"She's a smart one. She saw what [happened with] Jennifer Aniston, who was crazy successful on TV, but can't seem to carry a film, and she tested the waters early."

But Heigl's chances of fleeing the yawnfest that is Grey's and continuing her journey towards becoming "the next Julia Roberts" don't look good:

After only three seasons on then-mega hit Grey's, Heigl did make an early attempt to break out as a "real" actress on the big screen, and whether it was a case of pure luck or actual talent, Knocked Up turned her into a bankable hot commodity overnight. Then came 27 Dresses, which managed to rack up an impressive $23mm its opening weekend, coming in second to the highly anticipated Cloverfield. Interestingly enough, 27 has racked up $76mm to date, trailing the J.J. Abrams shitshow by only $4mm as of May 1st. Next on her plate is a pantsless role in 2009's The Ugly Truth, which co-stars B.O. superstar Gerard Butler. The only hitch regarding Heigl's promising movie career? As a source told MSNBC, "Heigl might be locked into Grey's a bit longer. 'I don't think she'll be able to get out of it.'" But we're talking about a woman capable of curing ADD sans medical license! We're not worried about Heigl's manipulative methods when it comes to getting her way.

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• HEIGL LOOKING TO HANG UP HER 'GREY'S' SCRUBS? [MSNBC]

Though it's too early to tell how many carats Scarlett's rock has, we have read that Reynolds bought his former fiance, Alanis Morissette, a 3.75 carat rock.

Naturally, Katherine Heigl had her 3 carat ring designed herself rather than trusting her frequently emasculated husband Joshua Kelley pipe in with any kind of opinion. Mariah Carey's highly confusing recent engagement to Nick Cannon has resulted in the singer sporting a possibly recycled 15 (yikes!) pink and purple tacky thing, but if anyone can pull of giant gems it would be Mimi. And, of course, Jennifer Lopez, whose infamous $1.2 million pink diamond ring was ostentatiously flashed 'round the world, only to be sold off post-breakup.

While poor Carmen Electra's new rock from rocker Rob Patterson cost a mere $100k (for celebs, that's the equivalent of shopping at Jared), we think Patterson's eccentric choice of a black diamond suits Electra perfectly. As for knocked up Ashlee Simpson, her faux-punk rocker fiance Pete Wentz reportedly made sure to give Simpson a ring without those pesky "blood diamonds" Leonardo DiCaprio taught us all about in that boring movie of the same name.

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• DEFAMER WEDDINGS: SCARLETT JOHANSSON AND RYAN REYNOLDS ENGAGED TO EACH OTHER [Defamer]

What's replacing them isn't that surprising either, but the mind reels nevertheless when we see it in print:

[T]here's a sense now — evident in multiple boxoffice metrics and comments uttered privately by the dozens of agents, managers and producers interviewed for this report — that the interplay among consumers, celebrities and entertainment dollars is changing. The new dynamics are a challenge the next generation of up-and-comers — Shia LaBeouf, Seth Rogen, Emile Hirsch and Katherine Heigl often are cited — could face.

"As audiences get younger, they don't care about movie stars in the same way," Sony Screen Gems president Clint Culpepper says. "The idea of seeing a beautiful movie star on the big screen just isn't the same to them."

Yikes! Katherine Heigl will pretend she didn't hear Culpepper — the man responsible for the recent no-name hit revival of Prom Night, incidentally — just say that. Meanwhile, we're looking at Speed Racer's sluggish tracking and wondering if fledgling leading man Emile Hirsch isn't facing that challenge as we speak. On the bright side, his generation already has Orlando Bloom, so he doesn't have to worry about plunging into that niche. Sky's the limit, kid.

• Hollywood's top stars face devaluing of A-list currency [THR]

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Katherine Heigl once again had to remind every one of the set of her new film, The Ugly Truth, the rules regarding her Ugg boots. Heigl had it written into her contract that she's allowed to wear her Uggs in scenes where her feet aren't visible, and even added a clause that gives her the authority to fire any crew members who snicker, giggle or engage in any other form of laugh-based communication either to her face or behind her back. Heigl told the crew that if they can't adhere to these rules then they could try to get somebody else who'll open the #1. That reminder sure shut them all up.

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America's former sweetheart Julia Roberts talked to any one would listen about "the good old days" when she was at the top of the gossip heap. Roberts complained that the stars of today no longer have to go through multiple marriages like they used to in order to get on the cover of People. She went on to explain that she practically pioneered the strategy of dating someone way, way, WAY way out of their league (like she did with Lyle Lovett) in an effort to grab the headlines. Roberts then muttered something under her breath about reality television when the paparazzi quickly exited the scene after getting a hot tip about someone from The Hills shopping at a nearby Sephora.

