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They're just Edward and Bella, say Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, at May's MTV Movie Awards. They're not dating, they insist; but their director senses "complex, intense fascination."
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Once more (with feeling): Robert Pattinson, 23, is not dating Twilight costar Kristen Stewart, 19. The dreamy vampire-fanged Brit tells Vanity Fair it's futile to fight the rumors. "It doesn't make any difference what you say" to the tabloids, he says. "I've literally been across the country [from Kristen], and it's like, 'Oh, they were on secret dates!' It's like 'Where? I can't get out of my hotel room!' " While not contradicting Rob, Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke tells the mag there was a "nervous attraction" between the two youngsters. She says they had "complex feelings for each other. . . . It was what we needed. Complex, intense fascination."
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Rob says he digs Kristen's attitude to the tabloid reports: "She's influenced how I've done all the Twilight stuff. It's quite nice to have someone who is genuinely indifferent to the whole spectacle of everything."
For her part, Kristen doesn't mince words: "It's so [stupid]. We're characters in this comic book."
U.S. Army: Sorry, Ryan!
Army spokesman Lt. Col. Nathan Banks tells TMZ the Army is sorry for the behavior of Chidi Uzomah, an Army reservist who has been charged with stalking Ryan Seacrest."We apologize to Ryan Seacrest," Banks says. "Pending the outcome of the local investigation, the Army will decide what further action to take. We take all matters of our personnel seriously."
Jon G.: Gee, I guess I'm sorry
Jon Gosselin showed off his moral bona fides in a public forum with Michael Jackson adviser Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Sunday night in New York. Jon confirmed he and his lover, Hailey Glassman, are taking a break from their relationship. And he apologized to his estranged wife, Kate, for "openly having relationships in the public eye" while the couple were separated. Jon said he was recalibrating his soul."Half the stuff I've done, if I look at my moral compass, I shouldn't have done," he said. "It's like fame canceled out conviction."
Fame, Jon said, is a poison, a cancer, a demon, a monster. And something he never sought: "I'm not a fame seeker. Every day I look in the mirror and I wonder [why I'm famous]. I don't sing. I don't dance. I'm not a Nobel Peace Prize winner."
The joys of parenthood
Actor and championship drunk-ranter Mel Gibson has entered Gosselin territory: His rep announced yesterday that Octo-Mel and his lover, Russian musician Oksana Grigorieva, 39, "welcomed the arrival of a baby girl named Lucia on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009, at an undisclosed hospital in Los Angeles."Mel, 53, has seven kids with his ex-wife, Robyn, who in April filed divorce papers after 28 years of marriage.
Meanwhile, People mag reports that actor/director Mary Stuart Masterson, 43 (The Cake Eaters), and her hubby, Jeremy Davidson, welcomed their first baby, a son, on Oct. 11. No other details have been released.
Jackson film: All-time sellingest
This Is It is not a concert film.Yet it is the biggest-selling concert film in all of recorded history. (It's a miracle!)
Go figure: Only Michael Jackson could have pulled off such a miraculous feat. The film, which was patched together from rehearsal snippets shot before MJ's June 25 death, made $101 mil around the globe, trouncing the $70.6 mil record set last year by Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour.
In sickness & in health . . .
Sir Elton John, 62, is recovering from a "bad case of the flu and a minor case of E. coli" in a London hospital, his rep, Gary Farrow, announced yesterday. Sir Elton's partner, David Furnish, isn't too concerned, London's Daily Mail reports. "He's OK - he's fine," the tab quotes him as saying.Farrow says Sir Elton has to cancel some shows, but hopes to rejoin his concertmate, Billy Joel, when their Face2Face tour is scheduled to hit California this month.
The flu has taken more casualties at Dancing With the Stars. People reported yesterday that Lacey Schwimmer joins Derek Hough and Mark Ballas on the list of the afflicted. Anna Trebunskaya will dance in her place.
Tidbits 'n' pieces
Barbadian beauty Rihanna will speak for the first time about being assaulted by Chris Brown in a chat with ABC's Diane Sawyer set to air on Good Morning America Thursday and Friday and on 20/20 on Friday.The Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger reports that diva Whitney Houston has put her five-acre estate in Mendham, N.J., in Morris County, on the market for the bargain-basement price of $2.5 mil. The 12,561-square-foot house, where Whitney married Bobby Brown, has an assessed value of $5.6 mil.
TNT has picked up cop drama Southland after it was canceled by NBC. The series, which is produced by John Wells (ER) and stars Ben McKenzie, Regina King, and Tom Everett Scott, will return next year.
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