Dakota Fanning is 16, but she looks like she’s 12, and I’m okay with that. Because she is absolutely adorable. Look at her in her little Bowie shirt! Dawwwww…..

She saw a few flicks this weekend at the Sundance Film Festival, meeting up with Kristen Stewart for one of them. Then I stole her and put her in my pocket so I could carry her around with me like a teddy bear.

Did that just cross the line into creepy?

Oh well, I’m sure that happens a lot with her.

Finally! A clip from The Runaways with some actual dialogue! We’ve seen the trailer by now and I think for the most part every 20-something chick and teenage girl I know is pretty excited to see how K-Stew and Dakota Fanning managed to do while taking on the parts of Joan Jett and Cherie Currie. And ya know? What we see in this clip above seems kind of promising.In the scene, we see Cherie Currie (Dakota) get approached by Joan and a record producer in a club. Cherie was a young teen when this scene took place, so you can only imagine the kind of girl she was to find herself in that sort of situation. I’m still willing to hold on to the idea that this movie could be really embarrassing for everyone involved (most especially the audience. I’ll die if I get there and I have to watch Kristen Stewart awkwardly pretend to shred for two hours), but the acting doesn’t seem horrible.

The trailer for the new Kristen Stewart/Dakota Fanning flick The Runaways was released this week and OMG, you guys! It looks so good. Dakota Fanning! What!? Damn, girl! She’s looking hot for days! It almost makes me uncomfortable.

For anyone who’s been living under a rock, The Runaways is the biopic of Joan Jett, with Kristen playing Joan and Dakota playing the band’s lead singer, Cherie Currie. We’ve never seen Fanning or Stewart take on a role like this, and considering they are portraying rock legends, their performances will be held to a certain standard. Maybe it’s just some fancy editing that makes this trailer look so great (admittedly, we don’t see much of their performances here), but my interest in seeing the film is definitely at an all-time high now.

I have a very hard time accepting how grown up Dakota Fanning is looking these days.  She’ll be 16 in February and she’s a junior in a private high school in L.A.  Just, wow.

She appears in the December issue of Teen Vogue and talks about starring in the Twilight sequel, New Moon.  It seems that she’s a big fan of the books and co-star Kristen Stewart.  Let’s just hope Kristen keeps Dakota away from the bong.  She’s one of the few non-Lindsays left in Hollywood and it would be nice to see her progress more down a Jodie Foster-ish path than a Mackenzie Phillips-ish path.

Dakota Fanning took a break from filming movies about angsty vampires covered in sparkles to hang out with angsty teenagers covered in sparkles at her high school’s homecoming football game last night.

Fanning is a cheerleader for Campbell Hall Episcopal School in North Hollywood where she was crowned Homecoming Princess during halftime last night. She didn’t get the Queen’s crown, but she’s only a sophomore. Give it a few years.

You can see pics of the crowning here. I couldn’t post them because we don’t have a contract with the company that owns them and I don’t want to get sued. Instead, I posted the above video montage of Dakota Fanning cheerleading pics, because it’s Halloween and this video creeps me the fuck out. You can practically taste the essence of “creepy stalker of underage girls” emanating from it. Tastes like grape soda laced with sleeping pills.

Everyone’s all excited about these pics X17 snapped of Dakota Fanning on a “date” with “17-year-old” Freddie Highmore (from Finding Neverland and Willy Wonka). Let me tell you: Freddie Highmore looks like he needs to get high more.

While I’m excited to see Dakota dating, this is the last person I want her to be with. This looks like a child — and a well-behaved one, at that. This is not who I need you to be dating, Dakota. This does nothing for me. Either get with a Jonas brother (hey, I hear Joe’s single) or have your publicist get Jon Gosselin’s number. Because this shit? Is boring.