Golden Celebrity

The Leaky Cauldron posted photos of the first public sighting of Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore as an outed wizard, snapped by a group of muggle bystanders taking in a location shooting of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in the small English village of Lacock. The autograph-seeking youngsters appeared to feel no differently about the [...]

Paris Hilton allegedly flew into a rage during a trip to a Toronto adult video store hawking One Night In Paris, ripping down posters and threatening to sue. (Our best guess for the reason behind the outburst: a joker in her entourage told her that she gets no residuals on Canadian sex tape sales.) Footage [...]

· Music round-up: Tegan and Sara at the Orpheum; Queens of the Stone Age at the Nokia Theater; Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at the LA Sports Arena (there’s still plenty of time to blow a scalper!); Ghostface Killah at the House of Blues; The Abe Lincoln Story finishes up its Monday night [...]

Director Peter Hedges explains how he and his marketing team arrived at his new movie’s polarizing, flapjack-based poster, which strikes us as being a suitably quirky compromise between a bland “bunch of faces” offering and something that slightly overdoes the visuals in depicting a protagonist just trying to make sense of this crazy thing we [...]

Portfolio’s Hollywood Deal blog writes touchingly of the once-strained relationship between Imagine Entertainment superproducer Brian Grazer and black sheep sibling Gavin, whose reciprocal appearances at each other’s recent New York movie premieres (Brian’s the troubled $100 million blockbuster he brought to the screen by sheer force of will; Gavin’s, a somewhat less expensive , surrealistic [...]