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'Harry Potter' star seeks mystery Australian girl
Daniel Radcliffe, the actor behind the boy wizard Harry Potter, is hunting for a mystery Australian girl who cast a spell on him at a film awards party, local media reported on Monday.
Radcliffe, who started playing Potter in the popular Harry Potter movies when he was 11, has often spoken about not being able to find a girlfriend.
But Sydney's Daily Telegraph Newspaper said Radcliffe, 18, now wanted help to track down a woman he met briefly at a film event in Australia.
"She stared at me all night and I was going to get her number and then I couldn't find her," Radcliffe told the newspaper.
"I must have walked around that party for an hour trying to look for this girl, like some sad pathetic dweeb, but it would have been worth it."
The Daily Telegraph has started its own search for the mystery beauty, asking the young woman to contact the newspaper. Reuters/Nielsen
Ebert hopes to make it to namesake film fest despite surgery
Roger Ebert hopes to make it to his annual namesake film festival this week despite hip surgery.
The 65-year-old film critic was recovering Friday at a Chicago hospital from minor hip surgery after a recent fall.
"The show must go on," Ebert said in a statement posted on his Web site. "I am doing fine and if the doctors clear me, I will be there to welcome our guests."
Scheduled guests at the 10th annual film festival include Ang Lee, Richard Roeper, Richard Corliss and Christine Lahti.
The 2008 "Ebertfest" -- sponsored by the critic's alma mater, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- will be held Wednesday through Sunday. AP
Report: Hells Angels founder sues HBO over biker series
The founder of the Hells Angels motorcycle club has sued HBO, claiming the pay cable network cut him out of an upcoming pilot he helped develop, The Hollywood Reporter reported.
Sonny Barger filed a lawsuit in federal court in Los Angeles last week against HBO, production company White Mountain Co. and the project's writer/executive producer, Michael Tolkin.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the series "1 percent" originally was set at an Arizona chapter of the fictional Death Rangers, one of the toughest motorcycle clubs in the country. The central character is a biker, Misfit, sent in from a Northern California chapter to bring it under control.
Barger claims in the lawsuit that he and Tolkin pitched HBO on a motorcycle club-centered series. The cable network turned to Tolkin to create it. AP
BOX OFFICE:
Chan, Li's 'Forbidden Kingdom' leads weekend with $20.9M
A martial arts dream team -- Jackie Chan and Jet Li -- won the weekend as their movie matchup "The Forbidden Kingdom" debuted at No. 1 with $20.9 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
1. "The Forbidden Kingdom," $20.9 million
2. "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," $17.3 million
3. "Prom Night," $9.1 million
4. "88 Minutes," $6.8 million
5. "Nim's Island," $5.7 million
In stores today
CDs
* Whitesnake, "Good to be Bad"
* Carole King, "Tapestry -- Legacy Edition"
* Elbow, "The Seldom Seen Kid"
* Ashlee Simpson, "Bittersweet World"
DVDs
* "Charlie Wilson's War"
* "Cloverfield"
* "The Savages"
* "The Orphanage"
Games
* "Mario Kart Wii with Wii Wheel," Nintendo Wii
* "Wild Earth: African Safari," Nintendo Wii
* "The World Ends With You," Nintendo DS
* "NBA Ballers: Chosen One," Xbox 360
TUBETIME:
"Law & Order: SVU"
TIME: 9 p.m. | NBC
DETAILS: Don't look now, but Benson has a boyfriend. He's a newspaper editor played by Bill Pullman. Unfortunately, their jobs have a way of getting in the way of a budding romance.
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