“I dunno who’s left, I mean a lot of comic books have . . . they’ve all been done. I don’t think anyone’s done The Flash yet, and that’s one I’d probably have a go at. Other then that, I’m not sure which comic book heroes are left.”

- Daniel Radcliffe discusses the possibility of playing The Flash or another superhero in a movie.

Oh my gosh, you guys. I know this isn’t a popular opinion, but I hate all these movies based on comic books. I hate them so, so much. Well, ok, I did like The Dark Knight, but Heath Ledger made that film into so much more than another Batman story. And that last X-Men movie was ok, but mostly because of James McAvoy and Jennifer Lawrence. Other than that, no thank you. I just wish that Hollywood could maybe try focusing on something else besides making a movie or four about every single superhero that ever was.

And I know that isn’t a popular opinion. I know that because every single one of my friends went to see The Avengers at least three times. And I won’t begrudge you that, ok? It’s fine if you get your rocks off by watching all these movies. I hope you’re having a great time. But there are a few of us who would benefit from going an hour or two without hearing the rest of the world gush about Captain America, and there are also a few of us who would positively die if dear, dear Daniel Radcliffe got caught up in this whole trend.

But maybe I’m out of line. Maybe Daniel would be terrific as The Flash. Maybe a movie about him doing everything really really fast would be really entertaining. What do you think?

So hey, here’s another film about the Beat Generation – Kill Your Darlings, a movie about … well, IMDB says it best as always:

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

Is this going to be a thing, now? Movies about Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation and all of that business in between? Some of you guys MISREAD MY POST and REAMED MY ASS over the last thing I wrote about the Beat Generation films, but hey. I guess I can’t be crystal clear every time, now, can I? This movie, however, sounds pretty interesting. It stars Daniel Radcliffe, Michael C. Hall, and Elizabeth Olsen, among other stars like Kyra Sedgwick, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and David Cross, with Daniel playing the part of Alan Ginsberg, obviously. Here’s a photo if you don’t have the resemblance envisioned in your head already:

Almost uncanny, right? But the hair! Oh dear, the hair. Yes, I know that it’s actually not *that* bad, and as usual, I’m dramatizing, but I’m sorry. I just cannot look at Daniel Radcliffe and not think ‘Harry Potter‘, so yes, that apparently makes me One of Those People who’s too dense and narrow-minded to realize their favorite movie stars as anything other than what they think they should be (in this case, Harry Potter). Bummer, I know.

The movie debuts in 2013, and if the world is still around that long, you can bet that Daniel here’s going to garner some pretty awesome praise for his sure-to-be spot-on portrayal of one of America’s legendary poets. And how about that resemblance?

Earlier today, during Your Daily Gosling, Sarah gave you guys a little quote where Daniel Radcliffe announced that he had a “talent crush” on Ryan Gosling. And that got me to thinking a little bit, and I came to a very odd conclusion: I think Daniel Radcliffe is my new Ryan Gosling.

I KNOW! How could I, after all we’ve been through with Ryan? He’s perfect, isn’t he? He loves ballet and Disneyland, and then there’s his face. Ryan Gosling should be my new Ryan Gosling!

But my heart is leading me in a different direction, and that direction is straight towards the most adorable boy who lived, and this little interview with Attitude magazine did nothing but drive me closer to him.

On gay marriage: “Don’t define yourself by your sexuality, don’t define as straight or gay, define yourself as people and help another person if they’re in trouble. The ultimate reason gay marriage should be legalized everywhere is because, as a kid, you look to your mum and dad and they’re married, then you look at the gay couple who’ve been together for the same amount of time, but because they can’t get married their relationship doesn’t seem the same. Yes, gay marriage is about symbolically blessing a relationship, but the larger issue is about transmitting a fundamental message about equality. Gay people should have equality in law everywhere. If you grow up as a young gay man knowing you dont’ have the same opportuniteies as everyone else, you’re going to feel victimised and massive prejudice towards you.”

On religion: “I’m not religious, I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation. We need sex education in schools. Schools have to talk to kids from a young age about relationships, gay and straight.”

On the Republican presidential candidates: “…they disgusted me less than candidates like Rick Perry, who made that ridiculous advert wearing ‘the Brokeback jacket’, and I think pretend to be homophobic just to win votes.”

On wishing Obama would support gay marriage more: “Yes, I do, but can he really? Of course he’s in favour of it, but he has to be careful about saying so. I’d rather have someone like him in the White House than the alternative.”