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On April 15, a pro-Apatow operative yanked the details:

On several occasions in his movies, there are loud, expletive-filled arguments and frequent sexual-related discussions, which are a trademark.

His male characters tend to be immature, lazy, misogynist, sex-crazed and drug-consuming slackers.

We guess that's not so bad; they're vague, and they do sort of violate Wikipedia's "neutral point of view" guidelines. But then someone dropped by Sunday night to cut some far less-arguable context:

New York Magazine noted that [former Apatow associate] Mike White ... was "disenchanted" by Judd Apatow's later films, "objecting to the treatment of women and gay men in Apatow's recent movies," saying of Knocked Up, "At some point it starts feeling like comedy of the bullies, rather than the bullied."

Apatow has claimed to strive to avoid marginalizing women in his work and to develop authentic female characters. Following many of these accusations, in a highly publicized Vanity Fair interview, lead actor Katherine Heigl admitted that though she enjoyed working with Apatow, she had a hard time enjoying [Knocked Up] itself, calling the movie, "a little sexist," claiming that the film "paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight." In response to accusations of sexism ... Apatow did not initially deny the validity of such accusations, saying flippantly, "I'm just shocked she [Heigl] used the word 'shrew.' I mean, what is this, the sixteen-hundreds?"

This isn't nearly as fun as the revision that had Apatow dying April 7 after "stealing a bucket of mythical walrus," but it seems a fair enough concession to the historical record. But you tell us: Should it stand?

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• Judd Apatow [Wikipedia]

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The embattled 27 Dresses star has been looking to change her public persona from a chain-smoking emasculator (who occasionally gorges on the sweets) to the bright and smiley persona she so frequently portrays on television and in the movies. Heigl's first step is to start practicing Tai Chi on a daily basis, which friends told her might help her kick her smoking habit. Also, as she politely put it, practicing this ancient art should help "keep Joshua interested. He is a rock star, after all."

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This photograph of Katherine Heigl was taken after she received word that once again she was the punch line of a joke on gossip site. She then proceeded to eat all the sweets that the craft services table had to offer, including one quickly devoured Hostess cupcake. Reportedly, Heigl phoned her friend and asked why she would be the victim of constant attacks. "I'm a good person. I'm not perfect, but I'm a pretty decent person," Heigl was overheard saying. "Just ask Joshua."

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While shooting a scene for The Ugly Truth with Gerard Butler, Katherine's character is reportedly ditched by her date outside a restaurant and, for some reason, isn't wearing anything below the waist at the time save for a pair of boy shorts. Though we haven't heard whether or not Heigl uses the opportunity to reenact everyone's favorite tighty whitie cameo perfected by Cruise when he was just a twinkle in Scientology's eye, we're admittedly impressed with Katherine's stems. With a body like that, we're officially more understanding of Kelley's willingness to be publicly emasculated time after time by his domineering wifey.

[Photo credits: Pacific Coast News via Daily Mail]

• BRIEF APPEARANCE: KATIE HEIGL CAUGHT WITH HER TROUSERS DOWN [Daily Mail]

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Katherine Heigl struck a gangster lean as she lit up another cigarette on the set of her new movie. Despite numerous tearful outbursts from her emasculated rocker hubby Joshua Kelley and the support of her Grey's co star TR Knight, she has not been able to kick the filthy habit. As Heigl reached for the nearest pack of American Spirits, she explained to an extra that if TR couldn't get her to quit, then what's the point?

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"I was getting nowhere and I was super-confused. I was like, 'Hello? Do I have something hanging out of my nose? Why aren't you paying any attention to me?"

As we know by now, Heigl and Knight have since become the bestest of BFFs, but all that cutesy PDA they whimsically display at events now seems sad. All those kisses and hugs Heigl lavishes upon T.R. are now laced with the taint of unrequited love. Sadder still is how this news indirectly adds to the list of ways in which Katie has emasculated Josh "Call Me Joshua" Kelley. With no gaydar and an overwhelming desire to prove she wears the pants, Josh's manhood is in even graver danger of extinction.

