Here are some new photos of Drew Barrymore and her fiancé Will Kopelman exiting KOMI Restaurant in Washington, DC. They had just done a premiere of Drew’s latest film, Big Miracle, which is… that one about the whales, right? Not important. What I really want to talk about is how Drew looks now that she’s with Will, and how she seems to have changed. Her dress is Ports 1961, and it looks like something her mother would have worn in 1973, while attending a key party in Beverly Hills. On Drew, it’s a sobering look. But that’s how she’s been ever since she got with Will – she seems more serious, less bubbly, less giggly, more mature. I can’t decide whether or not I like the idea of Drew being all grown-up. I think my mixed feelings have more to do with the idea that this is just another phase for Drew, something that she will outgrow in another year. We’ll see.

Drew appeared on Good Morning America a few days ago, and she talked about her wedding plans, which aren’t much at this stage – Drew said she’s still in the “daydreaming” part of wedding planning. Blah – you can read more about it here. But here’s a story that I did find interesting – will Drew convert to Judaism for Will?

There is no doubt free-spirited actress Drew Barrymore is a convert to love with her recent engagement, but will the union result in her conversion to Judaism?

The “Big Miracle” star is so head-over-heels with her fiancé, art consultant Will Kopelman, that she’s considering converting to his Jewish faith, a source told In Touch.

The bubbly star, 36, would have some great moral support — good friend Adam Sandler has been helping her with the process of coverting, the source told the magazine.

“Those two absolutely adore each other, so it only made sense to Drew that he will be right by her side playing an important role at her wedding,” the source said of the two funny pals.

According to the insider, Barrymore told Kopelman’s family that she plans on raising their future children in the Jewish faith. The actress’ rep has denied talk about her potential conversion.

[From NYDN]

I didn’t realize Will was Jewish – and it would make sense for Drew to convert, especially if he’s practicing and he wants to raise their kids in the faith. I don’t believe Drew is very religious currently, so she might be wide-open for conversion. Mazel tov, Drew!

Oh, and here’s a close-up of Drew’s ring:

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame.

Here are some more photos from the event honoring Pedro Almodovar – I already covered Sarah Jessica Parker and Blake Lively here – they were both in Chanel. I think Chanel was one of the sponsors of the event, because Karl Lagerfeld was there too – and no, I’m not going to put a photo of the grizzled old Anger Bear. No one needs to see that today. First up, we have Drew Barrymore and her boyfriend (fiancé?) Will Kopelman. Will reminds me of someone… who is it? You know who he kind of looks like? Jessica Simpson’s Yalie K-Fed, Eric Johnson. Right? As for Drew, she looks very pulled together, which makes me kind of miss Hippie Drew. I don’t like her hair this dark, and the outfit ages her.

Emma Stone, in Chanel. Probably one of my favorite dresses of the night, but I don’t care for the giant hair poof happening in front.

Olivia Wilde in a pretty, summery dress. Not wonderful for late autumn, but it looks good on her.

Here’s Elizabeth Olsen wore a Chanel mullet dress, from the Mullet Resort Collection. The black and red looks good on her, and I like that she’s wearing different labels and not just going with her sisters’ lines.

Miranda Kerr in Peter Pilotto. I cannot even describe how much I hate this. The top part sticks out when you see her from the side – like fins. Her hair is awful. Her makeup is too underdone – it looks like she’s just wearing lipstick and nothing else. Terrible appearance.

I usually try to avoid discussing Chloe Moretz, because she’s only 14 years old. But she’s 14 going on 40, and she poses hard. She’s in Chanel – I like the pants/whatever. I actually like the whole outfit. But she looks 29, not 14. There’s no reason for her to be pouting and sucking in her cheeks.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

It’s been a while since I’ve heard anything about Drew Barrymore and her boyfriend of…not even a year, it seems. They began dating early this year, like January/February. Since I hadn’t heard anything, and since Drew is pretty flaky about men, I kind of thought they were probably already over. Not so much, according to Us Weekly. Their sources claim that Drew thinks Will is “the one” – the one to marry and have babies with, I guess. Will loves her too, and he’s already ring-shopping.

Drew Barrymore wants Will Kopelman to put a ring on it! The actress — who turns 37 in February — “is yearning to get married and have kids,” a source tells Us Weekly.

