Efron says he’s ‘Bourne’ again

Zac Efron, he of “High School Musical” and “Hairspray,” is used to being mobbed by teen and ’tween girls.

But his recent London experience was a bit different.

The Daily Mail reports that Efron was accosted by a bespectacled middle-aged man as he and girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens were exiting a theater in London’s West End. The man shouted and pointed at Efron and may have tried to grab his hair.

The incident, wrote a Mail columnist, “must have given (Efron) a taste of the darker side of fame.”

Efron told Entertainment Weekly that he deserves a CIA medal because of his stealth in avoiding the screamers.

“I’ve always loved secret-agent movies, whether it be James Bond or ‘Bourne Identity,’ ” he said. “Now I’m kind of living it.’ ”

Quidditch in Harvard Yard?

“Harry Potter” star Emma Watson visited the Harvard campus on Wednesday, says campus paper The Crimson, which reports that Watson checked out the dorms and visited the admissions office. The university would not confirm the report

It’s a Streep learning curve

The New York Post says Meryl Streep’s daughter Grace Gummer is following in the thespian footsteps of her older sister, Mamie Gummer, who recently starred in “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” on Broadway. Grace, 22, will make her acting debut in an Off-Broadway production of Lukas Barfuss’ “The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents,” translated by Neil Blackadder, opening Nov. 11.

Robin Williams is staying home

Remember “Aladdin”? Well, Disney is poised to make its first real Arabic film. Variety says the studio is in talks with Lebanese film auteur Chadi Zeneddine to produce “The Last of the Storytellers,” a fantasy based on the Orient’s rich tradition of exotic folklore. You won’t see it, though. It’ll be made in Arabic exclusively for Middle Eastern audiences.

They goin’ all helter skelter, yo

Ne-Yo, who once crowed that he’s so versatile he could even write a song for Marilyn Manson, recently was called on his bluff. Yet the rapper says their musical hookup is “going to be interesting. I have no idea what we’re going to do, what it’s going to sound like. Just Ne-Yo and Marilyn Manson in the same room – we’re going to figure something out.”

Rescind her parole, girlfriend

Paris Hilton has advice for GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin in the pages of Harper’s Bazaar. “You’ve got a hot bod; don’t keep it to yourself,” says Hilton. “Why wear a pantsuit when you can wear a swimsuit? Welcome to the Lower 49, girlfriend.”

The birthday bunch

Actor Ron Leibman is 71. Actor David Morse (“St. Elsewhere”) is 55. Actor Stephen Spinella (“24”) is 52. Actress Joan Cusack is 46. Guitarist Scott Johnson of Gin Blossoms is 46. Actor Sean Patrick Flanery is 43. Actor Luke Perry is 42. Actor Jane Krakowski (“Ally McBeal”) is 40. Rapper U-God of Wu-Tang Clan is 38. Rapper MC Lyte is 37. Singer NeeNa Lee is 33. Actress Emily Deschanel (“Bones”) is 32. Actress Michelle Trachtenberg (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”) is 23.