Hallmark isn't the only one capitalizing on the L-word today, Hollywood has a stake in your heart as well -- invading the big screen with yet another Valentine's Day release. This time Little Miss Sunshine, Abigail Breslin, and soon-to-be Mr. Scarlett Johansson (?), Ryan Reynolds, team up for a tour de force of l-o-v-e in Definitely, Maybe (a nod to Oasis's debut album?). The romantic comedy is brought to you by the same people that......

Miss Potter (directed by Chris Noonan) After Renée Zellweger's success playing a modern day British single gal in Bridget Jones' Diary, the producers of her movie from last winter Miss Potter must have thought they had a sure thing on their hands. Put Zellweger in a corset, reunite her with the hunky Ewan McGregor, give her an accent and introduce her to the built in Beatrix Potter fan base. It's gotta be solid gold. Of......

Only a few more days until the end of the year (and the cut off for the 2006 Oscar season), so of course the movie theaters are glutted with choice new releases. If you have your copy of Bridget Jones' Diary always near the DVD player for easy access, might we suggest checking out Renée Zellweger in Miss Potter. Sort of like a Sex in the City but set during the Victorian era, Zellwegs plays......

Once upon a time in 1999, a book of short stories titled, The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing, came out and captured the hearts of female readers, many of them single, New York women looking for love and career fulfillment (much like the main character in most of the stories, Jane), as the Bridget Jones/Sex and the City zeitgeist started to take hold. And Gothamist thought, "This should be a movie!" And a year......

We planned on giving you a whole list of things to do on this rainy, cold Monday (aka: Valentine's Day) but let's face it, your destiny is sealed. Either you're "coupled" and you're going to spend the night in a dimly lit Italian restaurant. Or you're going to sit home alone on the couch with a dozen mini cupcakes from Sugar Sweet Sunshine watching Bridget Jones' Diary. Okay, maybe we have a few suggestions up......

The movie version of the sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason hits theaters today — will this be a further boost to Renée Zellweger's career or just another nail in the coffin of the romantic comedy? She's fat, she's thin, now she's fat again! Gothamist is sick of hearing about it, but it's difficult not to watch. Plus, this time around she's an Oscar winning actress, rather than an ingenue......

With news that Mary-Kate Olsen has checked herself into a clinic to treat her eating disorder, Gothamist was struck by the unwitting timing of some news stories: First, Governor Pataki has agreed to fund eating disorders centers in New York State - a first, since most people have to go out-of-state for treatment. And then the Daily News has a story about people's, mainly women's, obsession with weighing themselves. One artist, Emily Caigan, has created......

Now, Gothamist loves us some Mr. Darcy, but why is Colin Firth hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend? Anyone? His last movies came out late last year (The Girl with a Pearl Earring, Love Actually), and in his last big American movie, he had to settle for billing after Amanda Bynes. We are all for a Bridget Jones spoof, or some sort of acknowledgement that Firth keeps playing the cuckold (Bridget Jones, Love Actually, Shakespeare......

This weekend, Gothamist was intrigued by the barrage of information about and by young twenty- and thirtysomething New Yorkers, works of both fact and ficiton. Basically, the dudes are trying to be funny and shznit in fiction while the ladies are freaking about what do with their actual lives. Sounds about right. The Post mentioned Kyle Smith's book, Love Monkey, which is called the male counterpart to Bridget Jones and the chick lit movement. Interestingly......

Gothamist has always felt "heavier" (which means "normal" outside of Hollywood) Renee Zellweger was a much better alternative than the scary skinny Renee (over aerobicized arms, bony back). So when we saw her on the Late Show with David Letterman, we were very happy. Renee was basically poured into a red dress and stunned Dave, who said she should wear that every year for the holidays. Here, here. She was kind of incomprehensible and weird......