The insider says that Kopelman, 34, has been thinking about rings, and could pop the question “around the one-year mark of their dating” this winter.

“He’s madly in love and knows she’s The One, but he just needs a bit more time.”

Still the art consultant understands he can’t wait that long. Adds the source, “If this were some twentysomething woman, there would be no rush.”

In fact, since Barrymore has babies on the brain, the insider adds, “I could see her getting pregnant before they get married!”

[From Us Weekly]

I could see her getting pregnant and never getting married again. I don’t think Drew really cares about getting hitched at this point, but you never know. She’s such a girly-girl, maybe she wants to do the wedding thing one more time. What would this be? Her third or fourth marriage? Edit: It would be her third.

As for Will… he seems much more “together” than the guys Drew usually goes for, and I like that he’s not part of the Hollywood crowd, and he doesn‘t seem like a famewhore. That being said, the guy could possibly be a user. His family is wealthy, but Will’s job title is “art consultant” – which I believe means that he just tells rich people which artworks to buy. He could just be looking for some wealthy woman who will support him. Or maybe he’s a really nice guy. I don’t know.

Update: Erin at Yahoo! OMG writes that a source close to Drew denies this story. They claim that Drew and Will are “‘happily together,’ but in no rush to get married and have kids.”

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame and Pacific Coast News.

In what reads like a cautionary tale from one of those romcoms that made her famous (it seems most of the stars of He’s Just Not That Into You didn’t learn much from it, except maybe Ginnifer Goodwin and Jennifer Connelly) Drew Barrymore’s new boyfriend is allegedly getting scared off by her talk of marriage and babies after they’ve been dating just three months. Drew’s boyfriend, an “art consultant” named Will Kopelmann who comes from money, was described as a “playboy” back when the news broke that they were dating. That hasn’t changed and he’s supposedly ready to bolt now that Drew is getting so serious.

Sources say Drew’s boyfriend, Los Angelees art consultant Will Kopelmann, is looking to make a clean getaway from the man-crazy actress after just three months of dating.

Why? She scared him off with talk of a quickie marriage…and babies!

The former wild child hooked up with Will, 33, in February and has already been telling pals that she’s found her soul mate. But insiders say Will is a playboy at heart and is not ready to settle down.

“Drew went from Zero to 60 overnight and quickly smothered Will,” continued the source. “Within weeks of hooking up, she overwhelmed him with talks of a wedding and kids and insisted he move into her Los Angeles home.

“Now, Will is getting scared off.”

Drew, 36, is starting to feel her biological clock tick, explains the source.

“She sees friends like Kate Hudson and Cameron Diaz in love and settling down and it triggered a change in the usually free-spirited Drew. But Will went into this romance only looking for a fun hookup.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, May 9, 2011]

Drew has been married twice, in 1994 to Jeremy Thomas and in 2001 to Tom Greene. I could have sworn she was married more times than that, but I guess engagements don’t count. She’s 36 now and it’s understandable if she hears her biological clock ticking. Drew has her career nailed down, she’s one of the richest women in Hollywood. Check out her new house. I’m hoping this isn’t true though, and that she’s the one who’s nonchalant about the relationship. You know that Drew falls hard and fast though.

Photos are from 3/25/11, 2/26/11 and 2/23/11. Drew has since dyed her hair red. Credit: WENN.com and Fame Pictures

These are some new photos of Drew Barrymore debuting her new hair color last night at a book launch for Kimberly Snyder’s The Beauty Detox Solution. Drew has been “rocking” a half-and-half look for the better part of year, I suspect to grow out some over-processed blonde color. Whatever her reason, the old style (below) did not look great:

But now Drew is a redhead! A bottle ginger. I think it looks good on her, and Drew’s coloring can definitely handle red hair. My only complaint is that it looks like a rather cheap dye job – and it also looks like she’s a budget Florence Welch. But whatever… it’s still better than the old half-and-half.

Fergie was also at the book launch, and it seems like she was trying to cover up her alleged recent eye work with some overzealous cat-eyes. In the end, it was too much makeup and her face still looks super-jacked. So much so that I was considering doing a post called “Fergie versus Courteney Cox: Which jacked face is worse?”

