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Sideshow: New 'Potter' opens; 6 down, 2 to go

We are entering the beginning of the end of an important era: Yesterday, Harry Potter castmates gathered in London for the premiere of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth in the eight-film franchise (the seventh book will be made into two movies).

We are entering the beginning of the end of an important era: Yesterday, Harry Potter castmates gathered in London for the premiere of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth in the eight-film franchise (the seventh book will be made into two movies).

It rained as Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and their god and creator, J.K. Rowling, did the red carpet in Leicester Square.

Grint, who plays Ron Weasley, showed up even though last week he had been felled by a bout of the dread swine flu, reports the Daily Telegraph.

"It was quite scary when I first found out I had" it, Grint said. "I thought: 'Am I going to die?' But it was just like any other flu really."

I met her, um, you know, there

Political news site Politico.com has exposed a faux pas Barack Obama apparently made yesterday in a speech to the graduating class of the National Economic School in Moscow.

"I don't know if anybody else will meet their future wife or husband in class like I did," Obama said.

Politico's intrepid investigative reporting team says Obama didn't meet future wife Michelle Robinson in an educational context, but at a law firm in Chicago in 1989. What does this mean for the future of the White House? And the economy?

Brit's down-home bargain look

Mere days after her idol Madonna unveiled her classy new print ads for overpriced luxury emporium Louis Vuitton, Britney Spears has premiered her ad campaign for the down-market junior clothing line Candie's. The pics show Brit in cheezoid blue-light-special outfits reclining on a hot pink background. What remarkable taste!

LiLo stole fake tan formula?

Speaking of Chee-Zee, Lindsay Lohan is being sued by St. Petersburg, Fla., chemist Jennifer Sunday, who claims she invented the formula used in LiLo's fake-tan-in-a-bottle product Sevin Nyne.

LiLo claims she came up with the formula with Lorit Simon, a Las Vegas businesswoman who airbrushes tans for celebs. (Now, that is classy.)

Sunday's attorney, Marcia Cohen, tells the St. Petersburg Times that LiLo and her bud stole her client's work. "We are certainly looking for the profits that are being generated right now from that product," Cohen says. LiLo has yet to respond.

Penélope bares her soul

Diminutive Spanish goddess Penélope Cruz, 35, whose failure to become a megastar in America is entirely your fault, tells Brit mag Psychologies that getting married is for the birds.

"I don't know if I believe in marriage," says Cruz, who has survived a no doubt traumatic courtship with Tom Cruise. "I believe in family, love and children."

Wedding or not, Cruz says, "I want to have babies one day but not right now." She did not verify rumors she's dating Javier Bardem.

It's Dave's fault

Reacting to news that Sarah Palin had resigned as governor of Alaska, David Letterman on Monday asked, "Was it something I said?"

Leno to burn ozone layer

Jay Leno plans to make an ostentatious, wasteful and environmentally silly entrance on his new show, says the Hollywood Reporter. Seems NBC is building a massive stage for Jay, so he can vroom-vroom onto the show in various cars from his massive collection. The Reporter says Leno's stunt "could be viewed as an unnecessary display of opulence in the midst of a recession." It also notes that it may help to reel in car advertising for NBC. Sweet.

Tidbits 'n' pieces

Paula Abdul says her American Idol contract, which expired after the eighth season, hasn't been renewed. But don't have a cow, man. Paula assures fans she's been invited to join the show's ninth season.

A rep for Office sweetie Jenna Fischer, 35, tells JustJared.com that the actress became engaged to writer Lee Kirk, 37, during a holiday in Europe. Jenna was previously wed to director James Gunn (Slither) for seven years.