Twilight Series 3rd Movie, "Eclipse", Will Premiere Only 7 Months After "New Moon"

Twilight might not be a heavy hitter at this year's Oscars, but fans of the book-based film have the best kind of news to celebrate this weekend.

Summit Entertainment is expected to officially announce a green light for a second sequel, Eclipse, to hit theaters on June 30, 2010, says Variety.

That would give those who obsess on all things Bella, Edward and Jacob a new bite out of the series just seven months after the first follow-up, New Moon, premieres on Nov. 20 of this year.

For the uninitiated, New Moon finds Taylor Lautner's Jacob, a werewolf, emerging as a central figure.

Eclipse then forces Bella (Kristen Stewart) to choose between Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Jacob.
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Ellen And Paris--BFF's

On Monday's The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the talk show host gives Paris Hilton a huge photograph of them together from their night out a few months back.

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Will Drew Barrymore Direct Third Twilight Movie?

The actress and budding director revealed she's in consideration to helm Eclipse, the third film in the Twilight saga, The Associated Press reports."I'm one of the directors that is being talked about, which is great, because I'm a director now," Barrymore said.

"But, you know, they'll make their choice."Barrymore's directorial debut, Whip It!, starring Ellen Page, will be released later this year.

If Barrymore gets the directing gig, she will be the third director in the vampire film franchise. Chris Weitz (The Golden Compass) replaced Catherine Hardwicke for New Moon, scheduled to hit theaters in November.

Eclipse is tentatively earmarked for a June 2010 release.
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Real Housewives of NYC's Alex Loses Her Job With Victoria's Secret

Count Alex McCord as one of the millions of Americans being hit by the bad economy.

The Real Housewives of New York City star, known for going on extravagant shopping trips with her husband Simon Van Kempen, was just laid off from her visual merchandising job at Victoria’s Secret.

“Now I’m more a Real Housewife than I ever have been before!” McCord tells PEOPLE. “The whole time this show’s been on people have said ‘Define this term housewife,’ ‘Are you a real housewife?’ And I always said, ‘Well, I own a house and I am a wife! But now I’m a real housewife.”

The layoff was not related to McCord’s being on the Bravo reality show. The loss of her full-time job was one of 90 positions cut at the company’s New York headquarters — part of a 10-percent reduction in the brand’s workforce.

McCord had been at the job for two years. She started after a period of freelancing when her sons, Francois and Johan — with Van Kempen — were young. “I had a great time, and even up until the last week I was there, I was gaining new skills,” she says. “My job was my green zone — when I was not Alex from Real Housewives but Alex who’s in beauty.”

What’s next? “The challenge will be to find something meaningful to do, where I am the real Alex McCord and not just a Real Housewife,” she says. Of course, that will depend a lot on employers, and whether they look at her resumé and skills as a graphic artist, “or if they’ll expect me to come into the interview wearing a leopard-print dress, looking for connections,” she says with a laugh.

The McCord-VanKempens have a plan to manage the financial storm. “Alex has got until the end of April [when her severance package runs out] to replace her income,” VanKempen tells PEOPLE, “otherwise we’ll have to start cutting back on discretionary income.”

Since VanKempen still has his job as a hotel manager, McCord says the family shouldn’t have trouble paying their monthly bills.
But her salary was the one that tended to pay for their infamous shopping sprees, not to mention the cost of their full-time nanny.

“If we need to make cutbacks, that’s easy: don’t go shopping!” McCord notes. As for their annual trips to St. Barth’s, “That’s still happening. But if it comes to needing to make cutbacks, I would rather not shop than have to add to the unemployment by laying off our nanny. And that has nothing to do with not wanting to take care of our children … She has a family as well, and that would be terrible for her.”

But won’t they miss the shopping? She reveals: “Those shopping sprees that you see on the show? That’s only once or twice a year. We don’t have time to shop like that. We do killer kamikaze shopping sprees for like two hours and then don’t shop for six months.”
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Trista Sutter Has A Baby Shower

America's favorite Bachelorette, Trista Sutter, is expecting a daughter with her husband of five years, Ryan, in April, and she invited OK! to her shower for baby No. 2!

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American Idol's First Night With The Final 13

One by one, American Idol's first-ever Top 13 dipped into Michael Jackson's expansive songbook Tuesday, some confident that their vocals would shine, some hoping that passion, personality and sheer will would help their performances rise above the already karaoke-favorite material—some of the hardest out there to imitate, let alone make new.

Lil Rounds: The 23-year-old frontrunner—the word brilliant has been getting a lot of play lately—channeled Josephine Baker from the shoulders up and Etta James with her sound on a bluesy version of "The Way You Make Me Feel," one of the hittiest of the Jackson hits we heard tonight. Randy declared for the 80th time that season eight had really kicked off on the right note, and Paula called Lil "the force to be reckoned with."

