WENN: Craig: "New Bond Is Bloodiest Yet"

New James Bond star Daniel Craig has branded upcoming 007 effort Casino Royale the most violent yet. Craig plays the superspy for the first time and was amazed at the excruciating pain he had to endure for some of the stunts. He says, "You're not doing it right if you're not getting hurt. The stunt boys were going through pain levels that I couldn't even imagine and carrying on. Compressed spines, all sorts of things. I was in pain throughout the whole movie." He recalls one particularly harrowing scene in which Bond kills a man in the bathroom: "I watch that sequence and I wince. All my knuckles split, my hands were in bandages after it. And I had a fight double - Ben. I did the bits that hurt. And he did the bits that really f**king hurt. But that's the thing with this Bond. He bleeds. It's more about the fact that he bleeds, goes down and gets up again."

WENN: Neil Patrick Harris: "I'm Gay"

Actor Neil Patrick Harris has ended mounting speculation about his sexuality, by revealing he is gay. The How I Met Your Mother star was recently outed by a website, which claimed he helped his alleged boyfriend land a role in the sitcom. His publicist Craig Snyder played down the reports, insisting "he's not of that persuasion." But Harris has revealed all to People magazine's website because of "speculation and interest in my private life and relationships." He says, "(I) am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest." Harris found fame as a young actor playing a teenage doctor in Doogie Howser, MD.

I've been thinking about the fishbowl actors live in. They certainly can't stay as private as lesser-known people. With fame comes a fanship wanting to know as much as they can about the people behind the roles. Harris says he's proud to make this announcement, but I don't know that he would've made it had the website not outed him. I regret the pressure fan curiosity puts on actors.

He ain't heavy, he's my brother.

My brother's external hard drive is on its last legs, and he's trying to offload as much as he can to my computer until a replacement drive arrives next week. Friday night into early evening Saturday, my CPU was running at full capacity, and I didn't want to push it with the usual checks of e-mail, IMing, and blogging.

Luckily my Charmed first season DVDs arrived Thursday, and I did review John Harvey's hit man story, "Snow, Snow, Snow", for Nasty. Brutish. Short. yesterday.