Meghan McCain, socialite/blogger daughter of Sen. John McCain, has been working on her first novel for what seems like forever. As yet, I don’t think the book is even half-way written, nor does it have a firm release date. But that hasn’t stopped Meghan from mentally signing away the movie rights, adapting the novel into a screenplay, finding financing for the film as well as attaching a director, and casting what will most likely be a turd of a film. Meghan explained her dream casting to Gatecrasher. The character “loosely based” on Meghan (perhaps called “the young, beautiful Meg McCabe”) would be played by Hillary Duff, or in Meghan’s words “anyone who’s blond.” As for the love interest, Meghan wants none other than serial first-dater Bradley Cooper.

Meghan McCain hasn’t even released her first book, but she’s already planning the movie version.

“I want Hillary Duff to play me. I think she’s really hot – hotter than me – but I’d still want her to play me,” Sen. John McCain’s daughter confided to us at the Trevor Project’s’s summer gala on Monday night at Capitale.

But the young Republican isn’t dead set on Duff. “Really, I’d take anyone who’s blond,” she joked, adding that one actor in particular would certainly be welcome to join the cast.

“Bradley Cooper is so hot,” McCain swooned. “If he can be in it, he will. I’m obsessed with [his film] ‘The Hangover!’”

The Daily Beast blogger also revealed that Sarah Palin will be coming to life on the big screen. “I just wrote a chapter about her, so she’ll definitely be in it, too,” McCain said.

“But I don’t know who would play her.” Guess she’s not a fan of “Saturday Night Live“ – or she’d know that Tina Fey is practically synonymous with the Alaskan governor.

The book, due next spring from Hyperion, will examine “what it means to be a progressive Republican in the party today,” according to McCain.

“It’s half political, and it’s half a memoir,” said the 24-year-old. “It’s like ‘Primary Colors’ meets Tori Spelling’s ‘sTori Telling.’ I want young women to actually be able to read it.”

While the release of the book may bring her family back into the spotlight, McCain believes any attention would be nothing compared to living in the White House – something she says the Obamas are handling with aplomb.

“The Obamas are doing very well – their popularity is very high – but I’m just happy it’s nothing my family has to figure out,” she insisted. “I’m so relieved. I did not get along with the Secret Service, so it’s good that I’m not living there. You know those Disney movies [where princesses are always well guarded]? Life in the White House is just like that, except there were no cute guards. Seriously, none of them were cute at all!”

We think we’ve found Bradley Cooper his next role.

[From Gatecrasher]

I actually spent a few minutes trying to think up which blonde would be better than Hillary Duff for Meghan’s casting, and I came up blank. Katherine Heigl? Uh, no. I don’t like Heigl, but even I don’t want to see her playing a version of Meghan. Lindsay Lohan as a blonde? Nope. Blake Lively’s a half-decent possibility… yeah, I’ll go with Blake. Blake and Bradley Cooper. That wouldn’t be so bad, actually.

Meghan McCain is shown on 6/28/09. Credit: WENN.com

Hilary Duff has made whole career out of being cute, and attaching that cute image to stuff to sell. She puts out the nice music you buy instead of Britney for your kids (before Hannah Montana came along), she’s got the cheaper line of fragrance, and she’s been in some nice tween movies. It may be all a carefully constructed image if you consider her latest statement. Hilary hit back at Faye Dunaway’s comment that she’s not a ‘real actress’ by criticizing the 68 year-old actress’ appearance.

During a break from filming a guest spot on the set of Ghost Whisperer, Duff told E!’s Daily 10, “I think that my fans that are going to go see the movie don’t even know who she is,” regarding the Hollywood legend (repeat, Hollywood legend), adding, “I think it was a little unnecessary, but I might be mad if I looked like that now, too.”

Duff’s diss stems from Dunaway’s alleged remark, upon hearing the news that the former Lizzie McGuire starlet would be playing her old part, “Couldn’t they at least cast a real actress?”

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Hilary has a point that not many of her fans will be aware of Faye Dunaway, but isn’t that sort of the point that Faye was making? That just because the original, ten time Oscar nominated Bonnie and Clyde film is unknown to younger audiences doesn’t mean it needs to be retold, with a child star in the title role. Hilary deserves an opportunity to break into adult films, but who really expects this rehash to do well? Perhaps instead of saying ‘couldn’t they cast a real actress’ Faye should have said ‘couldn’t they come up with an original idea?’ I for one just won’t bother to see this, not when I can hire the original for 50c at my local video store.

Faye may have something personal against Hilary rather than remakes – she had a small appearance in the 1999 remake of her 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair, showing that she can’t just be against remakes on principle. Technically the new Bonnie and Clyde film is not a remake but the story retold in a new script.

Hilary got one thing wrong though – she personally attacked Faye’s appearance. Faye looks fabulous for 68, while Hilary’s features are pretty but not stunning.

Hilary also had a public feud with Lindsay Lohan back when they were 13 and competing for the affections of Aaron Carter.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Faye Dunaway is shown at The Metropolitan Opera Season Opening on 9/12/08 and on 6/12/08. Credit: WENN. Hilary Duff is shown ringing the opening bell at the NY Stock Exchange on 12/23/08 and on 12/4/08. Credit: PRPhotos and WENN. There’s one thing Faye and Hilary have in common – their giant teeth.

Good Charlotte singer Joel Madden and teen sensation Hilary Duff are said to have cut ties. Madden told girls at a club in Chicago that he’s single now after Duff broke it off with him about a week and a half ago:

Madden made a guest DJ appearance at Enclave on Wednesday night and openly talked about how he is currently single. Madden told clubgoers Duff broke up with him about ten days ago and that their eight-year age difference was causing problems. (Madden is 27, Duff is 19.)