Scott MacIntyre: This season's walking inspiration took to the piano for "Keep the Faith"—a wise choice considering that song isn't a Jackson fave and he really thrives on the ivories. His strong vocal was more than enough to keep him sailing on through, although Simon warned him, "It's fine being artistic, just not on this show."

Danny Gokey: The soulful church music director with the groovy glasses lightened the mood a bit with "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" and reaped the rewards—although his performance proved there's not an impromptu dance step in the book that will please Simon. "It doesn't matter, I really like you tonight," the Brit added.

Michael Sarver: "I just wish we knew what you did for a living," Simon deadpanned as he critiqued "You Are Not Alone," as done by the country's best-known oil rig roughneck. The ballad, one of the harder Jackson songs to get out of your head, served Sarver well, complementing the burly family man's warm, solid (if unextraordinary) voice.

Jasmine Murray: The 16-year-old wild card finalist assigned herself quite the task with "I'll Be There," Murray did a solid job, hitting enough big notes to avoid embarrassment, but, although Jackson pulled it off when he was barely 13, Murray's performance ventured into high-school concert night territory.

Kris Allen: Having already tested the water with "Man in the Mirror" a couple weeks ago, Allen theoretically could have been more jaded than the rest as far as trying to impress the judges with Jackson goes. But he managed to do something different by injecting guitar into "Do You Remember the Time." His voice hit a few bum notes, but everything's better with guitar (even though it was hard to hear against the back beat). "It was kinda cool for me, kind of Jason Mrazy," Randy the wordsmith said.

Allison Iraheta: Like Jasmine, she's 16, but Allison booms and rasps as if life has given her a reason to sing "Give in to Me." Having solidly established herself in the semifinals, the crimson-headed teen proved she has the chops to play with the big girls. "You're a rock star up there, keep doing what you're doing," Paula said, though Simon advised her to "lighten up a bit." The kids can't win with him, can they?

Anoop Desai: Someone was due to bust tonight and unfortunately it was lucky finalist No. 13. The fan favorite tried his hand at "Beat It" and it came out as you might expect—like the most-played track in a karaoke bar. Even Paula thought so. "To me, that song is untouchable," she lamented. "And it actually looked a bit stupid," Simon added, somewhat unnecessarily.

Jorge Nuñez: Simon couldn't wait for it to end, but we thought Jorge made the most out of the Jackson 5's "Never Can Say Goodbye." Of course, we tend to like the old-fashioned stuff... Like with Anoop before him, Kara DioGuardi couldn't feel the emotional connection.

Megan Corkrey: So, Jackson sang "Rockin' Robbin" when he was a kid, but really it's Bobby Day's song. Oh well, Megan tackled it anyway. We felt it totally suited her rough 'n' tumble voice but Simon called it a "stupid song choice." Meanwhile, Paula thought the song choice great, but didn't hear the sound she's come to love.

Adam Lambert: At the other end of the spectrum lay Adam's version of "Black or White," which was rockin', current, jazzy and jaunty all at the same time. A really good vocal and, while it was a risky song choice, he did more to make it his own than all the other contestants put together. Paula predicted an appearance in the finals for him, while Simon deemed the performance "In a totally different league" than everything else that occurred onstage tonight.

Matt Giraud: Of course the dueling piano player accompanied himself on "Human Nature" and he sounded quite soulful—and looked quite sexy. But at the risk of sounding like a pack of swooning school girls, we admit it was hard to focus because we were still wrapping our minds around Adam's performance.

Alexis Grace: The first through to the Top 13 and the final performer tonight, the velvety voiced chanteuse ripped into "Dirty Diana." She hit fierce note after fierce note, but Simon—running out of time at this point in the broadcast—warned her about over singing. "You're back!" Kara exclaimed, though it was more of a "long time no see" than a "that's the ticket!"
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Iron Chef's Cat Cora Is Pregnant--But There's A Twist

Iron Chef's Cat Cora is pregnant with a baby boy. And she'll be in the delivery room sooner than you think!

Because her wife Jennifer, is giving birth in April to another boy.

But wait, it’s even more complicated than that! Cat is carrying Jennifer’s biological child — while Jennifer doesn’t know whose she is pregnant with! Eggs from both women were implanted in her, and they have decided they don’t want to know who the “real” mother is.

As for the dad. He’s the same in both cases — but it was an anonymous donor, so neither the couple, nor their kids will ever know who he is.
The two births will bring the family up to six. Cara already has two sons, Zoran and Caje.

"Jennifer and I are thrilled to go through the wonderful experience of pregnancy together,” she says. “We started the in-vitro process 5 years ago. This has been a miracle for us and we'll now have 4 beautiful children."
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