Just two weeks ago, Lauren Conrad put a jump in our step when she announced to MTV News that she and the rest of the cast had had “discussions” about a big-screen version of “The Hills.”

Alas, the second my colleague Josh Horowitz called it the best “idea in the history of the universe,” I should have known it was too good to be true.

Cat fight!

“I've never discussed a movie possibility for 'The Hills'…and I'm not sure if for my first movie I'd let Lauren Conrad narrate me, so I don't think that would be something I would do," Heidi Montag told us over the weekend. "If I was doing movies, I'd want it to be with Denzel Washington or something like that. If they were to make a 'Hills' movie, I wouldn't be in it. No, thank you.” Read more...

Quick: Who's the greatest author of the last twenty years? It very well be David Foster Wallace, whose "Infinite Jest" was recently named one of the top 100 novels of the 20th Century by "Time Magazine."

For "Office" star John Krasinski, who is adapting Wallace's "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men" for the big-screen, the gift of David's prose is "a blessing," he said. Unfortunately, it's a blessing that he won't be able to return.

"I talked to him on the phone and I said, 'I hope you enjoy the movie,' and he said, 'I probably won't see it.' Which is true," Krasinski laughed, recalling his conversations with the author. "He's a straight shooter, you know what I mean?" Read more...