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...Haley Joel Osment, Frankie Muniz or Emmanuel Lewis. Much to the pleasure of a mildewing island nation, Harry Potter will be played by Brit youngster DANIEL RADCLIFFE. (If you're keeping score in such casting matters, that's--give or take--Britain 1, America 100,000.) Radcliffe, 11, told a London press conference that upon hearing of his selection as Harry in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," I cried, and I was just really excited." He has not seen recent photos of Macaulay Culkin. Radcliffe, the son of a literary agent and a casting director, has acted before...
...about the Italian occupation of a Greek island during World War II, and how basically the Italians and Greeks are very similar people." Cage, an American, is the mandolin-playing Italian captain (in full accent), while Cruz, a Spaniard, is the foxy Greek ingenue Pelagia. Madden, a Brit, is directing in English...
...Which left the cable networks for most of the night covering the Rage Against the Machine concert outside the Staples Center ("Does that qualify as a mosh pit?" asked Fox's Brit Hume) and trolling for celebrities to fill the space between Michael Beschloss segments. All but PBS, which wouldn't air Melissa Etheridge singing "America the Beautiful" but did air a slick DNC video about a welfare mother who opened her own business - that, apparently, does not count as a packaged showbiz event...
...Bush p.r. man Fleischer 10. __ Sport, whose high-tech swimsuits have been banned in the Olympic trials 11. Lap dog, for short 15. Harry Potter and the __ of Fire 19. Words preceding "tear" or "roll" 21. 1748's Treaty of __-la-Chapelle 22. Serving of tea, to a Brit 24. Bit of theater litter 25. "Beg pardon" 26. Party that bolted Barak's coalition 27. Pro __ 28. She's meeting with Shihab to discuss Moluccas 30. Dead Sea Scrolls scribe 33. "Human" or "fact" follower 36. Use 20-Across 40. Fenway star Garciaparra 41. __ aves (unique individuals) 43. Prosodic foot...
...pressure to crush a car but only one credited screenwriter (Scott Rosenberg) to pound out such a lame script. In the Bruckheimer tradition, Memphis assembles a team to carry off the job: a father figure (Robert Duvall), the token black (Chi McBride) and a mute (Brit footballer Vinnie Jones) with a gift for setting cars on fire. Angelina Jolie is here as the nominal girl-jock love interest, but Memphis' true love is a Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500. As he says of his early career, "I didn't do it for the money. I did it for the cars...