Here’s Kristen Stewart on the cover of October/November’s Interview Magazine. I love this cover. It‘s artsy-fartsy while still being very beautiful. I don‘t think I‘ve ever noticed how pretty Kristen‘s eyes are. And take note Penelope Cruz‘s Vanity Fair makeup artist - this is how you do some cat eyes. (here for the full interview and slideshow). Dennis Hopper interviews Kristen for the cover story, and the first thing he does when he gets Kristen on the phone is hand off the phone to his 6-year-old daughter Galen, who wants to say hi to Kristen. Kristen is very sweet to the little girl, and it’s very cute. When he gets back on the phone, Kristen tells Dennis, “I’m just sort of intimidated by kids. I didn’t know what to say.” Here are some of the highlights:

Kristen Stewart on the Twilight phenomenon: “The sad thing is that I feel so boring because Twilight is literally how every conversation I have these days begins—whether it’s someone I’m meeting for the first time or someone I just haven’t seen in a while. The first thing I want to say to them is, “It’s insane! And, as a person, I can’t do anything!” But then I think to myself, God damn it, shut the f-ck up.”

KS on how she relates to Bella: “I do feel more of a pressurized strain [on the Twilight series] than what is typical for me. Usually, what drives you is your own personal responsibility to the script and the character and the people you are working with. But in this case, I have a responsibility not only to that but to everyone who has personal involvement in the books—and now that spans the world. It’s an insane concept. There are certain things in Twilight . . . As much as I’m proud of that movie and I do like it, I feel like maybe I brought too much of myself to the character. I feel like I really know Bella now. But most readers feel like they know Bella because it’s a first-person narrative. She’s like a little vessel and everyone experiences the story through her. All of these girls who are fans personally feel like they encapsulate that character. So it’s like, “How the hell am I going to do that for all of them? It’s impossible!” But I’ve decided, if you’re just unabashedly honest all of the time, you have nothing to be ashamed of.

KS on the Twilight series “darkness” and masochism: “The movies aren’t that dark, as much as we’d all have loved to have made those films. But as pretty as it is to watch and as nice as it is to have watched these two characters find solace in each other, everything around them is absolute chaos. I mean, you have to question their motivations—to watch two people so unhealthily devoted to each other . . . I stand behind everything that they do. I have to justify it in my mind, or else I couldn’t play the character. But they are definitely not the most pragmatic characters. The weirdest f-cking themes run through this story—like dominance and masochism. I mean, you always have to realize that the story needs to make sense to the 11-year-olds who read the book and aren’t necessarily going to be viewing a scene as foreplay. But then there is the other segment of the audience—a large percentage—who does see the scene as foreplay. And it’s pretty deep, heady foreplay. [laughs] So it’s fun to play it both ways. I mean, I don’t know what it feels like to make out with my vampire boyfriend because it isn’t something that anybody has ever felt. But it’s funny to think that a lot of the audience is 10 years old and will maybe one day grow up to realize there are a lot of involved thoughts in Twilight that they didn’t see before.”

KS on fame, Part 1: “There’s an idea about who I am that’s eternally projected onto me, and then I almost feel like I have to fulfill that role. Even when things come out of my mouth, I want to be sure I’m saying exactly what I mean. All I’m thinking of is the fact that everything that I say is going to be criticized—not criticized, just evaluated and analyzed. And it’s always something that matters so much to me that doesn’t come out right. But in terms of how my life has changed, I never really went out a whole lot before. I’m sort of an in-my-head kind of person. I wish I could take more walks . . . I’d like to take more walks after work, instead of having to come back to my hotel room and not leave. So it can be boring.”

KS on fame, Part 2: “There’s nothing you can do about it, to be honest. I don’t leave my hotel room—literally, I don’t. I don’t talk to anybody about my personal life, and maybe that perpetuates it, too. But it’s really important to own what you want to own and keep it to yourself. That said, the only way for me not to have somebody know where I went the night before is if I didn’t go out at all. So that’s what I’m trading. It depends what mood I’m in. Some nights, I think, “You know what? I don’t care. I’m just going to do what I want to do.” Then the next day I think, “Ugh. Now everyone thinks I’m going out to get the attention.” But it’s like, no, I actually, for a second, thought that maybe I could be like a normal person.”

[From Interview]

I found the “dominance and masochism” quote the most interesting, obviously. I think Kristen’s right on – and I like what she’s trying to say about the little girls who don’t really understand the more complicated and darker stuff at work in the series. All in all, I think Kristen is actually a very bright, intelligent girl, but I think having this kind of fame thrust upon her as thrown her for a bit of a loop. She certainly sounds a lot more grounded and intelligent than I did at her age – which is why I give her a pass for being a bit snotty at times. Also – I should note, throughout the entire interview, Sparkles Pattinson’s name was not mentioned once. Gasp!

Photos via CoverAwards, with more on Interview’s website

Robert “Sparkles/Pattz” Pattinson is the cover boy for the new issue of the British magazine AnOther Man. I am pretty unfamiliar with this magazine, but judging solely from the way Sparkles was styled and photographed, I’m thinking the readership probably falls into the ever-so-elusive “artsy-fartsy/gay” sub-trend. Pattz was photographed by Hedi Slimane, who is probably best known as the former chief designer of Dior Homme (Christian Dior for men). Hedi seems like the kind of young Karl Lagerfeld-type who needs his boys emaciated and pouting. So Pattz was right up his alley.

