At last night’s Beverly Hills premiere of Invictus, Clint Eastwood’s Oscar contender staring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman, things still somehow became about Brangelina. Gosh, what a shocker, huh?
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie showed up with their cutie son Maddox. Not wanting to totally upstage, they didn’t do the red carpet, so the gorgeous fam just went inside to support their pals.
Now, we love us some glitzy Brange as much as the next star-struck folk, but we adore Damon more, sorry. He’s a totally down-to-earth sweetheart, but somehow he gets overlooked by the gossip-craving public. Why the hell is that?
Humpy Matt told us why he’s glad he’s not Brad or BFF George…

“I think I’m pretty lucky, yeah,” said Matt, who’s still bulked up from the rugby star role (damn, sure hope he keeps it up, as pudgy Matty sure ain’t our fave look for the hot dude).
Damon, with his adorable smile and dimples, elaborated on just how it is he manages not to be a tabloid sensation, quite unlike his equally gorgeous boy posse:
“I think it’s a lot of luck and, you know, I’m married to a normal person. Well not normal person, civilian I should say. That really does help.”
Was that a diss to Luciana, who was dressed pretty hot in a quasi temptress wifey gown? Nah. Regardless, it is indeed true: The reason Brad and Angie are so hounded is because two megacelebs are always better than one. It doubles their goss wealth by magazine standards. Hugely.
Still, Matt’s best buddy, George Clooney, dates randoms, and he doesn’t escape the tabs’ thirst for anything even the slightest bit relevant to his personal life.
“Those magazines, they sell sex and scandal,” Matt spilled. “If your narrative is a little more boring, like mine, they kind of leave you alone.”
Guess it also helps Matt really is a normal celeb, if there even is such a thing? Plus, he doesn’t live in the black hole of debauchery that is Los Angeles—or even New York. Big help.
True to domestic form, Damon always keeps it low-key, happily posting up in Florida with Luciana and the kids. A family man to his core. Who knew Ben Affleck’s onetime partner in Bostonian debauchery had it in him?
Come visit more often, Matt!

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‘You look around and say, ‘This is all because I wrote that dream down,’ ‘ author tells Oprah of the ‘Twilight’ phenomenon.
By Gil Kaufman

Stephenie Meyer

Photo: ABC/ Oprah.com

Stephenie Meyer said she had a perfect vision of the characters in the “Twilight” saga as she was writing the series. But when those characters hit the big screen in the first movie and again in the soon-to-be-released sequel “New Moon,” she said it was like watching her dreams come to life.

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‘I’m just trying to keep something,’ ‘Twilight’ and ‘New Moon’ star says.
By Eric Ditzian

Kristen Stewart

Photo: George Pimentel/WireImage

While Kristen Stewart does all she can onscreen in “New Moon” to talk Robert Pattinson into staying in a relationship with her, the 19-year-old actress is done speaking about her rumored off-screen romance with her co-star.

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Ecstatic screams and fluttering hearts translate the same in any language.
“Thank you all so much for coming,” Robert Pattinson told a crowd of adoring fans in Tokyo, his latest stop on the whirlwind New Moon publicity tour.
“It’s always really surprising, whenever we go anywhere in the world, there seems to be so many people everywhere who are just as passionate…It’s always just amazing to find that out.”
You’d think the British

Taylor Lautner is ‘incredible — and I’m not saying that because he takes his shirt off in every scene,’ she laughs.
By Larry Carroll

Nikki Reed

Photo: Frazer Harrison/ Getty Images

“Twilight” mastermind Stephenie Meyer describes Rosalie Hale as the most beautiful woman in the world — a tall, statuesque vampire with long, wavy, blond hair and eyes resembling violets. Onscreen, 21-year-old beauty Nikki Reed has lived up to that impossible description, endearing herself to fans even as she further antagonizes their beloved Bella Swan.

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It looks like Chastity Bono’s transformation is just about complete.
Like we reported ages ago, C.B. was undergoing a sex-change operation, and the first pics have surfaced of Chaz looking, well, shall we say a bit manlier. We don’t know if the operation’s happened yet, but the recent pics look different, no?
Even though Bono’s proposed reality show with Cher may not have been a success (since it never actually got picked up), it looks like all is going according to plan in his personal life. So what do you think of the new Chaz?

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Dear Ted:
Justin Long made a cameo when Drew Barrymore hosted SNL, same for Scarlett Johansson when her hubby, Ryan Reynolds, was on the show…getting your significant other to guest spot is all the rage these days! Would be one helluva great way to tell the world they’re more than amigos. So Gerard Butler was the guest host Saturday night, and James Franco made a cameo.
—JLM
Dear Saturday Night Gay:
Love where your dirty head’s at. But like Jennifer Aniston would really stop by or something? Sorry, don’t think either dude would be so obvious, were they truly launching on each other, which, of course, would be so hot.
Dear Ted:
I heart you and am a huge fan. I’ve been reading your column since back when you referred to Gwyneth as “Fishstick.” But I’m bothered by your comments on Hollywood women like Gwynie, Jen Garner, etc. If they demand proper treatment from their husbands, you call them bitchy and manipulative. If they try to work it out with scummy men (Sean Penn, Duchovny, etc.) they are spineless. You can’t have it both ways, Ted. I know healthy relationships don’t make for good gossip, but what would you have a woman do?
–Nancy
Dear Not Exactly:
Definitely don’t think there are only two categories for women in Hollywood. But think of it this way: In order to make it to the top of the H’wood ladder, it doesn’t just take talent, babe. There are loads of decent actresses in this town. It takes cunning and thick skin—something not all “nice” girls (and boys) always have.
Dear Ted:
Nick Jonas has been spotted with Courtney Galiano at these places! All of these are true and pictures have been posted on Oceanup: Kings of Leon concert, leaving AMC movie together, jogging together in Breast Concert marathon, putting her in Bounce video, picking her up at her hotel Niagara on the Lake. He also took her to the first baseball games they attended in Toronto. Nick is sitting next to Courtney and they both look like they are drinking Diet Coke. Hello Pedo! It’s so gross. What are his parents thinking? FYI as of 8/17 she had a steady BF she said in a chat! So, she leaves her BF of three yrs for a boy? She’s a woman.
—Born to sell

Dear Kettle, Black:
Sounds like someone has been doing a little Nick stalking herself.
Dear Ted:
Don’t let up on holding Obama to his promises to the LGBT community. If his administration could take the time to end federal prosecutions of medical marijuana distributors in the midst of all the other issues crowding his plate, then they can damn well at least end all prosecutions and discharges under DADT until Congress repeals that heinous law!
—Mike in the O.C.
Dear Preach On:
Gay rights or legalizing the ganja—it’s a toss up.
Dear Ted:
Please tell me that my beloved Alexander Skarsg