UK Media Ethics Inquiry Hears Celeb Horror Stories: JK Rowling & Sienna Miller Testify; CNNs Piers Morgan To Be Questioned

Horror stories of car chases, intense paranoia, spitting paparazzi, and most of all an ineffective regulatory systempeppered todays inquiry intoNews Corp’s News Of The World phone hacking scandal by a British government-backed inquiry intoUK press ethics and practices. Notably appearing in London Thursday were actress Sienna Miller and Harry Potter author JK Rowling. Also giving evidence was media lawyer Mark Thompson whose client Hugh Grant gave evidence at the inquiry earlier this week. Thompsonaccusedthe UKs Press Complaints Commission, which is the body that deals with complaints about the editorial content of newspapers and magazines, of beingineffective. “Some of the worst offenders are photographic agencies and paparazzi and the PCC can’t control them,” he said.Also on Thursday, the Leveson Inquiry announced that it would call former British newspaper editor Piers Morgan as a witness to talk about UK media methods. Morgan, who now hosts CNN’sPiers Morgan Tonight, said he would appear soon. Hearings will resume Monday with testimony from singer Charlotte Church among others. JK Rowling separatelycalled the PCC toothless. But, she said, I cant pretend I have a magical answer. (She then caught herself and added, No Harry Potter joke intended, that slipped out.) She said she has not been phone hacked but spoke about how she felt “blackmailed” by The Sun, also a News Corp newspaper, aftera manuscript of one of her books was stolen from the printers and came into the hands of The Sun.She had to take legal action to prevent the contents of the book being revealed pre-publication, she said, and felt The Sun was trying to turn the situation into a photo opportunity.She also said paparazzi hounded the authorso constantly after her children were born that she felt like a hostage in her own house, Rowling told the inquiry. When a journalist once managed to get a note into her daughters school bag, she noted, Its very difficult to say how angry I felt that my 5-year-old daughters school was no longer a place of complete security from journalists. She further evoked an instance when a journalist directly contacted the headmaster at her eldest child’s school claiming theyd heard the girl had revealed details of the final Potter book that were upsetting to other schoolchildren. Rowling also objected to her addresses being printed in the press.Clearly I cant put an invisibility cloaking device over myself or my house, nor do I wish to, she said. Sienna Miller received a 100,000 settlement from News Of The World earlier this year over her phone hacking claims. Today she described being hounded by press and paparazzi – whether they were driving illegally or spitting at her to get a reaction. She said she was happy to be giving evidence and hoped that some form of change comes to our media. Prior to learning she was under surveillance, Miller explained that news items repeatedly appeared with information to which only she and her closest friends and family were privy. So she changed her mobile number 3 times in 3 months, but the stories continued unabated. Horribly, I accused my friends and family of selling stories, she said.When she realized the intrusions on both herself and her entourage were perpetrated by hackers, I did feel constantly very scared and intensely paranoid.

Keck's Exclusives: Hilarie Burton Will get the Secrets towards the Castle

Hilarie Burton Former One Tree Hill hottie Hilarie Burton is become reality star. Kind of. Hilarie, who left her One Tree role as Peyton last year and presently costars on USA's Whitened Collar, has won a guest just right ABC's Castle like a charming reality TV personality named Kay Cappuccio, who in my experience sounds nearly the same as a particular Kardashian. ABC's description from the character notes Kay has "accomplished significant fame and fortune without having any noticeable skill or talent - she's famous mostly to be famous." Obviously that may also affect a variety of Hiltons or Real Average women inhabiting our Televisions.The smoothness bio continues to express, "Her open attitude, visual appearance and knockout body make her a popular of tabloids and gossip websites around the world. Kay both relishes this spotlight and simultaneously feels a prisoner of her very own celebrity lifestyle - it makes sense a lady who's more complicated than she might in the beginning appear."More complicated than she appears? Well, a lot for my Kardashian evaluations. Sure, which was bitchy of me to express, but additionally fitting thinking about this episode's cheeky title: "An Embarrassment of Bitches."Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!

