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PEOPLE & ARTSWednesday 23 September

JK Rowling tells a new Harry Sean Penn files

Potter story on her website $10M suit against

NEW YORK (AP) — Eight ‘Empire’ co-creator
years after writing the last
of her “Harry Potter” novels, This Oct. 16, 2012 file photo shows “Harry Potter” novels author File photo, actor Sean Penn, left, and right, Lee Daniels, co-cre-
J.K. Rowling is still adding to J.K. Rowling at an appearance at The David H. Koch Theater in ator of Fox’s mega-hit “Empire.” Associated Press
the boy wizard’s story. New York.
The author posted new in- COLLEEN LONG case later was dismissed.
formation Tuesday about Associated Press Associated Press In the 1980s, he was in court
the Potter family, the NEW YORK (AP) — Sean in connection with fisticuffs
background provided on to ‘Potter.’” She also offers made possible by a “beau- Penn on Tuesday filed a and spitting. He beat a
a “newly imagined” and the backstory on the “In- tiful young witch” named $10 million defamation law- man he thought was trying
mobile friendly version of visibility Cloak,” a legacy Iolanthe Peverell.q suit against “Empire” co- to kiss Madonna in a night-
the Pottermore Web portal creator Lee Daniels over club, and he admitted driv-
(www.pottermore.com ) comments Daniels made ing recklessly and punch-
that Rowling established in comparing him to the ing an extra on the set of
2012. In a brief essay titled, show’s star Terrence How- the movie “Colors.”
“The Potter Family,” Rowl- ard, who’s been repeat- His attorney Mathew
ing traces Harry’s roots to edly accused of domestic Rosengart said the lawsuit
“the twelfth-century wizard violence. isn’t just about Daniels’
Linfred of Stinchcombe, a Daniels’ comments ap- comments.
locally well-beloved and peared online about a “Sean has been the sub-
eccentric man, whose week ago in the entertain- ject of numerous baseless
nickname, ‘the Potterer’, ment publication The Hol- attacks over the years, as
became corrupted in time lywood Reporter in a story the complaint provides,
about the upcoming sea- and this is only the most re-
In this June 7, 2015 file photo, the cast of “Jersey Boys” performs at the 69th annual Tony son of the popular Fox tele- cent example,” he said.
Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York. vision show. Daniels is the Oscar-nom-
“That poor boy (Terrence) inated filmmaker of “Pre-
Associated Press ain’t done nothing differ- cious: Based on the Novel
ent than Marlon Brando ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” ‘’The
Might the Tony Award or Sean Penn, and all of a Paperboy” and “The But-
sudden he’s some ... de- ler.” The new season of
show be homeless again? mon,” Daniels said in the “Empire,” which he cre-
article. “That’s a sign of ated with Danny Strong,
MARK KENNEDY hasn’t been announced, it Tonys had been held at time, of race, of where we starts Wednesday.
AP Drama Writer usually falls on a Sunday in Radio City from 1997-2010 are right now in America.” A telephone call to Dan-
NEW YORK (AP) — Good the first two weeks of June. and for the last three years. Penn’s lawsuit, filed in Man- iels’ publicist on Tuesday,
news for the Rockettes In 2016, that would put it From 2011-12, the To- hattan civil court, says Dan- seeking comment on the
might mean bad news for during crucial rehearsal nys were handed out at iels’ statements were egre- lawsuit, wasn’t immediate-
the Tony Awards. time for the “Spring Spec- the Beacon Theatre on gious and injured Penn’s ly returned.
MSG Entertainment said tacular,” which will be re- Manhattan’s Upper West credibility and reputation Howard has been forced
Tuesday that it will again named. Side after Radio City was personally, professionally to publicly address domes-
put on a “New York Spring The Broadway League, booked by Cirque du So- and in his philanthropic tic violence allegations, in-
Spectacular” starring the which runs the awards leil’s “Zarkana.” The venue activities. Penn has won cluding during testimony in
leggy dancers next year, show with the American is much smaller, having two best actor Oscars, for a Los Angeles courtroom in
but it will run from June 15 Theater Wing, had no com- only about 2,870 seats, “Mystic River” and “Milk.” August, when he acknowl-
through Aug. 7 at Radio ment. leading to ticket-ration- He has made a major hu- edged he struck his first wife
City Music Hall, meaning it The 6,000-seat Radio City ing and a struggle to seat manitarian push in Haiti af- in 2001 but denied abusing
may have to boot the an- has long been the pre- the often large number of ter it was devastated by an another ex-wife, Michelle
nual theater awards show ferred home for the awards show producers. MSG En- earthquake, co-founding Ghent.
from the iconic venue. because of its size and tertainment also owns the the J/P Haitian Relief Or- Howard testified about the
While next year’s Tony night proximity to Broadway. The Beacon.q ganization. But he also has 2001 incident in Pennsylva-
a reputation for angry be- nia and said he drove to his
havior. In 2010, he pleaded ex-wife’s house after an ar-
no contest to vandalism gument and “kicked down
after he kicked a celeb- the door and smacked
rity photographer, but the her.”q