In the interview preview on AnOther Man’s site, Pattz talks about the fickle bitch that is fame, how clueless he was about how big Twilight was going to be, and his future as an actor. Remember, girls: he’s 23 years old. He’s not supposed to be brilliant. Just be happy he’s so pretty.

DazedDigital previews issue 9 of AnOther Man out on October 1, which features Robert Pattinson on the cover, shot by Hedi Slimane and styled by Nicola Formichetti. Dave Calhoun speak to the 23-year-old Twilight star about the pressures of fame and the craft of acting: “It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life.”

Was Pattinson aware of the loyalty of fans of the Twilight books? It looks like the sort of obsessive fandom that can turn into anger and even hatred when an adaptation isn’t to their liking. Did he know what he was letting himself in for? “It’s strange because even though the figures show that the books were successful and sold millions of copies, you couldn’t even buy them in London. I tried a couple of bookshops and they weren’t available. Hardly anyone I knew had read them apart from one girl, a friend of my sister. I had no idea at all. I’d seen Kristen Stewart in Into the Wild and some of the director Catherine Hardwicke’s other films, and that’s all I thought it was, something really small.”

His manner is very laid back. He doesn’t sound thrusting or ambitious, more like he’s just going with the flow and enjoying things. Is he going to harness his newfound fame and box-office appeal to approach the kind of filmmakers he wants to work with in the future? He’s not so sure. “Annoyingly, there are so few parts I feel I can add anything to, or that I want to do.” But he knows what he doesn’t need. “I don’t want to be an actor for the sake of it. I don’t find any particular pleasure in being an attention-seeker.”

[From AnOther Man Magazine via Dazed Digital]

I’m sure I’ll be accused of a double-standard, because if someone like Megan Fox uttered the words “It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life” about fame and the acting craft, I would be ripping them a new one. But Sparkles is so delicate! If I yell at him, he might break. He might tremble with emotion, then draw himself a hot bath, where he’ll sit and cry for several hours. I can’t yell at him for thinking his Twilight fame is “the hardest thing”. Probably because I’ve caught a glimpse of some of the more rabid Twihards, and I don’t envy Sparkles in the least. I’m surprised he hasn’t had a full-fledged nervous breakdown.

What’s keeping Sparkles’ head above water in the face of Twihard-lunacy? Most likely it’s Kristen Stewart. Yes, E! News’ gossip column The Awful Truth has an eyewitness interview (from the wait staff at a restaurant the Eclipse cast visits) from Vancouver. It seems that “everyone” in town knows Pattz and K-Stew are dating:

“The whole cast comes in a lot together. For some reason, this is one of the places the paparazzi doesn’t constantly find them,” dished one of the girls who has seated the Twilight crew dozens of time.

“It looks like they all really get along well. It’s always a fun table—they are laughing, joking and just very polite,” added the other girl.

A.T.: How about Rob and Kristen, what is their dynamic like?
Hostess One: Doesn’t everyone just know that they’re dating?

A.T.: Uh, you’d be surprised how many don’t want to believe it.
Hostess Two: Oh, well everyone here knows. They are the only cast members who will come in alone a lot. You can just tell by looking at them. They’re really cute together, always smiling.

A.T.: Love it! Hate to say it though, but “smiling” and “Kristen Stewart” seem unlikely to be in the same sentence together.
Hostess One: No way. She is incredibly sweet—I’d be a bitch, too, if there were cameras constantly in my face. But she’s great, and so is Rob. They just seem to make each other happy.

[From E! News]

Aw… sweet kids. Am I gross for wondering if the sex is good? I bet it is. I bet Sparkles doesn’t know what to do with himself. I bet Kristen has him wrapped around her little finger. I bet they do a lot of stuff Eli Roth was suggesting.

Thanks to PopSugar for these pics from AnOther Man Magazine

Everybody’s favorite werewolf BFF Taylor “Jacob” Lautner is the cover boy for October’s Teen Vogue. The photographs are gorgeous – he’s a really cute kid, and his body is insane (slideshow here). He’s still got that baby face, though, which quickly ends whatever naughty sexual fantasies I might have about him. The Teen Vogue site has an excerpt from the interview, but there are some other quotes floating around that aren’t included in the excerpt. Taylor talked about his career goals, saying: “I really look up to Denzel Washington as an actor. I’d love to do a film with him one day in the future. That would be my dream come true. And I love the action-drama films like Matt Damon and Brad Pitt do.” Here’s more from the interview:

According to Taylor, there is a very specific sort of girl who’s going to sign up for what’s become known to Twilight fans as Team Jacob. “If she likes having a really close friendship with a guy,” he begins, “being able to tell him anything, and then having that friendship slowly transform into something more….” The seventeen-year-old stops himself and laughs. “I find myself using the word transform a lot lately,” he explains, “because that’s what Jacob does.”

