Lonely Hearts Club Releases

Over the years many of you may have wondered who that person was next to Stephenie Meyer setting up books for signing, helping organize E-Prom, or letting us know when big new was about to hit. Her name is Elizabeth Eulberg, she’s Stephenie’s publicist, and she has her debut novel, The Lonely Hearts Club, out.

You can catch Elizabeth’s website here and her Twitter here. Congrats to Elizabeth.

Peter Facinelli Top Celebrity Tweeter of the Year

E! had readers vote on who their top celebrity Tweeter was and Peter Facinelli came in number one.

It’s pretty amazing when you consider that Ashton Kutcher, who has more Twitter followers than the populations of several nations, came in second. Peter has really taken the possibilities of Twitter to a new level raising money for multiple charitable causes.

Top 10 Twilight Moments of 2010

Everybody has a list. Well…it’s a new year and a new decade so you’d expect as much. Anyway, one of the best lists out there was put together by Amanda Bell, the Twilight Examiner.

“It’s officially 2010, and you know what that means . . . another year of Twilight!

2009 was a great year for Twilight fans, and we’ve already discussed this fact thoroughly. Well, 2010 seems to be shaping up – already – to be a great one as well.

Of course, the year will hold ups, downs, and in-betweens . . . and there’ll be a few surprises to be sure, but right now there are several coming events of the year that’ll make 2010 another year for Twilight fans!”

Check out the details here.

Kellan Lutz Rings in The New Year In Miami

Miami seems to be a favorite spot of Kellan’s. He’s done several events there over the last two years. The New Year’s he hosted entertainment blog, Just Jared’s New Year’s party at Klutch.

Above Kellan is posing with Jared ( yes there really is a Jared ) of Just Jared.

New Moon in MTV’s Top 9 of 09 Moments

Rachelle LeFevre in The Deep End Promos

Rachelle Lefevre has an appearance in the upcoming ABC series The Deep End. You can see Rachelle briefly in these two clips.

Twilight Examiner

Anna Kendrick on EW Cover

Anna Kendrick is featured on the cover of EW along with her Up in the Air castmates.

It hits newsstands today.

Mike Welch and Dakota Fanning in Malcolm in the Middle

We have been getting several comments about Mike Welch and Dakota Fanning appearing in an episode of Malcolm in the Middle together way back in 2001. The episode is called New Neighbors. Mike and Dakota play brother and sister. So for your viewing pleasure here is the episode.


Update


There seems to have been a problem with the site the video has come from causing various virus checkers to go off. For that reason, we have removed it.

Hillywood Show on Blogtalk Radio

This just in from the Hillywood Show:

Hillywood

As fans wait for the premiere of The Hillywood Show’s ™ New Moon Parody, Hilly and Hannah will answer some of your questions during a live interview with Blog Talk Radio , Dec. 30th! Fans can call in to ask questions or chat live in the chat window!

SPOILER PICTURE:  Today is also a special date for Hillywood™ fans to visit the site!  Come back to the site tomorrow during the live interview to see the FIRST inside look of New Moon Parody with an exclusive leaked photo from the set!

WHEN: Wednesday, December 30th , 2009
TIME:  8:00 – 9:00 pm EST
CALL IN NUMBER:
347-884-9941
WHERE: Blog Talk Radio

Comparisons, Comparisons

We recently were hit with the latest media outlets wanting to compare Harry Potter and Twilight, and bless their naive little hearts, they actually thought they were the first to come up with this concept. We told them that we were not interested!

As we’ve said for years, the only way you can really compare them is that they are phenomenally, bestselling books done by previously unpublished female authors. Granted both have adult followings, but there are some major differences. Harry Potter is marketed to elementary students for the first part of their series which is a fantasy/quest/coming of age tale aimed at both sexes and Twilight is a YA/romance/supernatural tale predominantly marketed to females. It makes about as much sense as comparing the The Traveling Pants series to the Great and Terrible Beauty series or comparing Judy Blume to Shannon Hale.

Both Alphie and Pel WERE and ARE Harry Potter fans before Twilight ever came about.  (The graphic above has been in Pel’s forum signature for years.) In fact they used to run a site called The Werewolf Registry devoted to their favorite character from the series,  Remus Lupin.  They also fed their obsession  by reading and writing fanfic at The Sugar Quill and following the news on The Leaky Cauldron and Mugglenet.  (Side note here is the Pel had to contain herself not to go all fangirl on Matt and Andrew from Mugglenet/Twilight Source the first time she met them, and Alphie got all sorts of excited when Pel ended up on a discussion panel with Melissa Anelli from The Leaky Cauldron.)

So where is all this going? WHO SAID WE HAD TO CHOSE????? It’s not a contest to see which is better and to declare a winner and a loser. ENOUGH ALREADY. They are great books and movies and we love them both for different reasons. If they were both vampire romances we could see a comparison, but they’re not.

So the other day on Twitter, Pel who had absolutely had it at that point, Tweeted about her frustration because as far as we are concerned Remus Lupin and Jacob Black, two of the coolest werewolves ever are kicking back on La Push beach enjoying a butterbeer together and laughing at all of this. So Pel wrote, “SNORE…YAWN…both great books…who said we had to choose? Remus and Jake need to have a butterbeer at LaPush.”  Well, it spurred and onslaught of comments, retweets, emails, etc. from others who love both series and who are just as frustrated, and came up with other ridiculous comparisons and insight.  We thought we’d share a bunch of them them:

NickyGallardo: “Who rocked the blond-do better? Draco or James?”

only1apathy: “I IMAGINE ARO AND VOLDEMORT WOULD HIT IT OFF FANTASTICALLY”

torasamuels: “Maybe Jake and the pack could teach Lupin some werewolf manners and I think Hagrid and Charlie would get along nicely. Or maybe Emmet could pick a fight with Grawp. A friendly fight of course.”

erinsalas: “Remember to add in Emmett exchanging practical joke ideas with the Weasley twins.”

PiojisPink_YC: “We can have Emmett on a Quiddich match!”

ToriK13: “Jacob drools over Mr. Weasley’s flying car. He takes it for a ride, and is the 1st flying werewolf.”

tessa_gee: “Edward and Cedric will wonder why they are sooo look-alike!”

K_Kowalczyk: “i think Emmett and Oliver Wood would sit down and discuss how to mix quidditch and baseball for the ultimate sport!”

Natalia_Vic: “Carlisle and Dumbledore will talk about Philosophic terms Nick Flamel will discard Sorcerer’s stone and become a vampire…”

FashionLuva: “Fleur & Rosalie can try to decide who’s the most beautiful, who has the best blonde hair & who has the better husband! :)”

_German_Girl_: “Bella/Edward should meet up with Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny to discuss stupid children names.”

VictoriaBsB: “imagine Aro inviting Voldemort to join the Vulturis xD”

ClaraCullen: “Ooh or Molly and Esme could talk about being such great mothers..”

rosie4posie: “Also James and Voldemort can come up with the ultimate plot to get rid of the Cullens and Harry. Which will ultimatly fail.”

TwiExaminer: “Yeahhhh… better yet, have Ron and Alice play wizard’s chess, Carlisle and Hermoine inventing something …Finish it off with a self-deprecation-off between Harry and Edward. 🙂