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• KATH'S SHAME AT GAY BLUNDER [The Sun]

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Katherine Heigl was spotted out and about in Los Angeles wearing a gift from hubby Josh Kelley's mother. Heigl may have been all smiles in front of the cameras, but once the newlyweds got into the SUV, it was a whole other story. Kelley was reported to have been seen crying at the corner of Wilshire and Santa Monica Blvd after a tongue-lashing about Katherine's desire to not be photographed wearing Joseph's Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

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"Joshua" Kelley, the husband of Katherine Heigl, went out of his way to put an end to the rumors floating around The Internets that he's whipped. Kelley explained that rockers like him couldn't be whipped because, while on paper he might be married to Heigl, he's actually married the greatest woman of all time, music. "The last time I checked, polygamists aren't whipped," smirked Kelley. He then took a long swig from the water bottle under his arm, which didn't actually contain any water, but rather 20 ounces of Bacardi 151. Rockers!

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To celebrate her inability to quit smoking and the further emasculation of Joshua, the Grey's Anatomy star intends on proudly gorging herself on an entire box of double fudge brownies and cupcakes. If you can't beat it, eat it.

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"Who is she? Oh, that girl in 27 Dresses?"

But is Hudson's naiveté genuine or might she just be jealous of the fact that Heigl's 27 Dresses tap danced all over Fool's Gold at the box office (27 Dresses has a cume of $74.4MM, while Fool's Gold is stuck at a $58m gross to-date). Call us crazy, but we think that Kate's feigned ignorance of the Emmy winning emasculator is a direct result of the latter.

• 'GOLD' STAR DISSES '27 DRESSES' BEAUTY [AOL News]

"It's finally over...I just need a cigarette."

But her frustration didn't start with the nicotine cravings. After said carpet walk, in which her red dress took the spotlight despite her heavily pancaked makeup job and older person `do, Heigl dashed to the bathroom only to find it occupied. Her complaint to Momager Heigl? "Great. One more thing I have to be nervous about." Yes, Katie, having to wait nearly five minutes for a potty break and being given the opportunity to present an Oscar certainly warrant diva behavior bordering on Mariah Carey nervous breakdowns. Poor, poor thing.

• OSCAR MOMENTS YOU DIDN'T SEE ON TV [NY Daily News]
• BACKSTAGE AT THE OSCARS [The Envelope]

10. Cate Blanchett, who pretty much picked the most stunning maternity dress we've seen since Kate (excuse us! Katie!) decked herself out in Versace and Dolce while carrying the mysteriously conceived Suri.
9. Heidi Klum in Galliano, who managed to make popped collars look glamorous.
8. Katherine Heigl,whose one-strap gown was the most perfect red for a blonde with aggro issues.

7. Amy Adams in Proenza Schouler, whose bustier top made us forget that innocent twang she's perfected in interviews altogether.
6. Calista Flockhart, whose billowy gray and white gown officially erased those OMG SHE'S SO EFFING SKINNY pics of yore from our memory.
5. Cameron Diaz in Dior, who we'll now forgive for that controversial Valentino extravaganza she waltzed through last Oscars in to unsuccessfully make Justin Timberlake regret his dumpage.

4. Jessica Alba, who never really looks bad, but finally figured out a way to tell Hollywood to take her seriously.
3. Kelly Preston in Roberto Cavalli, who we think may have finally turned Johnny T. straight by looking 20 years younger tonight.
2. Keri Russell in Nina Ricci, whose baby weight has disappeared faster than it took to deliver the damn thing.

1. Penelope Cruz:Because of its sheer and utter flawlessness.

Anne Hathaway in Marchesa, Helen Mirren, and Heidi Klum in John Galliano.

Katherine Heigl, Miley Cyrus.

Ruby Dee and Julie Christie.

Creating the "perfect face." (Again.) Their male ideal grafts portions of Damon, Daniel Craig, Leo DiCaprio, Christian Bale, and John Stamos ("You got your C-list chocolate in my A-list peanut butter!"). His female counterpart, meanwhile, blends Katie Holmes, Katherine Heigl, Keira Knightley, Jessica Simpson, and Angelina Jolie. The result: Gay Elvis and, um, a horsier-faced Heigl. Perfection!

• The Perfect Face? [starmagazine.com]

"'When we first met, I could tell that my A.D.D. would definitely frustrate her a little bit...It's like, I would be drawing on paper tablecloths when I should have been engaging in conversation - little things like that. No one ever told me that before. Nobody ever cared. But she does. And I like that."

Ah yes, that's the Katie that we know and love loathe, the condescending, controlling, chain-smoking harpy who used her oppressive will to change Joshua from "being a boyish man to a man's man" (his words, not ours). As the interview continues, Joshua goes on to detail what domestic life is like at Casa Heigl (remember, it's HER house). Josh claims the two are simple homebodies who don't play into that whole Hollywood scene, instead preferring to "stay in, cook, watch Dexter, make music and paint." Sure sounds manly to us!

