Cool . Too bad they didn't show footage of her though *shrugs*......

I was actually kinda pleased they didnt. Nice for her to get a bit of privacy

Good ideas re the threads folks we will put some of them into place.

Newlyweds Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelley, catching a set by the musician's pal Kate Voegele at Los Angeles's Hotel Café. The couple stood with the rest of the crowd during the show, then chatted up Voegele, who's also a budding actress. She's set to perform along with Kevin Federline on an upcoming episode of One Tree Hill.

I really enjoyed the Washington Post article, too!

Here's a new article excerpt and link with a new question not previously addressed, I don't think.

Heigl's Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride
Source: Heather Newgen - January 15, 2008
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=40876

CS: How do you work your hectic schedule and then also what about the coincidence that the character name is George?
Heigl: I know.

CS: Is it tricky? How did you do it?
Heigl: I don't know. It's really funny because Anne Fletcher said to me five weeks into filming "Maybe we should change George's name." Because this whole season is going to be me and T.R. [Knight] and George and Izzie, so it's kind of weird. I said "You know if it were T.R. playing this role I would say yeah, change the name. Since its not, we can work with it, and it's totally fine." It's just been a very whirlwind year of work. That's been really exciting. I spent enough years napping a lot, doing nothing but watching "Survivor," so I've kind of reserved energy. I'm good.

Yeah I am betting pretty much everyone of you gets 6 out of 6 in the quiz

Quickie Gawker sighting..

Katherine Heigl
39 Downing St
Katherine Heigl at Mas Farmhouse last nite having dinner with mom and friend. Table facing entire room so every single person in restaurant could stare. Makeup was flawless, wearing what looked like silver lamé?

And Katherine Heigl is now OFFICIALLY a movie star that can open a movie. The Grey's Anatomy star's latest film, 27 Dresses, is on track to have a $20 Million opening. That comes hot on the success of her last movie, this past summer's Knocked Up.

'Cloverfield' Pulls Down Monster $41M
By DAVID GERMAIN – 34 minutes ago

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The creature-feature "Cloverfield" became the first monster hit released in 2008, debuting with $41 million, a record opening for January, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Paramount's tale of a giant reptile causing chaos in New York City surpassed the $35.9 million premiere weekend of the "Star Wars" special edition in 1997, the previous best for January.

Opening in second-place was 20th Century Fox's romantic comedy "27 Dresses," starring Katherine Heigl as a perpetual bridesmaid. It pulled in $22.4 million.

The weekend's other new wide release, Overture Films' crime comedy "Mad Money," with Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes plotting a Federal Reserve Bank heist, opened at No. 7 with $7.7 million.

Overall business surged, with the top-12 movies taking in $135.3 million, up 39 percent from the same weekend last year.

Featuring a cast of unknowns, "Cloverfield" tells its monster story from the perspective of a partygoer's hand-held video camera, which captures the mayhem as the creature tears through the city.

The film benefited from cryptic marketing that sent young moviegoers on a scavenger hunt to decode clues about the movie's plot, images and even its title, which was not confirmed until shortly before its release.

"As we started it, we asked, how do we draw people in and have them say, `Hey, I want to know more about that. That looked cool, that looked intriguing,'" said Rob Moore, Paramount vice chairman. "Then fortunately, they delivered a movie that was as unique and engaging as people had hoped from the marketing campaign."

The big winners at the previous weekend's truncated Golden Globes had mixed results cashing in on their prizes.

Focus Features' gloomy romance "Atonement," the Globe winner for best drama, expanded into wider release and added $4.8 million to its haul, raising its total to $31.9 million. Business was up slightly from the previous weekend.

Yet the Globes' best musical or comedy winner, Paramount's "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," also added theaters but took in just $2.6 million, down significantly from a weekend earlier. "Sweeney Todd" has taken in $48 million to date.