Bill Condon on Breaking Dawn, Bella as Bride of Frankenstein and Twilight's 'Gay Sensibility'

Every director who’s gone through the whirlwind circus that is filming and releasing a Twilight movie eventually gets to relax and breathe a sigh of relief, but Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters, Dreamgirls) still has miles and miles to go. Fans and critics will finally see what the Oscar-winner brings to the YA vampire franchise when The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 hits theaters Nov. 18, but if they find themselves displeased with his treatment of Stephenie Meyer’s beloved novel, it could be a tough year’s wait until Condon’s simultaneously-shot series ender (Breaking Dawn - Part 2) concludes the series next fall. But! Judging from the temperature of the Twilight community thus far, Condon probably needn’t feel anxious; he’s played the Summit game so far with palpable enthusiasm for the tale of one Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and her angst-ridden coming of age saga, earning fan support along the way. Fully aware that much rides on getting Breaking Dawn - Part 1’s big moments right — the wedding, the honeymoon, the butter-hued love-making, and its gory repercussions — Condon collaborated creatively with the series’s best expert (Stewart, “the biggest Twi-hard in the world”) but took care to put his own cinematic stamp on Breaking Dawn. Condon rang Movieline the other week and discussed his pre-release nerves, the Breaking Dawn on set dance-off that warmed his heart, the question of the “gay sensibility” he may or may not have brought to the Twilight franchise, what big plans might be in store for Breaking Dawn 1 & 2 on DVD/Blu-ray, and more. How are you feeling in this moment, knowing the film is about to start being seen, finally, after all this time? I know! Well, anxious, obviously. But excited, too. Because you live in a cocoon for so long, and we don’t do big previews or anything like that, so it’ll be fun, you know? Breaking Dawn - Part 1 is a part of the Twilight Saga that contains a lot of big important life events happen to Bella Swan — the wedding, the honeymoon, the birth of a child, and what comes after that… which of those big moments did you feel the most pressure to nail? I think the big three — wedding, honeymoon, birth. You just felt like those, you’ve got to get right. But man, I would say the most pressure might have been the wedding. Just because, my god, everybody has an idea of what it should be like. And I have to say, ultimately I kind of stayed with that one idea: What’s Bella feeling? For each of those three things. And once you sort of do it through that prism, things start falling into place. So that it really because about, what is she feeling as she walks down that aisle? But you have this incredible collaborator in Kristen Stewart. The wedding made us all anxious, but excited. Did Kristen have a lot to say, a lot of input into how the wedding came together? Absolutely. She was a big collaborator in the design of the dress, and in general… as you know, she’s like the biggest Twi-hard in the world, and she’s very tough on herself as well. She had a list of things she was most anxious to get right, and I think the wedding was a huge part of that. Just making sure that she could express as much as possible — and again, it’s all happening on her face. That’s not dialogue, that’s not anything. It’s just to express as much of what’s going on inside that character as she could. So in a way, it’s like you and Kristen planned the wedding together. Right! Rumor has it there is a musical number in the wedding scene. True? This has gotten a little [distorted]… there’s no musical number. No. All there is, is that people dance at the wedding so we brought a choreographer in; Ashley [Greene] and Jackson [Rathbone] are both great dancers, and they just chill out for a moment. That’s all it is. But there was some sort of dance battle on set? There was. It was one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen. In that second movie, as you know from the book, a half hour takes place in this one location, this on field. And we shot there for — when you include the second unit it was a couple of months, but the first unit was there for many weeks - and we came to the last, widest shot, with 80 vampires on one side and 27 vampires on the other. I’m sitting up the ladder and suddenly you hear this music — “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” — and suddenly the Cullen side starts this incredible, West Side Story kind of rumble dance, and of course the other vampires then start to dance back. It was unbelievably great. Did you film that? Is that something that will be seen on the Blu-ray? I think there was a lot of B-camera rolling, and stuff like that. So that will all come out - but it’s the second movie. Who was responsible for that? It was a couple of actors who organized it. I know Myanna Buring was behind it, and Lee Pace. There were a couple of others, I should figure out exactly who. But they kept it a secret! They rehearsed this number for a week and kept it a secret! It was great. It was so great.

