Usually we see television shows get adapted for the big screen, and not the other way around. That's why all our favorite cartoons from childhood are the big summer blockbusters starring Shia Labeouf. That's why X-Files had another film, ten years too late. But someone at ABC just said "eff it, let's buy the rights to that awful J-Lo film…..no, the other one…..no, not that one either," and now 2002's Maid in Manhattan, (which keeps slipping out as Maid of Honor, which was a completely different film but would have been a better title for the Lopez vehicle, honestly) is going to be an ABC series!

The film's writer, Chad Hodge, will also co-write the pilot for ABC, and admits feeling a kinship with the protagonist of the show, a Latina from the Bronx, because "I imagine being a writer in Hollywood is often very similar to being a maid in Manhattan."

Yeah, not really.

Is Good Morning America going easy on its celebrity guests? The morning shows have always been the place for creampuff interviews where talent can plug their latest TV and film projects while their publicists stand by ready to pull rank if an anchor so much dares as violate their "Do Not Ask About X" agreement. But perhaps ABC's morning show is all too eager to please A-list (and below) stars.

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The problem with the term “beautiful girl” is that girls are rarely, if ever, beautiful. Girls are pretty and girls are cute — and that’s fine because there’s a time and place for cute (the age 16 and prom, respectively) — but they’re not beautiful. Women are beautiful. Women are sexy.

We’re reminded of how many people ignore that important distinction around this time every year: the lad mag “Hot List” season, when Maxim et al group together the names of every sad, drunk, Botoxed, sutured, bleached, commodified and infected girl in Hollywood and try to pretend the resultant stable has sex appeal. We’re sick of it, so we’ve compiled our own lineup of truly beautiful women.

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Clarifying speculation that Jennifer Lopez would continue pimping out her children post-People magazine with her new TLC show, manager Simon Fields insists the new series "is not a reality show. It’s a show that will track the creation, production and eventual launch of a new fragrance. Jennifer will appear in a creative, entrepreneurial capacity and will absolutely not feature her children and family life."

Oh good, glad we made clear the new show would be … an informercial.

Staffers at Parents magazine love their celebrity gossip as much as the rest of this TMZ-revering nation, so they were fawning over People's $6 million Jennifer Lopez baby photos this week, too. Except they spotted something awry with the new mom's six-figure nursery.

Basically, it's a baby death trap!

The Meredith Corp.-owned magazine was only too pleased to call out Time Inc.'s tabloid's nursery pictorial, which includes crib "suffocation hazards" called pillows, stuffed animals, and blankets. The "dramatic draped canopies hanging over the cribs" are cause for "strangulation." And the "cute bows tied onto the crib slats" are "choking hazards as soon as the babies are big enough to get their hands on them." And there's an open window sans window guard. CAN YOU BELIEVE?!

We're hearing People's J. Lo twins issue moved between two and three million copies at the newsstand, according to multiple scan data sources. (Distributor AMI says 3m; supermarket data say 2m.)

By comparison, Nicole Richie's baby issue is said to have sold 1.8 million at the newsstand, while Christina Aguilera's moved an estimated 1.3 million.

Turns out People magazine almost certainly had something to do with the disappearance of Jennifer Lopez's most active fan site OnlineJLoFan.com. When the tabloid's $6 million cover photos of Lopez and Marc Anthony's new baby twins hit People.com, the whole spread also got posted on the fan forum — before the site suddenly disappeared from the Internet.
Now OnlineJLoFan.com is back online, but with one big stipulation.

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Though even People magazine posted its $6 million Jennifer Lopez baby photos online before the issue hit stands, it didn't want anyone else infringing on its publicity boon. Which is why a round of Internet rumors have the magazine responsible for the closure of OnlineJLoFan.com, arguably the largest Lopez fan site. They posted the cover sometime on Thursday and was inexplicably offline shortly thereafter. Now fingers point at Time Inc. attorneys, who may have gotten web host GoDaddy.com to cave; the site now reads, "This site is currently unavailable. If you are the owner of this site, please contact us at 1-480-505-8855 at your earliest convenience."