We didn't want it to be this way, but Gothamist must post this photograph of Renee Zellweger at LAX that was in the Post today. The Post notes that she seems perhaps "voluptuous", making us all the more crazy that our society is obsessed with celebrity weight and that we are contributing to that. But our stance is that Renee should keep some of the weight that she's gained for the second Bridget Jones movie......

It's big news that Renee Zellweger is gaining weight for the Bridget Jones' Diary sequel. The AP reports Zellweger as saying, "It's really just math. I've been eating lots of really fattening food." Like the first course of a four course breakfast being "four slices of toast and cream cheese." And she says she'll lose the weight by, again, "doing the math." Yes, Gothamist has covered Renee's weight before...it's just because she was getting dangerously......

Though Gothamist is not the exact target, we couldn't resist commenting about self-help meets chick-flick-plotline, Find a Husband After 35 Using What I Learned in Harvard Business School, which was featured in the Post this weekend. Author Rachel Greenwald applies marketing tactics, like direct mail and telemarketing, to dating, for the greatest efficiencies: - Make Thanksgiving cards asking friends to hook you up - Take criticism from pals to revamp your appearance - Embark on......

- Getting to know Baltimore - The Sneaker Lootings of 2003 - Bad celebrity tattoo ideas - Paul Newman is joking. Joking, okay? Like being funny. Not serious. - Renee Zellweger: Anorexic, alcoholic, or just plain crazy - Will the NJ Nets move to Brooklyn? Not if Jersey can help it. - Where to pee in the city - See American Splendor - Tiny Factory t-shirts: There's nothing wrong with being North Korean; it's just......

Renee Zellweger has agreed to play Bridget Jones once again for the sequel, and she will indeed pack on the pounds: The Age reports that on top of her $15 million salary, Renee will get another $225,000 per kilo she adds to her weight. Gothamist has mixed opinions about this. We feel that her performance in Bridget Jones was brilliant, but since she's gone totally anorexic post-Bridget Jones, we're concerned that she'll starve herself so......

Earlier this week, Gothamist made an evening of two of our favorites things: Brooklyn and photobloggers. Continuing a tradition of meeting bloggers,we were excited when Rion suggested that we meet with Lauraholder, 990000, Brooklynkid, and Stuntlab at Williamsburg bar Red & Black, which is also named of the book Jen is trying to slog through. Amidst the wallpaper Laura likes so much, Gothamist drank beer (Jake) and seltzer (Jen, trying to detox), traded notes......

Daily News speaks with Peyton Reed, director of the upcoming Down With Love, a throwback to the "sex" comedies of the late 50s and early 60s, like Pillow Talk, Lover Come Back, and That Touch of Mink. Ewan MacGregor can be charming in his sleep and we certainly rather see more of him than less, but he's not so much the manly man Gothamist imagines from those comedies...Hugh Jackman, the best thing about the anemic......

Gothamist has been hearing a lot about Jasper Fforde lately, and Newsday has a feature about the British author (whose background includes stints as a film cameraman and living in a family of Oxonians). His books are described thusly: Part mystery, part science fiction, part satire, part lit-crowd entertainment, these hard-to-classify books cross genres with abandon. Consider what Fforde is juggling: Time-travel, newly discovered Shakespeare plays, a machine enabling people to enter classic works of......

While Britain may have limited television options, the BBC has continued to churn out its high quality television adapatations of novels, both classic and contemporary. The current "go-to man" in giving the adaptations a rich life on screen is Andrew Davies, as profiled in the L.A. Times today, in anticipation of tonight's premiere of his adpatation of George Eliot's Daniel Deronda on PBS tonight and tomorrow. What's fascinating about Davies is that he only turned......

NY Post article about Renee Zellweger's alleged agreement to star in the sequel to Bright Jones' Diary, as well as gain weight for the role. This article has all the hallmarks of pure British tabloidism - overblown metaphor when talking about her salary in correlation to her weight, and then complete non-sensicalness when essentially admitting that they don't know how much weight she has to gain.......