'X Factor': Vocal Sweetening? Lip Syncing? The Lowdown on the Shows Sound

Ray Mickshaw / FOXX Factor's Top 12 performs "Without You" If there is one aspect of X Factor that may take some getting used to, it's how the contestants' vocals sometimes sound a little too perfect. Who can forget the episodes shot at the judges' homes, where a distracting running water fountain was miraculously muted as soon as Paula Abdul's groups hit their first notes? And during Thusday's show, internet chatter went ballistic when LeRoy Bell's vocals kicked in before he had a chance to actually mouth a word.our editor recommends'X Factor': With 10 Million Votes Cast, How Does it Compare to 'American Idol'? (Analysis) 'X Factor' Redux: An 8-Year-Old's Take on the Top 12'X Factor': What the 'American Idol' Alums Think of Simon Cowell's New Show So what's the story? It's a fairly well-known fact that during group numbers on singing shows -- like American Idol, which all but admitted to the practice in season 9, at least where the choruses was concerned -- contestants will sing to a backing track and that sometimes their individual microphones cannot be heard above the pre-recorded music. This is what happened on Thursday's elimination show as X Factor's Top 12 performed "Without You" by David Guetta (see video below). Says Fox in its show'sdefense: "All survival songs are performed live, with just a backing track. For the group ensemble performance, the vocals are pre-recorded to allow acts to concentrate on preparing for their own live competitive performances on Wednesdays -- this is also no different to what other competition shows do for ensemble performances." (Meaning: the contestants are in fact lip-syncing.) The show has had vocal controversies before. After public outcry that X Factor UK contestants were being auto-tuned, Cowell admitted the practice then banned it. When The Hollywood Reporter asked show judge and creator Simon Cowell about vocal sweetening on US X Factor, he said, "We have to mix the show just like you mix the tracks as you mix my voice, but nothing like auto-tuning or, how do you call it, 'sweetening?' No one's got an unfair advantage." Not feeling quite satisfied with that answer, we asked an independent expert and X Factor viewer, producer Tricky Stewart (Beyonce's "Single Ladies," Justin Bieber's "Baby")to comment on the show's vocals. "I don't think they're tweaking vocals in that they're messing or manipulating them," he told THR. "But I do think the people on X Factor are so competitive with other shows on television that they're paying attention to every detail about how it actually sounds -- every microphone and every reverb. They're going hard, trying to get a step up and you can see it." Actually, you can hear it. What do you think? Does a lip-synched group number rub you the wrong way? Should singing show producers be more transparent about this practice? And if so, how? Update: A spokesperson forAmerican Idoltells THR, "American Idoldoes not lip-sync. All of our solo performances, both during competition and after the contestant has been eliminated, are sung live with no vocal background tracks. Our ensemble performances are sung live with a background chorus track. During ALL solo and ensemble performances, our band is live." Simon Cowell American Idol The X Factor

The CW Sets Midseason Lineup

The CW"One Tree Hill's" Sophia Bush The CW has set its midseason lineup, anchored by the final season premiere of One Tree Hill. Kicking off Wednesday, Jan. 11 at 8 p.m., the ninth and final season will welcome back star Chad Michael Murray and take over the time slot previously occupied by now canceled reality series H8R and repeats of the network's Sarah Michelle Gellar series Ringer. Reality series Remodeled will premiere the following week, on Jan. 18, following the second episode of OTH at 9 p.m. and see modeling industry veteran Paul Fisher meld scores of small agencies into one new venture, dubbed The Network. Following holiday breaks, Kevin Williamson's Thursday dramas The Vampire Diaries and The Secret Circle will return with new episodes on Jan. 5, with Nikita and Supernatural returning Friday, Jan. 6. 90210 and Ringer and will return with fresh episodes on Tuesday, Jan. 10, at 8 and 9 p.m., respectively. Josh Schwartz's Monday block will return with Gossip Girl and Hart of Dixie airing original episodes on Jan. 16 and 23, respectively. A full schedule is below. Thursday, January 5 8-9 p.m. The Vampire Diaries (original episodes return) 9-10 p.m. The Secret Circle (original episodes return) Friday, January 6 8-9 p.m. Nikita (original episodes return) 9-10 p.m. Supernatural (original episodes return) Tuesday, January 10 8-9 p.m. 90210 (original episodes return) 9-10 p.m. Ringer (original episodes return) Wednesday, January 11 8-9 p.m. One Tree Hill (season premiere) 9-10 p.m. One Tree Hill (season premiere encore) Monday, January 16 8-9 p.m. Gossip Girl (original episodes return) 9-10 p.m. Hart of Dixie (encore episode) Wednesday, January 18 8-9pm. One Tree Hill 9-10 p.m. Remodeled (series premiere) Monday, January 23 8-9 p.m. Gossip Girl 9-10 p.m. Hart of Dixie (original episodes return) Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com; Twitter: @Snoodit The CW One Tree Hill

