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HARRY POTTER star IAN HART felt terrible for one young mum on the set of his new film A BOY CALLED DAD - because her triplets were always cold, soaking and in peril.

Or at least mark your calendar, especially if you're a Twilight buff, because the blood suckers and teen scream queens are heading back to the Great White North - or at least the dark delicious rainforest that we like to call British Columbia - as the cast of the blockbuster vampire movies returns to Vancouver Aug.

OK, it's not actually HARRY, it's the non-profit Harry Potter Alliance that is trying to channel film and fiction fandom into charity, "social change" and good works.Those things have been after-thoughts to the fanboys and girls who made Star Trek, Star Wars and Lord of the Rings phenomena that had lives outside of the big and small screen.

Radcliffe was more than ready for the romance."By the time I made this film I'd done a nude scene on stage and a few kissing scenes, so I was totally blase," he says.

The actress Emma Watson has confessed she was so desperate to complete her kissing scene with her Harry Potter co-star Rupert Grint that she "pounced" on him.

THE undoubted high point of Julya TMs films at Ludlow Assembly Room is the screening of the latest instalment in the Harry Potter series on its national release, but there is also plenty of comedy, drama and romance on offer through the summer.

A year ago, the Brevard County Schools ran a robust summer program here, with dozens of schools bustling with teachers and some 14,000 children practicing multiplication, reading Harry Potter and studying Spanish verbs, all at no cost to parents.

Murmurings of this started percolating a few weeks ago on various HARRY POTTER-related boards .

Peter Bradshaw: An entertaining picture, as comforting as nursery food and as devoid of artistic depth as a sports event Wednesday, 01 July 2009 Here we go again, back for more wizard adventures at Britain's most exclusive private school.

Peter Bradshaw: This new Harry Potter picture will cast a spell on its fanbase. But the broomstick's losing altitude HP3 has a new director on board: Alfonso Cuaron, widely understood to be introducing a darker, more grown-up feel to the Harry Potter adventures.

It wouldn't be much of an over exaggeration to say that the Harry Potter films have employed just about every English actor currently alive .

Summer has arrived. It is the third week into June, but it is here! I know summer arrived because the air conditioner slammed into gear here at the Lester Public Library.

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. Photograph by: Handout, Files Making a movie is challenging enough without also having to fly under the radar as the producers of New Moon, the Twilight sequel starring Robert Pattinson as teen vampire Edward Cullen, have learned.

We are pleased your looking to get a headstart on visiting the exhibit floor for the 2009 American Library Association Annual Conference, and hope you find this official Library Journal/School Library Journal Annual Conference ActionAd Easy-To-Use Guide to the Exhibits useful as you make your way through the exhibit hall.

BONNIE WRIGHT The Evening Standard did an in-depth interview with Bonnie Wright that also includes a sweet photoshoot shot by Nicole Nodland! According to Bonnie Wright, there is one golden rule for survival on the Harry Potter set.

Caption: Rupert Grint who plays Ron Weasley filming on the Pembrokeshire Coast set of 'Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows' Pembrokeshire, Wales .... GRINT SHOCKED BY KNOX'S DEATH British actor RUPERT GRINT was devastated by the murder of his HARRY POTTER co-star ROBERT KNOX - but credits the tragedy with giving him a new outlook on life.

"Twilight," the vampire romance that has spurred feverish anticipation among young female moviegoers, took a bigger-than-expected $70.55 million bite out of the weekend box office in North America, according to studio estimates issued on Sunday.

Emma Watson has revealed she had no idea she was sitting on a A 10 million fortune from her movie roles until she turned 18.