• JOSH KELLEY: MARRIAGE TO KATHERINE HEIGL IS 'UNBELIEVABLE' [People]

No offense to Chuck Grodin or Jim Henson — we here at Defamer HQ love ALL of the original films in the Muppet Trilogy (and own them all on DVD) — but we're not quite seeing the link between the robbery of the Baseball Diamond and the burglary of Joshua Kelley's GPS system. Whatever they're smokin' over there, we want some. Second, we know that Katherine loves her butts, but do you really have to fire up at the very moment you discover that your husband lost his precious Garmin? Lastly, and let us know if we're being too harsh here, but shouldn't have Katherine lent a helping hand to her man during his time of need? You know, rather than hanging out in the car, accepting compliments on your wedding bling from razzos and pounding cancer sticks?

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In our clip, Heigl readily admits that she doesn't really know her hubby all that well. Come to think of it, maybe that's why she thinks his name is Joshua? We digress. Anyway, Helga the Heigl uses her moment on national television to regale Oprah and the studio audience with an awkwardly honest admission that she and her husband will probably get sick of each other should they ever decide to spend more than two concurrent weeks together. As she's telling the tale, a look of "Uh oh, maybe I'm being too honest here" flashes across her face, at which point her keen instincts as an actress kick in. She then bares her enormous bleached teeth and lets out one of those patented Izzy laughs, prompting near Pavlovian guffaws from the audience of starstruck, well-to-do Midwestern housefraus. Ain't love grand?

• The Oprah Winfrey Show

The newlyweds started by gathering 10 close friends, including Heigl's pal T.R. Knight, for dinner in a private room at hotspot Katsuya Hollywood. There they noshed on Heigl's hand-picked menu of Kobe beef, rock shrimp, miso cod and spicy tuna on crispy rice.

"It was really important to me to celebrate Josh in a fun and intimate way," Heigl, 29, told PEOPLE. "I just wanted tonight to be in an environment we both really love and we really love this place. This was the perfect combination of an intimate dinner with friends and a bigger thing at the bar where everyone can kick back and enjoy each other but it's mellow."

Guests - including Kelley's band mates, Zach Braff, Haylie Duff, Brooke Burns, David Charvet, Kristin Cavallari, Shane West, Jonathan Schaech and Jamie-Lynn Sigler - mingled by the bar or danced, to a mix heavy on the '80s tunes. Heigl drank champagne (Kelley sipped on vodka cranberry cocktails) while she roamed the tables and welcomed all their friends.

Later that night, spent from one too many Cape Cods, the birthday boy excused himself to the couple's newly shared bedroom. "I won't lie," Heigl added, "I went to all this trouble to celebrate Joshua in a fun and intimate way—I mean Kristin Cavallari and Jonathan Schaech were there! What's more fun and intimate than that?" The 27 Dresses star then stormed up the grand staircase of their Spanish Revival home for an intimate follow-up discussion, punctuated by the launching of several Votivo-brand luxury scented candles and expensive pieces of crystal stemware at each other's heads.

• Katherine Heigl Throws Bash for New Husband Josh Kelley [People]

1. Cloverfield - $41 million
Slight spoilers ahead: Can you say Best. January. Opening. Ever? Paramount can, and will—a lot, as the Siberian gulag of a movie-release month miraculously thawed in time (Al Gore warned us!) to bring the studio the kinds of numbers one might expect from a July release that ends in 3. A lot was at stake for Cloverfield, as some wondered whether relying so heavily on internet-disseminated buzz could have easily spelled a Snakes on a Curse for the YouTube-Eats-Manhattan movie. At the end of the day, however, it was its utter lack of irony—the dire, matter-of-fact style in which it documented the horrors of CW stars being eaten by Rottweiller-sized crab lice—that was the secret to Cloverfield's success.

2. 27 Dresses - $22.4 million
Fox will likely attribute the success of 27 Dresses—the 8th! Best! January! Opening! etc. etc.—to its positioning as attractive counter-programming to Cloverfield, but we suspect that to be only half the case. In an inspired, soon-to-be-studied-at-Annenberg marketing phenomenon, we think Dresses's hefty take was the result of mass chick-movie/guy-movie bartering agreements, with couples throughout America agreeing to see one if their mate agreed to accompany them to the other. As a result, the adventures of a shrewish, unmarriable Katherine Heigl acted not unlike a Rottweiller-sized crab louse, hanging off its much larger box-office-monster host-body.