The Temple (Deool)

A Devisha Films production. Created by Abhijeet Gholap. Executive producer, Nitin Prakash Vaidya. Directed by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni. Script, Girish Pandurang Kulkarni.With: Nana Patekar, Dilip Prabhawalkar, Girish Kulkarni, Sonali Kulkarni, Kishor Kadam, Atisha Naik, Shrikant Yadav, Jyoti Subhash, Usha Nadkarni, Mohan Agashe. (Marathi dialogue)The qualifier "rising" no more must be put into "helmer" when explaining Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni after "The Temple," the director's third and finest feature up to now. Since his debut, "The Wild Bull," Kulkarni's proven a desire for the mistakes of village existence, but here he's honed his satire, retaining the humor while which makes it more biting. Skewering venality using a tale of the simple cowherd whose vision of the deity turns the townspeople into mad suppliers, scripter Girish Pandurang Kulkarni takes up corruption from multiple angles yet keeps things from feeling preachy. A proper fest existence is assured. Local rollout is placed for early November and may exceed the strong showing for "Wild Bull," contributing to the growing B.O. energy of Marathi photos recently. Stars like Sonali Kulkarni and Nana Patekar will help, together with a few production amounts superbly built-into the plot. Though things drag a little toward the finish from the first hour, they get within the other half, and also the film includes a palpable appeal despite an unnecessarily extended ending. When Kesha (Girish Kulkarni) includes a imagine the triple-figured god Dutta, the artless cowherd can't contain his excitement smarter males within the village warn him to help keep the vision to themself, fearing ridicule or perhaps a stampede, but it is past too far. In the beginning, little alterations in the city, in which the latest TV cleaning soap takes priority over anything else, however several males drunkenly propose a temple ought to be built. Gentle sage Anna (Dilip Prabhawalkar) continues to be focusing on plans with local politico Bhau (Patekar) to construct a hospital, but popular pressure pushes aside this vital improvement and that he watches helplessly like a sanctuary is built and vacationers and pilgrims swamp the city. Bhau's an average local politician, neither too corrupt nor too honest and completely underneath the thumb of his party superior, meaning he is doing things for political expedience instead of community enhancement. Money flows in to the village coffers and also the whole tenor of existence changes, with individuals values shifting as cynical opportunism and hypocrisy take hold. Kesha, the guy who had the vision, is basically forgotten, and also the sacred cow will get sick and dies, with just the simple cowherd to mourn. Towards the pic's enormous credit, rural existence prior to the temple is not some Edenic existence: there's poverty, a primitive infrastructure and superstition. The helmer does not reason that modernity is itself corrupting, but instead what it is integrated, so as the coming of electricity ought to be a pressure permanently, its implementation stops working community ties and erodes social relations. The craze of consumerism replaces genuine spiritual feeling, leading to local people wired towards the outdoors world but stop from one another, urged by energy-hungry politicos along with a yellow press only thinking about sensationalism. The pic leavens things with warmth and humor without weakening the pointed critique. Thesping is globally strong, especially Patekar and Sonali Kulkarni as his wife (not their very first time being an onscreen couple) their playful relationship and strong sexual chemistry add an unpredicted degree of closeness. Lensing by Sudhakar Reddy is topnotch, with special attention compensated to landscape and also the village's isolation. The 2 production amounts, both appealing tunes, are organically incorporated, advancing sarcasm and satirizing celebrity culture. Opening credits, of the submit silhouette making sand designs on backlit glass, are lovely.Camera (color, widescreen), Sudhakar Reddy editor, Abhijeet Deshpande music, Mangesh Dhakde production designer, Prashant Bidkar seem, Anthony B.J. Ruben assistant director, Vikrant Pawar. Examined at Abu Dhabi Film Festival (Showcase), March. 18, 2011 (Also in Busan Film Festival -- A Window on Asian Cinema). Running time: 145 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com