There was a rumour going around that Lindsay Lohan was to guest star on the ABC show Ugly Betty (main star America Ferrera of course). For a change the rumour is actually true, Lindsay was already spotted on the set of Ugly Betty. Now it has been confirmed that she’ll be in the season finale with a possible expansion into the first part of the next season (there’s talk of about five to eight episodes).

There are some people that see this as a big return for Lindsay but I wouldn’t see it that way quite yet (though she apparently showed up early to set, something she was known to have trouble with in the past). It’s just a TV guest spot, it’s a tiny step. If she proves she can do a good job on that as far as work ethic goes more producers might be willing to risk putting her in films again. It’s just a process that takes time.

America Ferrera has been signed to star in An Invisible Sign of My Own, a novel based drama about the 20-year Mona Gray who turned to math as a child when her father became ill. Now she’s a math teacher and has to help their students to their own crisis.

This is a very small project (which isn’t a bad thing) and America has a very short period to shoot it in due to her contract with ABC. So not really a lot I can say about this movie, it’s by a first time scripted movie director so that’s always a risk. Though small independent movies can never really hurt, they’re a great way to gain acting experience.

America Ferrera has signed on to voice one of the characters in the Dreamworks CGI-animated movie How to Train Your Dragon. She’ll co-star with Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Jonah hill and Christopher Mintz-Plasse.

The movie is based on a children’s book series, it’s centered about the timid son of a Viking chief. To be initiated into his tribe he has to capture and train a dragon. America voices the character of Astrid who partners up with the son to train the dragon.

Animated movies of course are less of an acting challenge than live action movies. The story sounds like a real animated movie, it’s probably not a movie which could be done very well in live action. It’s also aimed at kids so the animation part makes sense, for America it’s probably a decent paycheck and a fun time.

There are dozens of pointless lists on the internet during a year, most of which show up at the end the year. If you ask me I would say most of them are useless, in the end people will make their own judgement on who they think is best. So that’s why starletviews is introducing “the rising Starlets of 2007”, a list that shows who of the younger generation is climbing the Hollywood ladder. It’s extremely subjective because it was made by just one person: me. No public voting was involved to manipulate the results in any way.
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America Ferrera has won the emmy for best actress in a comedy series for Ugly Betty. Ugly Betty itself also won the emmy for best directing in a comedy series.

Not that many starlet involved TV shows were nominated this year, Hannah Montana failed to win the emmy for best children’s program.

The Teen Choice Awards were handed out this week and of course some of the starlets were nominated.

The big winner was Sophia Bush who won the awards for Choice Movie Actress Comedy and Thriller and breakout female. Miley Cyrus won the awards for Choice TV Actress Comedy and Summer Artists. Jessica Alba won it for Female Hotty, America Ferrera for Breakout TV Actress, Vanessa Hudgens for Breakout Music Artists and Keira Knightley for Choice Movie Actress Action/Adventure.

These awards are complete and total nonsense. I never had faith in internet votes but now even less, there are only a couple of awards I can live with. Nobody can say that Vanessa Hudgens is the best new music artists this year; it just means her fans were the ones that had the most spare time to vote a lot. They rarely IP check this kind of vote, and if they do they often allow several votes per IP.

And what even is the award for Favourite Summer Artist? That category is just too vague to judge. High School Musical 2 even won the award for Choice TV movie, the weird thing just is that the movie aired long after voting started. So it was nominated before anyone ever saw the movie, that shouldn’t be possible. Fox just knew that it would be hot around the time the Teen Choice Awards air, so it was just for ratings.

This whole thing just strengthens my belief that internet votes are pointless.