"Morning Joe" has released a video about their interns. (View in Large | View in Small)

They wake up and go in at 4 a.m.? I guess that makes sense since "Way Too Early" starts at 5:30 a.m. and "Morning Joe" starts at 6 a.m., but still...that's quite early. I like how they all talk about how they all started off with internships. It gives me hope. =D

One of my favourite shows. To see more of "Morning Joe", their videos are under the Links Section to the left.

MSNBC interns must meet the following criteria:

Enrolled in a Bachelor's/Masters program at an accredited college or university

18 years or older and current sophomore standing or above

Able to receive academic credit from their college or university prior to starting assignment

Commit to a minimum of 3 days per week either on a part-time or full-time basis

Apply Here

mood: hopeful tags: internships, morning joe, news, pimp, politics, television

1. Feltbeats has 44 photos of Tom Felton's meet & greet in Toronto and Much Music interview on Facebook (you don't need an account). You should check out the ones when he's leaving...he was mobbed. His facial expression is hilarious!

2. Go vote for your most, second, and least favourite drabble @ sortinghatdrabs! I'm participating this round and it's Ron & Draco this week. =)

3. Free movie: "Monsters vs. Aliens"!! If you're in Toronto on August 29 @ 11 a.m. (ETA: It's not just in Toronto, but any Rainbow locations in Canada)

4. If you weren't able to write 20k words for hermionebigbang, then their Phase I is open. You pick a piece of artwork or video, and create a fic inspired by it with a minimum of 1,000 words (which is perfect for me!)

Deadline is September 6, 2009 with no extension. The artwork is fabulous and there are a bunch of Draco/Hermione, Severus/Hermione, gen, amongst others! Go have a look at least cause they're lovely, lovely. =)

5. So f-list, if you've seen me commenting on some of your posts dating back a month for the past couple of weeks, then just letting you know I've been catching up. =)

Interesting tidbit fact of LJ that I've found out - individual journals can go back 500 entries, while your Friends page can go back 800 entries.

Um, I forgot who it was, but one of you was looking for Molly Weasley icons. inspired_ideas has some here.

6. Warner Bros. Canada has a collage of clips of HP1 to HP5 put together called, Retrospect. Time really does fly!

7. Warner Bros. VIP Studio Tour has a shot of a fake Hermione from CS when she was petrified. There's also hilarious video tours with Ellen Degeneres. Click on the Video section and scroll down to "VIP Studio Tour promo clip". I didn't realize they used a prosethetic Hermione.

8. If you like Kreesha Turner, you can download for free five of her songs, courtesy of Playtex. It includes new songs from her album, "Passion". It's great and best of all, it's free!! ;)

9. Lastly, you can win a HP prop!! I'm out 'cause I don't live in the US, but all those that live in the US, well, go enter! You might win. I'm sad that I can't enter.
( Promotional Prop Sweeptakes Poster under the cut )

10. Oh, and one more thing - if you have Twitter, then apparently you can surprise your "Muggle followers with magical gifts"! That sounds cool, except that I don't have Twitter. What do you get??

tags: comedy, cs, ellen degeneres, fan fiction, harry potter, hbp, kreesha turner, movie, music, television, tom felton, warner bros. pictures

Access Hollywood
HBP Set Visit:


( On the 'Potter' set with Daniel Radcliffe )

( Daniel Radcliffe on ping pong and the kiss )

On the set with Tom Felton:


Emma Watson:
(Alternate Link: Video w/out commercial | Video w/commercial and fullscreen capability)


( Rupert Grint )

MSNBC: Entertainment Buzz
Daniel Radcliffe on his many changes through the years:
Video w/out commercial | Video w/commercial and fullscreen capability

MSNBC
'Potter' actors on their changing roles:
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mood: tired tags: daniel radcliffe, emma watson, harry potter, hbp, movie, movie: anticipating, rupert grint, television, tom felton, warner bros. pictures

I wish the Canadian channels would pick up "Friday Nights with Jonathan Ross"...maybe CTV or Global TV? I've watched clips of it on YouTube, but it's not the same as watching the full episode with the intro and everything (since the intros are rarely uploaded onto YouTube). Or even if they made it available to download on iTunes like his radio programme on BBC Radio 2.

Emma Watson recently appeared on his show (I think it was July 3) and the Intro (first video) has no spoilers, and with the second video (part 1), they start talking about HBP 7 minutes into the clip (no HBP spoilers before then):



And she appeared on "The Early Show" this morning:

mood: cheerful tags: comedy, emma watson, harry potter, hbp, jonathan ross, movie, movie: anticipating, television

Daniel Radcliffe & Rupert Grint on ROVE (Australian TV):
Part 1: I wouldn't say there are spoilers but there are small clips from the film that were released and part of the final trailer is played.
Part 2: No spoilers at all - the Final 5.
The "magical" books are yellow pages!! I really laughed at that!!



