Christian Serratos, who plays the bespectacled and mousy Angela in the Twilight films, is featured in a new anti-fur ad for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. In their latest, I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur campaign, Serratos sheds her mousy Twilight image in order to inspire folks to not wear fur … behold:

As one of the stars of the Twilight Saga, Christian Serratos is used to working with vampires and the nonliving—but she would never wear anything dead. Christian strips down for PETA in the name of animals and is telling her fans, “I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur.” Each year millions of animals are killed for their fur. Rabbits, foxes, minks, dogs, cats, chinchillas, and other animals are bludgeoned, strangled, drowned, poisoned, stomped to death, or electrocuted, or they have their necks broken, all in the name of fashion. Many are even skinned alive. In the wild, animals can suffer for days in steel-jaw traps before they are killed. Animals raised on fur farms spend their whole miserable existence in tiny, wire cages where they are exposed to all weather extremes. Christian, who also posed for PETA’s “Save the Seals” celebrity ad series, told us, “I’ve always been opposed to slaughtering, eating, wearing carcass.” Check out behind-the-scenes footage from Christian’s photo shoot and find out what else she has to say about animal rights.

Um, wow. I had a very hard time recognizing Serratos in this photo. She looks so … different in the Twilight films. After the jump, check out the uncensored NSFW version of this image and watch a short video of Christian Serratos declaring her distaste for animal cruelty …

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Back in June we got our first look at the Cobra Starship music video for the song Good Girls Go Bad (which featured Gossip Girl actress and wannabe singer Leighton Meester on vocals) and just last month we saw Starship frontman Gabe Saporta get inked onto Pete Wentz’s leg in a new tattoo. Today we get our first look at the new Cobra Starship music video for the title track of their new album Hot Mess:

This promo photo was taken from the set of the Hot Mess music video — after the jump, check out the video in full …

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Taylor Lautner sat down with Extra! TV to talk about his upcoming new sequel film The Twilight Saga: New Moon and was asked about his relationship with Taylor Swift. Lautner admitted to Extra! that he finds it “confusing” and “weird” to be involved with someone who shares his name … but methinks it’s not “confusing” or “weird” enough to make him stop ;) Lautner also talks about the prospect of him stripping down to do that nude scene in fourth installment of The Twilight Saga … read on to find out what he has to say about that:

Taylor Lautner has been cozying up to Taylor Swift, and he tells “Extra” that it’s kind of funny dating somebody with the same name. “It gets confusing definitely,” Lautner, 17, told “Extra’s” Mario Lopez at the “New Moon” (out Nov. 20) junket Friday. “And it’s weird calling somebody your name.” Lautner’s character, werewolf Jacob, has a nude scene in the fourth book, “Breaking Dawn.” Would Lautner be open to stripping down? “I don’t think the fans or the studio would be open to it, so I don’t even really need to think about it,” says Lautner, adding that although the movie hasn’t been officially announced, he’s “just waiting to hear.” On Saturday, Swift, 19, winked and blew a kiss to Lautner during her opening monologue. (She also skewered ex-beau Joe Jonas and Kanye West. Watch here.) In an interview that aired last week on CMT Radio, Swift said she thinks Lautner is “an amazing guy.” “We’re really close… and ah…. yep… and we’re in a movie together and I am really excited about seeing it,” she continued. Their romantic comedy, “Valentine’s Day,” hits theaters in February.

The bit about sharing the same name with Taylor Swift is really cute … too damn cute, if you ask me. Regarding that nude scene in Breaking Dawn, well, Lautner may be right to say that the studio may not be into it but I’m pretty sure the fans would DEFFO be into a Jacob Black nude scene. With the way Summit Entertainment has been happy to exploit every possible way to make money from The Twilight Saga franchise, I wouldn’t put it past them. You never know … dreams really do come true sometimes.

[Photo credit: Bauer-Griffin; Source]

Back in early September, the late Michael Jackson was finally laid to rest at Glendale Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, CA some 70 days after he passed away in his home back in June of this year. At the time, we saw photos from MJ’s lavish funeral service attended by family and friends but we were not made privy to his actual resting place. MJ has been interred in a private crypt that is accessible only to an approved list of visitors so up until now we were unable to see where MJ will spend his eternity. Today, tho, we get our first look at MJ’s crypt adorned by tributes and gifts left in his memory:

Gone but not forgotten! Here is the first photo of Michael Jackson’s final resting place — a regal tomb adorned with flowers, framed photos, letters and other souvenirs. The tributes were left in the crypt at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park and Mortuary in Glendale, Calif., by longtime Jacko pal and makeup artist Karen Faye, sources told The Post. Jackson’s family picked Forest Lawn’s Great Mausoleum section for its high security. At the mausoleum’s entrance, visitors are greeted by a huge stained-glass reproduction of da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.” But to get any farther inside, they have to be on a preapproved list. Faye, who made up Jackson, 50, for his journey into eternity, has been collecting Jacko trinkets for weeks. She’s on the list of approved visitors, and she has been personally taking the tributes to the crypt herself every other week since Jackson’s funeral on Sept. 3, sources said. “She feels like she’s the friend of the fans, that she’s the only thing that can connect the fans to Michael now,” said a source close to Faye. “This is very important to her because she knows the fans loved Michael so much. She does this for them, especially those who traveled to be near Michael.”

