Kristen Stewart is an “incredible” cook

The 20-year-old American actress stars with Garrett Hedlund in the movie adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s 1957 novel ‘On The Road’ and the actor admits his culinary skills will never be a match for his co-star.

Garrett told MTV News: “You got to try the tortilla soup! It’s incredible. She’s honed it.

“I’m pretty much a klutz in the kitchen. I go through waves. Sometimes I just depend on pots and pans and cook up out of convenience, and sometimes I can’t even find a fork.”

Kristen has previously revealed she loved to cook for the cast of the film – which also includes Amy Adams, Viggo Mortensen and Sam Riley – saying the tortilla soup was her signature dish.

She said: “I didn’t bake; I cooked a lot, though. I think I can do a really, really good, terrific tortilla soup. That was my ‘On the Road’ dish.”

However Kristen didn’t just cook for her ‘On the Road’ castmates, the actress – who plays Bella Swan in the ‘Twilight Saga’ series, also loves to throw big parties for those involved with the vampire franchise, including her boyfriend Robert Pattinson.

She said: “I get really embarrassed when people ask me what I cook, for some reason. I shouldn’t say that I cook anymore. There was like a big BBQ situation and, like, a bunch of steaks and veggies, and I made chicken piccata. I’m so embarrassed right now. But I made homemade marinara sauce starting at, like, two in the afternoon. It wasn’t done until eight. It was incredible. The ‘Twilight’ cast showed up.”

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Kristen Stewart and the ‘Twilight Saga’ were the big winners at last night’s (05.01.11) People’s Choice Awards

The 20-year-old actress beat the likes of Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie to win Favourite Movie Actress, while ‘Twilight Saga: Eclipse’, the latest instalment in the vampire film franchise – in which Kristen plays Bella Swan – picked up three awards, including Favourite Movie.

Surpassing ‘The Social Network’ and ‘Inception’ for the gong, ‘Eclipse’ also won Favourite Drama Movie and Favourite On-Screen Team – for Kristen, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner – at the event, which was held at Los Angeles’ Nokia Theatre.

Kristen said: “Thank you so much, I’ve never been to the People’s Choice Awards before.”

However, Kristen’s boyfriend and co-star Robert – who plays Edward Cullen in the vampire franchise – wasn’t able to match her success, and was beaten to Favourite Movie Actor by Johnny Depp, who was awarded the coveted accolade for his role as the Mad Hatter in ‘Alice In Wonderland’.

Meanwhile, Zac Efron, 23, also beat the 24-year-old hunk to the title of Favourite Movie Star Under 25.

Elsewhere, Rihanna and Eminem also proved to be big winners on the night, taking home dual gongs for Favourite Song and Favourite Music Video for their summer hit ‘Love The Way You Lie’, while Rihanna took home Favourite Pop Artist.

The rapper further cemented his comeback to the music industry by winning Favourite Male Artist and Favourite Hip-Hop Artist.

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS 2011 FULL LIST OF WINNERS:

Favourite Movie: ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’

Favourite Movie Actor: Johnny Depp

Favourite Movie Actress: Kristen Stewart

Favourite Action Movie: ‘Iron Man 2′

Favourite Action Star: Jackie Chan

Favourite Drama Movie: ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’

Favourite Family Movie: ‘Toy Story 3′

Favourite Comedy Movie: ‘Grown Ups’

Favourite Comedic Star: Adam Sandler

Favourite On Screen Team: ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ (Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner)

Favourite Movie Star Under 25: Zac Efron

Favourite Horror Movie: ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’

Favourite TV Drama: ‘House’

Favourite TV Drama Actor: Hugh Laurie

Favourite TV Drama Actress: Lisa Edelstein

Favourite TV Comedy: ‘Glee’

Favourite TV Comedy Actor: Neil Patrick Harris

Favourite TV Comedy Actress: Jane Lynch

Favourite Competition Show: ‘American Idol’

Favourite TV Crime Drama: ‘Lie to Me’

Favourite TV Crime Fighter: Tim Roth

Favourite Sci-Fi/Fantasy Show: ‘Fringe’