The televised Globes banquet was canceled because stars planned to boycott the show in support of a strike by the Writers Guild of America, which refused to let its members work on the ceremony. In place of the glitzy Globes show was a hasty news conference rattling off winners' names.

That deprived studios of much of the luster they count on to boost the box office of acclaimed films during awards season. Had the three-hour Globes show aired as usual on NBC, "Atonement," "Sweeney Todd" and other key winners might have done better business this weekend.

"I can only guess, but I think so," said Jack Foley, head of distribution for Focus Features. "I wish it was televised. It's one of the best commercials there is for film."

Following Heigl's success with last summer's hit "Knocked Up," "27 Dresses" solidifies the "Grey's Anatomy" co-star as a big-screen star.

While "Cloverfield" was more a movie for young males, "27 Dresses" sewed up the women's audience, the two films giving Hollywood a huge lift during what is normally a sleepy time for new releases.

"This is almost like a summer weekend," said 20th Century Fox distribution executive Chris Aronson. "It's almost a counter-programming move where you have two pictures aimed squarely, at least initially, at different audiences, and they both succeeded."

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Media By Numbers LLC. Final figures will be released Tuesday.

1. "Cloverfield," $41 million.

2. "27 Dresses," $22.4 million.

3. "The Bucket List," $15.2 million.

4. "Juno," $10.3 million.

5. "National Treasure: Book of Secrets," $8.1 million.

6. "First Sunday," $7.8 million.

7. "Mad Money," $7.7 million.

8. "Alvin and the Chipmunks," $7 million.

9. "I Am Legend," $5.1 million.

10. "Atonement," $4.8 million.

The Katherine Heigl romantic comedy 27 Dresses also exceeded expectations, doing $22 million and nearly doubling projections.

Fox spent the previous two weekends holding sneak previews of "27 Dresses," which stars "Grey's Anatomy" actress Katherine Heigl as a perennial bridesmaid. The News Corp-owned studio said the opening was "fantastic." The film held at No. 1 in Australia for a second week, it added.

Of course, we shouldn't let one great opening overshadow another: Katherine Heigl's 27 Dresses may have remained a bridesmaid at the box office, walking down the, er, multiplex aisle at No. 2, but it still looked great with $22.4 mil, the 10th-best January debut ever. Its crowd (which was a whopping 87 percent female) was doubly charmed, granting the romantic comedy a respectable B+ CinemaScore mark. In just three days, 27 Dresses has already landed at No. 6 on the list of the top MLK openings, and it should rise to second or third place in that ranking by the end of the holiday weekend.

About 10 minutes later, without thinking, Fergie starts telling me about her new year's holiday with Duhamel - it sounds as though they were in Los Cabos in Mexico with fellow stars including "Katie Heigl" (as Fergie calls her) from Grey's Anatomy. These days, privacy or no privacy, Fergie's happiness is hard to hide.

Thus started her love of acting. “It was the most fun I ever had doing anything in my life.” Fourteen years later, Erin has a bachelor in fine arts from Hofstra University and shows talent that others would kill for — especially when it means sharing the spotlight with Katherine Heigl. Erin says, “She has such a charm and ease about her that I don’t think anybody has right now in her genre.”

Box-offfice sorority sisters

By Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

This past weekend Hollywood’s richest, most beautiful and most exclusive sorority of ladies who can open a film -- let's call it Omega Mega Bucks -- welcomed a new member into its gleaming, wide-smiling ranks.

Katherine Heigl had been an attractive rushee as Dr. Izzy Stevens on “Grey’s Anatomy” and a promising pledge when she starred as the gorgeous but vulnerable E! News anchor who helped push “Knocked Up” close to the $150-million mark this summer.

But it wasn’t until “27 Dresses” (marketed almost entirely on Heigl’s personality) grossed $30 million in four days that Heigl passed the crucial initiation test: She opened a film successfully. That puts her in the same rarefied club as Reese Witherspoon, Julia Roberts, Kate Hudson, Drew Barrymore and just a few select others.