I was talking with a friend of mine this weekend who had recently happened across McG’s cell-phone number. Being that those who get access to these things are usually those who shouldn’t use them, I started a little McG support, hoping that if she called the guy, it wouldn’t be just to yell “Charlie’s Angels sucks!” into the mouthpiece before hanging up.

Charlies Angels did kind of suck, but it wasn’t the directing that made it oh-so-suck-so-much. I said wait until Terminator Salvation comes out, since all we have on the books for McG are the Charlies Angels films and We Are Marshall, which was so dictatorially bland that it’s hard to form an opinion about it. I blamed Charlies Angels on Drew Barrymore, who I’ve always seen as someone who develops projects to make her look good while dating the flavor of the week (Tom Green when Green was popular, Justin Long when he was only “a Mac,” it wouldn’t surprise me if she dated one of the Twitter founders at this point).

I used Drew Barrymore as the example of a child star gone to far, since every child star either stops acting all together or pulls a Barrymore by disappearing into rehab or non-stardom just long enough to pique our interest she he/she is back.

Dakota Fanning is following more of the Natalie Portman road, where the kid is in movies until one day she’s in Garden State and you realize how long it’s been since you’ve seen the professional.

I’m rooting for Dakota as an actress, and I think true child stars have access to a whole range of different kinds of vapid since they never got a chance to live outside the circle of fame. Cast her as a robot or a prostitute and she’s always creating the character instead of pulling from real life, because she was born human and sold her body to films long before she had the option to sell her body for sex, get me?

Oh, yeah, there’s news about the Twilight franchise in here somewhere…

This was press-released, so I might as well cite /Film, ’cause ‘ve started listening to the /Filmcast and they are on my mind:

Dakota Fanning has been cast in The Twilight Saga’s New Moon. Rumors first began to circulate in January, but it was finally confirmed over the weekend. The 14-year-old actress will play the role of Jane, a member of the Volturi, an Italian group of vampires who maintain vampire order and ensure that humans don’t find out about vampires’ existence.