It’s not exactly a spoiler to say that Taylor’s character in November’s New Moon is going through some intense changes. As everyone who’s seen the movie’s trailer or read the books knows, Jacob Black is now a werewolf. And the changes that Taylor himself underwent in order to keep the part—as he says, “hitting the gym, hiring a personal trainer, eating the right foods, and eating a lot of them”—were equally evident. When that first trailer premiered at the MTV Movie Awards, the live (and apparently largely female) audience responded to a two-second shot of Taylor, shirtless, by screaming like they were on a roller coaster. Not that he’s about to let all that adulation go to his head.

“I think the fans would love anybody who played Jacob,” he says mildly, when the reception is mentioned. “I’m just lucky to be the one who got the chance.”

Taylor got into acting via a somewhat circuitous path. As a kid growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he started competing in a sport called Xtreme Martial Arts—which he describes as “almost like gymnastics, in that you do a routine, but there’s a lot of kicks and punches and flips”—and he found that he was pretty good; by the time he retired, at thirteen, he was a four-time world champ. It was his Hollywood-based karate coach (a onetime blue Power Ranger) who suggested that Taylor give show business a chance.

“At first,” he recalls, “I wasn’t interested, but he said I could stay at his house for a few weeks, meet with some agents, go on auditions. ” By the end of that month, Taylor says, “I liked it. Taking on roles that were the opposite of what I could be in real life? That’s still my favorite thing.”

Now Taylor lives with his family an hour outside Los Angeles, although the distance does little to dissuade the paparazzi. “There are twelve cars that camp outside my house,” he marvels. “You can’t ever really get used to it, because it’s not normal to have people snapping pictures of everything you do. You just have to try not to let it affect you.”

Tabloid attention and spurious rumors are the norm for the Twilight cast right now—Taylor and his costars are already hard at work on the third film, Eclipse. And he seems quite capable of taking it all in stride: Asked about his alleged early summer romance with Disney star Selena Gomez, he says, quite unperturbedly, “She’s a great girl.” Asked whether Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are indeed entangled in a torrid love triangle, he just laughs. “It’s crazy,” he admits, “but the fans help. They’re a big part of the motivation.”

As if on cue, a pair of wide-eyed young sisters approach his table, looking ecstatic. “We’re all Team Jacob in our house,” their mother says. Taylor does have a point when he insists that people are reacting, in part, to the character he plays—these two are each clutching one of author Stephenie Meyer’s dictionary-size tomes for him to autograph—but he’s also being too humble. The girls are definitely old enough to understand that Taylor is a rising star, not a teen werewolf, and they still look pretty starstruck.

[From Teen Vogue]

What does Taylor mean when he says “the fans help” in response to a Kristen Stewart-Robert Pattinson question? Hmm… is he saying their relationship is all in our heads? Doubtful. Although I do think Taylor has a little crush on Kristen, so maybe he doesn’t want to answer those Pattinson questions because he’s a bit heartbroken? Maybe. A few weeks ago, Entertainment Weekly put Kristen and Taylor on the cover looking very lovey-dovey, and in the interview Taylor seemed to be quite taken with her. For her part, Kristen said “I love that kid… I would do anything for him. I would kill for him, literally. We have that [best friend] relationship. It’s lamely cute.” EW also put up the video of Taylor and Kristen being interviewed, and it was clear he was trying to impress her and flirt with her. When he was showing off, he asked if she thought he was hardcore enough. To which Kristen replied, “I think you need a little more growing up to do. You need to grow into your cojones.” This poor kid. He seems like such a sweetheart. Ten bucks says that Kristen breaks his spirit, just like she did with Pattz.

Here’s Taylor in Teen Vogue.

Now that I’m a True Blood fan, Twilight is starting to seem pretty tame to me. I’ll still watch New Moon with interest, but I’d much rather see sex, violence, and nudity on a regular basis and imagine that my vampire lover is forceful and unpredictable, not some stalkerish guy who has willingly attended high school for centuries. Screen legend Lauren Bacall, 84, remembers when Hollywood vampires were so menacing you wanted to run from them, not f*ck them or try and get them to be your imaginary boyfriend. Bacall wrote on her Twitter account that one of her granddaughters convinced her to watch Twilight and she thought it was so lame she wanted to smack her. Bacall gave her granddaughter a copy of the silent 1922 German film Nosferatu, in which the vampire is a disfigured cruel creature, and told her that’s what vampires are about:

The actress commented that, “Yes, I saw Twilight – my granddaughter made me watch it, she said it was the greatest vampire film ever. After the ‘film’ was over I wanted to smack her across her head with my shoe, but I do not want a (tell-all) book called Grannie Dearest written on me when I die. So instead I gave her a DVD of Murnau’s 1922 masterpiece Nosferatu and told her, ‘Now that’s a vampire film!’ And that goes for all of you! Watch Nosferatu instead!”

[From Broadwayworld.com]

Yeah, Lauren Bacall is awesome. I love how blunt she is. She also shared a picture of her hot 19 year-old grandson on her Twitter account, writing that she was surprised to once see him sipping a scotch and hitting on a woman at a party. She writes “Darlins’ do not encourage him by calling him a young Brad Pitt.” There is a certain resemblance there.

