Kat was recently featured in Entertainment Weekly yet again this year, listed as one of their “Breakout Stars of 2008″, alongside Robert Pattinson, Demi Lovato, Estelle, Russell Brand, Shailene Woodley, David Cook, Tristan Wilds, Chelsea Handler and Angel.

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Kat Dennings
She made angst funny in ‘The House Bunny’ and became the thinking teen’s dream girl in ‘Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist,’ all while steering clear of the TMZ scene. Now Dennings is in demand and has her pick of projects — next up is ‘The Dream of the Romans’ with Olivia Thirlby (’Juno’). But there’s one part of the Hollywood game that the 22-year-old still hasn’t mastered: red carpets. ”What am I supposed to do with my hands? I’ve been trying to figure it out. Every time I see a picture of myself, I’m like, ‘God, why did I…? Ugh!”’

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Hey guys, remember we said we had a surprise coming?

The FANLISTING for Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist is now up! It’s a great feel-good movie with a really catchy indie soundtrack, and best of all, of course, Kat plays title character Norah. She did a great job, and adds even more warmth and humour to the storyline. If you enjoyed the film, please do join the listing and show your appreciation. You can even link back to it with various buttons:

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We just got a little heads up in our inbox that Kat made it to the Teen Vogue’s October list of the Ten Best Dressed! She’s made number 10 with her floral Dolce and Gabbana dress on the October 2nd Nick and Norah premiere, and is on the list with actresses like Camilla Belle, Ashley Tisdale, Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez and Dakota Fanning, among others. It seems to have been a great month for Disney actresses, but then again with the premiere of HSM3, who’s surprised?

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Someone shot a few candid pictures of Kat when she was out shopping with her mother in LA last night. There are ten of them uploaded in the gallery; just click on any of the pictures and it’ll bring you to the right album.

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Rach scanned her copy of Nylon, so now there are five high quality images in the gallery, including the whole article!

I also found an interview with Kat in The Jewish Journal;

Nick and Norah’ star Kat Dennings is infinitely Jewish, in her own way

By Amy Klein

Who would use tikkun olam, the Jewish concept of repairing the world, as a lead-in to a movie love scene?

Norah Silverberg, the lead character in the hit teen comedy, “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist,” that’s who. The film tracks an offbeat love story between high school students Nick (Michael Cera) and Norah (Kat Dennings) as they traverse through New York City in search of a mysterious band (”Where’s Fluffy”) and Norah’s lost, drunken girlfriend.

Along the way they meet an interesting cast of characters, including Norah’s ex-boyfriend, the sleazy Tal (Jay Baruchel), who is using her in hopes her famous dad will produce his Jew-power album. Oh yeah — and Norah tells Nick about tikkun olam — right before she makes her move on him.

But actress Kat Dennings, who is Jewish, like the character she plays, didn’t know the concept before the film. “I had to ask people around the set about the Hebrew words,” she said in a phone interview with The Jewish Journal. “I couldn’t pronounce it.”

Dennings, who is 22 and lives in Los Angeles, is different from Norah, an 18-year-old who lives in Englewood, N.J. For one thing, she’s not a “JAP” — as Nick calls Norah in the film.

“I don’t even know what JAP really means,” Dennings said. “That’s just something kids say to each other.”

She said she is very different from Norah, except “for both being brunettes and Jewish,” and “I tend to worry a lot and take care of my friends — I take a mothering role,” she said.

Still, she was attracted to the film, based on a 2006 novel by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan (Knopf Young Adults) that had far more Jewish references. (In the book, Norah talks often about Judaism.) The film’s Judaism has been “moviefied,” Dennings said.

“I liked that Norah was a strong and unique female lead, not the type of girl I was used to seeing in films like this,” Dennings said. “I liked that she was Jewish — it’s different from what I’ve seen in the past.”

Although she says she’s “a billion percent Jewish” (”I don’t think I have any relatives who aren’t Jewish”), she considers herself more ethnically and culturally affiliated than religiously so, as do many of her generation.

For example, on her blog — which she’s had for an astonishing seven years — she has posted a video titled “Happy Purim!” about her and a faux pregnant friend clowning around. “It had nothing to do with Purim, but we filmed it on Purim,” she said.

After an article about her appeared in Vanity Fair, she blogged, “push Aunt Nancy aside and throw open the screen door, because ‘Hollywood’s Next Wave’ just got a lot Jewisher.”

The youngest of five children raised in Philadelphia, “I went to my little friends’ bat mitzvahs, but I’m not that into religion,” she said.