Favourite Talk Show Host: Conan O’Brien

Favourite TV Obsession: ‘Dexter’

Favourite TV Guilty Pleasure: ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’

Favourite TV Guest Star: Demi Lovato (‘Grey’s Anatomy’)

Favourite TV Doctor: Gregory House (Hugh Laurie)

Favourite TV Family: The Simpsons (‘The Simpsons’)

Favourite Family TV Movie: ‘Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam’

Favourite TV Chef: Rachael Ray

Favourite New TV Drama: ‘Hawaii Five-O’

Favourite New TV Comedy: ‘$#*! My Dad Says’

Favourite Male Artist: Eminem

Favourite Female Artist: Katy Perry

Favourite Song: ‘Love The Way You Lie’ (Eminem featuring Rihanna)

Favourite Rock Band: Paramore

Favourite Breakout Artist: Selena Gomez & the Scene

Favourite Pop Artist: Rihanna

Favourite Country Artist: Taylor Swift

Favourite R&B Artist: Usher

Favourite Hip-Hop Artist: Eminem

Favourite Music Video: ‘Love The Way You Lie’ (Eminem featuring Rihanna)

Favourite Online Sensation: Katy Perry

Favourite Viral Video Star: Tarp Surfing

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Twilight (2008)

I’m going to open this review by saying something clear about my thoughts regarding Twilight. It is not as bad as a lot of people say it is. That’s not to say that it is anywhere close to being great, but it isn’t terrible. Not by a long shot. A lot of people seem to hate it despite never seeing it, or for reasons that don’t make a whole lot of sense, and I’m here to say that it isn’t that bad.

Of course, I’m sure this will draw the ire of people who do hate it with a passion, and I’m okay with that. If people are that certain that Twilight is absolutely awful, then I won’t change their mind anyway. People dead-set in their opinion on something aren’t going to change regardless of the information they are presented with. Fine, whatever, this review isn’t target at them anyway.

If you aren’t aware, the Twilight series is easily one of the biggest franchises in recent memory. Targeted at teenage girls, mostly, Stephanie Meyer’s series has become a worldwide phenomenon. It has also drawn the attention of many people not in its target audience, who dismiss it as just about what it is: a shallow book with shallow characters not doing anything all that important. That’s fine as well, because these people aren’t in the series’ target audience.

In order to understand the appeal of Twilight, you do need to be in the age group that Meyer is targeting, or at least be able to understand that group. I’m not going to claim that I can do this well, but I can sort of see where Twilight’s fans are coming from. The story and characters aren’t particularly interesting to me, but others, I’ve been told, find it fascinating.

The story of Twilight, (the film, and presumably the book as well), centers on Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), who has just moved to the town of Forks, Washington to live with her father. Bella, seemingly the palest girl to live in Arizona, is giving her mother and stepfather a chance to travel. Her relationship with her father hasn’t been great, with Bella not seeing him for a couple of years. He’s happy to have her though, even buying her a used truck as a “homecoming present”.

Bella still has to go to school, and after exchanging glances with Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), she becomes fixated on him. He also seems love-struck, but there is something different about him. He’s dark and mysterious, and apparently “no girl is good enough for him”. Apparently Bella is.

But Edward stays away from Bella, at first anyway. He tells her it would be best if they weren’t friends, but Bella doesn’t buy that. Shortly after, Bella is almost hit by a car, saved at the last second by Edward, who jumped in front of the potential impact zone, stopping the car with one hand. “I had an adrenaline rush. It’s very common. You can Google it.” Right, Edward. Like Bella’s going to believe that.

She doesn’t of course, and after doing research, she concludes something that the audience already knows: Edward is a vampire. So that’s why he didn’t want to be close to her! Edward’s family is different though, only hunting animals for the blood they need to live. He apparently really wants Bella’s blood though, describing it as his own “personal heroin”.

“Where does the tension come from?” is a question you might ask at this point. Well, there are “bad” vampires as well, who are shown early on killing humans at intermittent points in the plot. They eventually find out that Edward and Bella are friends, and decide it would be good fun to hunt Bella. This happens for the last half-hour or so of the film, and is the only time when there is an actual threat in the story.

