Daniel Radcliffe became world famous overnight when he was cast in the lead of the movie versions of J.K. Rowling’s monstrously popular ‘Harry Potter’ novels — he was just 11. Yet somehow, in a movie industry where super-sized egos and a grand sense of entitlement are often excused, Radcliffe remains grounded, genuine and self-deprecating.

As movie no. 6, ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,’ makes its way to a sure-to-be blockbuster opening, a grown-up Radcliffe, now 19, speaks candidly to Moviefone about transitioning from child star to sex symbol, dropping trou on stage in ‘Equus’ — and why he really thinks Dumbledore was outed. – By Kevin Polowy

You became rich and famous so quickly and at such a young age. How in the world did you avoid turning into a raging a-hole?

[Laughs] Thank you very much. Nicely phrased. I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have. They are shouting at an idea of you as a famous person. They don’t know me. They might still like me if they got to know me, but it would be a different person than the one that they’re cheering for. If you think they’re cheering for you and all your flaws, and the slobbishness, and everything else that goes with you, that’s when I think you start to become thick-headed and believe your own hype. Also I just think I’ve been lucky enough to have great parents, and I’ve had good people around me who have always been honest with me, who would give me a purely metaphorical slap if I ever got too big for my boots. I really think that’s what it comes down to. I think England is a place that is not tolerant of arrogance, and also the reaction to arrogance in England is different than it is in the States, because sometimes in the States, people can be a bit freaked out by that thinking and back off, whereas in England, they become more aggressive at you and take the piss out of you. In England, anybody’s arrogance is just lampooned, constantly. When you grow up in that culture, you know that’s not what you want to be.

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More than 10 years after they fell in love on the set of the original Scream, David Arquette has confirmed he and wife Courteney Cox will return to battle the ghost-faced bad guy in Scream 4.

“We are going to be doing Scream 4,” David tells E! Online. “Kevin Williamson is writing the script at this moment, and hopefully Wes Craven is going to direct.”

In the first installation of the horror series, David played the bumbling but sweet Deputy Dewey Riley who fell for Courteney’s sassy tabloid TV reporter Gale Weathers.

“I fell in love with my wife on Scream, so the opportunity to bring [Dewey] back to life and for my wife to play that really bitchy character again, it’s just going to be really fun,” David said. “It’s just great.”

While Neve Campbell has reportedly already turned down another go around as Sidney Prescott, David still has his fingers crossed that she’ll be back.

“I hope Neve does it. I really hope so,” he says.

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Taking the stage for the first time ever at the VMAs will be country-pop superstar Taylor Swift, who will perform a brand-new version of “You Belong With Me,” a single from her Billboard-topping Fearless.

“I’m so excited that MTV and the VMAs have invited me to perform, because I think this year’s show will be unlike anything they’ve ever done!” Swift said. “I love incorporating theatrics into my performances, and the VMAs have always allowed artists to run with that. MTV has been so good to me, and I could not be more excited about this year’s VMAs!”

Joining Swift will be British rock trio Muse, making their American TV debut. The band will perform their newest single, “Uprising,” off their forthcoming album, The Resistance.

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Sacha Baron Cohen makes a living out of outlandish characters like Borat and Brüno who put people in uncomfortable situations, but this time around he seems to have upset the wrong people — members of an organization called Al Aqsa Martyers Brigades — by calling one of their former members a “terrorist leader.”

Sacha interviewed Ayman Abu Aita in Brüno and called him a “terrorist leader” of the organization Ayman claims he left years ago. The group has released a statement to World Net Daily, saying Ayman was tricked into appearing in the film.

“According to what we checked there was no meeting about the real context of the film. This was a dirty use of our brother, Aiman [sic], and we don’t accept that the name of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is part of the movie … We reserve the right to respond in a way we find suitable against this man [Baron Cohen].”

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Michael Jackson’s longtime dermatologist Arnold Klein — the biological father of Jackson’s eldest children Paris, 12, and Prince, 11 — was served a subpoena this afternoon, an official from the L.A. County Coroner tells Usmagazine.com.

“We are serving a Coroner subpoena at the office of Dr. Klein to obtain medical records,” Craig Harvey, Los Angeles County’s chief coroner investigator, tells Usmagazine.com. “That is all I can comment on.”

As for reports that Klein is under investigation, Harvey tells Us: “We do not investigate physicians, so I cannot comment on that. We routinely serve coroner subpoenas on physicians and hospitals and have served several in connection with this case. I cannot comment on who we have served subpoenas on or what records we have received or not.”

Klein denied he was being examined by authorities for supplying Jackson with prescription narcotics during a July 8 appearance on Good Morning America. (The singer was reportedly using powerful sedative Diprivan — generic name: propofol — at the time of his June 25 death from cardiac arrest.)

“I say that anyone who makes someone an addict or gives a person potentially dangerous substances directly to them to use, like [anesthesia] propofol is a criminal,” Klein told GMA. “It becomes nothing more than a manslaughter, or something worse than that.

“There was nothing wrong with the manner I treated Michael, because what I had to do is restructure for an individual who had lupus, who had terrible acne scarring his face,” Klein added. “But I was not one of the doctors who participated in giving him overdoses of drugs or too much of anything. In fact, I was the one who limited everything, who stopped everything.”

Toxicology reports that may determine the cause of Jackson’s death could be completed as early as Friday Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said Monday.

This guy just looks creepy, if he’s guilty, they need to throw the book at him.

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Wedding plans are falling into place for Melissa Rycroft – but it’s all thanks to the work of her fiancé Tye Strickland.

“Tye is planning more than I am,” the former Bachelor and Dancing with the Stars contestant confessed to People Monday night at the Verizon Wireless Matt Leinart Foundation Celebrity Bowl at Lucky Strike Lanes in Hollywood. “At this point, I’m probably the worst bride in the history of brides.”

But Rycroft, who got engaged June 26 to Dallas insurance agent Strickland, 28, after they dated on and off for more than two years, says she’d rather be a bad bride than a bridezilla.

“I’m the exact opposite [of a bridezilla],” says Rycoft, 26. “I don’t know if we’ll get married ever by the way that I plan it!”

But she is thinking about one important part of the wedding: getting fit to show off her wedding dress.

“I’ve heard the stress alone of planning a wedding helps you get into shape for it, so we’ll see if I need to stress myself out a little bit to lose that extra pound!”

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How can Hugh Hefner tell 19-year-old twin girlfriends Karissa and Kristina Shannon apart?

At Monday’s Sports Dream Celebrity Poker and Pool Party in L.A., he pointed to a mole on Karissa’s neck.

“That’s it!” he told Usmagazine.com at the event. His third girlfriend Crystal Harris also “can tell the difference between [Karissa and Kristina] and they can tell the difference because they know the other one is not her!”

Hefner, 83, also confirmed another season of E!’s Girls Next Door is in the works – with his new lady loves.

“Oh, yes! You are looking at part of the cast here,” he said, pointing to his girlfriends. “We are going to have a lot of fun.”

What can viewers expect?

“Fun and games!” he told Us. “They will be going to Las Vegas on Friday and we will be joining them on Saturday.” (He added that they plan to watch ex Holly Madison in the Vegas show, PEEPSHOW.)

As for his other ex, the pregnant Kendra Wilkinson — who wed June 27 at the Playboy Mansion?

“I think she will be a good mom,” Hef told Us, “because she is a good lady.”

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