3. The Bucket List - $15.1 million
With Jack Nicholson's recent admission to AARP The Magazine that he "can't hit on a girl in public like he used to," the legendary ladies man has begun compiling a sexual-conquest-themed bucket list of his own, beginning with the elusive Me With 17 UCLA Co-Eds fantasy he's meant to accomplish since Chinatown days.

4. Juno - $10.25 million
Certainly Oprah having designated Juno as an official Steadman's Movie Club™ selection and "fresh" couldn't have hurt the indie teen pregnancy comedy at the box office this weekend. We doubt, however, that Dr. Phil's decision to then jump on the bandwagon and ambush Juno in her hospital room with TV cameras and a lecture on sexual responsibility did much to affect the bottom line.

5. National Treasure: Book of Secrets - $8.1 million
You mean to tell us there was still $8 million worth of people meaning to getting around to seeing Secrets, who finally did so this weekend? What could they possibly have had going on in their lives that kept them away for three weeks?

• WEEKEND BOX OFFICE January 18-20, 2008 [BoxOfficeMojo.com]

After watching the clip twice, it becomes readily apparent that Helga The Heigl is like the General Patton of newlywed psychological warfare. Notice how she subtly yet pervasively uses a jokily condescending tone to land public jab after public jab on her husband's shortcomings. Case in point, when she says that "right now he's just visiting my house in L.A." (emphasis ours). Um, now that they're married, shouldn't it be their house? Maybe that wasn't in the pre-nup.

And what's up with calling him JOSHUA all the time? The dude clearly prefers the name Josh (if his MySpace page and album cover are any indication). She then goes on to label him a "show off" and tells the uncomfortably embarrassing story of how he broke his nose in a skiing accident just days before his wedding, prompting Dave to label him a "dope" and a "bonehead" (not in our clip). Good luck with that one, Josh(ua)!

CORRECTION! We just re-read the WaPo piece and apologize for insinuating that Heigl still bums cigarettes. It appears she has been buying her own packs for years.

• A Puff Of Fresh Air [WaPo via People.com]

In today's episode: Diane Lane; Katherine Heigl, Josh Kelley, and Sara Ramirez; Kirsten Dunst; Alex Trebek; Cynthia Nixon and Rob Schneider; Rose McGowan; Jonah Hill; Dominic Monaghan; Alice Cooper; Wilmer Valderrama; Rich Sommer; and Blake Lewis.

· 12/8 - Diane Lane and daughter, both looking lovely with similar pixie cuts, braving the holiday madness at the Century City mall Saturday evening. I immediately started searching to see if hubby Josh Brolin was around - damn that man is having a fantastic year - but sadly he was nowhere to be seen.

· Walking out of the Variety screening of JUNO at the Arclight on Tuesday, I saw Katherine Heigl (with Josh Kelley) and Sara Ramirez (with unnamed man). It looked like they were double dating. Sara was thinner than I expected but it was incredibly refreshing to see two working actresses who wouldn't fall over if a stiff breeze came along.

· I saw Kirsten Dunst at the Arclight around 4:30 pm on Saturday, December 8th. No make-up on, looks exactly like you'd think she would. Not very tall and she was in heels. Very thin and absolutely no butt to speak of. She was with an older producer-type gentleman. Thought they'd head in to the theaters, but they made their way up the ramp towards the restaurant. I mentioned that they could've picked a better place to eat to my friend, to which she responded, "She doesn't eat."

· Friday, December 7th at 12:45 p.m. fellow-Canuck, Alex Trebek at the Sherman Oaks Galleria on Ventura Blvd. God only knows what the Canadian Quizmaster was doing in that pathetic excuse for a mall; then again I was headed to Paul Mitchell. The gent was sporting two nondescript brown-paper shopping bags; sans adequate labeling for further prying eyes. Maybe PF Chang's takeout - so ending the mystery once and for all.

· It seemed like a slow Monday night at Chinois on Main in Santa Monica until Cynthia Nixon and two other dykish gals walked in for a bite. Shortly after Rob Schneider and a group of 3 came in as well. I'm sure they all ordered the fish!

· And in the random sighting of the month, saw Rose McGowan in the Aaron Brothers framing outlet on Sunset and Western, Sunday afternoon.

· Dec 9 - Mr. Superbad Jonah Hill entertaining a table of Los Feliz's finest hipsters...recomended: half pastrami and half franch dip.

