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Radcliffe has moved on into indies, but ‘Potter’ trails

SAN DIEGO

J.K. Rowling published a new Harry Potter short story last month. And Daniel Radcliffe braced himself once again.

The 25-year-old British star faces consistent and persistent questions from fans and the press about whether he’ll return to the character that he spent much of his childhood playing. Rowling’s story of a 34-year-old Potter posted online was not going to help matters.

“I go, ‘OK, thank you Jo. I’ll be answering questions about this,”’ Rad-cliffe said in a recent interview. “She can’t help it. She wrote me 10 years older, and people are still asking me if I’m going to be doing it. He’s 10 years older than I am in this story, so it’s really not even a hypothetical at the moment. I would obviously never say never because that’s a foolish thing to say, but I would have to think long and hard before I ever went back to anything.”

Radcliffe was at Comic-Con International in San Diego promoting one of his two upcoming films, the darkly comic horror tale “Horns.” In it, he plays a man accused of killing his girlfriend who grows horns that prompt people around him to reveal their darkest secrets.

The actor is used to hearing unexpectedly personal stories from strangers. Fans tend to overshare some of their troubles when they get a chance to meet the man who played the famously scarred boy wizard in eight movies from 2001 to 2011.

“Horns,” directed by Alexandre Aja, is set for release Oct. 31. Radcliffe’s other new film, the romantic comedy “What If,” opened this weekend.

Henry Stone, a fixture on the disco scene, dies at 93

MIAMI

Henry Stone, a fixture on the R&B and disco scene who was instrumental in the careers of Ray Charles, James Brown and KC & the Sunshine Band, has died. He was 93.

Stone, a co-founder of the famed TK Records, died Thursday of natural causes at a Miami-area hospital, the funeral home Riverside Gordon Memorial Chapels confirmed.

Stone opened up a record-distribution business and recording studio in South Florida in 1948 and within a few years recorded his first artist, a pianist-singer from the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind who would later become the legendary Ray Charles.

Stone’s hits were on TK Records, which he co-founded with Steve Alaimo in 1972, and similar labels he founded. They included: “Get Down Tonight,” “That’s the Way [I Like It]”, “Shake, Shake, Shake [Shake Your Booty]”, “I’m Your Boogie Man” for KC & the Sunshine Band and “Ring My Bell” for Anita Ward, The Miami Herald reported.

Associated Press