Getting back to the vampires, I would rather watch bloodsuckers who are sexy but still dangerous. I saw Nosferatu years ago and it’s truly creepy and scary. There’s only so far you can go with that. You need some sex and intrigue added in for the drama. Twilight is kind of sweetly romantic, and there’s a call for that among the younger set, but it’s really a departure to have vampires who can go out during the day and who don’t bite humans even a little. I’ll still get kind of swoony the next time I see Robert Pattinson on screen, though.

Lauren Bacall is shown on 3/27/08. Credit: WENN.com. Still from Nosferatu from Wikipedia

Twilight author Stephenie Meyer has been sued for copyright infringement by an author who claims that significant portions of Meyer’s fourth and as-of-yet final book in the series, Breaking Dawn, published in August, 2008 were lifted from a story she posted online in 2003. Last week TMZ published the cease and desist from the author, Jordan Scott, which detailed the similarities between the two books, including plot structure and some minor dialogue. (Here’s a spoiler filled link to TMZ’s coverage of the author’s case against Meyer. Please be warned that TMZ’s article and the PDF legal document pretty much ruin the fourth Twilight book/movie. If you haven’t read the book and are planning to or don’t want to ruin the movie, don’t read it. I waited to read the legal document until I finished the book later last week.)

Scott just officially filed suit against Meyer yesterday and is asking for damages and requesting that all existing copies of Breaking Dawn be impounded. Good luck on that one.

The author of the “Twilight” series is being sued by a woman who claims the 4th installment is a rip-off of her work.

Jordan Scott claims in her lawsuit, filed today in federal court, that she began writing a novel “in the vampire genre” when she was just 15 — back in 2003. The novel was published in 2006 and called “The Nocturne.”

Scott claims the 4th installment of Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” series lifted her work. She says Meyer’s book — “Breaking Dawn” is a “significant literary departure from [her] early books…” She says it seems the book is “written by a teenager.” Yes, Scott was a teenager when she wrote “The Nocturne.”

Scott claims the two books “show striking, articulable and substantial similarities in the … plot lines, themes, dialogue, mood, setting, pace, characters, sequence of events, ideas and other similarities.”

Scott is asking for damages, and that the court impound the “Breaking Dawn” books that are being sold.

[From TMZ]

I read through the legal document a couple of times, and I have to say that if I was on a jury for this case – not that it’s ever likely to go to a jury trial – I wouldn’t be able to rule in Scott’s favor given the evidence that’s presented. I can believe that Scott feels that Meyer ripped off her story, and there are some very strong plot parallels between the two books and even some similar wording. I don’t think it’s a frivolous lawsuit, but they don’t present enough evidence to prove a case. Some of the wording is similar, but not strikingly so. The common character dialogue isn’t exceptionally unique. Two weaker examples are that both books have lead characters who call their male partners “love,” as in “my love,” and another scene in which one of the leads marvels over their partner’s beauty, as if that’s significant. The things that the author claims are the same plot points are very common human experiences adapted to the vampire world. There are some things that seem too alike for coincidence, but I’m not going to get into the specifics as I don’t want to spoil it for anyone. I haven’t decided either way and the case is not strong, but not completely without merit.

Minor past spoiler for True Blood below
Many of you have pointed out that the Southern Vampire Mysteries, which were published well ahead of Meyer’s Twilight series and are the books on which the HBO show True Blood is based, have many commonalities with Meyer’s books as well. There’s a mind-reader, a character named Sam who plays the second “more of a friend” love interest and has incredibly similar powers to Sam in the Twilight books, and the vampires have skin glows and sparkles. (I’m almost done with the first novel in the series, Dead Until Dark, and it’s a lot of fun. Thanks to Bodhi and Laura for recommending it! I’m also watching the first season of “True Blood” now and love it.) Maybe many of these concepts are similar in the vampire genre. I’ve never really delved into it before except for Ann Rice and it’s been over 15 year since I’ve read any of her books.

Meyer didn’t come up with Twilight in a vacuum, but whether her similar ideas venture into the realm of plagiarism remains to be seen.

Stephenie Meyer is shown at the premiere of Twilight on 11/17/08. Credit: WENN.com

Kissing or just talking?

The cast of Eclipse was seen taking in a Kings of Leon concert on Saturday night in Vancouver, British Columbia where they’re currently filming the third installment in the Twilight series. In case we need any more confirmation that stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are an item – the two were photographed maybe kissing and looking cuddly during the show. It’s hard to tell because the photos are so dark. It’s possible they’re just so close to each other so that they can talk above the noise, but I doubt it:

New photos have surfaced of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse cast taking in a Kings Of Leon concert Saturday night in Vancouver–featuring costars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart insanely close to one another.

Pattinson’s profile is visible leaning in dangerously close to Stewart–they could be chatting about the King’s hit Sex On Fire, or they could be making their own beautiful music.

Also visible in the shot, taken inside the General Motors Place, is the now brunette Kellan Lutz, texting away, and Victoria 2.0 Brynce Dallas Howard.