· On Tuesday, December 10 I went to the Blick Art Store on Beverly Blvd. to pick up some molding hooks. Walked in and spied Now-Dead Lostaway & Hobbit Dominic Monaghan waiting in line to purchase spraypaint. When he finally got to an available cash register to pay, the cashier gal (who clearly had no idea who he was) saw the spraypaint, looked at him, and asked if he was eighteen. His reply? "I have a beard!" Awesome exchange to see, especially knowing that now-unemployed Dominic is either a tagger or a huffer.

· Funny sighting sunday at the Rose Bowl flea market... Alice Cooper, accompanied by a cute young woman (a daughter maybe?). They were very cool, and super nice to the dealer..but here's the funny part: they were debating between buying a box of "Jesus Wheaties" or a box of "Hitler-O's". Some kind of vintage gag cereal items, I guess. They ultimately went with the Hitler-O's. And they didn't even haggle over the price. Oh and Alice looks pretty good, for being like 200 yrs old.

· Saturday 12/8 I spotted Fez aka Wilmer "i like young thangs" Valderrama at the Bev Center with a gaggle of teenage darlings sporting the various requisite westside teen uniform of leggings, newsboy caps, and handbags that are five times bigger than their heads. ok so i wear that crap too but i drive a camry and they probably drive range rovers. color me jealous.

· 12/8/07 - Saw Rich Sommer ("Harry Crane" from "Mad Men" and "Other Guy" from "Devil Wears Prada") at the Ralph's at Burbank and Van Nuys, buying a wee half-pint of store-brand heavy cream (which he carried out in-hand...perhaps too eco-conscious to take a bag for one item...or just very proud of his purchase). I don't think I've ever actually seen anyone buy heavy cream, even out here in the backwater Valley. He looked thinner than on TV, though, so the cream isn't doing any damage, I guess. He was alone, sort of distracted and fidgety, wearing glasses, and very, very tall.

· At LaLa's on Melrose Saturday night (12/8) and who should boisterously enter and sit down at the table next to us? American Idol runner-up Blake Lewis, of course. He acted as though he really wanted to be recognized. However, I saw no fan approaches. Sorry Blake, maybe you'll read this and feel better.

"It's important to me to take a minute and clarify the quote about Knocked Up in Vanity Fair," Heigl tells Usmagazine.com. "I was responding to previous reviews about the movie the interviewer brought to my attention.

My motive was to encourage other women like myself to not take that element of the movie too seriously and to remember that it's a broad comedy."

Heigl adds, "Although I stand behind my opinion, I'm disheartened that it has become the focus of my experience with the movie. The truth is, it was the best filming experience of my career. Every person that was a part of making Knocked Up helped to encourage, support and inspire me. I never intended for anyone to think otherwise."

Heigl, of course, is hardly the first celebrity-profile to fall victim to time-tested, reptilian journalistic tactics, in which a reporter will relentlessly browbeat their subject, asking, "What do you say to all those strong, independent women out there who you personally let down the moment you let that internet-porn-addicted pot-fiend back into your life? Do you think he would have stuck around even one year after the credits rolled? Couldn't you hack motherhood alone, or are you one of those women who needs a man to feel fulfilled?" until the devastated actress collapses into a convulsing heap, mumbling through short breaths the money-quote sure to send magazines flying off newsstand shelves.

• Katherine Heigl: "I Stand Behind My Opinion" About Knocked Up Being "Sexist" [Us Magazine]

"I think the characters are sexist at times," he told us, "but it's really about immature people who are afraid of women and relationships and learn to grow up."

"If people say that the characters are sexist, I say, yeah, that's what I was going for in the first part of the movie, and then they change."

When we asked if he's had his feelings hurt, he blamed Vanity Fair for twisting poor Katherine Heigl's comments. "I've done a lot of interviews, and when you're promoting a movie, you talk for hours and hours and hours, and so it's very easy for something to be taken out of context. I'm just happy people are talking about Knocked Up six months after it came out."

Apatow in fact sees so much commercial benefit to the free publicity, a second DVD release, entitled Knocked Up: Deluxe Chauvinist Pig Edition, is being planned for release in second quarter of '08: a four-disc, bonus-packed extravaganza featuring commentary tracks in which Heigl and co-star/Mrs. Apatow Leslie Mann offer fascinating insights into what they were feeling during all those fantasy-baseball-league-crashing, overbearing-nag moments.

• Marketing Genius Judd Apatow Turns Katherine Heigl's 'Knocked Up' Slam Into a Sales Pitch [nymag.com]

"It was hard for me to love [Apatow's] movie" because it's "a little sexist..."

"[I]t paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as goofy, fun-loving guys."

