This week, it’s Katie Holmes’ turn to face the mags. Us Weekly runs down the list of her “regrets,” and Star claims she’s putting them in a “$15 million tell-all.” Is she finally convinced she should have stayed with Chris Klein? Made a play for James Van Der Beek? Avoided her role in “Mad Money”? Find her full list of gripes in the ‘zines!

Things are officially back on between Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake, says OK!, “as long as Jessica doesn’t bring up the M word — marriage.” Justin bolted two months ago when he thought they might wed, says the mag, and there were rumors he was wooing Rihanna. Now Jessica “knows that if she and Justin are ever going to have a future, she has to be willing to be patient.” And, just to be safe, she might want to learn the dance from the “Umbrella” video.

It’s the event all of NYC has been waiting for — A-Rod gave Kate Hudson a ring. Of course, In Touch is quick to clarify that the $39,000 white gold ring with pink sapphires and diamonds “definitely wasn’t an engagement ring, but Kate was thrilled nevertheless.” Of course she was thrilled. If this wasn’t the engagement ring, can you picture what that one’s going to be like?

The Kardashian sisters team up to tell Life & Style that they had their doubts about Scott Disick, the father of Kourtney’s unborn child. “All he wanted to do was hang out with his friends,” says Kim. “I think he was just trying to have as much fun as possible before the baby came.” How did Disick win the family’s affections? “He put the crib together,” says Khloe, who adds: “He’s not a manual labor kind of guy.” It is so sweet when men go the extra mile.

OK!’s cover alerts us that Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson will love each other “forever.” But don’t get too excited, because the claim comes from an anonymous source who says, “They can’t imagine being with anyone else.” Noted, but the problem here may be a lack of imagination. Meanwhile, a source tells Star, “Rob and Kristen are looking at eloping in London or Vancouver, since that’s where they fell in love.” The idea apparently arose when Rob started making elopement jokes on the set. At first “Kristen would just smile and roll her eyes,” but now, says the mag, “it’s no longer just a joke,” which I assume means she responds with one of her Bella Swan stare-pouts. Romantic!

Bruce Willis, 54, was allegedly upset when the host at an L.A. restaurant asked if his wife, Emma Heming, 31, was “Rumer or another one of your lovely girls.” Star says Heming brushed it off, saying she was flattered to be mistaken for one of Bruce’s daughters “because they’re all so gorgeous.” In other news, Ashton Kutcher is grateful that Bruce and Demi never had any sons.

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Megan Fox covered The New York Times magazine last week and a few of the outtakes have been leaked.

As your eyes rest on Fox’s open legs and vacant sex kitten stares, just remember she’s no slut. Not this one.

“Girls think I’m a slut. I’ve been in the same relationship since I was 18. If they think you’re attractive, you’re either stupid or a whore or a dumb whore. There’s a certain character that I play. She’s not fully fleshed out — she doesn’t have her own name — but she shows up to do men’s-magazine interviews. There’s something so ridiculous about always being in your underwear in those magazines, and you know the interview is going to run opposite those pictures. So, there’s a character that talks to all of them.”

Oh, how convenient. Let us never question your creative capabilites ever again, Fox. By the way — nice undies.

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Christina Ambers, a wealthy and renowned hand/foot model (heh) is suing her swanky Upper East Side building for mistreatment after she wed her porter-turned-husband, Angel Rotger.

According to The New York Daily News, the “upstairs/downstairs” union didn’t resonate well with the “help” in the building, who were reduced to taunting Ambers, making her hail her own cabs and sign for packages.

The abuse climaxed when Rotger lost his job in the building and was punched in the groin by the superintendent’s wife. The pair are suing for $10 million.

Written by: Melissa Noble

Gerard Butler covers the December issue of Australian Men’s Fitness.

The magazine hails a rather pensive and intense-looking Butler as a “modern day Spartan.”

Esquire

Best:    How to Drink a Tequila (no explanation needed)

Worst:  300 Things We Didn’t Know About Gerard Butler (Are you kidding?   3 Things would be enough!)

Details

Best:  The Best Way to Drink Tequila (Looks like the Tequila PR people struck gold twice this month!)

Worst:  A User’s Guide to Man Boobs (That’s gross no matter what way you look at it!)

GQ

Best:  Seriously Good  Head! (Ha!)

Worst: Channing Tatum – All-American Hero (Boring)

Robert Downey Jr. covers the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly in preparation for the his role as the leading character in Sherlock Holmes out on Christmas Day. While the Guy Ritchie-directed vehicle, co-starring Jude Law, has gotten a considerable amount of press where people are speculating how much Ritchie will butcher the final product.

