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Daniel Radcliffe, the actor behind the boy wizard Harry Potter, is hunting for a mystery Australian girl who cast a spell on him at a film awards party, local media reported on Monday.

Radcliffe, who started playing Potter in the popular Harry Potter movies when he was 11, has often spoken about not being able to find a girlfriend.

But Sydney's Daily Telegraph Newspaper said Radcliffe, 18, now wanted help to track down a woman he met briefly at a film event in Australia.

"She stared at me all night and I was going to get her number and then I couldn't find her," Radcliffe told the newspaper.

"I must have walked around that party for an hour trying to look for this girl, like some sad pathetic dweeb, but it would have been worth it."

The Daily Telegraph has started its own search for the mystery beauty, asking the young woman to contact the newspaper.

The car being used in the latest James Bond film plunged into a lake in northern Italy while being driven to the set.
Producers say the driver of the Aston Martin was taken to a hospital with minor injuries. They say James Bond's iconic car was being delivered to the filming unit in heavy rain on Saturday morning when it went off the road and plunged into Lake Garda.

Italian state TV has shown footage of the smashed, black car being hoisted out of the water.

"Quantum of Solace," the newest film in the 007 series, stars Daniel Craig and is due for release this year.

Scottish actor Ewan McGregor, best known for his role as the Jedi knight Obi-Wan Kenobi in the "Star Wars" movie series, revealed Tuesday that he had a cancerous mole removed from just below his right eye.

The actor said he had to be careful of his pale skin because he spent so much time in the sun.

"I had a little skin cancer under my eye," the 37-year-old star told BBC Television in an interview to promote his latest film, the erotic thriller "Deception."

"I just went to have them (the moles) checked ... I went to to see a specialist who thought they were better to be removed, and indeed he was correct."

McGregor said: "It's all good now. But it was something that was best to be looked at and kept in check."

The actor played the young Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi in the second trilogy of "Star Wars" films -- "Phantom Menace," "Attack of the Clones" and "Revenge of the Sith."