Which is funny, since the pale-skinned, pouty-lipped actress’ first standout role was in “Sex and the City,” playing Jenny Brier, a teen who hires Samantha to do publicity for her bat mitzvah.

She says she’s not worried about being stereotyped; she’s also starred in “40-Year-Old Virgin,” “Charlie Bartlett,” and guest starred in TV’s “CSI: Miami” and “Without a Trace.” She is also set to film “Sendor,” with Woody Harrelson.

Judaism, she said, “is an important part of my history, but, as a whole, religion is not a part of my life.”

“It’s a background thing, but I’m proud to be Jewish.”

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Added 10 more pictures from the Hollywood Film Festival Awards Gala here. 6 HQ and 4 regular.

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Thanks to Lindsay, we have a few more images in the gallery! One from the Envy Magazine photoshoot, shot by Jonathan Zizzo, one from an old photoshoot and the last one is from the October issue of Nylon Magazine, which will be up in HQ soon too.

We’re always open for submissions! Feel free to email us if you have any images of Kat we don’t.

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Kat attended an event yesterday in Beverly Hills; the 12th Annual Hollywood Film Festival’s Awards Gala! She looked pretty as always. I really like what they did to her hair.

11 54 images from it here.

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Hey guys. Just a notification that commenting in the gallery will be turned off because of excessive spam. There’s our update post comments and the forum if you want to talk about how pretty and awesome Kat is, so don’t despair.

Speaking of comments on our update posts, we are also getting some spam issues there. If you post solely to link to other sites, particularly irrelevant sites, your comment will be deleted without warning. This is and always will be an ad-free site. We’re not here to make a profit for ourselves or for anyone else, but to provide info and media on Kat.

Lastly, we have a surprise for everyone coming within the next week or two. Keep checking back for the announcement. :)

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As a kid, Kat Dennings wasn’t allowed to watch television. You could say her parents’ plan backfired.

The 22-year-old actress, who plays the swoony, semi-sarcastic half of the couple in “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist,” remembers being fixated on Marilyn Monroe and movies from the moment she could talk.

“My parents don’t really know how that happened,” Dennings says, but they encouraged her anyway.

At age 10, she took one acting class and failed miserably. The teacher gave her a Chiclets gum commercial to read. “The guy stops me and tells me I’m horrible and I’m never going to be an actress and I should quit immediately,” she remembers.

Not to be discouraged, Dennings stuck with the profession, learning her craft on the job, landing small roles in TV and movies throughout her teens. Then came “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” with a whole new challenge: “That movie is about 80% to 90% improv. There’s barely any script left in there,” says the actress, who played Steve Carell’s teenage stepdaughter-to-be, determined to lose her virginity well before 40.

After being impressed with her audition, director Judd Apatow helped coach Dennings during shooting, throwing out alternate lines to mix things up on-set.

The experience served her well on “Nick and Norah.”

“We filmed that right in the thick of the writers strike, so Lorene (Scafaria) couldn’t actually do rewrites on it. She couldn’t even be on set, so we basically had no choice but to ad lib when something wasn’t working,” Dennings explains.

“The House Bunny” unfolded closer to script, allowing Dennings to learn from longtime friend Anna Faris, who appears in nearly every scene and had to memorize pages of dialogue and still manage to maintain a Playboy-caliber physique.

Dennings, whose own beauty resembles a younger Kate Winslet, is impressed but not intimidated by all the young blonde starlets she encounters at auditions.

“I’m really nearsighted, which has served me well,” she says. “I’ve never dyed my hair, never fixed my teeth or gotten a tan. I’m really comfortable with myself.”

Though Dennings has been able to adapt her own wry persona to Norah and other roles, she’s eager to try new things. Robert Rodriguez put her through the visual effects gantlet for kid-friendly “Shorts” (”It’s going to be super-bananas!” she says), and “Defendor” puts her in a character well beyond her comfort zone.

“I play a crack-addicted prostitute, and I know nothing about any of those things,” she says, “so that’s going to be a challenge.”

WHAT ELSE?
An actor should always: “Listen. I can watch a movie and go, ‘Oh, my god, that person is acting.’ If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.”
Lucky break: “‘Nick and Norah.’ I’m not your typical girl who would get a lead girl role, but Pete Sollett and Michael Cera wanted me to get it, and it worked out.”
Favorite film character: “Probably Phil Connors from ‘Groundhog Day.’ Bill Murray’s one of my favorite actors. I think I’ve watched that movie over 300 times and could watch it another 300 times … today.”

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