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A couple of months ago, it was announced that Katherine Heigl had discovered the secret to immortality, and it wasn’t keeping a creepy painting in her attic at home. Nope, it was drinking the blood of goats and sacrificing garden gnomes to the great god underneath her local IKEA. Wait, not that either. It was starring in the fantasy romance The Age of Adaline. Well, now it’s just called Adaline and it has a director in Andy Tennant.

Written by J Mills Goodloe and Sal Pascowitz, with recent polishing by Feast of Love’s Allison Burnett, Adaline is the story of a beautiful woman who appears young, but has actually been around a fair bit longer than her fresh-faced looks might indicate. Following a mysterious accident, she’s been gifted, or, as some would see it, cursed with never aging.

But when she meets a man who may risk his life to help her regain her mortality, she decides that it’s time to rejoin the rest of humanity on the path to wrinkles, bad joints and, eventually, death. We’re sure they’ll focus on the more charming aspects of the story.

Tennant joining the film seems like a mixed blessing – he’s been responsible for some distinctly average rom-com fare recently, including last year’s Jennifer Aniston/Gerard Butler wannabe screwball pic The Bounty Hunter, along with Fool’s Gold and Sweet Home Alabama. Hitch was better, but nothing amazing. Perhaps a slight shift in genre will give him more to work with.

We’ll have to wait a while to see, though, as the film won’t start shooting until early next year.
 

Katherine Heigl did not adopt daughter Naleigh because it was "trendy".

The 'Killers' star says she is "very grateful" to have the 10-month-old baby in her life, and admits her mother's decision to adopt Korean child Meg when she was little helped her inform her choice.

The 31-year-old actress said: "It's so funny. My mom and I joke about it when people say 'You're just doing it because it's trendy'."

"My mum says 'Well, I'm trendier than everybody because I was doing it in the 1970s when I adopted your sister.'

"I'm very grateful for this little being in my life. I'm very grateful she's my daughter. I'm so grateful we found each other."

Katherine Heigl (pictured with adopted baby Naleigh in the stroller) says she and musician hubby Josh Kelley would like to add to their family. "We would love to have a second child, adopted or biological," Heigl said in an interview with Germany's Gala magazine.

"We're not ruling it out." Last year the couple adopted a baby girl from South Korea they named Nancy Leigh. Nicknamed Naleigh, the bub recently underwent heart surgery. "Just look at Haiti. There's so many parentless children," Heigl said.

"It breaks my heart. I want to help." Talking about parenthood, the 31-year-old Killers actress told Us Magazine: "I'm very grateful to be a mom. It's changed my whole perspective in a good way."
Her sister was also adopted from South Korea, one reason she was determined to do the same, Heigl told Ellen DeGeneres last year.
She said she was so determined to adopt that she even made sure Kelley was happy with the idea before they were engaged.
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Katherine Heigl is planning to have another baby.

The 'Killers' actress - who already raises nine-month-old adopted daughter Naleigh with her husband Josh Kelley - admits they are thinking about extending their brood further and hope to have another child in the near future.

Katherine revealed: "We would like to have a second child - adopted or biological. We're not ruling it out."

The 31-year-old beauty has been inspired to raise a second child by the recent earthquakes in the Caribbean nation Haiti, where the area suffered mass devastation and thousands of children lost their parents.

She told Germany's Gala magazine: "Just look at Haiti. They're so many parentless children. It breaks my heart. I want to help."

Grey's Anatomy beauty Katherine Heigl says she has learned that she will have some alone time sacrificed with her husband Josh Kelley because of her baby girl Naleigh.  She revealed the reason -  her baby girl vomited all over her sexy lingerie when she was trying to get intimate with Josh.

She tells Harper's Bazaar, "If parent time interferes with sexy time, that’s that. Now it’s time to re-evaluate and grow up… Enough with the drama."

Also this week, Heigl said her baby daughter Naleigh is '100 percent' fine after having open heart surgery.
The 31-year-old adopted the little girl from Korea last year and she had the op before she left the country after being diagnosed with congenital heart disease.

