Given the colorful, upbeat look (complete with little flash points) of the just-released cover art for her new album, All I Ever Wanted, due out March 17, Kelly Clarkson is obviously trying to break away from all the drama that surrounded her ill-fated 2007 disc, My December, and have a little fun.

In fact, American Idol's first viewer-created champ already hinted back on New Year's Day of a return to her more playful pop side when she unveiled the lollipop-loving cover for her first single, "My Life Would Suck Without You."

The song doesn't hit airwaves until Jan. 19, but you can get a small taste of it right now over at Amazon.

So what say you? Have Kelly's fans been waiting for a moment like this, or will they simply walk away?

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We're still not sure if we'll ever be able to watch Watchmen, but at least the sideshow is entertaining.

With the release of the anticipated comic book flick in jeopardy amid a blistering battle between rival studios, lawyers for Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox gave fanboys a glimmer of hope Friday, announcing that settlement talks were progressing nicely.

Claiming it still held the movie rights to the famed Alan Moore graphic novel, 20th Fox filed a lawsuit last year seeking to block Warners from releasing the film. This, after director Zack Snyder had wrapped the $150 million project and Warners had set a March 6 release date.

Last month, U.S. District Judge Gary Allen Feess gave Fox a key victory, preliminarily ruling that the studio had a claim to an ownership stake and hinting that Watchmen could be shelved if the two sides didn't work things out before the Jan. 20 trial.

And that led to today's hopeful news...

Per court papers, Fox attorney Louis Karasik says the studios have accepted several of each other's key demands and talks were surprisingly "productive."

But while the two studios try to make peace, Watchmen producer Lloyd Levin broke out the gasoline and matches.

In an open letter posted on the website HitFix, Levin says Fox is trying to cash in after deeming the project "unfilmable."

"One reason the movie was made was because Warner Brothers spent the time, effort and money to engage with and develop the project," he wrote.

"If the project had been sequestered at Fox, if Fox had any say in the matter, Watchmen simply wouldn't exist today, and there would be no film for Fox to lay claim on. It seems beyond cynical for the studio to claim ownership at this point."

Fox quickly pooh-poohed Levin's letter.

"We appreciate Mr. Levin's passion for this project, but he has neglected basic facts and legal rulings," Fox said in a statement. "There is no question of who is right and who is wrong. That has been decided through the litigation that we had hoped to avoid, and we refer interested parties to the court's ruling to confirm these statements."

In other words, give us a piece of the action and Watchmen will be suiting up as scheduled this spring.

Taking the judge's recommendations in stride, legal eagles for Fox and Warner Bros. asked Feess to postpone today's status conference until Monday afternoon so they could continue hashing out a compromise over the weekend.

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You mess with the grizzly, you get the claws.

In new interview footage of Sarah Palin released on YouTube this week, the Alaska governor gets not only folksy but downright forceful in unleashing her opinions on the two women most responsible for molding her less-than-flattering public persona, calling out both Katie "What newspapers do you read?" Couric and doppelgänger extraordinaire Tina Fey.

Palin was interviewed in her Wasilla home for conservative filmmaker John Ziegler's new documentary How Obama Got Elected, and claimed that Couric and Fey spent election season not only "exploiting" her but "capitalizing" on her sudden fame.

Not that Palin herself was without fault.

The politico admitted that while she knew after her first session with Couric that the interview "didn't go well," she was forced by those "in that upper echelon of power brokering in the media…to go back for more." She said she was quite aware that the move "was not a wise decision."

Palin went on to say that she never watched the interview as it was broadcast—or, as she puts it, as CBS "spliced it together"—but she did seem to finally have an answer, sort of, for why she chose not to disclose her reading list.

"Because, Katie, you're not the center of everybody's universe."

As for Fey, Palin was shown a clip of the in-character comic saying on Saturday Night Live that marriage was meant to be "a sacred institution between two unwilling teenagers."

Palin responded by saying that "the mama grizzly rises up in me" when such comments are made about her daughter Bristol.

"I did see that Tina Fey was named entertainer of the year and Katie Couric's ratings have risen…That's a little bit perplexing, but it also says a great deal about our society."

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Making her rounds in Hollywood last night, Jessica Alba showed off her own unique sense of style at the “My Bloody Valentine 3D” premiere.

The “Dark Angel” babe sauntered down the red carpet in a black-with-white-polka-dotted ‘50s-style Dolce & Gabbana pajama ensemble, complete with black shoes with blinging buckles.

Like the seasoned pro that she is, Jessica meandered around the Mann’s Chinese Six Theater, smoozing with the likes of Jaime King and Jensen Ackles, accompanied by her doting husband/babydaddy Cash Warren.

Earlier in the day, Alba was spotted living it up over at the Kari Feinstein Golden Globes Style Lounge held at Zune LA.

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Angelina Jolie may want to keep practicing her sore-loser death stare for Sunday's Golden Globes.

The official Golden Globes website may have accidentally revealed yesterday that Anne Hathaway will take home the statuette for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama. There was a star published next to the Rachel Getting Married nominee's name, which indicates the winner.

The snafu disappeared shortly after popping up, Just Jared reported.

"In the process of preparing for Sunday's Golden Globe Awards, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association web team inadvertently marked a nominee as a winner," read a statement posted yesterday on the Globes site. "The mistake was immediately corrected."

When Hathaway was named Best Actress in a tie with Meryl Streep at last night's Critics' Choice Awards, VH1 cameras caught Jolie giving an icy stare during Hathaway's acceptance speech.

Jolie, along with Kate Winslet and Kristin Scott Thomas, was also a nominee.

Sunday, Jolie and Hathaway are up against each other once more for the Golden Globes trophy.

We have to say we feel badly for Annie H. Not because of Jolie, but what's worse—not knowing if you’re going to win or thinking you've won but then, come showtime, you don't?

Hathaway's rep did not comment about the HFPA's website snafu.

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