false or true?

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jade_lin83 wrote:
> Specifically with this part when the article says :
> "Radcliffe", not surprisingly, soon surfaced in connection with the
> last name of Columbus. Daniel Radcliffe's mother is a professional
> casting agent who's worked with Chris Columbus on three of his past
> projects, including Home Alone. Daniel's father is a predominant
> literary agent, and the Harry Potter film's executive producer.
> Funny; J.K. Rowling wanted an anonymous British schoolboy, and
> instead she got the adolescent male version of Tori Spelling -
> stealing film roles from perfectly capable actors, simply because
> Daddy has connections. 

I don't know about the connection with Columbus, but I do recall 
reading that there was an industry connection between Radcliffe's 
parents and higher-ups in the movie's production group.  

However, I gathered that Columbus et al picked out Radcliffe 
initially, and JKR later stated that seeing a tape of Radcliffe was 
like meeting her long lost son, but that regardless of connections 
his parents were extremely wary of letting him be in the movie.  It 
sounded like if connections came into play, it had more to do with 
being acquainted enough with the senior Radcliffes enough to be able 
to approach them and say "please?  We reeeeeeally want him to try for 
this part."

And for the record, I can't actually see where any comparison between 
Daniel Radcliffe and Tori Spelling is valid at all.  Specifically, 
Radcliffe *can* act.  Going from "Radcliffe's parents are in the 
industry" to "oooh, Radcliffe only got the part because of daddy's 
connections even though he can't act, how Tori Spelling of him" ~ 
that's a leap worthy of the late great Evel Knieval!  :-P  

Mahoney