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Drew Barrymore has a new boyfriend! And she’s suddenly showing him off on a daily basis too. My first thought is “good for her” considering that on-again/off-again thing with Justin “Cunnilingus” Long went on for much too long. Drew needed someone new, and she got somebody. His name is Will Kopelman, and Us Weekly describes him as a “socialite type and a playboy.” Gossip Cop is more specific, describing him as “an art consultant and son of Arie Kopelman, who ran Chanel.” WTF is an art consultant? Like, he just hangs around galleries and makes comments about art? He tells rich people what art to buy? That seems like an interesting gig. Oh, and my new title is Gossip Consultant.

I also tend to wonder if “son of Arie Kopelman, who ran Chanel” is supposed to be rich-person shorthand for “his daddy’s got money.” Will certainly dresses like it, if these photos are supposed to reflect a casual outing. Will’s outfit reminds me of, like, the Princeton alum at his 20 year reunion. Ivy League, totally. I wonder if Will has money of his own, or if it’s all daddy’s? How much does art consulting pay?

Gossip Cop also has an insider who claims that it’s “too early” to call Will a boyfriend yet. They’ve only been spotted together for about two weeks, and a source tells Us Weekly that it is “a very new relationship and they’re taking things slowly.” Photo ops this early? Seems sketchy… but it’s Drew. She loves big, she loves fast.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

In addition to the People’s Choice Awards, there was also a big event for Cover Girl. Many of the “faces” of the brand showed up, including Drew Barrymore. Drew is wearing a strapless, full-length Jil Sander gown/dress that is puzzling me. You know how Drew has been doing a lot of 1970s-inspired looks lately? I’ve actually liked most of this stuff, and the 1970s stuff actually suits Drew rather well. I think the Jil Sander probably looked kind of floaty and cute on the rack, but Drew makes it look like a big orange sack. If this thing was in black, Angelina Jolie would have bought three of them, that’s how “sack dress” it is. I have no idea what’s happening there at the bottom… is Drew wearing it upside-down?

Her makeup is funky too.

Guess who else was there? Sofia Vergara! Love her so much. Love the top, love her boobs, hate the black hose and low heels, though. It looks matronly.

And lastly – what’s going on with Kendra? She looks like hell.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Drew Barrymore is the cover girl for the October issue of Harper’s Bazaar. They Photoshopped the hell out of her face for the cover, right? And yet the rest of the photo shoot is rather lovely – apparently, Drew had the concept of doing it all like a Playboy photo shoot from the 1960s, with a little Sharon Tate thrown in. This look kind of works for Drew, I have to admit. Anyway, I guess Drew is the cover interview because she’s promoting Going the Distance. Meh. Since I don’t care about that or about her whatever relationship with Justin Long, you can read the full piece at Bazaar if you’d like – I’m just going to do the highlights I’m interested in. The gist of the interview is that they’re doing it like an eHarmony questionnaire.

On losing her “baby fat”: Even though she’s in sweats, Drew looks pretty dreamy. She is lightly tanned from a solo trip to India, and her bone structure has popped. “I feel like some of my baby fat is going away,” she observes, “and that’s not just physically, it’s psychologically. I think that your body is in tune with your mind and your spirituality and your heart. If things are going better, I just think you look better.”

Describe yourself: warm, clever, dominant, ambitious, outgoing, agreeable, modest, submissive, lazy, introverted, aloof, quarrelsome, cold, gregarious, arrogant.
Drew Barrymore: “Not ambitious, arrogant, or cold. Lazy? No, I’m not lazy enough. Dominant—more so than people would think. I’m a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.”

Impulsive, stable, energetic, spiritual, adventuresome, frugal, predictable, affectionate, organized, intelligent, compassionate, attractive, loyal, witty, neat.
DB: “All of the above, apart from frugal. I can be frivolous more than frugal.”

On being alone: “I was good in my early teens, and then I got really bad at being alone for like 10 years. And then for the last decade I’ve developed such a love of my independence that I have to go, Okay, you’ve had dinner by yourself three nights in a row, now you have to see your friends.” Howard Hughes rising? “Oh, yes. I’ll be peeing in jars momentarily.”

On healing herself: “Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker,” she says. “I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn’t mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes. Sometimes I fall so goddamn deep, I’ve got broken legs and I have to mend myself in the well and crawl back out.” That would be especially tough if it was a hole full of pot. She chuckles and says, “Well, I like those holes.”

