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Elle Fanning has grabbed a plum part in director Sofia Coppola’s latest film Somewhere. Dakota’s younger sister is poised to shine on her own in the father/daughter drama set in Los Angeles. Fanning is the 11 year-old Cleo, who gives her father (played by Stephen Dorff) a reason to change. Here is the official synopsis:

Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) is a bad-boy A-List actor stumbling through a life of excess while living at Hollywood’s legendary Chateau Marmont Hotel.  His days are a haze of drinks, girls, fast cars and fawning fans.  Cocooned in this celebrity-induced artificial world, Johnny has lost all sense of his true self.

Until, that is, his 11-year-old daughter Cleo (Elle Fanning) unexpectedly shows up and unwittingly begins to anchor him.  Johnny’s fragile connection to real life slowly revives in her presence. So when the time comes for Cleo to leave, his sense of loss is palpable, but the gift of hope she has also brought him leads to a beautiful, poetic denouement imbued with all of Coppola’s remarkable powers to conjure mood and atmosphere.

Quiet and understated, Coppola’s movies are magnificent hidden gems to discover and she brings out wonderful performances in the actors she casts (think Scarlett Johannson and Bill Murray in Lost In Translation.) I look forward to seeing Elle and Stephen light up the screen. Check out the trailer below.

Actress/singer Demi Lovato celebrated her 18th birthday surrounded by close family and friends on Friday (August 20). Demi believes to give is better than receive, so she bought a fabulous Mediterranean style home for her and her family.

Demi revealed she is planning to live by herself in a separate house in the backyard on her family’s brand new property just outside Los Angeles in California. Ah! There’s nothing like making your own family happy!

“I just bought a house,” Demi said. “For me to give [that] to my family on my birthday, that was the best present. It’s got pretty much everything you could possibly imagine in it. It’s the most beautiful, homey-feeling house. I love it.”

Demi also got a very special gift from her half-sister, actress Madison De La Garza, who stars as Eva Longoria’s daughter in the hit TV show “Desperate Housewives”. The 8 year-old bought Demi a iPhone 4 with her own money.

Of course, Demi is very proud of her sister. She said, “She bought me an iPhone 4 with her own money!” Madison just loves her big sister. She told HollywoodLife, “Demi is the best sister in the whole world. She is just so nice and gives me advice. She’s an amazing sister and I couldn’t have a better one!”

Aww! Sweet!

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Actress Demi Lovato has been outspoken about the effects bullying can have on a person. The Sonny With A Chance star has spoken about her past experiences as a target of the emotional and verbal abuse. She has made a public service announcement (see it here) to educate and inform how isolating and devastating the aggressive act can be.

The 17 year old Disney star has joined teensagainstbullying.org in part because she is inspired by her younger sister, 8 year old Madison De La Garza, who stars on Desperate Housewives. Lovato wants to keep her sister’s self esteem positive as she grows up.

“She’s getting to that age where she could start becoming insecure,” Lovato says. “I want to be able to help other girls around her age come into their own with a strong confidence in their skin, their size, who they are and everything about themselves.”

Lovato, who quit public school when she was younger, was home-schooled because of the pressure from bullies.

“Bullying is a very serious thing to me, I’ve witnessed it first hand — I was bullied myself when I was 12,” she says.

Demi is comfortable being a role model and using her fame to help others through what can be a really rough time in their lives. Just one more reason to adore Demi!

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The Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in California had a visit from The Last Airbender stars Jackson Rathbone and Nicola Peltz as the duo met with fans on Thursday afternoon. Tiger cubs were cuddled, otters were held and pictures were taken.

Rathbone and Peltz will play the live-action version of Sokka and Katara, the Water Tribe siblings who accompany Aang (Noah Ringer) as he journeys to the North Pole, learns waterbending and kicks Fire Nation booty along the way.

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The Veronicas and Metro Station also performed at the London O2 Arena Jingle Bell Ball over the weekend.

Metro Station guitarist, Trace Cyrus, was on hand to support his sister Miley as she also was part of the Christmas concert.

The Veronicas, sisters Jessica and Lisa Origliasso are now both brunettes!

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Poor Miley Cyrus. The ‘Party In The USA’ singer has had to cancel a stop on her Wonder World Show tour tonight in Omaha, Nebraska. She has come down with a nasty case of strep throat. She has given up lots of updates through her twitter page:

“My throat is yelling at me to shut up. Strep is the worst thing ever,” she wrote. “Thank you, Salt Lake, for being so amazing and supportive. My body is done with me working it so hard. Off to have a very nice peaceful sleep.”According to her tweets, dad Billy Ray and sister Noah have been keeping the singer’s spirits up until she gets better. “Nurse Noah is taking good care of me tonight. I just put on a Snuggie and ate a popsicle,” she wrote.

According to MTV.com her next show is Saturday night, October 3rd in Kansas City MO. Let’s hope she feels well enough by tomorrow to perform, but if she’s not up to it, it will be better for her stay in bed – although fans will be disappointed. Then she can reschedule and give it her all.

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Ashley Tisdale turned up Wednesday night at The Grove in Los Angeles for the premiere of Fame. The High School Musical star looked pretty in her short pink jumpsuit and sky high black heels. She was with her older sister Jennifer (pictured in the purple dress, below) and the two checked out the film with it’s stars Kay Panabaker, Asher Book, Kherington Payne, and Naturi Naughton.

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Out Sunday afternoon with her sister Brandi, friend Kristen and momager Tish, teen star Miley Cyrus was citrus-y bright in a cute strapless orange dress. The girls had manicures, pedicures and a tanning session for their relaxing sunny August day.

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WOW! Kristen Stewart (Bella Swan) and Taylor Lautner (Jacob Black) cover the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly. The two posed for one spectacularly beautiful photo shoot and you can totally see there is a lot of chemistry between them too!!

In the interview, Kristen claims she would literally kill for her good friend Taylor. I’m starting to wonder if all the Robert Pattinson and Kristen’s romance rumors aren’t just a decoy to keep Kristen and Taylor’s relationship a secret… I know I’m a bit paranoid, right!?!

You have to check out the behind-the-scenes footage of their sexy intimate photo shoot -> video! Here are some highlights from Kristen and Taylor’s EW interview here:

Stewart, on playing other roles: “If it was Twilight all the time, I would go mad. To just play one character for four years, it’s not what I do. I like to have variation. I like to change it up… I’m so not Bella. Thats just a different aspect of me.”

Lautner, on playing Jacob: “It’s challenging, because he’s not human. I mean, what human walks around with a frown, looking like he wants to kill something?”

Lautner, on his friendship with Stewart: “[Jacob and Bella] are so open, and they can tell each other everything. So it was very important for me and Kristen to grow very close before doing this.”

Stewart, on Lautner: “I love that kid. I would do anything for him. I would kill for him, literally.”

Stewart, on Lautner almost being replaced as Jacob: “I knew he had [to do] it. Just because of how I felt around him… We have that [BFF] relationship. It’s lamely cute.”

Lautner, on bulking up for his increased role: “My body fat got so low that we actually needed to increase it a little bit. My trainer would be like, ‘Go have a huge milk shake just so I can get a thousand calories into your body.’”

Here is one of the behind-the-scenes videos with Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner for the EW Fall Movie Preview cover shoot. In this one, Stewart talks about the clothes she gets to keep and how some fans have a hard time seeing her in any other role than Bella. There also is a playfulness to Stewart and Lautner that comes across between the two – very brotherly/sisterly. It’s cute – check it out.