Robert Pattinson

A roundup of entertainment headlines for Friday: "Twilight: Breaking Dawn" stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner get handprints and footprints outside Grauman's in Hollywood. ( Los Angeles Times ) GWAR guitarist Cory Smoot is found dead on his tour bus. ( Associated Press ) The prosecution and defense made closing arguments in the trial of Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's doctor. ( Los Angeles Times ) "The X Factor" voters send InTENsity packing.

SERIES Escape Routes: Miami is the setting for this fourth leg of the competition. Rossi Morreale hosts (8 p.m. NBC). The Firm: To ensure the safety of Abby (Molly Parker), who's been kidnapped by Kevin Stack's (Martin Donovan) men, Mitch (Josh Lucas) agrees to trade evidence with him in this new episode (9 p.m. NBC). Live From Daryl's House: Finger Eleven performs in this new episode (11 p.m. KTLA). SPECIALS Dick Clark: American Music Pioneer: A tribute to the "American Bandstand" host and rock pioneer.

"Water for Elephants" gives off an air of self-satisfaction, and you can see why. What film wouldn't be pleased with having a No. 1 bestseller as source material, an unapologetically picturesque world for its setting and major players such as Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson and a superb Christoph Waltz as its stars. What's not to like? There is quite a bit to enjoy in a film that certainly qualifies as broad-based popular entertainment. But because the ingredients are so promising, there hangs over this serviceable project the wish that it had turned out better still.

A Westside compound that "Twilight" stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart had been leasing for the last several months has come on the market at $5.995 million. Built in the 1990s, the west-facing property encompasses almost half an acre and overlooks Stone Canyon Reservoir and Bel-Air. The main house features an open-plan living and dining room, a den, four bedrooms and 31/2 bathrooms. The recently renovated guesthouse contains an additional bedroom and 11/2 bathrooms.

Robert Pattinson has nothing but love for his recent experience on the set of "Water for Elephants," director Francis Lawrence's adaptation of the popular novel that's set to open in theaters Friday. It was a far cry from his current job, finishing the grueling six-month shoot for the back-to-back filming of the last two "Twilight" films, based on Stephenie Meyer's final book in her bestselling series of young adult novels, "Breaking Dawn. " Pattinson Pattinson took a moment for a brief phone interview before he was needed on the set of a night shoot for the vampire mega-hit.

You can almost hear the young women swoon. It's just a few weeks until the highly anticipated "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" opens across the country, and already fans are clamoring for tickets to see the second installment in the big-screen adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's bestselling series of novels. Photographer David Strick traveled to Vancouver, Canada, earlier this year for a sneak peak at the production and caught stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner behind the scenes.

Chrystal Johnson didn't think there was anything unhealthy about her all-consuming fixation with "The Twilight Saga" — until she discovered it was sucking the life out of her marriage. "I found poems my husband had written in his journal about how I had fallen for a 'golden-eyed vampire,' " says Johnson, a 31-year-old accountant from Mesa, Ariz., who became so enthralled by the blockbuster series of young adult novels and movies that she found herself staying up all night, re-reading juicy chapters and chatting about casting news and the are-they-or-aren't-they romance between the stars of the films, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.

"This is the last time you'll ever see me," Edward Cullen says to Bella Swan. As if. Spoken early on in "New Moon," that promise is one of the least likely to be kept in movie history. With most of that film still to unfold, and two more adaptations of Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series in the works, the next due out as soon as next summer, the world is going to see as much of Kristen Stewart's melancholy Bella and Robert Pattinson's undead Edward as it can take. Maybe more. In the short term, however, Edward is as good as his word and "New Moon" suffers as a result.

SERIES Escape Routes: Miami is the setting for this fourth leg of the competition. Rossi Morreale hosts (8 p.m. NBC). The Firm: To ensure the safety of Abby (Molly Parker), who's been kidnapped by Kevin Stack's (Martin Donovan) men, Mitch (Josh Lucas) agrees to trade evidence with him in this new episode (9 p.m. NBC). Live From Daryl's House: Finger Eleven performs in this new episode (11 p.m. KTLA). SPECIALS Dick Clark: American Music Pioneer: A tribute to the "American Bandstand" host and rock pioneer.

If you didn't the first time, now's the time to talk about: "Ponyo." How did Oscar voters forget all about master Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki and his sweet and charmingly unusual spin on "The Little Mermaid"? Watch it on DVD and share the puzzlement. (Tuesday) Speaking of Oscar snubs, go ahead and talk about: "Where the Wild Things Are." If you enjoyed Spike Jonze's reinvention of the Maurice Sendak 18-line classic, you were also likely chastised by the most ice-blooded of your friends, who dismissed the film as cold and pretentious.