And I'm sure this is old news, but I just saw the bloopers for GF (Daniel Radcliffe, Tom Felton, Robert Pattinson, Emma Watson, etc):

mood: amused tags: comedy, daniel radcliffe, emma watson, gf, harry potter, hbp, movie, movie: anticipating, rove, rupert grint, television, tom felton, warner bros. pictures

Dean and Neville!!


And isn't this cool??


Alexa Chung on MTV with Daniel Radcliffe:
(Everyone should go watch Part 2; the spoilers are in Part 1. Alexa gives Dan a makeover: Harry Potter Kayne West, Michael Phelps Potter, Sarah Palin Potter (I just laughed when he said "I can see Hogwarts from my house!"), Hollywood Potter, Porn Star Potter, etc.)

mood: awake tags: alan rickman, alexa chung, comedy, daniel radcliffe, emma watson, harry potter, hbp, helena bonham carter, matthew lewis, michael gambon, movie, movie: anticipating, rupert grint, television, tom felton, warner bros. pictures

Interesting Articles:
*Toronto Star: Harry Potter villain happy to dye another day
*Canada.com: Felton all-grown up and darker in Half-Blood Prince
*The Canadian Press: Graduation nearing, 'Harry Potter' cast reflects their Hogwarts education
*(Movie Review) The Canadian Press: 'Half-Blood Prince' goes to head of class as best of Harry Potter films
*AFP: Harry Potter's nemesis revels in hard-edged new film

MTV Live: Tom Felton (It's quite funny, though there's a lot of screaming.)

Alternate Link: Click Here

Tom Felton at "Hot Topic" (July 10th, 2009):
[footage from Leakynews.com and includes signing and tour]

Movies.ie:
Movies Ireland has an interview with Tom Felton and Emma Watson:

( Video Clip )

Access Hollywood:
Interview with Daniel Radcliffe, Bonnie Wright, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Tom Felton, Alan Rickman, and David Barron at the NY Premiere of HBP. (Alternate Link: Video w/out commercial | Video w/commercial and fullscreen capability)

( Video Clips (3) )

location: Hogwarts mood: calm tags: alan rickman, bonnie wright, daniel radcliffe, emma watson, harry potter, hbp, movie, movie: anticipating, mtv live, rupert grint, television, tom felton, warner bros. pictures

1. Can't wait till HBP!! Four more days, two hours and some odd minutes & seconds!!


Tribute.ca has an interview (video) with Tom Felton just before the Meet and Greet in Toronto. (Link to Download)

Everyone really should see this or if you're avoiding previews, etc. until you've see HBP, then bookmark it to view it after you've seen the movie. WB has released 20 minutes of behind the scenes footage to IESB.net.

CNN had viewers send in questions and the cast respond. It includes Tom Felton, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, David Yates, and Emma Watson. (Video here)

ComingSoon.net has a written interview with Tom Felton and Muggle Hub has an amazing HBP screensaver among other things such as posters, wallpapers, site skins, etc.

( More Video Clips... )

2. Geesh! What's the press coming to these days? PM Harper was 1 min 20 seconds late to the G8+5+1 photo op and it was all over the news!!! That makes me feel bad since usually when I'm late, it's more than two minutes...

3. I find it a bit sad that the VANOC decided not to include the women's ski jumping but included men's ski jumping...and then the court ruled against them...

mood: blank tags: 2010 olympics, canada, comedy, daniel radcliffe, david letterman, emma watson, harry potter, hbp, movie, movie: anticipating, politics, prime minister, rupert grint, stephen harper, television, today show, tom felton, vancouver, warner bros. pictures

I'm getting spoiled with all the photos, interviews, snippets, and promotional material coming out. July 15th can't come soon enough!! Thought I'd share since I'm finding them all so very exciting!

Photos

DH: Emma Thompson's sister, Sophie Thompson, will be playing Mafalda Hopkrik. She is seen here with David O'Hara (Albert Runcorn), Steffan Rhodri (Reg Cattermole), and David Yates.


HBP:

New Official Wallpapers: Large size of 1920x1200. Excellent for widescreens. I snagged the last one for my desktop. Aren't they fabulous?? =)


( Draco )

( Behind the Scenes )

( Stills and Promotional Materials )

Wonder why everyone's outside and pointing their wands skywards??

Videos

French HBP Special: "50 Minutes Inside", which features approx. 10 minutes of interviews, behind the scenes, and new scenes. The interviews are dubbed, but if you strain, you can hear the English. I had to view it twice since my French is a bit rusty... New scenes include Quidditch, WWW, Hermione and Harry @Slughorn's Party, etc. Partial translation is here and the full 11:37 minutes is available for download here, courtesy of UHP. I really laughed when Dan struggled to say the intro in French and the pause before the last word, especially since "Inside" is English!! LOL


Yahoo has an exclusive clip of Dumbledore and Harry (Interviews, behind the scenes, and new snippets/scenes: 03:49 long).

Thirty second clip: includes the magic working in the Unbreakable Vow.


