Earlier this week we saw photos of the B-List cast of The Twilight Saga making their way into Vancouver, BC where production on the The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is set to get underway soon and among the folks arriving in Canada was the beefy Kellan Lutz (Emmet Cullen). Today we get to see a few photos of Kellan out and about on the streets of Vancouver yesterday with his fellow Twilight castmate Elizabeth Reaser (Esme Cullen) showing off all the extra bulk he’s put on since we’ve seen him last. It really looks like someone’s been workin’ overtime at the gymnasium:

I’m not sure if Kellan has been sprinkling steroids in with his Wheaties but homeboy has gotten HUGE! Those arms … they look like tree trunks. I can’t say that I mind much that Kellan is being all showy in these pics … I say we encourage his showiness from here on out. Here’s hopin’ that Lutz spends as much time away from the Twilight set engaged in any physical fitness activity that requires him to wear as little as possible. I think I speak for many of y’all when I say, Woot!!

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Earlier this year we learned that Heidi Montag, a.k.a Mrs. Spencer Pratt, would be appearing in a pictorial for Playboy magazine … in June, we learned that she would be gracing the cover of the September issue. At the time we also learned that Heidi‘s Playboy spread would be “tasteful” and would not feature full frontal nudity … which is prolly for the best for everyone concerned. Last night, Heidi and hubby Spencer Pratt attended the LA premiere of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, CA and brought along a copy of Heidi’s issue of Playboy … giving us our first look at her “tasteful” coverphoto:

LOL. As you can see, Heidi‘s bikinied body is covered in dirt and the Playboy logo is drawn on her dirty body … which is kinda tasteful, I must admit. Heidi Montag really does have that Playmate look about her … she’s a perfect model for the mag. After the jump, check out a few photos of Speidi gratuitously flaunting this new issue of Playboy magazine on the G.I. Joe red carpet last night …

Sad news to pass along … John Hughes, the man who created some of the most iconic movies of the 1980′s, passed away Thursday at the age of 59 after suffering a fatal heart attack in NYC earlier in the day. As I understand it, Hughes was out for his morning walk in Manhattan when he suffered his heart attack … unfortch for all of us, he could not be saved:

John Hughes, the director and screenwriter who helped define a young generation with his ’80s films “Sixteen Candles,” “The Breakfast Club” and “Pretty in Pink,” has died. Michelle Bega, a spokeswoman for the filmmaker, told the Associated Press that Mr. Hughes died of a heart attack in Manhattan during a morning walk. Mr. Hughes first began as a screenwriter, gaining notoriety for his screenplay for “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” which became a popular franchise. But his true success came with his directorial debut, “Sixteen Candles,” which made a star out of its young lead, Molly Ringwald. Mr. Hughes was responsible for a slew of films in the 1980s that defined what it meant to be an American teenager, from the music to the fashion to the social faux pas. His universe of nerds and jocks, socialites and misfits, rockers and rebels – not to mention overbearing principals, clueless teachers and absentee parents – also influenced a generation of movie-goers and -makers, versing them in a common language of pop culture idioms that persists decades on. “Mess with the bull, get the horns.” He made a star of quirky girls – as embodied by Ms. Ringwald in “Pretty in Pink” and “16 Candles” (and Ally Sheedy in “The Breakfast Club”) – and charmingly cocky, off-center boys, like Matthew Broderick’s character in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” (“Bueller? Bueller? Anyone?”) Though Mr. Hughes graduated to more adult fare with films like “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” and had his biggest hits with explicitly family-oriented material like “Home Alone,” he remains associated with creating an ideal of American youth that allowed for idiosyncrasy and growth. Cliques could reliably be broken down, the girl could get the guy, and parents would always go out of town so you could have a killer house party.

Words cannot express how sad John‘s passing is for those of us who grew up with his films in the 80′s. He almost single-handedly defined and allowed us to identify with the teen angst of the 1980′s. While I love many of his films (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty In Pink, Weird Science and on and on), I am most fond of his Brat Pack masterpiece The Breakfast Club. That film is, IMHO, the one film that most defined the lives of teenagers in the 1980′s. John Hughes will be sorely missed and can never, ever be replaced. John Hughes was to movies of the 80′s what Michael Jackson was to music of the 80′s — both men defined the 80′s each in their own craft. While my thoughts and prayers go out to his family right now, I want to send out my LOVE AND THANKS into the Universe in the hopes that John knows how much he meant to us. What a sad, sad loss :(

Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. But we think you’re crazy to make an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us — in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain … and an athlete … and a basket case … a princess … and a criminal. Does that answer your question?

Sincerely yours,

The Breakfast Club

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In May President Barack Obama nominated Federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor to become the next Justice of the US Supreme Court after Justice David Souter announced that he would be stepping down from the high court. After passing confirmation hearings in the US House of Representatives, Sotomayor was approved and confirmed for the Supreme Court Thursday afternoon by a vote of 68-31. Sonia Sotomayor becomes the third woman and the first Hispanic to serve on the US Supreme Court:

Voting largely along party lines, the Senate on Thursday confirmed Judge Sonia Sotomayor as the 111th justice of the Supreme Court. She will be the first Hispanic and the third woman to serve on the court. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. was expected to administer the oath of office to Judge Sotomayor, 55, in the next few days, with a formal ceremony likely in September. She succeeds Justice David H. Souter, who retired in June. Democrats celebrated the successful nomination and relatively smooth confirmation process as a bright spot in a summer when they have been buffeted by several challenges, including rocky progress on their attempts to overhaul the nation’s health care system, President Obama’s falling approval ratings, the climbing unemployment rate and other lingering economic problems. Judge Sotomayor’s confirmation was never in much doubt, given Democrats’ numerical advantage in the Senate. But the final vote — 68 to 31 — represented a partisan divide. No Democrat voted against her, while all but 9 of the chamber’s 40 Republicans did so. Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, is ailing and did not vote. During three days of debate on the Senate floor, Republicans labeled Judge Sotomayor a liberal judicial activist, decrying several of her speeches about diversity and the nature of judgments, as well as her votes in cases involving Second Amendment rights, property rights and a reverse-discrimination claim brought by white firefighters in New Haven … From the moment Mr. Obama chose her in May, many political strategists warned Republicans that opposing the first Latina nominated to the Supreme Court would jeopardize the party in future elections. In the waning days of the debate, some Democrats sought to portray Republican opposition as a grave insult to Latinos. “Republicans will pay a price for saying ‘no’ to this judge,” Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, said in Spanish at a news conference Wednesday. And in July, the National Rifle Association, which historically has stayed out of judicial nomination fights, came out against Justice Sotomayor and said it would include senators’ confirmation vote in its legislative scorecard on gun-rights issues for the 2010 election — a pointed threat to Democrats from conservative-leaning states. But attempts to appeal to interest-group politics in the confirmation process largely faltered. The final vote was “a triumph of party unity over some of the interest group politics that you would have expected to play a bigger role,” said Curt Levey, executive director of the conservative Committee for Justice, which opposed Judge Sotomayor’s confirmation.

Despite the threats from the Republican party, there was really never any doubt that Judge Sotomayor would be approved for the Supreme Court. What an amazing and history-making day for the United States of America. In the long history of the Supreme Court, there has never been a person of Hispanic descent on the court … and now, Sotomayor is the first. I have every confidence that she will full her oath and commitment to the Court to the best of her ability, ruling both judiciously and prudently. Congratulations Justice Sotomayor!!

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