I enjoy work for work’s sake.
DB: “No, I enjoy work because I am a fanatic about it.”

I enjoy mingling with people at social occasions.
DB: “Less and less.”

I am satisfied with my level of emotional development.
DB: “At this current moment? Yes. I have not been proud in the past, and I assume I won’t be proud in the future, but right now, goddamn it, yes.”

I like to spend my spare time being physically active.
DB: “I actually really love to lie in bed, watch TV, be a total sloth, and eat my favorite food: Kraft macaroni and cheese. Last night I was watching The Next Food Network Star, eating mac and cheese, and feeling grand. And that was after I wore a sequined Givenchy gown with giant holes cut out of it.”

On exercise and body image: Drew’s “two or three hours of exercise” a week is paying off. “But,” she cautions, “there is some lighting where I absolutely resemble Shamu. People have to know that you pick the best pictures where the lighting is beautiful and the angles are right and the body positions are gorgeous. And then, guess what, you turn, sit, hit the wrong light, and your belly flaps over and we all look human again.” Drew won’t be giving Jillian Michaels a run for her money anytime soon, though. “I can apply myself at my job 20 hours a day, seven days a week. But I can’t apply myself to my body more than a couple hours a week. I have no passion for fanaticism. The psychology when you just forgive yourself and enjoy what nature gave you is so liberating.”

On being 35 years old: “For me, it’s very magical,” she says. “It’s funny, because whenever they parody me on Saturday Night Live, they always say the word magical. But 35 is an incredible year for me. It’s just a very auspicious time.”

[From Harper’s Bazaar]

Yes, she’s very cute, in a cloying hippie-dippy way, but still, I can’t really bash her. I still can’t believe Drew is 35 years old – in my mind, she’s still in her early 20s. That’s the way she still acts, honestly. But I buy Drew’s girlish act, because I really do think she’s that bubbly and vivacious and silly, although she definitely has a strong work ethic. Now I just want her to make better movies, you know? Going the Distance looks like a turd of a rom-com.

Also – I totally think Drew is right about “losing her baby fat” – look at those cheekbones! Her face doesn’t look tweaked, it’s just aging and losing weight and stuff. She looks lovely.

Bazaar photos (by Mark Seliger) courtesy of Bazaar’s slideshow.

Star Magazine has an interesting interview with Drew Barrymore promoting Going the Distance, which is out in the US starting today. They ask her directly if she’s with her costar Justin Long and she sort-of admits they’re on and off again but says she’ll never tell you when. I’m getting a “friends with benefits” vibe, which is what sometimes happens when you realize that the romantic part isn’t going to work out but you still have a good time together. Or hot breakup sex, it’s hard to tell. Here’s part of what Drew told Star:

What have you learned about how to make a relationship work?
Nothing! In all seriousness, I’m very excited to be in my 30s and not stand on my soapbox and brag about what I know. I’m not in on any brilliant secrets right now.

How can you make a long-distance relationship work?
I know what I would want to make one work, like letters and surprising each other – things that make you feel special, like you’re part of a unit and it’s not a phantom thing.

Where do things stand right now with you and Justin?
We never talk about when we’re together and when we’re not. It never, ever will be addressed. Mystery is sexy. But I definitely think it was a benefit that we knew each other so well. It’s very rare to have such an amazing chemistry with someone. That was such a blessing.

So all those kissing scenes were just part of the job?
I was just lucky he’s a good kisser! The worst is when you’re kissing somebody who’s not and you feel like you’re working on your own. Basically, it was a real team effort!

[From Star Magazine, print edition, September 13, 2010]

I’m thinking if it “never will be addressed” she’s ruling out a long term reconciliation, but you never know. She did talk about Justin all the damn time when she first got together with him. In terms of their “chemistry,” not everyone agrees that it translates on screen. I just read a review in US Weekly that trashes their chemistry. US observes “The costars – despite their real-life are-they-or-aren’t-they relationship – lack the crazy spark that’s needed in good romantic comedies.” The movie is getting mediocre reviews overall, with a 48% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Still, I hope it does ok for Drew. I like her and wish her the best. We need more celebrities like Drew who aren’t full of sh*t. I also want to mention that I love how she says that she’s not going to preach about relationships because she doesn’t know anything more than the rest of us.

