ROLL CALL: ‘Twilight’ Screenwriter Wants Channing Tatum For ‘Eclipse’

Channing Tatum attends the premiere of ‘Fighting’ at the Regal Union Square Stadium 14 on April 20, 2009 in New York City
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‘Twilight’ Screenwriter Wants Channing Tatum : Channing Tatum has proven he’s good at playing the bad boy - case in point: “Step Up,” “Stop-Loss” & “Fighting” - but can he play a vampire bad boy? “Twilight” screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg sure thinks so! “There’s a very big battle at the end with Riley, and I think Channing would do that so well,” “Twilight” and “New Moon” screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, who is currently writing the “Eclipse” script, told E! Online this weekend at the Los Angeles Times Book Festival benefit for the Writers Guild Foundation. “And there are some complexities to that character… He really is tragic. He’s a puppet for Victoria [bad-girl vampire played by Rachelle Lefevre]. So he has to break your heart a little bit at the end when he realizes that she doesn’t want him. Channing could do that beautifully.” We’re losing track of the “Twilight” hottie count!

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Did Madge Get Jesus A Gig?: Now that Madonna is recovering after her equestrian accident, the pop star reportedly has model Jesus Luz tending to her needs - at least when he’s not busy on the catwalk. According to a New York Post Page Six source, designer Marc Jacobs , “wrote a letter of support for Jesus’ work permit” allowing him to stay in the country. “All these fashion lines are hiring Jesus as a favor to Madonna . As long as he can legally work in the U.S., they can be together,” the source claimed. Madonna ’s rep told the paper, that the pop star is “not at all involved in managing the career of Jesus Luz. His Dolce job was arranged through his agents.” And Marc Jacobs ‘ rep had no comment about the report. Regardless of how Jesus got his current gig, we’re sure that having him around will aid in Madge’s speedy recovery!

Kate Gets Catcalled!: Speaking of May-December moments, Page Six spotted Kate Winslet recently getting hit on by two high school guys while walking down Sixth Avenue at 26th Street in New York. The source claimed, “two high-school guys, who had no idea who she was, were totally hitting on her. They followed her to Seventh Avenue and kept commenting on her big, hot booty and how sexy she was.” The source said the poised Oscar winner “completely ignored them.” Good for you Kate!

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John Mayer Now Gets One Less Magazine In Mailbox: We’re not sure John Mayer has actually canceled his subscription to Rolling Stone (or if he even ever had one), but judging from some recent Twitter updates, the singer is not a fan of the music mag. “I just read a review in Rolling Stone of a ’single’ I haven’t even finished recording yet. That’s a new one for me,” he Tweeted. “Rolling Stone’s August 12, 2009 issue is a real piece of s**t.” I guess we know who won’t make the cover anytime soon!

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Is Taylor Lautner Over The ‘Moon’ For Selena Gomez?

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia — After numerous reports of on-set “Twilight” romances between Robert Pattinson , Kristen Stewart and Nikki Reed (all of which have been shot down by the young stars) - the newest budding romance could lie with Taylor Lautner and Disney darling Selena Gomez .

Has “Taylena” arrived?

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According to E! Online’s Marc Malkin, the “New Moon” star has been spending a great deal of time with Selena, who is filming “Ramona and Beezus” from Beverly Cleary’s beloved children’s book series, in Vancouver.

Last week, the duo was spotted at Caffe Artigiano with Selena’s mom chaperoning.

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“They were very low-key and kept to themselves,” a source told E!. “Nobody bothered them.”

They reportedly hung out drinking lattes for approximately 30 minutes before hopping into a waiting SUV.

But it wasn’t just coffee for these two cuties. Taylor and Selena also reportedly enjoyed dinner together at the Old Spaghetti Factory.

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The dined without any interruptions, except for a group of Twi-hard girls “who were really excited” to spot the “New Moon” star, but apparently too shy to approach the dining duo, the source said.

And in more “New Moon” news, according to E!, Summit is about to release photos of Taylor which are said to similar to the shot of the shirtless wolf pack that delighted fans last week.

Stephen King To Twilight Author: You Suck

 Man, you’ve got to love Stephen King.  After decades of facing down haunted cars and evil clowns and vampires and werewolves and deranged sheriffs and a store that has everything you ever wanted, the guy is absolutely afraid of NOTHING.

But he’s going to have to think twice, because the wrath of teenage girls is going to be on his head soon.

Here’s what the man hisself had to say about Twilight authoressa Stephanie Meyer

“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”

Somewhere there are ten thousand tweenage girls sharpening their eyebrow pencils into makeshift shivs and throwing them at their brothers’ copies of IT for practice.  I always knew nothing kept Stephen King up at night, but basically calling the author of the Twilight series a hack?  That takes some SERIOUS stones.

Hey Steve–maybe you should get Salman Rushdie’s agent on the horn and see if there’s room for two in HIS hiding spot!

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