To meet Kristen Stewart is to want to defend her.

A young-looking 22 , she’s practically still a kid. Her features appear even more delicate than they do on screen, and she’s devoid of swagger, despite the black leather jacket she wears for an interview about “On the Road.” The film adapts the classic 1957 Jack Kerouac novel tracking the thrills- and truth-seeking experiences of Kerouac and his postwar Beat generation nonconformist pals.

Stewart is enthusiastic, conscientious even, in discussing her character, Marylou – fictional stand-in for Lu Anne Henderson, teenage wife of Kerouac’s muse, Neal Cassady – in “On the Road,” which today starts a three-day run at Sacramento’s Crest Theatre and is available on video on demand.

“She was very much an equal part” of the road trips that inspired Kerouac’s novel, she said of Henderson. “She was such a formidable partner for (Cassady). She was his counterpart in that sort of crazy life.”

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Stephenie Meyer is showing off a svelte shape thanks to a switch-up in her cardio routine.

“I used to be more an elliptical-and-weights girl but I’ve started running in the last year and I hate it and love it at the same time,” the Twilight author told PEOPLE at the New York premiere of The Host, a new film based on her 2008 science-fiction romance novel.

“It’s one of those weird things, there’s nothing really like it,” she added when asked about her weight loss.

Meyer, 39, looked lovely on the red carpet at Manhattan’s Tribeca Grand Hotel in a figure-flattering striped Kate Spade dress. But she says staying healthy is difficult while on the road promoting The Host, which hits theaters Friday.

“This tour has been awful for my diet. Really, really bad!” the mom of three said. “I have to get home and get back to my gym.”

She also said she has the support of a close family member: “My sister is a big runner and she’s so excited [I've started running]. She wants me to run races with her now.”

Although happy to return to her Arizona home, which she shares with her husband Christian Meyer and three sons, the author is proud of The Host.

“It’s this whole different place and a different kind of thought,” she said. “It’s a lot more serious. It’s a lot more of a broader spectrum of emotion. It’s my favorite of my novels so I’m kind of prejudice towards it.”

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Mistaken identity! Robert Pattinson and near-namesake Rob Patterson finally came face-to-face on Saturday, March 23 when they bumped into each other at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont.

The 26-year-old Twilight actor and the 42-year-old guitarist (and Carmen Electra ex) shared a few laughs over Patterson always being confused for Pattinson.

“Rob was telling Rob from Twilight that everyone thinks he’s him so they talked about it,” a source tells Us Weekly. “Patterson told him how happy he was to finally meet Pattinson.”

The two were “hitting it off” until Patterson, who was previously engaged to Electra, wanted to capture their meet-up on camera and Pattinson declined.

“Rob from Twilight said, ‘No, I don’t like to take pictures. It feels like it takes a piece of my soul,’” the source recalls. “Everyone laughed at him and Rob Patterson was making fun of it all night.”

After meeting Patterson, Pattinson headed back to girlfriend Kristen Stewart and pal Katy Perry — his party guests for evening. Earlier that night, Stewart, 22, and Perry, 28, hung out together at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards and even posed for a silly picture with Stewart sitting on the “Wide Awake” singer’s lap.

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Ashley Greene’s condo fire was tragic but also not totally shocking to other residents in the building, who say the actress was trouble.

Multiple sources in Ashley’s West Hollywood condo building tell TMZ … the actress was an utter nuisance — they say her unit was a revolving door for her fellow actors, friends and others who came and went in the middle of the night. The people who lived below Ashley say there was so much commotion above them they had trouble sleeping.

On top of that, residents complained that Ashley didn’t control her dogs — which were incessant barkers.

We’re told residents complained to building management, but nothing happened.

Here’s the kicker … The owner of the unit will be fixing it up, and she says Ashley is welcome to live there again — that’s because Ashley has always paid her rent. Wow.

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In a new revealing interview KStew gives insight into her personal philosophy: look ahead, not back. Is this how she was able to get over her affair mistake with Rupert Sanders?

Kristen Stewart is not looking back, she revealed in an insightful interview. The Twilight star admitted that she believes the only way to live is to keep moving forward. Maybe she’s learned from dealing with past mistakes?

Kristen Stewart’s Revealing Interview

“You should be looking ahead of you instead of behind you,” Kristen says, talking with The Arizona Republic. The actress continues, explaining that she’s referring to her racy role in On The Road and her future as an actress.

She explains that she doesn’t worry about how her films are received: “If the experience of making the movie wasn’t enough and you sort of need this validation at the end of the process, then you’re enjoying things for different reasons than I am.” Spoken like a true thespian!

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Kristen Stewart may have dropped out of her mom Jules Stewart’s directorial debut, K-11, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t in the film.

K.Stew makes a vocal cameo in the film about a businessman, Raymond Saxx (played by Goran Visnjic), who finds himselft thrown into the gay and transsexual unit of a Los Angeles jail after he’s arrested for drug use.