And this wouldn't be the first time the cheap web registrar caved — it canceled the account of Seclists.org when MySpace complained over the publishing of a list of usernames and password.

When this week's People magazine hit this morning, Americans got their first $6 million peek at Jennifer Lopez's new twin babies Max and Emme. So cute! So adorable!

And then when readers flip to the inside pages of the magazine, there's another story about twins. Except this one is about a father who stabbed his twin daughters to death.

Awk-ward.

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Even after spending $6 million for Jennifer Lopez's new twins, People magazine couldn't resist also being the magazine that scored those first pics of Owen Wilson and Kate Hudson holding hands. (Smart move keeping Marc Anthony off the cover though!) Us Weekly is said to have dropped out of the bidding for the photos, proving too costly at around $100,000, and was instead forced to go with (yet another) Lauren Conrad cover.

• Rachel Bilson can finally join the Facebook group, She Bangs, She Bangs.*

• Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson back together? Awkward …

• Amy Winehouse needs to get back to rehab if she thinks a make-up line is a smart business venture.

• J. Lo lets her babies know she loves them through purchased goods.

• Hugh Jackman is a jacked man.

*Not a real Facebook group.

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People is reporting it as an exclusive, but it was bound to happen. Jennifer Lopez finally gave birth to the twins, a girl and a boy.

Just hearing about the birth of Jennifer Lopez’s kids makes us really want to see those babies. Hopefully a magazine will run a pictorial spread of them. We would totally buy that magazine off of the newsstands if that happens. Someone’s on that, right?

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We’re a long way off from having a child, but Christina Aguirela’s windfall from the birth of her son Max got us thinking. Babies are expensive. So when our little bundle of joy comes into the world, why not set up a PayPal account for friends and family to see pictures of him? There’s no reason to wait until little league to project our needs and insecurities onto an innocent child.

Unfortunately, this isn’t a great business model. People lost money on the Christina Aguilera spread. The magazine paid an estimated $1.5 million (though some say $2 million) for the exclusive U.S. rights to the pics, and sales have been tepid at best. Unless People sells 200,000 copies in the next few days, they’ll end up $1.1 mil short of their initial return on investment.

People says they’d “do the deal again in a minute.” Even they lose money off of this issue, they see the cover shoot as part of their overall strategy “to reaffirm that People is the place for major life events of A-list celebrities." [Christina Aguilera is A-list?-Ed.]

That’s all well and good for Jennifer Lopez, whose babies/payday should come through soon. People is ready to spend up to an estimated $6 million for those little gifts from God.

But about what regular people who aren’t famous at all? Our PayPal plan is totally f’ed, and not in a good way.

Well done, Max. Once again, you've ruined everything.

People magazine is reportedly ready to spend $4 to $6 million for the first shots of Jennifer Lopez’s twins. That would make each baby worth about $2 to $3 million, less than Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, who went for four, but likely more than baby Max, Christina Aguilera’s son who sold for an estimated $1.5 or 2 mil.

On one hand, these babies are getting an early introduction into what their lives as celeb-spawn will be like. On the other hand, this industry is totally bizarre and twisted. And ultimately babies are too young for judgment, so what's the point?

• Jennifer Lopez has set the birth of her twins for February 14. Cheesy, sure, but a total J. Lo move. What we do judge is planning her c-section on a Thursday, for the benefit of the tabs. If that's true, he deserves every forthcoming invasion of privacy.

• Kate Hudson and Liv Tyler threw a party at the Waverly Inn. Where did those ladies meet, a group for the famous children of famous parents?

• Paris Hilton is still into men with fading fame; she hooked up with Simon Rex last night.

• Playboy bunnies hit up Mardi Gras. Hopefully they know better than to give it up for a free t-shirt.

• Pictures of the bump that launched "My Humps"

• Pink Is The New Blog is better at keeping Project Runway related secrets than we are.

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