In another recent interview, Drew tells Stylist Magazine that she hates being alone but she also has trouble long distances relationships like the one she portrays on screen. “The worst part of being single is being alone. But I don’t get the benefit of having any help because I’m in a relationship with a person I never see… so I think sometimes, I feel like I’m just in a weird purgatory. And I have definitely had my freak-outs about that.” It’s all so vague. Is Justin the guy she feels like she’s in a weird purgatory with or is she speaking about a past long distance relationship with him or some other guy? She says she’ll never tell – about Justin at least. We’ll see. This one likes to talk.

Photos are from the Going The Distance premiere on 8/23/10. Credit: WENN.com

Drew Barrymore got kind of testy during an interview in London promoting her new film with on-off boyfriend Justin Long, Going The Distance. She frankly told a reporter that the last journalist she’d talked to had harped too much on her troubled past and that she “wanted to punch her” and “wanted to rip this woman’s face off.” This is interesting because just yesterday Lainey at Lainey Gossip wrote a great editorial about how Drew is always very professional and sunny when promoting her films, even when they’re headed for dudsville. I really liked the way Lainey explained it. She wrote that celebrities are fragile people and that it bothers them when their films are trashed by critics, but that they have to keep going and acting like everything is ok. “Drew isn’t my favourite right now, but right now she’s also a survivor. So no doubt, if Going the Distance is sh-t, and that’s been the assumption, she’s had a lot of practise showing up for class tomorrow. Drew as you know is a seasoned warrior in the business.”

Maybe it’s getting to Drew, though, judging from how she’s said to have acted in London during her press tour. This doesn’t sound like her at all, and she must have been on edge:

Today, at 35, in plaid shirt and velvet sneakers, she is the antithesis of the spoiled Hollywood starlet. Thinner in the face than on screen, she is teeny at 5ft 4in.

I ask about Going the Distance and the importance of rom-coms. “I need them at the end of a crap day — a nice happy ending and a fairytale,” she agrees. “On the other hand I like movies that are very grounded in reality but still maintain their comedy.”

Her character Erin is alternately tough and vulnerable — a modern-day Katharine Hepburn. “I’m not at that place in my life where I want to play a character who says, I just have to get married’. I swear to God, with some of these romantic comedies, these women are being shot in the butt with steroids, and I feel like they’ll eat the husband alive on their wedding day. It just terrifies me — I don’t relate to that at all. I want to have a job. In fact, this movie asks the question: How do you keep the job and the guy?’ That is a question I’m interested in discussing, not like I’m going to rip your hair out because you stole my wedding dress’. I don’t care about that.”

Rom-coms conspire to keep lovers apart (class, sexuality, race) but here it’s lack of money and employment. “It’s not a movie where the female lead is in Christian Louboutins and thousand-dollar suits,” she agrees. There are some great jokes including an excruciating phone sex scene. Barrymore says she wanted to out the taboo. “It can be tricky,” she laughs.

Encouraged by her tone, I gesture at the clippings on the table and say I’m exhausted reading about her “wild child” past. Does she ever lose patience talking about it?

She nods angrily. “You should have heard this bitch I had to do an interview with before you. God, I wanted to punch her, she would just not drop the youth thing. I have no problem talking about it. I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I’m actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they in turn were my life lessons.

“It’s actually good to get it done young and have a great life later. But yeah, man, I wanted to rip this woman’s face off. She just would not shut up about it.”

[From This is London via US Weekly]

It makes you wonder who the other reporter was and if there’s video of this terrible interview she had with Drew. It sounds really harsh but maybe Drew was totally fed up. It must grate on you to have to do so many interviews in a row, especially when people ask stupid questions. Drew will get through it, though, and she’ll keep making romcoms that aren’t quite as bad as the other crap out there. There is indeed buzz that her movie sucks, but it might do ok at the box office. It can’t do worse than The Switch.

Drew was on Letterman on Tuesday night and told a cute story about getting all her dogs to walk with her on Fifth Avenue without leashes. Note to Drew: that’s not legal! Letterman also showed her his bite marks from his aggressive dog. You can watch a segment of Drew’s interview here. She’s come a long way since flashing Letterman in 1995, but not all people realize that.

Drew Barrymore is shown outside the John Stewart show yesterday, 8/25/10. Credit: Girlie/Fame Pictures