which is why it's quite interesting for me to watch the 'Twilight' franchise explode globally and have some sense of how people must view us.

So let's fuel it – any trash you want to talk to Robert Pattinson?
[Laughs] No, I've nothing but good things to say at Rob. I've worked with him. I won't pretend to know him really well or anything. It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people. And so people come up to me on the street and say "Do you know Rob Pattinson? What's he like?" And I say, "Well, he's very nice. I haven't seen him in four years, but he's doing very, very well for himself and good luck to him, I hope he's doing alright."

Now that 'Equus' is over and done with, are you glad you did it?
Oh, so glad. It was the best thing. Particularly, I'm glad I came over [to New York] and did it, because that was like the change in my acting. Having done that is huge, I certainly think it is, I hope it is. So I'm thrilled to have done it, I'm thrilled to have been given the opportunity by other people who I worked with to do it.

You were never worried about your junk being all over the Internet?
It was just going to happen, wasn't it? Somebody was going to get a picture up. It's not me looking my proudest, if I'm honest with you, it's not me in my best [laughs]. But, hell, the pictures were always going to get out, and I knew that. And frankly, there's not even one part of me that feels I shouldn't have done it. It was the best thing for me, to get back to what I love doing, which is acting.

Was 'Equus' a strategic move in terms of your career path and trying to break away from the 'Potter' pigeonhole?
I don't like to say "strategic," because it makes it sound very cynical, the way I'm planning my career, very Machavellian or Mr. Burns. But we knew we needed to do something different, and we knew that if we were going to do something on stage, it has to be something that would say, "I'm doing this seriously. I'm not just going to do a light, fluffy piece on stage, I'm going to do something serious that will make people go, 'OK, he wants to take this seriously, and he wants to work hard.'" That was certainly one of the reasons behind doing it, but also just to do 'Equus' was amazing. And when you think about it, there are very few decent-sized parts for 17-year-olds in stage, generally speaking.

Has it been odd to watch not only yourself, but also Rupert and Emma go from child star to sex symbol?
It's been funny with Emma. Yeah, it's been very strange to watch that suddenly happen, because there was that weird time when she was like 15 or 16, and guys kind of knew they fancied her, but no one could say anything. She's always been a very, very pretty girl, and now suddenly that she turned 18, everyone's like "OK, now she's fair game! Paparazzi!" It is kind of creepy, I did feel bad for her. Men will never know the kind of humiliation of having an upskirt done, which poor old Emma had. We talked a few days after her birthday, and she said, "It was awful, they were all over me. They were trying to shoot up my knickers!" It's incredibly invasive. That's why I do think it's much, much harder for girls being famous than it is for guys.

You've said recently that you would like to date older women. You know who's older, single now and likes British guys? Madonna.
Oh, Christ. I don't think that I'd do my chances of working with Guy Ritchie any good. I don't know which one I'd rather do ... I'm not sure I'd be her cup of tea.

Gary Oldman reportedly taught you bass guitar on the set of 'Potter.' Have you ever considered starting a band?
No, he gave me one bass guitar lesson. He taught me how a bassline comes together [imitates sound of bassline]. Sounds better on a bass. But I've never considered it. I'm not nearly good enough. I haven't played bass in years, I gave it up because I wasn't getting any better. You have the realization of going, "I don't know what I'm going to do with this." And also bass isn't an instrument particularly that gets you laid. On its own, cool, but not like guitar, you can't really be a flash bastard with bass. And I just didn't have the patience, I suppose, in the end. But I always wanted to be in a band when I was growing up. I think, the thing is, all actors want to be in a band, and all rock stars want to be actors, and the truth of the matter is, neither of them should do either, we should all stick to what we're doing, because when actors start a band, it's almost always crap.

If 20 years from now J.K. Rowling revisits the 'Potter' kids as adult wizards, would you imagine doing the movie?
I saw her the other day, and I said, "You're not writing any more ['Potter' books], are you?" And she said, "No," and I said, "OK, cool." And then I said, "You know, if you did, I would have to think long and hard." I think also I would only do it if Emma and Rupert would. Honestly, after the seventh film, I don't think she should do anymore. I think it would have to be something pretty good. But Jo Rowling's such an intelligent person, she knows. She knows if she was ever going to consider doing another, it would have to be bulletproof. It would have to be an almost perfect book not to get slaughtered. So hopefully she won't, but if she does, of course I would have to consider it, because I have a loyalty to her and to the fans. But it certainly would not be in an instant.

