Dan Jogs in New York Streets

I love these casual pictures of Dan jogging on the streets of New York...keep it up Dan, keep yourself in shape!!

Thanks to Just Jared

Dan Draws Big Celebrities

There is a nice little article from The Celebrity Cafe called "Daniel Radcliffe draws big celebrities to Broadway", this article mentions what Hollywood stars have watch Dam perform in Equus:

Celebrities from Hollywood are making the panatlatic flight to New York City to see Daniel Radcliffe's performance in Equus.

Who does the real life Harry Potter attract to the show?

Julia Roberts, Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson, Lisa Rinna, Jeff Goldblum, Emma Roberts (Julia's niece), and Nathan Lane to name a few.

"The draw for film stars is to witness first-hand one of their most successful colleagues pulling off such a major 180-degree turn from his established screen persona," said a theater insider, who noted how different Radcliffe's performance is compared to his G-rated Harry Potter series.

On a related note, again for the second week we have Equus on the top box office with $704,999 for Drama production, again All My Sons came in second place - source Broadway World Box Office

Hey! more power to Dan!

Dan Sings and Talks Equus

First here is a nice new interview from AP of Dan, he talks about Equus and a few more intersting things...





And here is a very CUTE video of Dan and Richard Griffith singing and carrying a cute tune!!



This interview is going to be broadcast in its entirely on PBS The Theater Talk on October 30th between 11pm and 1am (Nov 1st).

Daniel Radcliffe and Tom Felton

ca. 2008 --- Daniel Radcliffe and Tom Felton --- Image by © James Dimmock/Corbis Outline

Dan Having a Walk Around New York

Thanks to oclumencia we have new pictures of Dan walking around New York City; he does look very much into his own thoughts and I might add that he looks very handsome.

Audio from The New York TimeTalk

Back in August 19th Dan took part of the New York TimesTalk, here we have the audio from this interview:

From the boy wizard in the "Harry Potter" films and Rudyard Kipling's ill-fated son in the TV drama "My Boy Jack," to the disturbed teenager in the London and Broadway revivals of Peter Schaffer’s play "Equus," Daniel Radcliffe is an actor of diverse talents. Hear him discuss his Broadway debut in the drama, which starts previews on September 5, and also how he’s been able to move from screen to stage so seamlessly. Interviewed by Julie Bosman, New York Times culture reporter.

Download the audio by right clicking here


ENJOY this great interview!

Equus Top Box Office

Just to shut down a few rumors running around from some weird gossip sites, Equus again is the king of the box office among drama productions, "Equus" box office numbers for the week of 10/12/2008 has made a wooping $740,746, this has been the best week since opening production in September, as a second runner up "All My Sons" made $690,900.

Variety

Emma Enjoying a New York Walk

Just Jared has some new pictures of Emma walking around New York with one of her pals from RADA school.

Canadian Flare Mag Nov 2008 Emma Watson1

Canadian Flare Mag Nov 2008 Emma Watson

Canadian Flare Mag Nov 2008 Emma Watson2

Canadian Flare Mag Nov 2008 Emma Watson

Canadian Flare Mag Nov 2008 Emma Watson

Emma Watson on Paris Fashion Week at Grand Palais

Chanel fashion show during Paris Fashion Week at Grand Palais on October 3, 2008 in Paris, France.

Emma in New York and New Pictures from Flare

Thanks to SCQ, we just find out Emma is in New York, she attended yesterday the Diesel xXx Rock & Roll Circus at Pier 3 in Brooklyn, we don't know yet if she's going to be attneding another event, she did mentioned a few weeks ago that she might go to see Dan in Equus.

Here are some pictures of Emma at this event.




New beautiful pictures of Emma in Flare Magazine

Emma Watson featured in Flare Magazine

Source: SnitchSeeker
Emma Watson was featured in the November issue of Flare Magazine, in which she talked about filming Harry Potter, and her relationship with her co-stars.
The evidence of her success is compelling. At nine years old, she was among thousands of girls vying to play the coveted role of Hermione and her eagerness to thrive at the character slowed down shooting during Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. "I wanted everything to be so perfect. I would work so hard to memorize my lines and the scene; we would have to stop shooting because I was mouthing Rupert [Grint]'s and Dan [Radcliffe]'s lines at the same time. That's something I had to get over."

