Coltrane Fears End Of Potter

October 5th, 2009 Actress DAME MAGGIE SMITH was hiding a sad secret while filming HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE - chemotherapy to treat breast cancer had left her bald. The 74 year old plays Professor McGonagall in the wizard franchise, and has always worn a bushy wig under a witch's hat for her scenes.

September 25th, 2009 'Harry Potter' author JK Rowling joins TwitterNEW YORK — The real J.K. Rowling has come to Twitter.

September 8th, 2009 TERRY GILLIAM is relieved he was snubbed by studio bosses as a director for the first HARRY POTTER movie - because he would hate to work in a film "factory". The former Monty Python legend was J.K.

September 7th, 2009 WATSON DISAPPOINTED BY 'ROMANCE-LESS' POTTER FILMS HARRY POTTER star EMMA WATSON is disappointed romance never blossomed among cast members on the set of the hit movies. The young actors have long been the target of dating rumours, with tabloid gossips linking Watson to co-stars including Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint.

September 6th, 2009 Supermodel ELLE MACPHERSON fears fans will think she's starting to look old at 46 when she appears on new U.S. TV show THE BEAUTIFUL LIFE - because she hasn't had any plastic surgery.

September 6th, 2009 LONDON - Australian supermodel Elle Macpherson has revealed she fears to look old at 46 because she hasn't had any plastic surgery unlike her contemporaries. Macpherson appears on new US TV show "The Beautiful Life" and despite admitting she's shocked at how she should be compared to her young co-stars like Mischa Barton and Sara Paxton, she fears her fans might take her to be looking old, reports imdb.com.

September 4th, 2009 MELBOURNE - British actor Robert Pattinson has confessed his fears of an uncertain future after the Twilight series ends. Pattinson has played Edward Cullen in both the movies of the series, titled Twilight (2008) and New Moon (2009) respectively.

August 19th, 2009 The HARRY POTTER franchise is at the centre of another drug drama - a second star has been photographed smoking what appears to be marijuana. Pictures of Josh Herdman, who has played bully Gregory Goyle in all of the Potter movies, puffing what appears to be a joint have appeared in U.K.

August 14th, 2009 Rashied Ali, free-jazz drummer, dies in NYC at 76NEW YORK — Rashied Ali, a free-jazz drummer who backed John Coltrane and accompanied him in a duet album in the final months of the jazz master's life, has died. He was 76. The Philadelphia native died at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital of a blood clot in his lung on Wednesday, said his wife, Patricia Ali.

July 28th, 2009 Jazz composer George Russell dies at 86BOSTON — Jazz composer George Russell, a MacArthur fellow whose theories influenced the modal music of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, has died. His publicist says Russell, who taught at the New England Conservatory, died Monday in Boston at age 86 of complications from Alzheimer's.

July 23rd, 2009 All the magic of Harry Potter could not save his best friend Ron Weasley aka actor Rupert Grint from contracting the dreaded swine flu. Apparently, Rupert got a mild case of swine flu; his publicist confirmed the news "It has just been confirmed that Rupert Grint has taken a few days out of filming due to a mild bout of swine flu," Grint 20; stars as Ron Weasley; Harry Potter’s best friend in the Harry Potter franchise.

July 17th, 2009 Film: "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"; Director: David Yates; Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Jim Broadbent, Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Tom Felton, and Bonnie Wright; Rating: *** There's less of magic and tricks in the sixth instalment of the Harry Potter series, but fans need not be disappointed -- it offers a heavy dose of drama, romance and humour. Strangely the teenagers of Hogwarts are shown spending more time sorting out their adolescent problems, flirting and pouting.

July 16th, 2009 LONDON - The sixth instalment of Harry Potter has smashed US box office records by raking in a whopping $22.2 million in less than 24 hours and it is said to be the best midnight opening of all times. The booking for "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" opened Wednesday.

July 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Emma Watson is apprehensive about what turn her life will take after the series of Harry Potter flicks end. "It's going to sound dramatic, but I feel my life as I know it will be over.

July 8th, 2009 LONDON - Here's the Harry Potter effect. Fans of the hit wizard series braved the pouring rain to catch a glimpse of their favourite stars at the London premiere of the new film.