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It looks like Anne Hathaway and Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson are about to get in a hair-pulling, purse-swinging slap fight over who gets to rip their Get Smart co-star Steve Carell from the arms of his loving wife of thirteen years. Over the weekend, Anne Hathaway dumped her shifty boyfriend, Raffaello Follieri, with an unnamed "pal" telling the Daily Mail, "Anne really wants to find a guy like Steve, and if he weren't married, I have no doubt she would date him in a second … She's such a fan of his work she couldn't help but quote episodes of The Office to him when they first met. She thinks he's amazing." At first, we thought for sure the "pal" had to be Steve Carell, but, given the way Hathaway's been talking about him in interviews, it seems like there might actually be something to this.
Blame it on his apparently bewitching kissing ability. Last week, she declared that making out with Carell (on camera, presumably) was like "the yummiest lollipop, dipped in sunshine and wrapped in a masculine wrapper!" (it's unclear if she was speaking euphemistically). And today, again, she's back at it: "I always tell people regarding improvising," she says, "Steve's an abstract expressionist and I finger paint. I'm a very good finger painter, but it's on a different level."
But she's not the only one who's smitten. Today, we learned that that the Rock thought kissing Carell was "fantastic." He elaborated: "Did you ever have warm chocolate cake mixed with ice cream? It's a fine balance. It makes you shiver? The kiss was like that."
So if it's Hathaway versus Johnson, who's got the upper hand? Carell did recently praise the softness of Johnson's lips and say he "smells like strawberry shortcake." Hathaway, on the other hand, has admitted that she had pinkeye and was oozing green mucus when she kissed him. Don't be surprised if you someone forwards you a photo of the Rock lying naked face-down on a towel at Sandals Jamaica. —Linda Holmes
Anne Hathaway Finally Gets Smart! [Daily Intel]