Knowing now what was then going through the mind of the white-hot actress (one of Barbara Walters' 10 Most Fascinating!) explains much about her subsequent career choices, choosing for her Knocked follow-up woman-written and woman-directed romantic comedy 27 Dresses, the empowering story of some chick who's miserable because the prince from Enchanted proposes to her sister instead of her.

• Katherine Heigl is a Hypocrite [slashfilm]
• Heigl Voltage [Vanity Fair]

In today's spectacular episode: Britney Spears; Harrison Ford, Calista Flockhart, and Ellen Pompeo; Adam Sandler; Judd Apatow; Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelley; Jeff Goldblum and Scott Caan; Ron Livingston, Michael C. Hall, and Jennifer Carpenter; Andy Richter; Joey McIntyre, Frankie Muniz, and Sela Ward; Nicole Richie; "Weird" Al Yankovic and Patton Oswalt; Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel; Hulk Hogan; Perry Farrell, Taylor Hawkins, Valerie Bertinelli, and Dennis Rodman; Eva Mendes; Dwight Yoakam; Xander Berkeley; Kate Flannery; Billy Bush; Amber Valletta; Lisa Ling and Giada De Laurentiis; and Bobby Lee.

· 11/23 - While walking out of the Four Seasons spa locker room Friday night, guess who almost knocks into me and says "Hi" (read that with a dripping Southern accent)...Britney Spears! I didn't want to turn and stare, so I didn't get a really good look, but I did see her nappy hair extension job. You can't miss that shit. Also noteworthy was that she was all alone — no handlers, bodyguards, best friend/cousins, baby monitors, etc. We were getting massages at the same time because when I walked out of mine, I heard her say to her masseuse, "That was just great. Thank you. What's your name?" The one time I see Britney Spears she's somewhat classy!

· Tuesday, Nov. 20th...

Posh cousins-in-law came into town and their version of "low-key" dining was going to Giorgio Baldi's in the Palisades/ S.M. vortex...with their two children, age 3 and 1. We were barely into our playdate/meal, when Mr. Ellen Pompeo and the lady herself sat down next to us (he apologized for bumping my chair). They moved tables shortly thereafter due to the rowdy toddlers (we would have done the same if it weren't our family).

Then, I volunteer to taking crying baby outside (and away from the now-glaring patrons) while the rest of the adults finish dessert (which only makes him cry harder). I look up to see if anyone besides me is alarmed by the volume of the kid's lungs and who is there but Calista Flockhart, passing me on the sidewalk with—-oh yes—-Indiana Jones Harrison Ford himself, muttering something about getting a table. They are an attractive couple, and he doesn't look a day over 50. I can die a happy woman now that I have had my glimpse.

· 11/21 Adam Sandler, in full skinny, goateed Zohan mode, is following me on Ventura in a fat, black Caddy with a furry car seat in back.

· Friday 11/23 at the Arclight, Danny DeVito. If you're wondering just how short he really is, running perpendicular to the downstairs concession stand are three metal strips. He was leaning against the wall and is just a tad taller than the middle strip. Which is, come to think of it, about the height of the concession stand.

· At the Borders at Century City's Westfield Shoptopia, saw Judd Apatow browsing tables full of books—shocking behavior in a bookstore, I know. I had suppressed a desire to confront him with questions about Superbad penis doodles, an interaction that would have been awkward for the both of us. Or gotten me tasered by a security guard.

· Grabbing a to-go bite at Niko Niko Sushi on Vermont Tuesday the 20th, spotted Katherine Heigl and her bearded fiancé Josh Kelley on the patio. She was smoking, he wasn't, at one point they leaned in to kiss, and I couldn't help but wonder how he felt about her ashtray breath. Besides that they seemed very much in love.

· Tonight (Sat - November 23rd) at about 8PM ... the sushi restaurant in the little strip mall at Crescent Heights and Beverly Boulevard, first entered Scott Caan with a male friend. They went straight to the sushi bar and sat down. About 10 minutes later Jeff Goldblum and a female companion (wife?) came in, and, after finding that there were no available tables (it is a really small restaurant) sat patiently on the chair by the door. Scott went over and hugged Jeff, and then went back to his dinner. Eventually the waitress took 2 chairs and put them in front of the (super small) sushi bar so that Jeff could sit. He was very gracious to her.

· at marix texmex this weekend (yes I was there saturday and sunday) .. a baseball-capped ron livingston and a blonde woman... and on sunday evening, michael c. Hall (dexter) eating with jennifer carpenter from dexter and exorcism of emily rose

· 11/25 - Andy Richter and his little boy were doing some shopping at the Grove.

