OK! Magazine’s cover story is devoted to the would-be romance between Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. It’s called “YES! They’re In Love” and has a picture from R-Pattz and K-Stew’s MTV Movie Award “Best Kiss” win, where they totally left the audience hanging. Sidenote: The best part about the cover is Robert Pattinson’s gorgeous profile, where I can stare at his jawline to my heart’s content.

Anyway, the story seems, for the most part, based on my observation (and everyone else’s) that Robert Pattinson is just itching to get with K-Stew, and she’s making him beg for it. Yesterday, we heard from an unnamed source that R-Pattz is “obsessed” with K-Stew, but unfortunately, OK! doesn’t have such expressive unnamed sources. The best they’ve got is “Although [Robert] knew Kristen had a boyfriend, he made no secret of the fact that he was crazy about her…. The problem is, she’s torn between her onscreen and off-screen loves.” Yeah, right. I don’t think Kristen is “torn” about anything:

As Twilight stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart took the stage to accept the prize for Best Kiss at the May 31 MTV Movie Awards, the apparent hormonal combustion ignited Universal City’s Gibson Amphitheatre and flew out over the airwaves to 5.3 million viewers worldwide.

Ditching his chewing gum, the smoldering Robert braced himself for a steamy smooch with his onscreen paramour; Kristen stood hands on hips, seemingly daring him on. They drew closer, and Rob’s lips parted, while the erotic heat built to an unbearable pitch.

Then, at the last second, “Bella the Reluctant Virgin” demurred and pulled away, leaving “Edward the Conflicted Vampire” … dangling.

“Thank you sooo much,” Stewart told the audience, sounding every bit the 19-year-old from L.A.

Were all those feverish pheromones for real, or were the onscreen lovers merely doing their best to create a romantic Hollywood illusion? Rumors have been rampant that the introverted, guitar-playing Rob, a 23-year-old Brit who is arguably filmdom’s foremost fantasy, has been nursing an unrequited passion for his leading lady, who has been dating actor Michael Angarano, 21, for five years.

“Robert and Kristen spent a lot of time alone together when they filmed the first Twilight movie — they’d stay up most of the night talking, laughing, playing music,” a friend of Stewart tells OK!. “Although [Robert] knew Kristen had a boyfriend, he made no secret of the fact that he was crazy about her.”

Clearly, there is a mutual attraction.

“Kristen and Robert hit it off the minute they were introduced,” Kristen’s friend says.

“When they auditioned together for the first time [back in 2007], sparks flew. The problem is, she’s torn between her onscreen and off-screen loves.”

Michael, for his part, has had enough of the scuttlebutt. “A lot of guys would not be as understanding as Michael has been,” says the friend. “But one thing Michael is not quite as understanding of is all the gossip about her and Pattinson.”

[From OK! Magazine]

Yeah, Michael’s going to be out of the boyfriend business very soon if Robert Pattinson keeps looking at Kristen longingly and adoringly, with those smoldering eyes. Sigh. I love teenage romance drama. And this is real, too! It’s not like the old-school Britney Spears-Justin Timberlake crap, which was like two corporations fighting over a product launch. The K-Stew/R-Pattz drama feels … authentic. Like there’s real emotion, longing and sexual attraction behind it. That’s just my reading of it, though.

Kristen Stewart also sat down with Interview Magazine, in an interview conducted by Jon Favreau (the actor/director, not the Obama speechwriter). It pretty boring, but you can read the full interview here. These are some of the highlights:

“Well, this is never something that I sought out. For most actors, it’s such a struggle to get work. Once they have it, they feel that there’s an enormous amount of pressure on them to make it work, and have everyone love them. In my case, it was never like that. It was just about working with the people that I want to work with, and telling the stories that I want to tell, you know? And, you’re right, it was also because my whole family is involved in the entertainment industry in some way. My brother’s a grip. My mom’s a scriptwriter. My dad’s a director. So it’s like, at heart I’m a below-the-line girl.”

“It’s funny. When I stopped going to school, I got the strongest dose of perspective. When you’re a kid, your friends, your school, your teachers, your family-that’s your whole world, your whole existence. And then when I stopped going, I lost all my friends but the few that were really close to me. And I still maintain those friendships. My friends who are still going to school are still totally caught up in it. When they graduate, they’re going to experience the exact same thing that I did. I just went through it when I was in the seventh grade as opposed to the twelfth.”

[From Interview Magazine]

Have I been reading K-Stew wrong? Perhaps she’s not the snotty brat I thought she was, she’s just a bright, self-sufficient girl who isn’t into all of the “Young Hot Starlet” stuff. As time passes, and it’s clear that she still hasn’t put out for R-Pattz, I find that I really have to give her credit for not falling for the first British guy with a great jawline. She’s a better woman than me.

Robert Pattinson was seen looking ripped and a little sick on the set of New Moon in Italy yesterday. The 23 year-old Vampire-playing heartthrob took off his shirt and sported painted-on spots for a scene in which he kisses his on-screen human love interest, played by Kristen Stewart. Pattinson is so buff it looks like his abs are painted on. I’m beginning to see his appeal.

I don’t pay a lot of attention to the Twilight-related gossip, but Kaiser reported a story yesterday in which a random woman who met Pattinson at a party in Cannes was sort-of claiming to have hooked up with him. It didn’t seem likely to be true, and it looked like the girl was hoping to get some mileage out of being photographed sitting next to Pattinson.

There are all sorts of rumors that Robert and Kristen are hooking up, but that just seems to be based on the fact that the younger cast members party together. Kristen has a long term boyfriend, Michael Angarano, who In Touch reported earlier this month “has been on the New Moon set almost every day.” I wonder if he’s in Italy and if he saw these kissing scenes being shot. You can understand why people think Kirsten and Robert might have something going on. They look pretty cute together and seem to have good chemistry.

Thanks to Ciao Pix/INFphoto.com and VENTURINI/bauergriffinonline.com