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— Daniel Radcliffe has really left Harry Potter behind with a startling and explicit Sundance Film Festivalrole as poet Allen Ginsberg. Kill Your Darlings, the actor’s first film at the independent-cinema showcase in Park City, Utah,premiered Friday at Sundance and puts Radcliffe into daring territory. His young Ginsberg is initiated into booze and drugs, has oral sex performed on him in a library, makes out with one man and gets naked for sex with another man. In a session with the audience after the premiere, Radcliffe was asked if he chose the role because it fit the “weird stuff” he likes. Radcliffe said it was the second time that day he was asked the same question and conceded his tastes can run outside the mainstream. The film recounts a little-known story of murder involving Ginsberg’s circle of friends, including fellow future beat heroes Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) and William S.Burroughs (Ben Foster). Dane DeHaan co-stars as Ginsberg idol and intimate Lucien Carr, and the cast also includes Michael C. Hall, Elizabeth Olsen and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

While comedian Stephen Colbert once spoofedthat he was running for the president of the United States of South Carolina, his sister really is earnestly seeking avacant congressional seat in the state. Democrat Elizabeth Colbert-Busch plans to file this week to enter the race for the 1st District, her campaign manager Bill Romjue said Friday. She’ll join an already notable list of candidates. Former Republican Gov. Mark Sanford, whose political career was derailed after he admitted having an affair with an Argentine woman in 2009, entered the race. And Teddy Turner, the son of media magnate Ted Turner, is also running as a Republican. Filing for the seat opened Friday and runs through Jan. 28. Turner and Sanford are among at least 10 Republicans running in the Republican-leaning district. The 1st District seat was left vacant when Gov. Nikki Haley appointed Tim Scott as the state’s newest U.S. senator. Colbert-Busch is a Charleston native.

Front Section, Pages 2 on 01/20/2013

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