[From Radar Online]

As a Twilight fan, it makes me a little giddy to see Pattinson and Stewart together. It seems kind of inevitable, like they can’t escape this fictional love story that’s captivated so many. Is Kristen toying with R-Pattz’s heart, though, as Kaiser suspects, or is she in it for keeps? I don’t think she’s as much of a player as Kaiser does, and I would guess she’s into Pattinson. I bet that she’s holding her own and isn’t getting all wrapped up in the relationship, as it should be. These two seem like they’re trying to keep things under wraps, but they just can’t help it. There’s not much they can do to hide their hot romance given the public’s interest in them.

In related Twilight news, the cast got to screen the sequel, New Moon, over the weekend. The film doesn’t come out in theaters until November 20, which is kind of a shame because they really should have released it on Halloween. They’re trying to take advantage of the Thanksgiving holiday crowd, but New Moon will be a hit regardless. Twilight grossed over 383 million worldwide.

I have to say that I’ve started watching Twilight’s hottest competition, “True Blood,” HBO’s original series based on series of books The Southern Vampire mysteries, and it’s more mature and a lot more intriguing in some ways than Twilight. I’m starting to root for team Bill over team Edward, but it’s not like I’d skip watching the Twilight films because “True Blood” is so good. I’m looking at Twilight with a different eye though. The stars of “True Blood” aren’t chicken about going public with their relationship, at least.

Photo credit: INFDaily.com

There might be trouble in Twihard Paradise. By the way, I believe Twihard Paradise = a full minute sniffing the heavenly aroma coming out of Robert Pattinson’s mangy hair. But I digress. It seems that there might be something brewing between Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner, who plays werewolf Jacob Black in the films. Star Magazine has more:

Just as things are heating up again between Kristen and Rob, could their costar Taylor Lautner throw a wrench into their romance?

“Taylor definitely has a crush on Kristen,” a source tells Star. “But she just treats him like a little brother.”

Still, Taylor, 17, has grown a lot since filming the first Twilight – literally and figuratively. The 26 lbs of muscle he added to play werewolf Jacob Black have given him new confidence with women. He recently romanced Emma Roberts and Taylor Swift on the set of Valentine’s Day and now he’s set his sights in Kristen.

They were inseparable at the Teen Choice Awards on Aug. 9, while Kristen hardly spoke to Rob. “Rob is really nervous that Kristen will fall for Taylor’s charms,” says a source.

Adds another: “He likes Taylor, but once they’re all up in Vancouver, he’s going to make it clear that Kristen is off the market.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, August 24 2009]

Would you like further evidence? Behold, this week’s Entertainment Weekly cover! Not only are Kristen and Taylor looking very cozy, in the interview Kristen admits her true feelings for him: “I love that kid… I would do anything for him. I would kill for him, literally.” Ruh-roh. EW has more:

New Moon, a far different beast than Twilight, is steeped in heartbreak, focusing on the recovery Bella (Stewart) undergoes after Edward (Pattinson) breaks her heart and her new feelings for her friend Jacob (Lautner). Pattinson couldn’t be happier with his downsized role: “It was a stress-free job for three months,” says the actor. “All the pressure was on Taylor.”

There were some minicontroversies surrounding the set – director Chris Weitz replaced Twilight helmer Catherine Hardwicke, Lautner had to publicly campaign to keep the role of Jacob, and actress Rachelle Lefevre was replaced by Bryce Dallas Howard for the soon-to-be-shot third film in the series. Lautner ultimately secured the spot thanks in part to Stewart.

“It’s completely understandable why they wanted to make sure he was right,” says the actress. “He was so young, 16, so I got it. But I knew he had [to do] it. Just because of how I felt around him.”

And how did the Bella-Jacob best-friend chemistry play out on set? “We have that relationship,” she says. “It’s lamely cute.”

Taylor trained hard to bulk up for the role of the budding werewolf. “My body fat got so low that we actually needed to increase it a little bit,” he says. “My trainer would be like, ‘Go have a huge milk shake just so I can get a thousand calories into your body.’”

Stewart thinks the new film will be beefier, too: “[Making Twilight] was much more of a fight,” she says. “We needed to make something commercial but stay true to the book. We didn’t have enough money. It was all very impulsive, and that’s what I love about that movie…But I think New Moon is gonna be even better.”

[From Entertainment Weekly]

God knows I love riling up the Twihards (cough cough CB cough), but I don’t think this hook-up is going to happen. Kristen would rip that poor kid apart. Pattz has barely survived her, and he’s six years older than Taylor. Plus, there was this little interesting part – EW has a cute behind-the-scenes video of the photo shoot, with Kristen and Taylor talking about how well they get along. Kristen is asked what’s the difference between Edward and Jacob, and she says “I smile more with Jacob.” Then Kristen and Taylor are talking about whether he’s hardcore enough, and she tells Taylor Lautner : “I think you need a little more growing up to do. You need to grow into your cojones.” Taylor: “Okay…. I’m not sure if that was a compliment.” Dude… that was not a compliment. Kristen really does think of him as a kid brother if she’s mocking his cojones.

