Taylor Lautner, star of The Twilight Saga: New Moon, was on hand to make an appearance on The Today Show on NBC earlier today in celebration of New Moon in Theaters day and did his best to bring his charming smile to all his eager fans … he even took the time to blow kisses to the folks in the audience:

And with this smooch to fans, Taylor and the entire Twilight family is hoping that you will rush out and see The Twilight Saga: New Moon in theaters today. Already, the movie set a new box office record for midnight showings last night taking in over $26 million already:

The Twilight Saga: New Moon has set a box-office record for midnight screenings. Summit Entertainment estimated Friday that it earned $26.3 million after opening early in the morning. That would topple the previous midnight record, held by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. It earned $22.2 million this year. The Dark Knight from 2008 is third with $18.5 million. New Moon is the second installment of the popular Twilight series. It opened at midnight in 3,514 theaters with a per-theater average of $7,476. Paul Dergarabedian is a box-office analyst for Hollywood.com. He says the midnight start “portends an opening weekend that could be one of the biggest of the year. “

And so … Taylor and his Twilight cohorts have done everything they can to get your butts in theater seats. I know many of you have seen the film already (and are prolly planning to see it again) but are any of y’all planning on seeing New Moon this weekend? Do y’all think it will be the biggest money maker of the year?

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Last weekend we learned that Taylor Lautner, as the Jacob Black character in the Twilight series of movies, would be immortalized as a Barbie doll and today we learn that Lautner’s BFF and rumored paramour Taylor Swift is also getting in on the doll action. Here is our first look at one of the new Taylor Swift dolls:

JAKKS Pacific has miniaturized country music’s darling for a collection of dolls featuring outfits Swift has worn in her music videos and on the red carpet. The icing on the cake? Each doll sings a 30-second highlight of one of Swift’s hit songs—the perfect stocking stuffer for any die-hard Taylor Swift fan. Taylor Swift Dolls, $45 each; at amazon.com.

As far as I know, there are 7 different versions of Taylor Swift dolls with names like the Sundress Medley Fashion Collection Doll, to the Red Carpet Ready Fashion Collection Doll to the “Teardrops on my Guitar” Performance Collection Doll. After the jump, check out what a couple of the other Taylor Swift dolls look like …

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Vanilla Ice (nee Robert Van Winkle) is becoming a bit of a staple here on the blog … a few weeks ago we learned that he is starring in a beer commercial down in South Africa and a week or so after that we learned that he celebrated his 42nd birthday at Studio 54 inside the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, NV. Today we get to see a bunch of photos of V. Ice doing his thang (whatever it is that his thang is these days) at a bar in Long Island, NY earlier this week:

It turns out that Vanilla was on hand to play guest bartender at McFadden’s Bar in, what can only be assumed as, an attempt to make some extra money on the side. Surely the residuals from his Ice, Ice Baby days can’t be as lucrative as they once were so … you can’t really blame a guy for getting a second job, especially in this tough economy. It looks like he is a heavy-handed pourer … he might actually have a future in bartending!

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Back in July we got our first look at the first movie posters for Jake Gyllenhaal’s new movie Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (due out in theaters next year). Earlier this month we got our first look at the first movie trailer for Prince of Persia … but today, we get to feast our eyes on a new movie poster/promo photo of our dear Jakey poo as the courageous Prince Dastan … behold:

Ye gods … this man is beautiful. Every time I think I’ve gotten over my affinity for all thinks Jakey poo a new promo photo like this comes along and reels me right back in. After the jump, check out this very same movie poster sans the movie promotional text …

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So … let me tell you about my night. As I mentioned earlier, I was allllllllllllll set to see The Twilight Saga: New Moon with my good friend Amber (who I hadn’t seen in many months so I was really excited to have a fun night with her) last night and, well, the night didn’t really turn out as planned. We met up for a fun dinner at the Cheesecake Factory and really got to catch up with one another. We made our way to the theater, got our popcorn and Cokes … walked into the theater and were surprised to see it so empty. “Where is everybody?” I asked aloud … little did I know that I had NOT purchased tix to see New Moon, my dumb ass purchased tix to see Twilight … again!

Amber, bless her dear sweet heart, was such a good sport about the whole thing. I asked her if she wanted to go elsewhere and she thought it’d be fun (and would make a good story) to stay and watch the movie again … so that’s what we did. I even brought along fun wax vampire teeth so that we could snap a fun photo together … that was really the only part of my plan that we off flawlessly:

While we didn’t get to see the movie we were planning to see, we did have a lot of fun together. We’re gonna try and do a double date with her BF Adam and my David sometime soon … but I’ll refrain from making the reservation. I’ll leave that task to someone more capable than I ;)

This afternoon, I’m going out to see New Moon at last and then tonight David and I are going to see the play The Santaland Diaries (based on the short stories of David Sedaris) starring Nicholas Brendon from Buffy the Vampire Slayer:

The play opens tonight and runs for a few weeks … I’m SO excited to see it :) After the play, we are making our way out to celebrate with our dear friend Gillian for her birthday!! It’s gonna be a bizzy day … happy weekend, y’all!!

• Despite a tragic death in her touring crew, Miley Cyrus decides that her concert show must go on.
• Carrie Prejean, former beauty queen and sex tape star, has got herself a hot new NFL boyfriend.
• The Real Houswives of Orange County says goodbye to one housewife and hello to a new one.
• Jude Law doesn’t take kindly to college students taking photos of him.
• Adam Lambert doesn’t seem to be much of a fan of Out magazine editor Aaron Hicklin.
• Little Boy Blue
• James Franco makes his much-talked about debut on General Hospital.
• James Caan is gettin’ divorced again.
• So what did YOU think of last night’s Project Runway Season 6 finale?
• And so it begins …
• Mika Kelly hits the beach.
• Keri Hilson lets her girls out on the red carpet at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.
• LoPanthony get sued over a dog attack.
• Robert Pattinson does The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
• Brad Pitt will venture into the Dark Void.
• Mike D of the Beastie Boys is 44, Sean Young is 50, Bo Derek is 53 and Richard Dawson (Family Feud) is 77 years old today. Click HERE to see who else is celebrating a birthday today.
• The Vatican says that The Twilight Franchise is “deviant”.
• Eddie Cibrian sues Life & Style magazine for $1 million over a report that claimed that he was cheating on his mistress with another woman.
• Eminem pushes back his new album to 2010.

Britney Spears is still doing her thing down in Australia where she is touring the country for the first time ever and, thankfully, her young children Sean Preston and Jayden James are still down under with her. Here are a few adorable photos of Sean P. and JJ enjoying a fun day together at a playground in Sydney, Aus:

I love these pics … Jayden looks like he was really enjoying the slide and Sean just looked like he was big pimpin’. I guess playa’s gotta play. I cannot even tell you how much I hope these little boys grow up happy and secure … and not at all like their parents. Don’t even get me started on Kevin Federline’s influence but I’d also hate for these little guys to lose their childhood at an early age like Britney did. It looks like they are having the time of their young lives right now … I hope that remains the case for many, many years to come.

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