Seven years later, the young actor has graduated to blockbuster star status. She's learned to position herself in her best light, she's stopped looking straight into the camera, she knows the different between the key grip and a dolly, and she's just wrapped one of her most challenging scenes in the highly anticipated Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, slated for release in July 2009. "I had to cry for the first time when Hermione watches Ron kiss Lavender. It was difficult to bring up all that emotion and hurt in front of a full crew, and not just once, but over and over again from different angles."

Emma Watson Visits Yale University Campus

We previously reported that Emma Watson (Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films) visited Harvard University. It is now being reported that she visited Yale University yesterday as well. In their report, they gave her a little note of comparisons of Yale to Harvard. Read more to see what they had to say.

Magic came to Yale yesterday as campus was abuzz with excitement over the sighting of Emma Watson, the 18-year-old British starlet of Harry Potter fame, who received a private tour. One student said he spotted Watson eating in the Berkeley dining hall balcony with her “mum” and a Yale student. “People went nuts on campus, trying to touch her,” he said. In a brief conversation with Watson, perhaps better known as the character Hermione, the student said he learned the actress, who received straight A grades on her A-level exams, toured Harvard on Tuesday and Brown on Wednesday. Note to Emma: Yale is Hogwarts. Harvard is Azkaban.

Thanks to SS!

Dan Taped Inside the Actor's Studio

There are some great accounts of the taped of Inside the Actor's Studio done a few days ago, here are some great quote from two different accounts from IMDB and from Livejournal (including the two pictures for this news), Dan talked about Harry Potter, Equus, future projetcs, and Obama:

From IMDB

Okay, here are my notes on part of the ITAS event. This is the Q&A portion when Lipton asks his famous questions and then they went into the Q&A with the MFA (Master Fine Arts) students. This is mostly paraphrased.

There was a lot of laughter from the audience, Dan really had them eating out of the palm of his hand at this point.


Favorite word – verdurous (from Keat’s “Ode to a Nightingale”) – means lush and green, a word "he uses all the time” (jokes)

Least favorite word – mediocre

What turns him on – “bathtubs and plumbing” (running joke how many of his significant moments have been when he was in the bath). Life in general turns him on (he won’t get into sexual details) finds restaurant signs amusing (Cosmic Diner, Galaxy Diner)

What turns him off – unprofessionalism in people, especially actors

Sound he loves – cricket ball hitting a bat at 90 miles an hour

Sound he hates – his voice on tape, when a pencil point breaks when he’s writing

Favorite curse word – bollocks “rolls off the tongue” (as in Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols)

Harry’s favorite curse word – bollocks (Lipton asked him this)

Profession he’d like to attempt – writing, journalism.

Profession he wouldn’t want to attempt – being “down a mine” (another running joke about his dad telling him to stop complaining because he’s not working down in a mine)

What he would say when he goes to the Pearly Gates – “Are you surprised to see me?” he would be polite, God would smoke a pipe and say "it’s amazing we’re the same height”

Will we see Dan do more comedy? Yes, he wants to do more comedy but more a film that has comedic moments rather than a full on comedy.

Student #1 – How does he choose between a challenging role vs. one that’s not a good fit?

Dan talks about his small stature – he couldn’t play a security guard, Richard Griffiths won’t play a “fat” role (Falstaff) but it’s important to take on challenge

Student #2 – What does he do to prepare for live performance?
Dan listens to unhappy music on Ipod, thinks about Alan’s crime against the horses – the intensity, but relaxes and doesn’t worry

Student #3 – Who does he want to work with? What’s his favorite spell?
Alahomora (to open doors), Woody Harrelson is brilliant, Johnny Depp (yelps from the audience, makes running rain forest joke), the Coen brothers

Student #4 – Does he pull direction from HP novels or the script? The script first, book as a backup. Mentions Steve Kloves, he doesn’t read the Potter books over and over (he’s not obsessed)

Student #5 –Artistically, what is the best and worst thing about acting?
Worse – unprofessional people, or those who aren’t in it for the right reason, who don’t treat you well
Best – being in atmosphere of creativity and practicality (on film set)

Student #6 – What is art meant for?
Communicate a story, to feel. Tells story about watching one of the dancers from Equus had a short video on Youtube

Student #7- Are there stage roles he wants to do?
Shakespeare (he’d like to learn), dream role is Bobby in “Company” (in 20 years)

Student #8 – What vocal techniques did he learn for Equus – Projection and Articulation.

Student #9 – Has he thought about playing Napoleon, due to his stature?
Dan tells a funny story that he was on the HP set with best friend/wardrobe guy Will Steggle and they were doing a night shoot and he put a dressing gown on him and said he looked like Napoleon. Later, Dan asked Will “What was Napoleon’s first name?” Will replies “Napoleon” and Dan says, “What-Napoleon Napoleon?” (lots of laughter). Dan jokes he needs to do research and suggests that “Napoleon Napoleon” should be the name of the film and he’ll be in the bath.

