In this brief, 15 second teaser trailer for New Moon, Edward gives Bella a very special birthday present. The trailer will make its television debut this Sunday during the MTV Movie Awards where Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner will also unveil a scene from the new movie.

Many of you complained last weekend that I mentioned Robert Pattinson’s presence at the Cannes amfAR party but didn’t post his pictures in the gallery. Well, I want to make you happy, so in addition to the above teaser trailer, I’ve put the aforementioned pics of Pattinson in the gallery.

He still looks like he just woke up and rolled out of bed, but doesn’t look greasy or creepy like he does so often. He looks, dare I say, suave.

The State of Pennsylvania is investigating the Gosselins after receiving a complaint that the couple are violating the state’s child labor laws.

“I can confirm that our bureau of labor law compliance is conducting an investigation as they do whenever they receive a charge,” said Christopher Manlove, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry.

Manlove would not say who filed the complaint, when it was filed or what the exact allegations are. “Because the case is ongoing I can’t discuss the content of the investigation,” he said.

In response to the investigation, TLC released a statement Friday saying, “TLC fully complies with all applicable laws and regulations.  Jon and Kate + 8 is no exception.  For an extended period of time, we have been engaged in cooperative discussions and supplied all requested information to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor.  We will continue to engage the appropriate officials and meet any standards or regulations that are applicable to TLC productions.”

The department is required to investigate every complaint that is filed, regardless of its apparent legitimacy.

I wonder who filed the complaint? Earlier in the week Aunti Jodi and Uncle Kevin told the Early Show that they thought the children were being “exploited” and “viewed as a commodity”.

Hmmm….

Proving that Hollywood really is completely out of ideas, The Hollywood Reporter is claiming that studio exec Michael Eisner has hired a screenwriter to develop a script for a big screen adaptation of the Bazooka Joe comic strips. That’s right– a movie based on a bubble gum wrapper. I wonder if it will be as good as that video game based on the 7up spots?

For those of you who don’t know, Bazooka Joe is a bubble gum that comes packaged in a wrapper that contains a 3 to 4 panel comic strip that attempts to be mildly amusing and usually fails miserably (See example, above).

The movie– which will mildly confuse you and then lose flavor after 5 minutes– is tentativley scheduled to be released on Halloween. Execs worried that it might face tough box office competition from Paramount Pictures’ romantic comedy Peanutbutter Kisses but then realized that everyone hates Peanutbutter Kisses and will probably just let that movie sit in a grab bag for a year until ants get at it and they have to throw it away.

Funny or Die has obtained this exclusive, leaked footage from the new movie that tells the story of how Bazooka Joe got his trademark eye patch. (NSFW)

Or maybe it’s an irradiated peacock. I’m not sure. Its brilliance is so blinding I have to avert my eyes.

Perry’s Pontifical Pelvis Peacock appeared on the red carpet Saturday night at the 2009 Japan MTV Video Music Awards.

Edit: This just in– the back of the dress! Holy tail feathers Batman, there’s a bird on her butt too!

Ismail and his family have already rebuilt their family home

The child stars of the movie Slumdog Millionaire have continued to make headlines long after the movie has won its Oscars and appeared on shelves in video stores. The parents of the children claimed that they were not adequately compensated for their progeny’s work on the film, although producers and directors claimed to have bought apartments for them and made arrangements for the kiddos’ education. Then, there were allegations that the father of the young female star, Rubina Ali, had tried to sell her to a few different parties.

In the latest chapter in the ongoing tragedy of Rubina Ali and Azharuddin Ismail’s lives, their ramshackle homes– shanties made from scavenged refuse– were demolished by the Mumbai civic authorities in a campaign to rid the city of such illegal dwellings.

Ironically, it may have been the film Slumdog Millionaire and the international interest it generated in the welfare of those living in the shanty towns that led the civic authorities, in typical bureaucratic fashion, to do something rash aimed at improving the city’s image. So, they decided to knock down some shanties, even though more than half of the city’s 18 million residents live in such dwellings.

Unfortunately, some of the houses they knocked down belonged to the child stars of the film. D’oh!

The state government is trying to dig itself out of this PR nightmare by offering new homes to the child stars and their families.

Two child actors from the Oscar-winning film “Slumdog Millionaire” have been offered new homes by the ruling Congress party of India’s western state of Maharashtra after their slum homes were torn down.

The offer on Saturday came days after a private trust said it was replacing the demolished shantytown dwellings of nine-year-old Rubina Ali and 11-year-old Azharuddin Ismail.

The flats offered by the Congress party in the western part of Mumbai cost around 400,000 rupees each (8,500 dollars) and were earmarked for low-income families.

The government has offered to pay for the flats, even though the producers of Slumdog claim to have set up a trust fund that has already bought a flat for Ismail and is currently funding the purchase of a flat for Ali. This slapdash solution also does nothing for the millions of other children whose houses were knocked down. What the hell is going on over there??

This past Wednesday, Wendie wrote about a video Chris Brown posted to Youtube in which he and Lil Bow Wow defended Brown’s reputation in a language so badly mangled that it could only be identified via its dental records as English.

Later that same day, Eve took to her twitter account and told Chris Brown exactly what she’d do to him if he came at her the way he came at Rihanna:

After Kanye told us all we should “give him a break” and Diddy invited him over to stay at one of his mansions while Brown was hiding from the paps, I’m so glad that a big hip-hop star like Eve has had the guts to speak truthfully about this ugly, disgusting incident.
Eve is fed up with the way Brown’s actions are being overlooked and accepted, writing that she’s “so sick of the media trying to sugar coat a serious issue.”