If the droolingly awaited big-screen version ofTwilight is any indication, sanpaku eyes are the new cheekbones. Marilyn Monroe and JFK both had sexy sanpakus (in which the white of the orb is strikingly visible below the iris), and so does Robert Pattinson, the young British heartthrob who plays Edward Cullen, Twilight’s dreamy, sculpted hunk of a teenage vampire. With pasty skin, red lips, and those peepers that pop open wide with a touch of madness, Pattinson has a look so broodingly unearthly it’s no wonder he doesn’t sprout fangs. His creepy bedroom stare is a special effect all its own.Here, as in Stephenie Meyer’s 2005 novel, Edward is Romeo, Heathcliff, James Dean, and Brad Pitt all rolled into one: a scruffy-gorgeous bloodsucker pinup who is really an angelic protector. When Bella (Kristen Stewart), who has come to Forks, Wash., to live with her police-chief dad, sits next to Edward in biology class, he acts like he’s suffering a seizure (or an attack of bad Mexican food). But it’s only because he can barely control himself around her. It’s no surprise that Bella tunes out the other kids, even as they try to befriend her. They don’t make her tingle with the fear of her own desire. Edward, like any good vampire, has a predatory glamour. As Bella gets to know him, what’s irresistible to her is that he promises not a blood consummation but its very opposite: a refusal to give in to the hunger that tempts him most.

For girls, the intense, ego-stroking appeal of Meyer’s novel was the way that Bella becomes this undead Byronic stud’s soul mate without quite knowing why she’s worthy. She’s a Kewl Generation damsel waiting to be rescued from her jaded heart. Stewart is an ideal casting choice — she conveys Bella’s detachment, as well as her need to bust through it. And getting Catherine Hardwicke to direct Twilight was a shrewd move, because the youthquake specialist of Thirteen treats teen confusion without a trace of condescension: She gets their grand passions and prickly defense mechanisms. She has reconjured Meyer’s novel as a cloudburst mood piece filled with stormy skies, rippling hormones, and understated visual effects. What Hardwicke can’t quite triumph over is the book’s lackluster plot. On screen, Twilight is repetitive and a tad sodden, too prosaic to really soar. But Hardwicke stirs this teen pulp to a pleasing simmer. B

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The Dark Knight’s Aaron Eckhart thinks Angelina Jolie would make a perfect Catwoman — if there’s another Batman installment.

“I thought that was a fantastic idea,” Eckhart told Usmagazine.com at the GQ Men of the Year party in L.A. on Nov. 18. “When I read that, I felt like all of our records that we made [would] be broken if she did Catwoman.”

(Julie Newmar, who played Catwoman in the original Batman TV series, recently told New York’s Daily News that she has knowledge that Jolie has inquired about playing the part.)

Another name that’s been thrown around? Johnny Depp — as the Riddler.

“Every time I hear these guys, I feel worse about myself!” Eckhart joked.

He was mum when asked if he’d star in another Batman flick.

“I mean, that’s an interesting question,” he told Us. “You know, I don’t think I will. I think I died in the movie.”

But it all remains a mystery.

Eckart joked, “I’m coming back as a totally different character.”

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He’s totally right, can you imagine Angelina Jolie as Catwoman!? Hot!

Since the devastating plane crash that nearly killed Travis Barker on Sept. 19, his ex-wife Shanna Moakler has rarely left the rocker’s side. An emotional Shanna sat down for an exclusive interview and photo shoot with Life & Style on Nov. 14, breaking her silence about where the on-again, off-again couple, who divorced earlier this year, stand now.

“I’m helping him as much as I can,” Shanna tells Life & Style. “I’ll do anything he ever needs.” And while this new stage of their relationship is still too delicate to put a label on, Shanna confirms she has no desire to date anyone else right now. “Travis and I go back and forth so much that I don’t have time to meet anybody or do anything,” she says. “We have a profound love, and he’ll always be in my life no matter what.”

When it comes to what the future holds for her and Travis, however, Shanna admits she’s less certain. “We’re so alike — we both have type-A personalities,” she notes. “I almost think it’s like we love each other too much.” Still, she’s not ready to give up just yet, adding, “Who knows what can happen?”

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It’s splitsville for Paris Hilton and Benji Madden.

Days after Paris was “all over” her ex Stavros Niarchos, the heiress dropped the Good Charlotte rocker like a bad habit, telling him he was “too controlling” and that she needed her freedom back, a source tells Star exclusively.

Shortly after their breakup, which took place on Nov. 17, Paris let her hair down at Villa nightclub, where she partied with her sister, Nicky, and Nicky’s boyfriend David Katzenberg. The following night she was also without Benji when she hit the hot spot Apple Paris.

“Paris was fed up with Benji always telling her what to do and bossing her around,” says the insider. “She couldn’t take his overbearing ways anymore. It was stressing her out. He can be very aggressive and he was just too much trouble.”

Benji didn’t take the breakup well, says the source. “He fought for a second chance and asked if they could talk it out but Paris said she was done talking,” reveals the insider.

The demise of Paris and Benji’s relationship, after nine months of dating, didn’t happen overnight. “They’ve had “a lot of fights in the past,” says the source. The nail in the coffin was a showdown over Paris’ flirty night out with her ex-boyfriend Stavros on Saturday.

“Benji didn’t like it that she spent the evening with Stavros,” says the source. “He blew up and Paris felt victimized. He gave her a lot of grief about that.”

They bottom line is that they were just different people. “She felt she couldn’t cut loose and party,” says the source. “He doesn’t drink and doesn’t think she should either. She felt too fenced in.”

Not helping were Star’s reports that Benji cheated on Paris on two separate occasions — once with a woman who looked like his ex-fiancée, Sophie Monk, and another time with a groupie. Benji denied the cheating allegations.

While Paris and Benji are now finito, it probably won’t be the last time they come face to face. After all, his brother Joel lives with Paris’ Simple Life costar and longtime friend Nicole Richie.

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Romance rumors began to swirl this summer when Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler started meeting. Turns out Jen was interested in…Gerard’s acting!

Jen, 39, has nabbed the 300 star, 39, for a role in The Goree Girls, a woman’s prison saga she’s set to produce and star in next year. “The thing that really blew her away was P.S. I Love You,” a Jen insider tells Life & Style. “Gerard’s performance made her laugh and cry.”

Should Jen’s on-again boyfriend, John Mayer, be worried about the Scottish hottie? “She’ll get a kick out of having romantic scenes with Gerard,” the insider says. “But she wants to go home at the end of the day with someone like John.”

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