Naleigh was first said to have special needs, but it was found out she had heart disease, which was put right by surgery last year.
Heigl said to Harper's Bazaar: "She has a scar, so she won't be wearing bikinis, which is fine by us. "A lot of children don't find forever homes because they're on that special-needs list, even if it's because of something as simple as her mother smoked cigarettes for a month, not knowing she was pregnant. "That's not so huge that you couldn't handle it."
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Katherine Heigl's baby daughter is recovering well following heart surgery.

The actress and husband Josh Kelley adopted 17-month-old Naleigh from Korea last September and the tot recently went into the operating theatre to repair a congenital heart problem but the little girl is now making good progress.

Katherine said: "Her heart is 100 per cent fine now. She has a scar, so she won't be wearing bikinis, which is fine by us."

The former 'Grey's Anatomy' star also revealed how the adoption process was sped up for her and Josh because they were willing to have a child with health problems.

Katherine Heigl is about to gain movie immortality, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The star of Knocked Up and Gray's Anatomy will take the title role in The Age of Adaline, an epic romance from Lakeshore Entertainment.

Dorian Gray got his shot at everlasting life through a painting that aged instead of him, but Adaline's longevity is apparently the result of an accident that renders her ageless at the start of the 20th century. She lives a solitary life until she meets that certain someone, who may be worth going mortal for. Like Superman when he gave up everything for Lois Lane. Except without the ice fortress, or Terence Stamp in leather trews. As far as we know.

There's not much to be learned about the details so far. "Accident that causes immortality" sounds like that sort of vague, Benjamin Button style magic-realism that doesn't need explanation, but the idea that Adaline can choose to go mortal for the right man suggests that this is more like a fairytale, where the spell has rules. The writers are Mills Goodloe and Sal Paskowitz, and it seems like a change of direction for both of them: Goodloe was involved with the Lethal Weapon series (and Assassins and Maverick - friends with Richard Donner then), and Paskowitz, if it's the same guy, has a background in surfing and skateboarding.

Sidney Kimmel, Steve Golin and Alex Madison are producing for Lakeshore, which is a similar set-up to both One For the Money (also starring Heigl) and The Lincoln Lawyer. Shooting is expected to start in October.

 

Katherine Heigl says husband Josh Kelley is a "spectacular" father.

The couple adopted 17-month-old Naleigh last year and the actress is completely in awe of how fantastic the singer is with their little girl.

She said: "He's spectacular. I couldn't have even imagined a better father for her. She's the luckiest little kid. We call him Disneyland Dad because as soon as he comes in, it's fun and happiness and rides around the room on his shoulders. He's attentive and involved. I never for a minute would question leaving her."

Katherine left Josh in charge of Naleigh as she attended the 13th Annual ASPCA's Bergh Ball in New York last night (26.04.10) and knew the tot was in good hands.

Oops! Katherine Heigl (pictured) was left embarrassed when her dress strap fell down during an acceptance speech in Sin City.  The actress has been under the spotlight of Hollywood buzz this week for a dramatic hair color change and her Grey's Anatomy status. Now a wardrobe malfunction helps Heigl make celebrity news.

The 30-year-old star was on stage at the ShoWest convention in Las Vegas to pick up the Female Star Of The Year gong when the strap on her red dress fell down.

The actress tried to continue with her speech but appeared flustered by the wardrobe malfunction. The event's host, Billy Bush, then stepped forward and held the strap in place so she could continue with her speech.
Heigl then found a pin backstage so she could regain her composure before heading out to see the photographers.
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Jennifer Lopez is the new Goldie Hawn. Er… she is? Well, Sony seems to think so, as the studio is negotiating with her to star in the remake of the 1987 Hawn/Kurt Russell comedy Overboard.

This one has been in development for a while now, but we’re not sure we’d heard J-Lo’s name attached to the lead before (Katherine Heigl was mentioned at one point, but we guess she passed).

Still, while she’s yet to prove herself a truly natural comedienne, we’re pretty sure she could pull of the role of the snooty, spoiled woman who falls off her yacht, only to be saved by a dodgy-yet-charming carpenter, who, upon learning at the hospital that she’s got amnesia, fools her into thinking she’s his wife.

Cue comedy hi-jinks as joins him at home to help look after his four children.

Garry Marshall directed the original, but the remake doesn’t have a helmer attached just yet.