Before these first photos were made available, we only had descriptions of MJ’s crypt to go by … now fans can have a better sense of where MJ has been laid to rest. Considering how much larger than life Michael Jackson was when he lived, I was sure he would be laid to rest in an opulent setting where legions of fans can make the pilgrimage to pay tribute to his memory. Because he did not make his wishes explicitly known before he died, his family was left with the decision on how he would be laid to rest. I honestly do not think MJ would want to be sequestered away from his fans … but this is what his family wants. I suppose it’s poetic for the King of Pop to be hidden away from his fans in such a humble setting. This way, fans can remember him in their hearts exactly the way they choose to.

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Demi Moore, self-proclaimed puma (don’t call her a cougar), is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of W magazine. In her coverstory interview, Demi talks about getting older, her status as Queen of the Pumas and does some promo for her new films Happy Tears and The Joneses. Here is Demi’s W cover and some excerpts from her coverstory interview:

In the December issue of W magazine, the seemingly ageless Demi Moore, 47, talks about everything from being labeled a “cougar” for her relationship with Ashton Kutcher, 31, to aging in Hollywood. The former box office star, who stars in two upcoming indie films “Happy Tears” and “The Joneses” — and is also the face of the new Helena Rubinstein women’s fragrance “All You’ve Ever Wanted,” — says getting older has affected her acting career. “The frustrating part is that the type of roles I’d be interested in are not really coming to me,” says Moore, whose buff physique helped her attain roles like “G.I. Jane” and “Striptease.” “I hate to say it’s a function of my age—but yes, I think in some ways it is. The majority of [female] roles are geared between 25 and 35.” And about her “cougar” title, Moore prefers “puma.” “I’m certainly not the first person to be in a relationship with a younger man, but somehow I was plucked out as a bit of a poster girl,” says Moore, who first met Kutcher six and a half years ago. “I don’t know why that is. But I just kind of step back sometimes and say, ‘There is some reason, and what is it that I have to share in a positive way?”

It’s been a long time since we’ve seen Demi Moore out on the promo trail promoting a new project. To be honest, I can’t think of a thing that she’s done since she appeared in Charlies Angels 2: Full Throttle. And, hello, she still looks amazing. Call her a puma or a cougar or whatever … she is a beauty, thru and thru. After the jump, check out a few more photos of Demi Moore in the new issue of W magazine …

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Yesterday was prolly THE most lazy day I’ve enjoyed in some time. I spent much of the day in bed watching the first season of Dexter as a refresher of how amazing the series is. I managed to rally by nightfall so that I could meet up with The Turtle Party: Book Club for last week’s rescheduled meeting last night. We talked about our progress with Charles Bukowski’s Post Office and, by and large, everyone in the group seems to love it. There were a few things about the book that some folks didn’t like (the repetitiveness of the chapters and some obvs exaggeration, for example) but for the most part the group really likes the book and Bukowski’s writing style as a whole.

Last night’s meeting was the first in a long time since all members of The Turtle Party: Book Club could be in attendance, so I brought my Polaroid camera to snap a couple of group shots for posterity:

I also snapped individual pics of each Turtle Party member, you can see those Polaroid scans HERE. The night was filled with mirth and merriment … and a bit too raucous of conversation because some nosy neighbors called the cops to complain. Apparently a ground of young adults discussing literature after 8pm is enough to force the police to investigate. The officer who followed up on the complaint laughed his ass off when he found out that he was trying to bust up a book club meeting.

See, reading can be so much fun!

The Turtle Party: Book Club meets again a week from Tuesday to finish discussion of this book and will select our next book to read.

Tonight, David and I are meeting up with our friends Emma and Josh to see Imogen Heap in concert at the Henry Fonda Theater. Imogen has been really sick lately, she even canceled her performance in Santa Barbara, CA last night … so I hope the show goes off tonight … just not to Imogen’s detriment. If the show happens as planned, I’ll do my best to bring fun pics to share tomorrow!

• Disney’s A Christmas Carol was the #1 movie at the box office this weekend.
• Is Britney Spears planning to get hitched?
• Comedian Katt Williams got busted for breaking and entering.
• Oscar buzz for Up.
• South Park thinks it’s funny to call people “fags”.
• Holy Moly!
• The Kansas City Chiefs AXE a football player from their team due to conduct deemed detrimental to the team after it was discovered that he liked to refer to people as “fags”. Sounds like a great idea to me.
• Family Guy “kills” Hannah Montana.
• It may not be a Merry Xmas at the box office for Disney’s A Christmas Carol this year.
• Domestic abuse survivors respond positively to Rihanna’s interview on 20/20.
• Jessica Alba bares her bum in The Killer Inside Me. (NSFW)
• Eva Mendes lets a nip slip.
• Rihanna makes a surprise return to the stage to perform with Jay-Z here in LA this weekend.
• Robert Pattinson walks out on his hotel balcony.
• Dakota Fanning does Teen Vogue magazine.
• Nikki Blonsky (Hairspray) is 21, Nick Lachey is 36, Eric Dane is 37, Sandra Pepa Denton of Salt-N-Pepa is 40 and Lou Ferrigno (The Incredible Hulk) is 58 years old today. Click HERE to see who else is celebrating a birthday today.
• Kristen Stewart doesn’t want to be as famous as Angelina Jolie.
• Tiffani Amber Thiessen is pregs.
• Was Ashlee Simpson axed from Melrose Place for being a diva?