“We had one role that we couldn’t find the right voice for and it’s Raymond’s secretary,” Jules told me at her Libertine Films production offices in L.A. “As he’s on the telephone frantically trying to call outside, trying to get information, his secretary answers the phone and talks to him, and that, in fact, is Kristen. It was perfect, because she came in at the very last second and banged it out. It was perfect.”

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Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart may have worldwide fame, successful careers and untold riches from starring in “The Twilight Saga,” but “Twilight” author Stephenie Meyer says there’s a downside to all of that too.

Meyer admits in a new interview with U.K.’s The Times that she feels guilty about the tabloid scrutiny RPattz and KStew have to endure — which erupted the loudest when Stewart was caught cheating on Pattinson with her “Snow White and the Huntsman” director Rupert Sanders.

“Here’s the thing: there are some actors who are looking to be world famous, to be that household name, and although they might discover that there are a lot of negative things involved in that, it’s what they want,” Meyer tells The Times. “But that doesn’t apply to Kristen and Rob. That’s what makes it kind of ironic and tragic.”

Meyer laments that Pattinson and Stewart “don’t enjoy the parts [of fame] that other people would. And I totally get that, because it would not be my thing either.”

And while she’s relieved the movies have taken the spotlight off her, she openly wonders if the pair would do things differently if they knew then what they know now: “At the same time — and this is where the guilt comes from — it’s created this nice, peaceful place for me. They took all of my heat, which I feel bad about. If they had the choice, I’ve no idea if they’d even do ‘Twilight’ again. I just don’t know. I think this has all come at a heavy price.”

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It’s very odd,” Robert Pattinson says. ”There’s something strange and disturbing about the whole relationship.”

The Twilight actor is talking about the two characters at the heart of his new film, The Rover, which finished shooting on Saturday in outback South Australia.

He plays a young man, Rey, caught up in an uneasy, dangerous alliance with a stranger, Eric (Guy Pearce), in a not-too-distant future.

The Rover is the much-anticipated new film from David Michod, the writer-director of Animal Kingdom. The title refers to Pearce’s character: damaged, solitary, utterly without hope.
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Pattinson has been casting his net widely since his lead role in the wildly successful Twilight movies brought him celebrity and a certain amount of paparazzi attention. He’s quick and sometimes self-deprecating, and has a surprisingly hearty laugh. Looking for roles post-Twilight, he says, ”I don’t know if I’m necessarily any good at sculpting a career or anything. But I know what I want to do.”

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In a revealing new interview, the ‘Twilight’ author says she takes all the blame for Rob and Kristen’s troubled relationship and for putting them in the public eye. Is she right?

The author of the Twilight saga, Stephenie Meyer is coming clean in a new interview, admitting that Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart’s troubles are “absolutely” her fault.

Stephenie Meyer Feels Responsible For Rob & Kristen

Broaching the topic of whether or not Stephenie feels responsible for exposing her young stars to unimaginable public scrutiny with the British magazine The Times, she says, “Absolutely.” Stephenie continues saying that her guilt hurts even worse because neither Rob nor Kristen are attention junkies.

“Here’s the thing: there are some actors who are looking to be world famous, to be that household name, and although they might discover that there are a lot of negative things involved in that, it’s what they want. But that doesn’t apply to Kristen and Rob. That’s what makes it kind of ironic and tragic.”

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“Twilight” might have officially ended its reign on the Grand High Throne of Pop Culture, but its intriguing legacy is still going strong. Check this out: Five years after the publication of the last volume in Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling series about sparkly vampires and shapeshifting wolfmen, the author has revealed an interesting bit of trivia about the much-discussed, forever-unfinished manuscript for “Midnight Sun” —a revisit of the “Twilight” story from Edward’s point of view. In an interview with the BBC, Stephenie explained how it actually came to be leaked online.

“At first it was quite scary, because I had had my e-mail hacked once, and there was sort of this feeling like people were getting into my computer,” she recalled. “But after I was able to track it down, it turned out that wasn’t the case at all.”

Instead, Stephenie said, the explanation for the leak was much less high-tech: “I was part of a writers’ group early in, and we all would trade manuscripts, and I think someone made a copy,” she said, adding that “there was no harm intended.”

And as for why she hasn’t revisited the story, the author said that actually, it was the success of the movies that really messed up “Midnight Sun.”

“It wasn’t something that I was in the middle of working on,” she explained. “It was a project that I had been doing before. But I was working on the movies at that time and finishing up the last novel, and I was able to do that last novel without interference mentally from the film and the actors being the characters. But I could feel it seeping in more and more, and I wasn’t able to really get into the characters completely separate from the movie anymore, so it didn’t really feel like I could write it at that point, because it was a little tainted by that other vision.”

So, basically, Stephenie Meyer can never again write about Edward Cullen, because every time she does she sees Robert Pattinson inside her head, and we have nobody to blame but ourselves. And Hollywood. But mostly ourselves.

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