Dan thanks audience for being welcoming and that he was intimidated when he saw the line of people outside b/c most were older than him – he thanks audience again for coming.

From Livejournal

Right when Dan came out, he sat down. Everyone is standing and clapping. And he picks up his water glass and just smiles and laughs and then says, "This really is a huge water glass."

It was just the best start to an interview ever.

Then one of the first questions was, "What is the name on your birth certificate?" and he said, "Daniel Jacob Radcliffe. Nice Jewish names for the first two, and then the northern-Irish sneaks in there." Turns out, his mother is Jewish.

When asked where he was born, he answered (I don't remember) and then said that he was sorry he couldn't be more specific, but his memories of it are quite hazy.

...

Then the interview ended and the portion where people ask questions is actually a class.
So Dan leaves the stage, and it's "over" and people can leave or stay. Whichever. And then there's a class of students that comes in (or they're already there).
Dan and the host came back out and Dan had a few more interview time questions, but shorter ones that everyone gets. "What sound do you love/hate?" "What turns you on/off?" Things like that.

Then the last one is, "If you believed in Heaven, what would you want God to say when he opens the pearly gates?"

And Dan says, "Well. I'd like him to say, 'I bet you're surprised to see me here.' Or...I'd want him to be polite. Sort of *sticks out hand* 'How do you do?' But then after the small talk, we'd just be sitting there and - well, he'd be smoking a pipe, of course - and then he'd just say, 'Gee, you know. Isn't it interesting how we're the same height?'"

OMG! So funny. lol

I do know that twice (once when talked about getting fit for Equus cause he'd have to be naked and again when he said he'd like to work with Johnny Depp) a few people whooped and did that "ow-OW" thing. The first time, Dan smiled into the audience and was like, "What-? That was like Sounds of the Rainforest." The second time he was just like, "There are those rainforest noises again."

He was about 100% better in person than in any other interview I've ever seen him in.....

And at one point, he was talking about how reactive the audience was and said, "I have an audience test for you. What do you do if I say, 'Barack Obama'?" And the crowd went crazy and he went off on a ten minute tangent about how great Obama is and how England has nothing like him. It was great.

I will try to find out when this episode will air.

Emma Watson Photo

Emma Watson on Chanel PFW Spring Summer 2009

PARIS - OCTOBER 03: Emma Watson attends the Chanel PFW Spring Summer 2009 show at Paris Fashion Week 2008 at Grand Palais on October 3, 2008 in Paris, France. (Photo by Eric Ryan/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Emma Watson

British Actress Emma Watson as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter andthe Half Blood Prince

British Actress Emma Watson as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Emma Watson leaving Hotel in Paris

Emma Watson at PARIS - SEPTEMBER 29

PARIS - SEPTEMBER 29: Emma Watson arrives at the Christian Dior PFW Spring/Summer 2008 show on September 29, 2008 in Paris, France. (Photo by Francois Durand/Getty Images)

Our Condolences to Dan and His Family for the Passing of Elsie Radcliffe

The Belfas Telegraph is reporting the passing of Daniel's grandmother Elsie Radcliffe, and is also reporting that Daniel along with his family flew to Northern Ireland to take part of the funeral that will take place today.

Elsie, who had been living with her daughter Linda and son-in-law Drew, told friends she was her grandson’s number one fan.

Last year, the retired hospital worker flew to London to see him on stage in the controversial play Equus.

Said a family friend: “She just loved her grandson so much and was so proud of him. Elsie was his number one fan and loved all the Harry Potter movies.”

I want to send my condolences to Daniel and his family in this painful time.

Emma Watson in Paris

Emma Watsonin Paris fashion week

JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, earns £3million a week

HARRY Potter author JK Rowling has been named the richest author in the world, after it was revealed she earns £3million a week.

Sales from the final instalment of the seven-part series mean Ms Rowling, 43, now has a £560million fortune.
Ms Rowling has sold more than 375 million books and shares creative control over the films, which star Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson.
She also receives a share from toy merchandising and video games.
A Harry Potter amusement park is currently being built at Universal Studios' Orlando park in Florida.
Ms Rowling lives in a £1.5million mansion in Edinburgh and also owns homes in Perthshire and London.
She said: "I know I am the luckiest woman in the world. I am immensely privileged."
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