Is he gay? “No. I can quite happily say someone is handsome, good-looking, and I can see why someone would want to f**k them, but I’ve never felt that way about a man myself. There is that moment in your late teens when you ask yourself the question, ‘Am I?’ but I wasn’t…Well, this year I have a talent crush on Ryan Gosling. I think he’s fantastic and…(ahem) you know he’d be nice afterwards. He seems smart. If I was gay, I would go for a smart man.”

Do you see what I mean? I haven’t heard anything charming from Ryan Gosling in a pretty long time, but here lately Daniel has been just pumping out the charm. Not to mention that Daniel looks way cuter in a suit.

So where do you guys stand on this one?

Remember how Daniel Radcliffe used to be this crazy, raging alcoholic who claimed that he’d not be able to attend any events unless he was wasted, and he’d spend hours and hours in his home drinking alone? He’s talking about it again, and this time, letting out more details. More scary, make-me-sad details that also make me thankful that he’s quit drinking and got himself a nice girlfriend and is doing movies that don’t require tons of alcohol to get through.

Daniel claims that in his darkest days, he’d “black out” all of the time and would hide in his house because he so feared what he did while in that condition:

“Seriously, in the last three years of drinking I blacked out nearly every time. Blacking out was my thing. ‘The drinking was unhealthy and damaging to my body and my social life. That’s beyond question,’ he said in an interview with Glamour magazine. I was living in constant fear of who I’d meet, what I might have said to them, what I might have done with them, so I’d stay in my apartment for days and drink alone.”

Dan says that while some people benefit from the occasional social drink, it turned him into someone neither he – nor anyone else – liked to be around, and it actually cost him some friends (I know; that might be the saddest part of all. Who would not want to be friends with Harry Potter?):

“I was a recluse at 20. It was pathetic – it wasn’t me. I’m a fun, polite person and it turned me into a rude bore. For a long time people were saying to me, ‘We think you have a problem’, but in the end I had to come to the realization myself.”

And you know who kind of helped him come to that realization? Oh, you know, none other than SIRIUS BLACK HIMSELF:

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See now, how nice is it to have one of the previous night’s posts about that darling (and f-cking hot) Daniel Radcliffe, only to wake up and find that the first post of the following day is also solely dedicated to Daniel? There should be more days like this in the week, my friends.

This time, I have even better news for you, if the news about Dan liking hairy snizatch didn’t just completely put you up over the top (it did me, that’s for sure). Turns out that the rumors about Daniel and Rupert Grint are completely untrue, and the two are actually good friends. From People:

There’s no bad blood between Harry Potter costars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint.

Despite an interview that Radcliffe recently did that “was blown out of proportion,” the Woman in Black star says he and Grint, 23, are “very, very good friends.”

“It’s just ridiculous,” Radcliffe, 22, told On Air with Ryan Seacrest. “Someone said, ‘Are you in contact with Rupert and Emma [Watson] at the moment?’ And I said, ‘Emma and I have been texting recently, but Rupert and I never text.’ ”

Apologizing to fans who took the quotes the wrong way, he explains, “We have never texted each other in 10 years of filming. We just never have. We are lazy texters. We’ve never texted each other back. And we both know that’s how the other person is.”

But the big-screen besties make up for their lack of digital communication in person.

“I know that the next time I see Rupert, we’ll sit next to each other and chat, and it will be like old times,” Radcliffe says. “It will be fantastic … It’s just that we’re not constantly texting each other.”

So, see? They are BFFs, and doesn’t that kind of make the world a better place – just by that friendship existing and, you know, being genuine? When I first heard the news that Ron and Harry just weren’t that into one another, I didn’t sleep for a week. But now? Maybe I can sleep fitfully, and restart my tradition of falling asleep to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (which I stopped last night, because I found it to be extremely inappropriate, especially in light of pubic developments), but I just don’t know yet, guys. Even this kind of news – good news! – may never change how I feel, now, about Daniel Radcliffe.

“This is way too much information, but I don’t like girls with nothing down there either. It freaks me out. You have to have something, otherwise it’s f-cking creepy.”

OK, so are we all in complete agreement that Daniel Radcliffe is not only the most precious man-boy alive, but he’s actually pretty g-ddamn hot, too? I mean, wow. Don’t know what it is about this interview, but something about Dan talking about lady-scaping completely sends my mind to places that it shouldn’t go, because he’s Harry Potter for f-ck’s sake. And that makes me think of Disney Channel’s Harry Potter weekend in a totally different light, and that’s close cousins with pedophilia, isn’t it? I just can’t get down with that, friends.

Anyway, to refute your original point, Daniel, about how you think it’s “creepy” to not have anything down there, let me tell you: It’s not creepy that you don’t like hairless kitty cats, it’s creepy that you’re Harry Potter and I LIKE IT.

How do you guys like your ladybits?