Posts Tagged “Harry Potter”
 Rumors of real-life drama from the set of Hannah Montana over the weekend caused Miley Cyrus to tell People magazine, "I am fully committed to Hannah Montana. It’s what gave me this amazing opportunity to reach out to so many people," and that she’s very excited about the upcoming new season, which begins in November. Besides, it’s probably a lot easier to be Hannah these days than Miley…- Fellow musicians are reaching out to Travis Barker and DJ A.M., both recovering from critical injuries in a weekend plane crash, with Fall Out Boy and Gavin DeGraw–who both toured with Barker–issuing statements of sympathy and concern. I know they feel that if it can happen to those two, it could happen to them as well…
- Taylor Swift is very excited that her song White Horse will be used in the season premiere of Grey’s Anatomy, saying, "This is my life’s goal, to have a song on Grey’s Anatomy. My love of Grey’s Anatomy has never wavered. It’s my longest relationship to date." Just in case you hadn’t figured it out yet, she is indeed just 18…
- More season premieres on the tube for Tuesday, with NBC launching Law And Order: SVU’s 10th season and ABC debuting an Ashton Kutcher-produced family game show called Opportunity Knocks. CBS will again debut its entire primetime lineup–their new series The Mentalist has by now already figured out what the other networks’ weaknesses are…
- Charlie Sheen’s new pregnant wife Brooke Mueller discovered that pains she thought were related to her condition required a risky emergency gallbladder surgery just over a week ago–which was such a success that she was able to attend Sunday’s Emmy Awards with Sheen. Considering his track record, she probably wasn’t willing to risk letting him out alone…
 Despite legal pressure from Harry Potter studio Warner Brothers, the Indian film Hari Puttar: A Comedy Of Terrors will be released this weekend, as a judge disagreed with studio arguments that their titles were too similar. Odds are that people will hate it so much that they’ll rush out and buy all the Harry movies…
Tags: ABC, Ashton Kutcher, Brooke Mueller, CBS, Charlie Sheen, DJ A.M., Fall Out Boy, Gavin DeGraw, Grey's Anatomy, Hannah Montana, Harry Potter, Law And Order, Miley Cyrus, NBC, Taylor Swift, Travis Barker
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- Amy Winehouse continues to provide enough drama for both sides of the Atlantic, as she was rushed to the hospital yesterday after fainting and losing conciousness while at home. Normally this is not a problem, since there’s almost always someone handy with enough crack or heroin to bring her back to life…
- Katy Perry’s hit I Kissed A Girl is scorching the charts right now, and she says it was inspired by the photos of beautiful women that seem to be everywhere, adding, "If one of these girls were to walk into the room, there’d be no doubt in your mind, male or female, [that] if they asked you to kiss them, you probably would pucker up!" Her debut album One Of The Boys, which features the hit, is in stores today…
- Britney Spears had the last laugh in the case of a paparazzo who filed criminal charges against her, claiming she ran over his foot with her car–prosecutors who reviewed police reports and videotape of the alleged incident concluded the photog had actually put his foot in the way. This guy makes K-Fed look like a Nobel Prize winner…
- TV Guide’s poll of the Top 10 Reality TV Villains puts Omarosa of The Aprentice fame at #1–and this follows her topping another poll by the magazine in 2005 where she was picked "The Most Hated Reality Star Of All Time". Well, she’s nothing if not consistent…
- Filming for a prequel to The Da Vinci Code is underway in Rome, where Vatican officials say crews will not be permitted to film inside two churches there. Ironically, several synagogues in the area were more than happy to help…
- Chanel’s newest celebrity spokeswoman is none other than Emma Watson of Harry Potter fame, who has a $6 million deal to promote the brand’s frangrances. Sounds like Hermoine could really start to affect Harry and Ron’s, er, magic wands…
Tags: Amy Winehouse, Britney Spears, Harry Potter, I Kissed A Girl, Katy Perry, TV Guide
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- President Bush’s national security advisor Stephen Hadley said yesterday that skipping the Beijing Olympics opening ceremonies this summer would be a "cop-out". Hadley says our diplomatic response to concerns over Tibet is a more sensible course–that and a desire to avoid a billion angry javelin-throwers…
- A new study finds that the IRS has drastically reduced the number of audits it does on large corporations, doing less than half of the number they had done twenty years earlier. It’s no surprise–it gives them more time to focus on those companies who have really irritated Dick Cheney…
- Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling will be in New York this week to testify at a lawsuit she filed against one of her biggest fans, whose planned encyclopedia of all things Potter has Rowling claiming plagarism. Getting on the wrong side of this woman could have you finding the business end of Harry’s broom stuck where the sun will never shine…
- Delta and Northwest may announce a long-awaited merger tomorrow, creating the world’s biggest airline. Why do I get the feeling that this will just turn into the world’s longest flight delay?