And yet! The National Enquirer has yet another report about how Kristen is basically breaking Pattz’s soul. Apparently, “Pattinson got really depressed when he offered to whisk Kristen off on a romantic three-day vacation anywhere in the world before filming starts on the third “Twilight” flick, but she answered emphatically: NO!” Kristen’s reasoning? She thinks Pattz is “pressuring” her for a “serious relationship”. This girl is so f-cking hardcore. I bet she laughs at Pattz when he cries.

Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart at shown at the Teen Choice Awards on 8/9/09 and at Comic-Con with Robert Pattinson on 7/23/09. Credit: WENN.com. Header image thanks to CoverAwards. EW has a quick clip featuring Kristen and Taylor, but it’s not embeddable, so here’s a link

God, I feel old. The Teen Choice Awards were held last night, but they aren’t coming on television until tonight, on Fox. So this entire post is a gigantic SPOILER, just be forewarned. Anyhoodle, it seems like everyone who went home with some kind of half-baked award. Before I get into who won what, let’s just do some highlights/lowlights of the evening:

* Twilight beat Slumdog Millionaire for Best Drama
* Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart are king and queen of the Teen Twihards
* Kristen wore a dress that looked like she walked around the Home Depot with a magnetic skirt. Have you seen this thing? I declare it “The Don’t-Get-Near-My-Vajayjay Porcupine Skirt”. Did Pattz get to take it off of her later?
* Pattinson’s hair is officially out of control. And his red carpet poses are weird. He looks… smug. Like he’s getting laid. Like Kristen is putting out. I like him better when he’s desperate and vulnerable.
* Miley Cyrus won big, picking up six awards in all, including “Choice Hissy Fit”
* Miley “sang” a song live with a stripper pole front and center. We get it, Miley. You like to study the Bible on your stripper pole.
* Kim Kardashian with lightened hair. It’s looks horrible, and it ages her by fifteen years.
* Chelsea Handler won… but why?
* Kathy Griffin showed up with a date… baby-daddy Levi Johnston! Gross.
* Britney looked… healthy, I guess. The dress was boring, but her eyes didn’t look glassy, so that’s a plus.

Here’s the list of each and every 2009 Teen Choice Award, courtesy of E! Online:

Film
Drama: Twilight
Comedy: Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Action/Adventure: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Horror/Thriller: Friday the 13th
Bromantic Comedy: Marley & Me
Chick Flick: 27 Dresses
Music/Dance: High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Summer Movie, Drama: My Sister’s Keeper
Summer Movie, Comedy: Up
Summer Movie, Romance: The Proposal
Summer Movie, Action/Adventure: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Actor, Drama: Robert Pattinson, Twilight
Actress, Drama: Kristen Stewart, Twilight
Actor, Action/Adventure: Hugh Jackman, X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Actress, Action/Adventure: Jordana Brewster, Fast & Furious
Actor, Comedy: Zac Efron, 17 Again
Actress, Comedy: Anne Hathaway, Bride Wars
Actress, Music/Dance: Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montana: The Movie
Actor, Music/Dance: Zac Efron, High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Summer Movie Star Male: Shia LaBeouf, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Summer Movie Star Female: Megan Fox, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Villain: Cam Gigandet, Twilight
Fresh Face, Male: Taylor Lautner, Twilight
Fresh Face, Female: Ashley Greene, Twilight
Hissy Fit: Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montana: The Movie
Liplock: Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, Twilight
Rumble: Robert Pattinson vs. Cam Gigandet, Twilight
Rockstar Moment: Zac Efron, 17 Again

Television
Drama: Gossip Girl
Comedy: Hannah Montana
Action/Adventure: Heroes
Animated Show: SpongeBob SquarePants
Reality: The Hills
Reality Competition: American Idol
Actor, Drama: Chace Crawford, Gossip Girl
Actress, Drama: Leighton Meester, Gossip Girl
Actor, Action/Adventure: Tom Welling, Smallville
Actress, Action Adventure: Hayden Panettiere, Heroes
Actor, Comedy: Jonas Brothers, Jonas
Actress, Comedy: Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montana
Breakout Show: Jonas
Breakout Star Female: Demi Lovato, Sonny with a Chance
Breakout Star Male: Frankie Jonas, Jonas
Male Reality/Variety Star: Adam Lambert, American Idol
Female Reality/Variety Star: Lauren Conrad, The Hills
Villain: Ed Westwick, Gossip Girl
Fab-u-lous: Jay Alexander, America’s Next Top Model
Sidekick: Emily Osment, Hannah Montana
Late Night Show: Chelsea Lately
Parental Unit: Billy Ray Cyrus, Hannah Montana
Summer TV Show: Princess Protection Program
Summer TV Star Female: Selena Gomez, Princess Protection Program
Summer TV Star Male: Daren Kagasoff, The Secret Life of the American Teenager

Music
Male Artist: Jason Mraz
Female Artist: Taylor Swift
Rap Artist: Kanye West
R&B Artist: Beyoncé
Rock Group: Paramore
Breakout Artist: David Archuleta
Album Male Artist: Jason Mraz, We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things
Album Female Artist: Taylor Swift, Fearless
Music Single: Miley Cyrus, “The Climb”
Hook-Up: Lady Gaga and Colby O’Donis, “Just Dance”
Love Song: David Archuleta, “Crush”
R&B Track: Beyoncé, “Single Ladies”
Rap/Hip-Hop Track: Black Eyed Peas, “Boom Boom Pow”
Rock Track: Paramore, “Decode”
Soundtrack: Twilight
Tour: Demi Lovato and David Archuleta
Summer Song: Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus, “Before the Storm”