A roundup of entertainment headlines for Friday: "Twilight: Breaking Dawn" stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner get handprints and footprints outside Grauman's in Hollywood. ( Los Angeles Times ) GWAR guitarist Cory Smoot is found dead on his tour bus. ( Associated Press ) The prosecution and defense made closing arguments in the trial of Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's doctor. ( Los Angeles Times ) "The X Factor" voters send InTENsity packing.

Taylor Lautner thought he was safe. The 19-year-old actor — best known to millions of moviegoers as heartsick werewolf Jacob Black from the "Twilight" movies — had driven from the home he shares with his parents in Valencia, a tranquil planned community about 30 miles north of Hollywood, to a downtown Los Angeles hotel. He had arrived for an interview to discuss his new action film, "Abduction," out Friday. The movie, the first directed by John Singleton ("Boyz N the Hood")

"Water for Elephants" gives off an air of self-satisfaction, and you can see why. What film wouldn't be pleased with having a No. 1 bestseller as source material, an unapologetically picturesque world for its setting and major players such as Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson and a superb Christoph Waltz as its stars. What's not to like? There is quite a bit to enjoy in a film that certainly qualifies as broad-based popular entertainment. But because the ingredients are so promising, there hangs over this serviceable project the wish that it had turned out better still.

Robert Pattinson has nothing but love for his recent experience on the set of "Water for Elephants," director Francis Lawrence's adaptation of the popular novel that's set to open in theaters Friday. It was a far cry from his current job, finishing the grueling six-month shoot for the back-to-back filming of the last two "Twilight" films, based on Stephenie Meyer's final book in her bestselling series of young adult novels, "Breaking Dawn. " Pattinson Pattinson took a moment for a brief phone interview before he was needed on the set of a night shoot for the vampire mega-hit.

As far as tightly wound actresses go, Reese Witherspoon tops the list. She insists upon a strict sense of order in her life. Her production company is called Type A, a moniker her latest costar, Robert Pattinson, says fits her strong sense of self perfectly. And even when she appears to be having a spontaneous moment, lamenting that her well-orchestrated career built around an avoidance of bikinis has been breached by her current role as a leotard-clad circus performer, it turns out the line is a well-rehearsed quip that's been repeated, practically on a loop, to scores of media outlets.

Chrystal Johnson didn't think there was anything unhealthy about her all-consuming fixation with "The Twilight Saga" — until she discovered it was sucking the life out of her marriage. "I found poems my husband had written in his journal about how I had fallen for a 'golden-eyed vampire,' " says Johnson, a 31-year-old accountant from Mesa, Ariz., who became so enthralled by the blockbuster series of young adult novels and movies that she found herself staying up all night, re-reading juicy chapters and chatting about casting news and the are-they-or-aren't-they romance between the stars of the films, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.

"Twilight" star Robert Pattinson has made it official: "Breaking Dawn," the fourth and final book in Stephenie Meyer's vampire saga, will be adapted for the big screen. Pattinson confirmed the news Tuesday during the Cannes Film Festival, revealing that he is signed to star in all four "Twilight" films. The actor is shooting the second, "New Moon," with director Chris Weitz and said he was unsure as to when the fourth movie would begin production. Summit Entertainment gave the go-ahead to the second and third films late last year after the first movie took in more than $190 million in domestic box office revenue.

Live With Regis and Kelly Johnny Weir. (N) 9 a.m. KABC The View Robert Pattinson and Emilie de Ravin; former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.). (N) 10 a.m. KABC The Doctors Acne. (N) 11 a.m. KCAL Rachael Ray Joan Rivers. (N) 2 p.m. KCBS The Bonnie Hunt Show Alison Sweeney. (N) 3 p.m. KNBC Oprah Roger Ebert; Morgan Freeman. (N) 3 p.m. KABC Dr. Phil Inheritances; prenuptial agreements. (N) 4 p.m. KCBS The Ellen DeGeneres Show Lauren Graham.

The MTV Movie Awards are typically an exercise in frothy Hollywood film promotion but on Sunday night they were a ritual of redemption for two of Hollywood's biggest stars, Tom Cruise and Sandra Bullock. The show was jammed pack with popcorn commercials but if you paid attention there were also surprisingly emotional moments, none more than the 21 Century survivor declarations by the stars of "Top Gun" and "Speed." Cruise opened the show in the hairy-chested, Tinseltown mercenary persona of Les Grosssman from "Tropic Thunder" and by channeling his inner Fly Girl with his dance moves.