“People think the movie is going to be, like, this modern punk-rock version where we’re all wearing high-tops,” says Law, who stars as Holmes’ sidekick Dr. Watson.  “It’s actually more true to the books than they’re guessing.”

As per usual, the ever quotable Downey had much to say about his current state of success.

I’ve never had it this good — this is my day in the sun — and I certainly don’t want to look a gift horse in the molars. But [my wife] Susan and I want to begin to be in our lives as much as we are in our jobs. I’d love just to sit here and say, ‘What movie’s playing tonight?’ I’d love to finish the new book about D-day I’m reading. I love painting, I love music.

He seems to have caught a case of the Brangelina’s — he sees an inevitable end of the glittery road of starring roles and magazine covers.

“But here’s the thing: I can only be a guy on a call sheet probably, I don’t know, maybe a couple more times.  It’s something I’m so grateful to have in my palm, and yet I already see its inevitable decay.”

Written by: Melissa Noble

Robert Downey Jr. sits spread eagle in tight business pants on the December issue of Esquire.

You gotta love a Robert Downey Jr. Q and A. He’s one of our most lovable neurotics and thankfully Esquire decided to round up a few of his choiciest quotes in a nifty slideshow. Here are some of our favorites below:

On his childhood:

“It was a German delicatessen where, if you were fifteen years old but said that you went to UCLA — and paid cash — you could buy Spaten lager and Grolsch. We would wind up hammered in Douglas Park — then we would enjoy the environs of Jack in the Box afterwards.”

On getting over drug and alcohol addiction:

“My whole story — there’s such immense satisfaction to see past that. I found my way out of the woods by a subtler and subtler trail of bread crumbs — now I’m just in the business of business, and the business of my life, and the mind-blowing opportunities — and if nothing else, dude, I really love the way these ceilings look.”

On procreating:

“The big unspoken thing here is that we intend to have a family… Hell, yeah. Speaking of artifacts. The ultimate artifact of our love. In a onesie.”

Written by: Melissa Noble

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Entertainment Weekly’s second annual Comic-Con preview package features Iron Man 2 on the cover.  After Iron Man blasted Robert Downey Jr. back to stardom, the superhero returns to the big screen to battle new villain Mickey Rourke, size up Scarlett Johansson, and prove the first time wasn’t a fluke. The success of Iron Man (which opened at $99 million and went on to take in $318 million) caught many people by surprise, and now four months later, Downey is no longer the underdog. “There are a lot more invisible eyes on us now,” he says.

When Marvel Studios first announced the sequel, no one was sure what the movie would be about. Downey, director Jon Favreau, screenwriter Justin Theroux, and the rest of the creative team struck upon the idea of introducing two very different foes for Stark. On one side is Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell), a fast-talking weapons manufacturer who fancies himself the next Tony Stark; on the other, Vanko, who, while incarcerated in a Russian prison, creates his own battle-suit, which shoots devastating, whip-like beams. Hammer and Whiplash join forces to take Downey’s character Tony Stark down. Rourke, for his part, wanted to instill some lightness into the role of the heavy. “I told Favreau, ‘I don’t want to just play him as a one-dimensional p—-,’” Rourke says. “He let me have a cockatoo, who I talk to and get drunk with while I’m making my suit.”

Just as the deals were being hammered out, Terrence Howard – who had played Stark’s best friend – fell out of the sequel in a public salary dispute. The role was re-cast, with Don Cheadle stepping in. “We had to make some tough deals,” Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige says. “When they got public, you go, ‘That sucks. OK, you want a peek behind the curtain? Here you are!’” Says Cheadle, “Terrence and I couldn’t be more different. We address it head-on in the movie in one exchange. We’re not trying to fool people.”(Cheadle admits he didn’t know much about Marvel’s superhero before the first movie came out: “I always thought Iron Man was a robot.”)

Adding more flesh and blood to the new movie, Scarlett Johansson joined the cast as Stark’s mysterious new assistant, Natasha, who has an alter ego of her own, Black Widow. That introduction inevitably sparks romantic tension between Stark and former assistant Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), who’s been promoted to CEO of Stark Industries. “The men want it to be, like, ‘Ooh, the girls are fighting over Tony,’ but it’s not as standard as that,” says Paltrow. “There’s a weird male catfight fantasy.” Downey doesn’t disagree: “Our signature as a superhero franchise is that we’re horny. Not, like, can’t-bring-your-kids horny, but just…horny.”

With these new ingredients, the question remains whether Iron Man 2 will soar like the first film or show signs of rust when it hits theaters next May 7. “People are going to be more critical,” says Downey. “That’s their prerogative….In a way, there’s no way to win, except to win. Big.”