'New Moon' Secrets Revealed! 
The sequel to “Twilight” might be one of the most talked about flicks for 2009, but some of the cast members have yet to see a script!
Sex and the Recession City 
by Claudine Zap Used to be movies were escapist fantasy. (We're looking at you, logo-loving, credit-card charging 'Sex and the City.') But even the most die-hard fashionista has become a born-again recessionista, and movies have become a touchy subject with a thrifty public. Fortunately, the makers of the upcoming 'Sex and the City' sequel are paying attention. While the first "Sex and the City" movie was wildly successful, the subject of four women shopping, loving, and living it up in New York City may feel wildly out of sync with the times in the sequel. Sarah Jessica Parker, the movie's star, noted as much recently, saying "Times are different." Yes, they are. Reality is glaringly apparent in a couple of recent offerings. "Confessions of a Shopaholic" follows the story of a shopping addict until her life — and her credit cards — go bad. "The International" portrays a global bank's evil doings. Both are enough to give anyone a full-blown ulcer after two hours. As Stewart Levine of Variety says on NPR's Marketplace, "I just don't think people want to pay $10 to see the bad stuff they could read for free on the Internet at home." Or, for that matter, pay $10 to watch people spend the equivalent of a year's salary at one store. On the other hand, just as Americans found comfort in movies during the Great Depression, perhaps the same need is true now. After all, online lookups on "Sex and the City," "Confessions of a Shopaholic," and "Sarah Jessica Parker," the woman who put Manolo Blahniks on the map, continue to heat up the Search box. Ms. Parker seems to understand the mood. She also made the argument that SATC 2 was necessary anyway since people crave "a romp." We do, SJP. We do.
`Project Runway' tapes season 6 finale in NYC (AP) 
AP - "Project Runway" taped its sixth-season finale Friday, but something was missing: the finalists.
Cyrus: Nothing `weird' about relationship with dad ![]()
AP - Miley Cyrus doesn't like to admit it, but she's bothered by people who think there's something wrong with the bond between her and her dad, singer Billy Ray Cyrus.
San Francisco man faces fallout from `Wife Swap' (AP) ![]()
AP - It's safe to say Stephen Fowler probably wishes he never appeared on "Wife Swap."
Original DSi Design Had Two DS Slots, Was Disliked By Nintendo Dev Team [Nintendo] 
The Nintendo DSi, recently announced for a North American release in April, was almost a very different, very curious beast. According to a new "Iwata Asks" interview, it originally featured two DS game slots. The original design for the digital camera-enabled Nintendo DSi, according to one of its designers, wasn't well received by the software developers at Nintendo, as the dual DS card slot design turned off game producers at Nintendo's Entertainment Analysis and Development Division. That meant going back to the drawing board. "The response wasn't that great, and, to tell the truth, we'd sort of been expecting that," said Masato Kuwahara from Nintendo's Development Engineering Department. "According to the determined specifications, however, there was nothing we could do to stop it from turning out like that. We unveiled it to them, all the while doubting that it was going to be all right." Kuwahara says that the dual DS slot feature, dropped in the final version of the DSi, was added in response to fan requests. It meant a bigger, bulkier take on the Nintendo DS, one that Kuwahara says was met with developer disappointment. Calling the design of the Nintendo DSi a "source of some frustration for me," due to the marginal change from the DS Lite to the DSi, Kuwahara and the rest of the design team say they hope the smaller, less obvious updates to the hardware will make gamers happy. That includes things like larger LCD screens, a matte finish for the outer shell and reset options that are more user friendly. Get excited! Iwata Asks - Nintendo DSi [Nintendo]