- Threatening graffiti found at Detroit’s Oakland University has led to canceled classes and activities there, following a similar outcome at Chicago’s St. Xavier University. This had better not be someone’s idea of a great episode of Punk’d…
- The World Bank is urging affluent governments to pony up a half-billion dollars to fight rising food prices that are causing hunger and violence in several countries. We got this one–give everybody fighting in Iraq the day off…
Tags: 2008 Summer Olympics, Delta, Harry Potter, IRS, J.K. Rowling, Northwest Airlines, President Bush, Tibet
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- The costumes worn by Britney Spears during her guest shot on sitcom How I Met Your Mother last night are up for bids, with proceeds to benefit an environmental charity. Check out what’s up for grabs at SeenON, a website devoted to selling TV-related items….
- American Idol will again offer a songwriting competition to compose the first single the new Idol winner will release. Entries are due by March 31, so it doesn’t give you much time to come up with something that Paula Abdul will probably just keep for herself…
- Diddy has settled a suit brought against him charging assault against a man and his girlfriend last year at a Hollywood party. Terms of the deal were undisclosed, but I bet Diddy finally gave in and agreed to let the guy hang with him and call him "my homey"…
- Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling admitted in an interview that she had suicidal thoughts as a struggling young writer and single mother in her mid-20’s. She also told how she overcame her depression–which only resurfaces whenever the piles of money around her house overwhelm her…
- A man who’s been stalking Tyra Banks was ordered to stay away from her or risk going to jail. The best way to get this guy out of her hair is to invite him on her show and give him a makeover….
- Oprah has suffered the loss of a beloved pet–her 13-year-old cocker spaniel Sophie, who died of kidney failure after being ill for several months. If she’s looking for a possible replacement lap dog, maybe Tom Cruise is interested…
Tags: American Idol, Britney Spears, Diddy, Harry Potter, How I Met Your Mother, J.K. Rowling, Oprah
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- Mariah Carey has stepped in as Saturday Night Live’s musical guest this weekend after Janet Jackson was forced to cancel due to a flu outbreak that briefly put her in the hospital. The two have a lot in common–they’re both incredibly beautiful, have amazing voices, and neither one is Michael Jackson in drag…
- Avril Lavigne is not only not pregnant, but the recent shopping trip with her husband to a pair of baby boutiques that fed the rumors was all a prank–staged for a new TV series from Ashton Kutcher called Pop Fiction. Avril said the show is about punking the media–looks like they’re off to a good start…
- A band named Doxology claims American idol contestant David Cook used their version of Eleanor Rigby for his performance of it on the show–the second time Cook has been called out for using someone’s arrangement without credit. Cook planned to apologize last night–only it turned out to be Eliot Spitzer’s version…
- Madonna was reportedly dumfounded by Justin Timberlake’s story at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame about getting a B-12 injection from her in his backside, and her remarking that he had "a nice top shelf". According to Madge, "I don’t even know what a ‘top shelf’ is"–which means that once again, JT has confused her with Britney Spears’ mom…
- A 60-year-old woman who said her name was Billie Jean King and claimed to be Michael Jackson’s wife was caught tresspassing on Jacko’s soon-to-be-former Neverland Ranch. I wonder if she also told cops she was a Pretty Young Thing who didn’t Wanna Be Startin’ Somthing, so they had better Beat It…
- The seventh Harry Potter book may be the last of its kind, but the movie from it won’t–it will actually be two movies, filmed at the same time but released six months apart. Producers feel they need the time to do justice to the story–and to figure out how to explain that Voldemort is really Ron Weasley…
Tags: American Idol, Ashton Kutcher, Avril Lavigne, Harry Potter, Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Neverland, Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Saturday Night Live
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