Hilary revealed in a Jane magazine interview that not everything was well in her relationship with Joel. She said that the paparazzi help them make up during fights as they don’t want pictures taken when they’re angry:

She says, “If we’re out some place, we could totally be fighting, but we’ll be looking at each other (smiling) because there’s a camera right there.
“Then we end up forgetting we’re in a fight, because we’re laughing since it’s not a real thing to do, and we’re both such real people.”

Hilary and Joel were dating just over a year, having confirmed their relationship in the summer of 2005.

Here are pictures of Hilary in Teen Vogue, courtesy of Oh-Hilary.com. Her teeth do look a little smaller to me, but it’s hard to tell.

Everyone’s been making fun of Hilary Duff’s too-long veneers since she got them installed last year, and Gallery of the Absurd even did a an hilarious illustration of her as a horse. (Thanks Farkers for correctly my crap grammar.) Now Life and Style cites a cosmetic dentist who claims that she had her teeth shortened recently:

“The length of each veneer was a little too long, and the width of the smile was too wide,” Dr. Michael Apa, dentist to the stars and Elite Model Management consultant, says of Hil’s smile, which cost the star at least $15,000.

The work was meant to improve her smile, but “it made her look goofy, like she was bucktoothed,” Apa says.

That was until Nov. 5, when the star flashed a more familiar smile, which made her look as if she’d had a visit from the tooth fairy!

“She probably had her teeth recontoured or reshaped to fit her smile,” says Apa of Hil’s smaller, narrower smile. “Now you look at her cute smile rather than focusing on her large teeth. She looks much prettier!”

Good for Hilary. She looks a lot younger with the smaller teeth and darker hair, but that could also be due to the cute cap she’s wearing.

Thanks to Faded Youth for the story.

There’s this huge security flaw in myspace that lets you read comments on private profiles, and I’ve pretty much read all the crap that Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Hillary Duff, and Nicole Richie are saying to each other. Paris got told by her PR guy Elliott to cut it out and she was supposedly grounded from using the computer, but of course she didn’t comply and continued commenting.

This was up on Oh No They Didn’t and got a brief mention in The NY Daily News, but the ONTD post is private now and I learned about it through a friend’s e-mail.

The thing is, there’s a formula to it and it really doesn’t matter if someone changes their profile name or password. Once you know their numeric user ID it’s incredibly simple to do, and as long as they keep commenting it’s easy to find out their numeric user ID.

They seem to realize that people are reading their comments and are talking about all the new people asking to be added as friends, but they don’t really get the fact that changing their passwords and screen names doesn’t fix the problem.

I was really reluctant to report on this at first as 1) there’s way too much information to sift through and report 2) it feels wrong and 3) I don’t want to get sued. Plus I got sucked into the voyeuristic aspect of it and I wanted to be able to keep spying.

Best Week Ever has the links, though. I know this is Monday’s news but somehow it fell under my radar.

The juiciest news: Lindsay, Hilary, and Paris talk about doing banana and strawberry “Nesquick” and returning “needles” to each other. They could just be joking around. They’re also all friends with Jesse McCartney, and he could be screwing Lindsay, because he says:

But it’s just as likely that they’re joking around, and of course there’s no way to verify that it’s really Lindsay, Paris et. al, but I believe.

Paris also tells Lindsay:

And it looks like Paris is BFF with Lindsay again because she’s using an icon of the two of them together.

Here’s my favorite comment, from Haylie Duff to Jesse McCartney:

If you have any kind of logic skills you’ll quickly be able to figure out how to view anyone’s private comments using the links from the Best Week Ever post above.

Myspace will undoubtedly fix this soon, and it’s a huge security flaw. According to myspace’s user agreement everything on the site legally belongs to them, so I don’t know if any celebrity lawyers can sue for reposting information found on myspace, but if it gets widely distributed like Paris’ hacked Blackberry they’re sure to try.

Reminding us that the paparrazi photos and celebrity candids that we mindlessly publish every day are sometimes used for nefarious purposes, Hilary Duff has filed for a restraining order against a pair of crazed stalkers, one of whom has been threatening to kill himself and harm her boyfriend, Joel Madden:

Hopefully this situation will resolve itself now that Hilary has taken legal action, because that does sound terrifying.

I haven’t been keeping up with Hilary Duff, because she’s uh, generally uninteresting, (being nice, normal and non-crotch flashing and all) so when did she dye her hair this bad copper color? I’m not liking it at all.

Here is Hilary launching her new fragrance “With Love” in Costa Mesa yesterday. Pictures from Novedades de famosa via JJB.

The Duff and Simpson sisters happened to be at the same club in LA when Ashlee Simpson decided to call Hilary Duff fat. Haylie Duff defended her sister, and later talked smack to Jessica Simpson in the bathroom.

It looks like Ashlee and Haylie are the more aggressive sisters and it’s too bad there wasn’t an all-out fight between the two to report. Maybe if Haylie ran into Ashlee in the bathroom instead of Jessica there would have been more to report.

Ashlee is incredibly immature and petty but that’s not news. The Simpson’s rep is also pretty stupid if she’s giving quotes like “Ashlee thinks Hilary has perfectly lovely arms.”

Here is Jessica Simpson out with her hairdresser to watch Dean Cook’s performance at The Improv on April 15th. [via]

Update: Pictures of Hilary performing in Dublin on 4/21. Her arms do look chunky. [via]

Wonder how much they got paid just to show up. Wish my sister was famous. I’m not going to say anything about veneers or plastic surgery or that anyone has had any or needs anything done. [via]