Harry Potter

It's certainly understandable that 10 years of playing Harry Potter would drive you to drink. But 21-year-old actor Daniel Radcliffe said he's done with alcohol, realizing he has been partying too hard since filming the sixth movie (for those living under a rock, the seventh premieres next week) in the Harry Potter series. "I became so reliant on [alcohol] to enjoy stuff," he said in a GQ magazine interview released Monday. "There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me. " Radcliffe became famous at age 11 after he was cast for the movie adaptations of J.K. Rowling 's popular books.

WITH "HORRIBLE BOSSES" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II" due out in theaters, the publicity cavalcade has begun: "HB" star Jennifer Aniston is in a happy new relationship and "HP" star Daniel Radcliffe (below) . . . has given up drinking. Radcliffe has told GQ he began to drink too much while filming "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" in 2009. "I became so reliant on [alcohol] to enjoy stuff," he said. "There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me. " He added that he decided to cut out drinking altogether, instead of simply cutting down.

L INDSAY LOHAN'S house arrest got a bit more boring yesterday. She can't have any more house parties. She can, however, still listen to house music. And watch reruns of "House. " Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner chided Lindsay for having rooftop parties at her home while serving out her probation violation, but said that the actress hadn't violated any other rules. "If you are guilty of some violation of your probation, I don't see it," Sautner said.

In the expanded world Comcast Corp. now finds itself, Harry Potter is a precious property - and the company is likely to have to pay top-dollar for the world-famous wizard. Comcast must consider purchasing the 50-percent ownership in the Universal theme parks in Orlando, Fla., that it doesn't already own. The seller of the other 50 percent is the private-equity firm Blackstone Group. The Philadelphia cable company has until June 12 to decide, according to terms of a contract with Blackstone.

1. No Strings Attached . (R) 2. The Green Hornet 1/2 (PG-13) 3. The Little Fockers . (PG-13) 4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows: Part 1 . (PG-13) 5. Black Swan . . (R) 6. Due Date . 1/2 (R) 7. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never . (G) 8. Blue Valentine . 1/2 (R) 9. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader . 1/2 (PG) 10. Love & Other Drugs . 1/2 (R) Top DVD titles at Redbox kiosks for week ended May 15. New this week

GIMME FIVE "Harry Potter" has to be the most weirdly consistent box-office monster ever. The top five Harrys: 1. "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," $317 million. 2. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," $301 million. 3. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1," $295 million. 4. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," $292 million. 5. "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," $290 million.

THE DVD BIN is dominated this week by "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1," informally known as "Harry Cuts Class. " You can't blame him - Voldemort and his allies have taken over Hogwarts, so if Harry shows up, he's pretty much dead. That being the case, Harry, Ron and Hermoine spend most of the movie roaming a Samuel Beckett-like wasteland, mulling existential predicaments and looking for a magic sword that might one day kill Voldemort. Their wandering makes for a very languid movie - some say heroically uneventful for a tentpole franchise, some say merely dull.

A fairy-tale princess gave young wizard Harry Potter a run for his money at the weekend box office as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 remained the No. 1 movie with $50.3 million over Thanksgiving weekend, closely followed by the animated musical Tangled with $49.1 million. Tangled is the latest Disney cartoon musical, with Mandy Moore providing the voice of the princess Rapunzel. While Deathly Hallows continued to work box-office magic, Tangled far exceeded industry expectations, delivering the second-biggest Thanksgiving debut behind Toy Story 2, which had a $57.4 million opening.

Harry Potter has cast his biggest box-office spell yet with a franchise record $125.1 million domestically over opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 also added $205 million in 54 overseas countries, bringing its worldwide total to $330.1 million. In domestic revenue, Deathly Hallows was ahead of the series' best previous debut of $102.7 million for 2005's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. But factoring in today's higher admission prices, Deathly Hallows had roughly the same size audience as the series' best previous draws, Goblet of Fire and 2001's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - about 16 million tickets sold in their first weekend.

HARRY POTTER appears to have dropped out of Hogwarts, and you can hardly blame him. In "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I" he spends most of his time roaming a barren countryside with Ron and Hermione, far away from his creepy prep school, where a coalition of faculty, alumni and students is conspiring to kill him. "Hallows" opens with the sort of episode that's become business as usual at Hogwarts - a big gang of Harry-haters gathers...