Hans Gruber in Harry Potter

I am, regrettably, back from Hawaii... though I have not yet returned to work. That will, unfortunately, take place tomorrow. Boo. However, this is good news for the blog, because now I am back and can post to my little heart's content! :o) I'll start off with a light one; I don't know where this came from originally but I found it thru one of my gossip sites and it's a giggler.

Movie Morsels 54: Harry Potter

Less than a week to go, people!! (For Harry Potter, that is; the wedding is a whopping 10 days away, which is why I've had so much free time to blog the past couple weeks. Whee!!!) I can't believe I have to wait until after the wedding to check it out... Then again, I DO have a few other things on my mind so, you know, I might not notice. :o) Anyway, a new scene from Half-Blood Prince was released yesterday so check it out - if you haven't already.

Daniel Radcliffe in Parade

Harry Potter fever is in full swing, people! Well, okay, maybe it's still in more of a winding-up stage. But still! It's coming!!! And I'm a huge dork who's very excited! Gah!

Anyway, the upcoming issue of Parade has an article on Daniel and in the spirit of bombarding you with all sorts of Harry Potter crap over the next few weeks, here it is:

Daniel Radcliffe has an ambition that might surprise you.

“Ultimately, I really want to do a bungee jump,” he tells me over Diet Cokes in a Manhattan café. He grins. “But not for a while.”

No, not for a while. Not, at least, while Radcliffe is still the very valuable centerpiece of  Warner Brothers’ gigantic Harry Potter franchise, whose five films to date have earned almost $4.5 billion (that’s billion with a “b”) worldwide. The sixth installment, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, premieres next month, and the series’ two-part finale—Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, currently in production in England—finishes shooting next spring. By that time, Daniel Radcliffe will be close to 21 and will have spent half his life portraying Harry.


What better way to celebrate a great run than a big jump?

Prior to beginning Deathly Hallows, Radcliffe made a physically less perilous but no less daring leap: starring in the Broadway revival of Peter Shaffer’s dark, disturbing play Equus. Radcliffe portrayed an unbalanced stable boy with a religious and sexual fascination with horses. He also had a nude love scene.

Of course, it wasn’t the subtle, dramatic structure of Shaffer’s play that drew all the headlines. People were initially shocked and titillated by the prospect of Harry Potter taking it all off. Then they weren’t.

“As soon as we started doing the show, people went, ‘Oh! So this is not pornography—this is a play,’ ” Rad­cliffe says matter-of-factly. “It was mainly hyped beforehand.”

Still, the mere sight of him, dressed or undressed, is enough to stir up some of his fans. At one performance, four girls sitting in the gallery above the stage caused a scene.

“From the moment I walked onstage, I could hear them talking and getting very excited,” Radcliffe recalls, shaking his head. “Then they started talking to me: ‘Dan! Dan! Look over here, Dan!’ ” He pauses. “I’m not somebody who particularly gets angry about stuff like that. In my professional life, I rarely get angry at all. And yet, I came offstage seeing blood. I was so furious!”

It will shock nobody that Radcliffe is a spectacularly sensible and articulate young man. Just like Harry. Over the years, he admits, it’s been hard to tell where Harry leaves off and he begins. “When I started out at the age of 10 or 11,” he says, “I was essentially saying the lines as I myself would say them. When I became aware that that’s what I was doing, at 13 or 14, it didn’t make sense to change, because it would suddenly be a dramatic shift in the character.” He smiles. When his mother read the sixth Harry Potter book, he remembers, she noticed that “Harry argues in the kind of irritating, pedantic way that I argue. She thought Harry and I were getting closer and closer together at that point.”

But not at this point. Significantly, Radcliffe’s smooth cheeks show a haze of dark whiskers. Gossip columns have linked him with a succession of slightly older actresses, and he doesn’t deny his taste in women: “Girls my own age are not really an option,” he tells me. “I find, generally speaking, they have to be entertained more than older girls do. So most of the girls I have had serious things with are generally sort of in their 20s.”

See exclusive pics from our wild shoot with Daniel Radcliffe

Perhaps most portentously, when a magazine photographer recently asked the actor to pose holding a magic wand and wearing the trademark Potter spectacles, he politely declined.

“I’ve now reached a stage in my career where I am starting to break away,” he says. “I just think I’m a bit too old for that now.”

So was Equus his declaration of independence?

