No romance for Harry Potter star
The News Review:
- No romance for Harry Potter star
- Putting the BO in box office
- ‘Jesus Camp’ Depicts Young Soldiers of God
- Anna Nicole’s attorney claims paternity
No romance for Harry Potter star
RTE.ie – Sep 27, 2006
The 16-year-old actress, who plays Hermione Granger in the ‘Harry Potter’ films, told Newsweek magazine that the dating scene was “stressful” for her. Watson said: “People say to me ‘Oh it must be so easy for you – dating and boys. They must be lining up for you’. “Advertisement
“It’s really not easy.
Putting the BO in box office
MSNBC – Sep 27, 2006
numberone_films) { displayApp(numberone_films); }A quick observation: The movie that tops the weekend box office charts the longest is rarely the highest-grossing movie of the year. (The exception to this and all such trends is ?Titanic,? which was titanic in every financial sense of the word. ) Last year, ?Harry Potter? finished third in the yearly sweepstakes to ?Revenge of the Sith? and ?The Chronicles of Narnia. ? In 2003, the Steve Martin-Queen Latifah comedy ?Bringing Down the House? lasted longest atop the weekend charts but still finished 13th for the year ? a consequence of being released in the traditionally weak month of March. Same with ?Black Hawk Down? in 2002 (January wide release), ?Hannibal? in 2001 (February) and ?The Whole Nine Yards? in 2000 (February). None were gigantic box office successes; they were simply let loose in weak months and bottom-fed for a while. 1985, by the way, is just an arbitrary, easily accessible year.
‘Jesus Camp’ Depicts Young Soldiers of God
ABC News – Sep 27, 2006
“I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam,” she said. At Kids on Fire, it’s all Christian values, all the time. Even Harry Potter doesn’t make the cut. One little boy said he didn’t read the books because they were Satanic and didn’t bring him closer to God. No Harry Potter, but Plenty of PoliticsWhile Potter is not OK, politics are — conservative and Christian. Issues like abortion are discussed, and political protests become field trips for the campers. “I feel like we’re kind of being trained to be warriors, only in a much funner way,” one camper said.
Anna Nicole’s attorney claims paternity
USA Today – Sep 27, 2006
Fantasia’s father sues publisher over book
Joseph Barrino, father of American Idol winner Fantasia, has filed a $10 million libel suit against Simon & Schuster. He says there is “false, exaggerated, sensational (and) malicious untruths” in Fantasia: Life Is Not a Fairy Tale, which became a Lifetime movie starring Fantasia. According to the lawsuit filed in Manhattan, he disputes that he was hostile to the music industry, that he asks his daughter for money when she visits and that he believes his children’s musical careers are more important than their educations. Fantasia is not named as a defendant; though she is listed as the book’s author, the suit claims that her grandmother, Addie Collins, was the ghostwriter. Simon & Schuster spokesman Adam Rothberg said the company had not reviewed court documents and had no comment.