Sports
Male Athlete: David Beckham
Female Athlete: Shawn Johnson
Male Action Sports Athlete: Ryan Sheckler
Female Action Sports Athlete: Stephanie Gilmor

Special Awards
Male Hottie: Robert Pattinson
Female Hottie: Megan Fox
Twit (Twitterer): Ellen DeGeneres
Web Star: Fred
Activist: Hayden Panettiere
Red Carpet Fashion Icon Female: Selena Gomez
Red Carpet Fashion Icon Male: Jonas Brothers
Comedian: George Lopez
Celebrity Pet: Bo, the Obamas’ dog
Video Game: Rock Band 2
Celebrity Baby: Honor Marie Warren, daughter of Jessica Alba and Cash Warren
Celebrity Dancer: Selena Gomez
Ultimate Choice Award: Britney Spears

[From E! Online]

Not much more to say about this atrocity. I guess I should point out some of the biggest losers: Blake Lively, Kate Hudson, Brangelina, anyone involved with Slumdog Millionaire and the brain cells of America. Congratulations to the winners!

Shown in alphabetical order by first name (except for the Jonas brothers) are Alexis Bledel, Ashley Tisdale, Audrina Patridge, Britney Spears, Cameron Diaz, Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick, Emily Osment, Emma Roberts, Fergie, Hayden Panettiere, Hugh Jackson, Joe Jonas, Kevin Jonas, Nick Jonas, Jordin Sparks, Kathy Griffin and her date Levi Johnston, Kat Von D, Kim Kardashian, Kristen Stewart, Leighton Meester, Megan Fox, Mike Tyson, Miley Cyrus, Robert Pattinson, KellanLutz, Jackson Rathborne, Selena Gomez, Taylor Lautner, Vanessa Hudgens, and Zac Efron. Credit: WENN.com and Juan Rico/Fame Pictures.

Poor Robert Pattinson. Poor little Pattz. So beautiful, yet so haunted. Brooding but lovely. Hunted by the paparazzi, yet a willing participant in excessive press. A player, but unable to be with the girl he really wants. Pattz is an enigma, wrapped in a contradiction, covered in sparkles. Anyway, OK UK has a new interview with Pattz, and they ask him the questions everyone is dying to know. Is he single? Yes! What’s the deal with Kristen Stewart? “Friends.” And what qualities does he look for in a date? “Chiseled abs.” What’s that again?

Talking to OK! recently, [Pattinson] filled us in on his new found fame, explaining some of the stranger things that have started happening to him since becoming a worldwide phenomenon little under than a year ago: ‘A mother recently gave me her baby and asked me: “Can you please bite her head?”

‘People ambush me and try to figure out what hotel I’m staying at, as well as wanting to touch my hair. Everyone just screams and screams. It still feels surreal.’

OK: Did you have any idea what you were in store for when you signed up for Twilight?
RP: No way. I read the script and I barely even knew that they were books too. The only reason I went to the audition was to see Kristen, because I’d just seen Into The Wild.

OK: Are you saying you had a little bit of a crush on her?
RP: Of course! No, we are just very good friends.

OK: But there have been a lot of rumours about you two…
RP: I know – but honestly, we are just friends.

OK: Do you have a girlfriend?
RP: No, no. I am young, free and single.

OK: What do you look for in a lady?
RP: I like people being forward. Gosh, I don’t know. I like strong people, chiseled abs… I don’t know, I take what I can get!

OK: You have a huge amount of female fans, are you ever scared by them?
RP: I had no idea people could get so obsessed. But it’s not scary – it’s amazing. People just project their idea of my character on to me and they just seem to assume that I’m the same, when in reality I’m not. It’s kind of weird, but I still haven’t really had time to reflect on it because I’ve been doing stuff to do with Twilight and my other movies. I’m working constantly and I feel like I’m always surrounded by Twilight people – if not my work colleagues, then my fans. Right now it is fans – it’s a little bizarre if I’m honest.

OK: Have you had any weird fan experiences?
RP: One time there were these four girls, in Chicago, I think, and they had all scratched their necks until they bled and then when they came up to me they had these bleeding scabs. It was gross!

OK: What is the hardest part of being Edward Cullen?
RP: Probably trying to be scary when you’re supposed to be looking pretty at the same time.

OK: Does it worry you that you may always be cast as a heart-throb?
RP: I’m so surprised things have worked out the way they have, I just keep thinking the whole time, I don’t really have the right personality to fit in to that kind of role. I’m not really afraid of it, though, because I don’t really know how to play up that aspect of it.

OK: If you could live forever, like Edward Cullen, what would you do?
RP: Probably learn to speak French. Or I might spend three weeks straight with no sleep learning the piano. You’d get really good at stuff because you would have time to do everything.