The Making of Harry Potter and the HBP: The Videogame, hosted by Tom Felton: Parts 2 and 3 are now available. In addition, Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley), Emma Watson (Hermione Granger), Freddie Stroma (Cormac McClaggen), Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley), Jessie Cave (Lavande Brown), and Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood) all talk about dueling, potions, and Quidditch.

Part One | Part Two: Quidditch | Part Three

location: Hogwarts mood: bouncy music: Kevin Kiner, "Fight to the End" (Star Wars) tags: alan rickman, bonnie wright, daniel radcliffe, david yates, dh, ea games, emma watson, harry potter, hbp, helena bonham carter, jesse cave, movie, movie: anticipating, news, rupert grint, television, tom felton, wallpapers, warner bros. pictures

I just saw the first two episodes of "Merlin" tonight (CTV | NBC 8 p.m. ET), which originally premiered on BBC One last fall. It's fantastic and engaging, and everyone should go watch it. Viewers should be careful to note that it's based somewhat on the Arthurian legends and that there are multiple variations of these legends (so keep an open mind!), and this television series follows Merlin (not Arthur). It's basically a prequel, like "Smallville", and follows Merlin before he was a full fledged magician. Some might say it's a reinterpretation since not much was written about the early life of Merlin, as his early life was usually mysterious or unknown.

( An excerpt of the show: )

A video interview with Angel Coulby (Gwen) and Anthony Head (King Uther Pendragon) can be found here and you can listen to the soundtrack, ten of the eighteen tracks at one minute each, here.

( Pictures | Photos | Screenshots: )

location: Camelot mood: excited tags: merlin, television, tv

I've finally gotten a chance to sit down and watch "J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life". I know, I know, I'm slow. It's been sitting on my computer for over a year and I completely forgot about it! The second half was quite moving; it was her life before her success. Some tidbits that I didn't know about her: I didn't know that she smoked, albeit not everyday (it sounded like she only did it when she was stressed). She loves and indulges in shoes. She has anger about injustices such as social deprevation and social exclusion, and how it feels to exist in poverty. It causes her fury that people can't or don't seem to care about injustices (even about things that affect them such as crime and drugs). The hand over of the DH manuscript was interesting. I would've never have guessed it was at the airport. And that DH was finished in Room 552 at the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh, UK on January 11th, 2007. Her next project is a political fairy tale that she's not in a hurry to publish.

Her comment at the book signing to a child who was also named Hugo was so cute! It was really nice to see her draw the Potter and the Weasley family trees, and explain. Victoire was named so because she was born on the anniversary of the final battle. Charlie is not gay. I've never envisioned him as gay and I'm slightly confused as to how people could even think so (canon-wise). James Sirius' godparents are Hermione and Ron. Luna's children are younger than the Potter/Weasley family. It made me think back upon the fanfics I've read that had Loran and Lysander the same age as Rose, Scorpius, & co...

Has anyone else not watched the one hour special yet? If not, you should definitely watch it! Go!

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Yesterday, I was watching the "Today Show" and they ran a clip of Matt Lauer's cameo in the "Land of the Lost". It was hilarious!! For a second there, I thought it really happened while he interviewed Will Ferrell. The movie looks fabulous and it's definitely on my list of movies to watch. I haven't been tempted to go see a movie in such a long while. "Angels and Demons" did look interesting for awhile until I saw more clips near the release date and it just sank, in my opinion, to my DVDs to watch.

Land of the Lost Trailer

( Clips of the movie and interviews, below: )

mood: amused tags: dh, harry potter, jk rowling, movie, television, the land of the lost, today show, tv

I've managed to amass a lot of photographs, stills, and posters of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" (Horcrux Hunting, London, Shell Cottage, Griphook, etc.) including HBP posters with the original release dates and have decided to post them.

A Preview Below:



I posted previously not on my journal, but posted here of all eight HBP TV spots and a clip of Inside HBP and the scene between Ron and Harry about Ron's sudden crush. Just thought I'd share.

New HBP clip revealed | The Penseive Memory of the Orphanage:

A better version is here and here.
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A new "New Moon" trailer was also revealed yesterday at the MTV Movie Awards! It's so exciting - Jacob, the wolf is revealed!!

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON trailer


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On a lighter note, Archie has proposed to Veronica! ( I feel for Betty... )

mood: contemplative music: NBC Nightly News tags: archie comics, dh, harry potter, hbp, movie, movie: anticipating, new moon, reality tv, rl, summit entertainment, susan boyle, television, twilight, warner bros. pictures

Congrats to Norway for winning Eurovision 2009!!

If you didn't watch, you should go watch! First Semi-Final | Second Semi-Final | Final

Watch the press conferences too. They're hilarious - the press sure do know how to make things awkward.

I've learned my first Russian word!! Spacibo (pronounced 'spaciba') = thank you. Everyone was repeating it after their performances that it just really stuck! LOL.

Alexander's winning performance:

( LJ cut - click to read more )

location: Home mood: amused music: Alexander Rybak, "Fairytale" tags: esc 2009, eurovision, television