“I didn’t set out to shock people. I set out to do something different from Potter. If I had wanted to shock people,” Radcliffe says, “I would have played, you know, a gay drug dealer. But, equally, you have to tread a very fine line. If, say, my next film was another fantasy film, everyone would just go, ‘Well, he’s not stretching himself.’ Then, if I played some drug dealer, everyone would turn around and go, ‘Oh, this smacks of desperation to stop being typecast.’ ”

Still, he hasn’t cut the cord just yet. Radcliffe is—as might be expected—extremely respectful of the Potter story, its creator J.K. Rowling, and all that the franchise has done for him. “I’ve had a happy and very healthy, really enjoyable childhood, and a fantastically interesting one,” he says. “I genuinely think I am a better person for having done these films than I possibly would have been had I not.”

Not to mention a much richer one. His salary for the most recent Potter picture was a reported $25 million; overall, he’s said to be worth at least twice that. He’s been declared England’s richest teenager.

“I think it’s amazing,” Radcliffe says. “I have been very, very fortunate. But I’m not going to spend it on flashy cars or particular extravagances. What it does in terms of my career, which is how I like to look at it—it gives me the thing that George Clooney has, where he can go off and do a big-budget movie like Ocean’s Eleven, make a lot of money for it, and then go and do stuff that won’t pay as much. It gives you room to maneuver, basically. It means I can relax, and I think that’s the best thing it can do. It’s one thing in my life that I am incredibly fortunate not to have to worry about. Money will never be the focus for me. That’s not how I’ve been brought up.”

The only child of Marcia Gresham and Alan Radcliffe, a casting director and an actor turned literary agent, Daniel grew up in show business: He was a veteran of two films before he was cast for Potter. As a middle-class Londoner, he was sent to private schools, but then, as acting consumed his schedule, on-set tutors took over his education. He never looked back.

See photos of the Harry Potter star through the years

“I wasn’t very good in school at all,” Radcliffe says. “I was kind of useless. I found the work really, really difficult.”

I ask him to imagine what his life might have been like if it had taken a more conventional turn.

“I think, on the whole, I wouldn’t have half the confidence that I have,” he tells me. “I’m not saying that I’m a
brazenly confident person. But I’m kind of sure of myself intellectually. And I know I wouldn’t have been if I had stayed in school because, before I did Potter, my confidence had been more or less destroyed by a couple of teachers. So I had it all restored by the people who taught me on the films.”

But confidence never turned to cockiness—or worse. “In England, you’re treated as a kid first, then an actor,” he says. “I think in America it’s the other way around. You’re more likely to get inflated ideas about yourself because it’s happening during your formative years. If I ever got too big for my boots in England when I was growing up on the films, someone would let me know. I’ve been surrounded by very honest, good people the whole time.”

Not so many people these days, though. A few months ago, Radcliffe quietly moved out of his parents’ house and into a place of his own in London. “It’s a bit weird,” he admits. “The first few weeks you’re getting used to living alone, which is bizarre, but I really enjoy it now, actually.”

And what about the prospect of—gulp—turning 20 next month?

“I’ve noticed I make noises when I get up and sit down now,” Radcliffe says in all seriousness. “I mean, my knees are rotten bad—I refused to wear knee pads too many times when I was doing stunts, and I just clobbered them up a bit. I am an old man in a young man’s body.”

But then, we kind of knew that all along, didn’t we?

Movie Morsels 49: Harry Potter

Wow - yet another Half-Blood Prince trailer has been released! How many is that now? Four? Anyway, this one is the darkest yet and sheds a lot more light on Draco's part in the story. Seeing as I haven't read the book there are a few characters I don't recognize (who's the wolf-y guy in the field @ the 2:00 mark?) and I'm a wee bit worried I'll be lost watching the movie the first time. I'd hoped to have caught up book-wise by the time the movie comes out but... I'm still only midway through the 2nd book. I'm busy! I have a dog! And Robert! And other stuff! :o) Anyway, the trailer says the movie comes out July 17th but that's incorrect - earlier this week Warner Bros. confirmed that the movie will debut two days earlier, on July 15th. I'll still have to see it at the one theater on Kaui- which is, of course, on the opposite side of the island where we'll be staying - but I will see it!

Movie Morsels 48: Harry Potter

It's been 4 months since I last posted on Harry Potter so since a new trailer came out earlier this week, I thought it was about time.

It just dawned on me that HBP will be released two days before the wedding. That means Robert and I will have to see it while on our honeymoon. Does that make us huge losers?

(If you're interested, you can check out all the new HBP movie posters here.)