For the first hour and a half, all we get is the film setting up the setting and characters. Some of the scenes are completely unnecessary, and it would have been nice for them to be cut. The film does feel boring in some places, especially when nothing much is going on. The relationship between Bella and her father is kind of interesting, but it doesn’t get developed much. We mostly just get Bella and Edward talking, stalking or sulking.

No, Twilight doesn’t pride itself on having an amazing plot, filled with twists. Its strength, if you can call it that, is the way that its characters do develop throughout the story. Bella starts off as a shut-in character, one that is fearful of the scary world around her. (Despite the fact that Forks only has about 3,000 people). Edward begins the film as a gloomy person as well, but does open up once he gets the chance to interact openly with Bella.

One of the main criticisms I’ve heard about Twilight is the fact that the vampires within it sparkle in the sunlight, instead of the traditional “burning up”. While this does seem odd at first, I must question why this is a real criticism. Vampires don’t exist, we made them up. Why is there one set of rules that all vampires must adhere to? If Meyer wants to change up what the word “vampire” means, why shouldn’t she be able to do this? The series sticks to its own rules, and in its universe, vampires sparkle. If some vampires burned, while others sparkled, then I’d have a problem with it. Luckily, this isn’t the case.

The best criticism that you can have about the film is in its acting. Stewart and Pattison don’t have any chemistry together, and each actor gives an emotionally flat performance. The supporting cast isn’t quite as bad, but they don’t get enough screen time to develop their personalities. I’ve heard one character in particular, Jacob (Taylor Lautner), ends up becoming part of the principal cast in the remaining installments. Maybe it would have been a good idea to use him more often in this one.

Look, Twilight, the first film anyway, isn’t worth hating. Yes, the acting was bad, and the story wasn’t all that entertaining, but the film as a whole wasn’t terrible. The characters develop, and the final act was actually exciting. It’ll definitely please fans of the novel, and in the end, that is all it needs to do. Sometimes a film has a specific target audience, and that’s all it is trying to please. Twilight is one of those movies, and does its job admirably.

Written by Matthew Parkinson

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Kristen Stewart thinks she is a “crazy cat lady”.

The 20-year-old actress – best known for her portrayal of Bella Swan in ‘The Twilight Saga’ – believes she leads a boring life because she spends so much time at home with her beloved pet.

She said: “I’m so boring. No I am. I sit in my house with my cat. I’m a crazy cat lady, just give me a couple of years. I have one cat but I’m obsessed with him.”

The ‘Runaways’ star, who is believed to be dating her ‘Twilight’ co-star Robert Pattinson, also admits she would like to work on more light roles following a number of dark characters but finds choosing the right part difficult.

She added to US TV show ‘Extra’: “I would love to do something a little lighter. It just has to be good. It’s rare for romantic comedies to be solid, solid good.

“I have a really hard time planning out stuff. I don’t do that. I read a script and I do it based on a serious gut instinct, like, ‘I feel so compelled to do that.’

“It’s a ridiculous thing to play out some fake life and so whatever character I choose to play I feel like if I don’t bring them to life then I’m killing someone I love. So I don’t know what I want to do, I just want to have that feeling.”

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Rob reveals that the third installment of The Twilight Saga film series is ‘really different, like, it’s kind of serious’.

In an interview with MTV News, the 24-year-year old actor said, “All the kinds of fight scenes that are in ‘New Moon,’ they’re, like, real fights now in ‘Eclipse‘. They’re not, like, fantasy things. It’s like a horror film!”

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is scheduled for release on June 30, 2010.

In New Moon, Edward left Bella, and now he has returned to try to stay a part of her life. Bella who finds herself surrounded by danger and targeted by the vengeful vampire Victoria. In the meantime, she must choose between her love for vampire Edward Cullen and her friendship with werewolf Jacob Black.

Eclipse has won Most Anticipated Movie of the Summer at the National Movie Awards. Peter Facinelli who plays Carlisle Cullen accepted the award.

Dakota Fanning guest-starred on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ last week and also presented a new trailer of ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’. Fanning, who plays Volturi vampire Jane in the movie, revealed that she was very excited about the role.