· 11/18 - Houston's in CC Mall - TRIFECTA
Oh -oh oh oh oh - Oh oh oh oh - the right stuff - yup New Kids on The Block's Joey McIntyre eating with his wife and either mother or mother in law. He hasn't aged badly . . .

In the wanting to be recognized category Frankie "I still have a faux hawk" Muniz. He wasn't hard to recognize as he had his name written across the back of his football Jersey. Punk chick with him was loving her some Muniz.

Sela Ward with her husband and 2 kids. Still unbelievably hot . . . She is like Michelle Pfeifer, Susan Sarandon, Frances Mcdomand - HOT milfs

· Thanksgiving Day, there she was, Nicole Richie, giving up part of her holiday to feed more than 300 homeless for the organization Food on Foot in Hollywood. Everyone says she's so tiny, so I expected her to be even tinier. She was dressed in all black with big red sunglasses. Like the rest of us, she wore a name tag ("Nicole") and a white Food on Foot apron covering her, um, "bumpiness." The entire time she was there, approx 2 to 4, she never left the side of "Samantha." Didn't see the paps, but word was they were in the bushes clicking away (it was an outdoor feeding on Schrader just south of Hollywood Blvd.). Many celebs do noble work giving out Thanksgiving meals, but let's see them do it, you know, ON THE ACTUAL HOLIDAY. Let's hear it for Nicole for giving up two-plus hours of her Turkey Day.

· We saw "Weird" Al Yankovic and Patton Oswalt enjoying lunch @ Alcove on Saturday afternoon.

· 11/25/07 7:30 pm.
Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmell were throwing a tennis ball back and forth outside osteria la buca on melrose. Sarah asked my friend 'what street is this?' After awhile they went inside and sat at the bar, arms around each other. Jimmy looked haggard and kind of wasted but Sarah looked lovely.

· Was flying from LA to Tampa on Wednesday to spend Thanksgiving with the folks and walked on the plane to find Hulk Hogan sitting by himself in first class downing what appeared to be a Bloody Mary. Sadly, no sign of Brooke or street-racer Nick.

· at last night's (11/20) mega-fantastic Van Halen show @ Staples Center were spotted Perry Farrell and Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters's drummer) and at the Palm restaurant across the street were Valerie Bertinelli and Dennis Rodman (not together - but that would be interesting).

· Saw eva mendes on my flight from albuquerque to lax bright and early thanksgiving day coming back for a holiday break from The Spirit set. she was in first class, one of her lesser castmates (by lesser i mean one of the extras) from the Fast and the Furious was back in economy with me (he was taking a break from The Game). He sort of accosted her at baggage claim, she cautiously backed away when he asked if she remembered him.

· I saw Dwight Yoakam in the tightest pair of jeans and sexy girlfriend late last night (Nov 25) at Mayfair Market on Franklin!

· Lunchtime (11/20), @ the Gower Gulch. Sitting amongst the freak parade I saw Xander Berkeley. This guy has been in everything. Best known as the guy that piloted a cessna containing a nuclear device. Was wearing a hat and looking pissed so I didn't bother him.

· 11/21- LAX- USAir/Southwest terminal-

Kate Flannery (boozy Meredith from THE OFFICE) sitting against a pylon with a male companion watching a DVD before their flight.

Taking a break from endless Britney coverage, ACCESS HOLLYWOOD's Billy Bush, with family in tow, rushing through the terminal to catch a plane.

· While negotiating through the Thanksgiving Eve ciaos at LAX today, I spotted Kate Flannery (The Office) waiting for her flight. No drinks or awkward crotch cast in sight- just sitting on the ground, eating a salad. I wouldn't have noticed her at all except that her hair is just as vibrantly red in person as it is on TV.

· Friday, 11/23
Amber Valletta and child at Anastasia of Beverly Hills. They're the picture of relaxed wealth, for lack of a better description. She had little to no make up on and, I think, bedhead. Only saw the back of the kid's head—perfect sunkissed highlights (which, I pray, are natural). She's tall, but not freakishly so, and didn't seem to have the giant head on a stick body thing, so that's good. Seemed nice, I guess.

· 11/24 - Strolling through 3rd St. Promenade on a perfect day I spotted newly preggers, Italian food goddess Giada De Laurentiis with her husband, another woman and a child. They followed her into the Apple store. Also saw Lisa Ling and her new husband. They looked fresh from a workout.

· Nov 25th, late afternoon Saw Bobby Lee of Mad TV at the Los Feliz American Apparel on Sunset/Vermont. Seemed really cool... one of those people that you just instantly like.