OK: You have said that Edward is a little obsessive – are you surprised that girls think of Edward as the most perfect boyfriend ever?
RP: It’s weird, but girls always seem like that. Being a guy, you always just look at girls and think, why are you with that guy? With virtually anyone the nice guys always seem to come last. You always get weirdos like Edward who seem to attract women for some reason. If Edward wasn’t a fictional character and you met him in reality he is like one of those guys who would probably be an axe murderer or something.

[From OK Magazine UK]

Alright, I swooned a little when Pattz said his dream would be to learn the piano and learn French. It’s like he knows he’s just killing us with his romanticism. Next, he’ll probably say that he enjoys riding his trusty white steed and rescuing damsels in distress. And did anyone else find his comments about “nice guys” a little pointed? Like, “Hey, K-Stew, why aren’t you with a ‘nice guy’ like me, rather than your douchey boyfriend?” Man, I have to give it to K-Stew. She’s got Pattz coming and going.

Here’s Robert Pattinson on the NY set of “Remember Me” on 7/14/09. Credit: Fame Pictures. Pattinson is also shown looking beat-up for the film on 7/15/09. Credit: WENN.com.

Robert Pattinson is in danger of getting his chiseled face and marble-like torso damaged by the hoards of Twihards swarming the set of his film Remember Me in New York. In what sounds like a scene from Hard Days Night, Pattinson was running to escape a throng of teenage fans in June when he made a detour into traffic and was hit by a taxi. It was just a light clip, and Pattinson was said to be fine. The production company, Summit, issued a haughty statement at the time expressing no concern for Pattinson’s safety and accepting no responsibility for the incident, simply saying “Robert Pattinson is fine. The reports are exaggerated and the accident was not caused by fans. Production continues.”

Sources at The New York Police Department see Pattinson’s on set security detail as a bunch of amateurs who can’t control some starstruck teenagers. They think that Summit is lax at protecting the actor and say that the 23 year-old actor is needlessly put in dangerous situations:

Sources in the New York City Police Department have told IrishCentral that the “security situation” with “Twilight” star Robert Pattinson has gotten “out of control,” and cops are planning on assuming more-stringent control over the young actor’s security when he is in town.

“Enough is enough,” said a highly-placed official at Police Headquarters. “His security people aren’t up to the task of keeping him safe, and they have no idea how to deal with the crowds this guy attracts.” The source pointed to a well-publicized incident in which Pattinson ran from a crowd of admirers and was slightly injured when he was struck by a taxi.

“That’s amateur hour,” the police spokesman said. “We have celebrities a lot bigger than this guy who can come and go in perfect safety because we know how to take the right precautions. We have presidents and kings come and go. This poor kid can’t get in or out of a car without things getting dangerous.”

The police source confirmed what IrishCentral has been told by other members of the department — that “Pattinson’s people” want to be in full charge of the actor, his travels through the city, the sets used for various shoots, and all security matters involved. But it seems that they underestimated fans’ rabid interest in the handsome star, who has complained that fans get close enough to tousle his hair and grab his clothing.

Pattinson himself is reportedly very troubled by the close proximity to fans in which he must work, and has complained that they are able to find what hotels he stays at and what restaurants he dines in.

Police said they were particularly concerned about the so-called “Twiheads” — fans who have so completely embraced the vampire theme of “Twilight,” and who have confronted the actor asking for his blood and even cut themselves so they can bleed for him.

The Department has long experience in the protection of the hundreds of recognizable celebrities who live and work in the city, and while the Mayor’s Office has a special and well-regarded film and motion-picture office and works to coordinate the needs of a studio with the demands of public safety, the police have ultimate responsibility for keeping the peace.

Apparently, they believe it’s time they reminded the Summit Entertainment security staffers who is in charge before a weird fan encounter turns into something more serious.

The Police Department, as is its policy, would not make any official comment on its security operations.

[From IrishCentral via MSNBC's The Scoop]

I don’t think the cops really get the phenomenon that is Twilight and Robert Pattinson, and neither does Summit for that matter. Last week they canned actress Rachelle Lefevre and replaced her character, the vampiress Victoria, with another actress for the third film, Eclipse. Lefevre wasn’t featured heavily in the first film, Twilight, but her character is in New Moon and is central to the plot of the third installment. It’s upsetting to fans that they’ll have to get used to another actress in the role for the third film, but Summit only seems to be concerned about the bottom line. It’s about time they realized that they need to hire a real security firm who can work out logistics and not just a bunch of bulky guys to stand around and tell fans “you almost killed him” after an inevitable incident. It’s going to be a lot more expensive for Summit if Pattinson gets hurt due to their negligence.

In related news, the first annual Twilight fan convention, TwiCon, was held in Dallas over the weekend. Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart were not in attendance, but other actors like Peter Facinelli (Dr. Carlisle Cullen), and Jackson Rathbone (Jasper Hale) were there. When asked by MTV about the recasting of Rachelle Lefevre both Facinelli and Rathborne were careful not to comment on Summit’s business decision, but said that they were sad that she wouldn’t be returning and that they loved her.

Robert Pattinson is shown being hugged by an overeager fan in NY on 7/26/09. Credit: INF Photo.