Believe it or not, it’s been two full years since Reese Witherspoon has graced a movie screen, unless you count doing the voice of a nearly 50-foot-tall animated woman in Monsters vs. Aliens. In a candid interview, the actress — who stars opposite Paul Rudd and Owen Wilson in the upcoming romantic comedy How Do You Know — explains that her break from acting wasn’t anything she planned. “I just didn’t read anything I liked,” she says. “There are a lot of really, really, really big movies about robots and things — and there’s not a part for a 34-year-old woman in a robot movie.” In the meantime, Witherspoon has kept plenty busy raising her two kids, 11-year-old Ava and 7-year-old Deacon, and dating agent Jim Toth, to whom she’s rumored to be on the verge of getting engaged. “My mom always texts me, like, ‘Are you getting married?’ ” Witherspoon says, laughing. “I’m like, ‘Mom, come on! You would know if I was getting married.’ ” What Witherspoon clearly hasn’t been doing is dwelling on any of the personal turmoil in her past, including her divorce from actor Ryan Phillippe. “My favorite quote is from Martha Stewart: ‘I have a very short memory for painful things.’ And I do. I have one of those incredible memories where I just erase painful things….I truly believe you never lose in a relationship. You’ve always gained something.”
For more from Reese Witherspoon — including her thoughts on fame, her insecurities, and her “insane” visit to the White House with Paul Rudd — pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, on stands Friday, December 10.
Get your glasses ready again: James Cameron and Andrew Adamson are pairing for a 3-D family-friendly film centered on Cirque du Soleil. [Deadline]
When The Bachelor returns to ABC Jan. 3, a chastened Brad Womack — a.k.a. the guy who dared to defy the rules of the reality TV universe by not proposing to either of the women lovingly hand-selected for him by television producers — will embark upon a serious, introspective, soul-baring journey toward lifelong love, again with women carefully hand-selected for him by television producers. (See, you can tell how chastened he is by his intense look in this photo of him clutching the rose. Doesn’t he look like he’s going to bite someone?) And it seems, judging from the network’s just-released press release teasing the first episode, that the proceedings will be off to a great start toward that high-minded end: First, Womack (“a changed man”) will be ambushed — ahem, confronted — by DeAnna Pappas and Jenni Croft, the ladies he jilted at the vaunted Platform of Soon-to-Be-Broken Engagements. Because, of course, it’s important to his emotional health … and … stuff. Not because that’ll make good TV and because this is really about him making amends to the 18- to 49-year-old females who watch The Bachelor. My guess is DeAnna and Jenni are pretty over not marrying a guy who didn’t want to marry them; it’s the fans who still need closure.
Michael C. Hall was on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night, where he chitchatted about Dexter and sang a song. Dexter! Singing! And wearing adorable striped socks. Also, he said he’d be open to being on Glee, so, let’s make that happen, please, powers that be. I would watch the hell out of that. 