The 16-year-old star, said, “I was just so honored that they wanted me to be a part of it. And the character that they asked me to play, Jane, is just such a great character to play. She’s kind of evil and the costumes are amazing and the makeup was amazing.”

The ‘Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ is scheduled for release on June 30, 2010.

Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen, who can read minds, except for Bella’s, in New Moon left Bella and now he has returned to try to stay a part of her life. In the meantime, Bella Swan, must choose between her love for vampire Edward Cullen and her friendship with werewolf Jacob Black.

Kristen Stewart has admitted she loves Robert Pattinson.

The 20-year-old actress – who stars alongside the British heartthrob in ‘The Twilight Saga’ movies – said she feels strongly for her co-star because he has a childish side.

She said: “I love Rob because he always wants to be the best. He can be very childish. When Rob does something right or wins something he talks with a different, little voice – like a five-year-old.

“Rob is sexy, in a tortured artist way. This might be because he is British. He’s tall, looks like he is thinking all the time and is incredibly funny.

“I love the way he sings. It breaks my heart. And don’t you think he’s just gorgeous? Rob’s also a very bad liar, he just can’t do it!”

The American star also claims Robert once proposed to her for a joke. She told the News of the World newspaper: “He asked me to marry him. As a joke, though. Well at least I think so.”

The couple have been rumoured to be in a relationship since they first met on the set of the vampire movies, but have never officially been seen together, despite rumours they were going to reveal their status at this year’s BAFTA Awards.

Speaking at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel at a post-BAFTAs dinner this year, Robert said: “It is extremely difficult but we are together, yes. We can’t arrive at the sametime because of the fans, it goes crazy.”

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It is rumoured that Kristen Stewart flew to Budapest to celebrate her 20th birthday with her vampire lover Robert Pattinson

Edward Cullen is in Budapest right now filming the movie “Bel Ami” in which he co-stars with Uma Thurman. So passionate Bella Swan had to flew to spend some romantic moments with the hunky vampire.

Rumours in the air, that Rob has a special surprise for the birthday girl as he has been seen shopping for antique jewelry.

Currently Kristen is not working on any films but promoting her most recent movie “The Runaways” which is a biopic where she plays Joan Jett, the lead singer of the band, and stars with Dakota Fanning.

Robert Pattinson, landed at JFK airport with Kristen Stewart by his side last Friday to promote his new flick “Remember Me”

In the mean while “Bella Swan” quickly went to pose for a short photo session, and later joined “Edward Cullen” at the after-party at the nearby Plaza hotel

The eternal couple is rumored to be seen in a pub with sparking romance. Then on Sunday night the pair enjoying dinner with friends at Tribeca’s Laconda Verde. But the biggest indication that the couple may soon go public with their relationship came Monday night, when ‘Bella’ showed up to support her vampire love at the NYC premiere of Remember Me.

Robert Pattinson is reportedly putting on the pounds for his next upcoming sequel “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn” he is working hard to get muscular figure.

Kristen Stewart is “excited” about making a movie with her mother.

The ‘Runaways’ actress has reservations about working with her mother Jules Mann-Stewart on new drama ‘K-11’ but thinks it will be a “cool” project when it is finally given the go ahead.

She said: “She’s a really well-known script supervisor and she’s co-written this drama ‘K-11’, which she’ll direct and I will be in. If she called me right now and said, ‘We’re making the movie,’ I would be really excited. I guess my question is, ‘How would it be to work with a parent?’ We’re really close and then, at the same time, we’re creatively very different. But, I think it would be cool if it happens.”

Kristen is best known for her role as Bella Swan in the ‘Twilight’ movies, in which she stars opposite her boyfriend Robert Pattinson who plays vampire Edward Cullen.

The franchise – based on the best-selling books by Stephenie Meyer – has been a worldwide success, with millions of devoted fans, but although the actress can understand their passion she has never been “obsessed” by anything.

She added to Parade.com: “I’ve never been so fanatical about something. I never had that thing that I’m obsessed with. But, I’ve followed things for years like bands and movies and actors. I completely get what they’re feeling. Personally, it’s just so cool for me to be able to go back and follow a character for so long in successive movies. The fact that fans love them helps give me the chance.”

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