For those of us who grew up in the 80s Molly Ringwald was the leader of the Brat Pack.

Nowadays the actress is 40 years old and is set to rekindle her career with a new television drama.

ABC’s ‘Secret Life of the American Teenager’ stars Ringwald as the mother of a 15-year-old girl who became pregnant after a one night stand.

Ringwald spoke with AOL TV about her controversial role and her classic teen flicks of the 80s.

What made you decide to do a TV show?

I was thinking about moving to Los Angeles for personal reasons — my husband’s going to be attending a Stanford MBA program in the fall. So this series sort of came up, and I really liked Brenda [Hampton], the creator. She really wanted to have me in the show, and she was persuasive and I liked the subject matter, and it just kind of seemed like a cool thing to do.

Given the teen pregnancy pact scandal and the success of ‘Juno,’ your series is timely. Will the pregnancy plotline continue for the whole season?

It definitely starts out as the event that kicks off the show, but the show is about more than that. It has to be about more than that, because that story line is going to resolve itself. It really is sort of a sociological study of these teenagers and their families.

What other kinds of things happen to your character, Anne?

My character doesn’t find out [about her daughter's pregnancy] until episode 6, and the audience pretty much knows from the beginning, so there’s that suspense about when the family is going to find out. My character’s not clued in to what’s right in front of her. That has to do with her own life, and the decline of her marriage, and the fact that she’s really not happy with where she’s at in life.

Have you had input into your character?

Definitely. When the pilot was written, Brenda didn’t know that I was going to play Anne. Getting to know me and my strengths as an actor made the character evolve a certain way. I mean, she’s still different from me. But there are elements of me in Anne, and I definitely made her more liberal, because it’s really important to me that both sides are represented. Brenda’s totally supportive of that.

So will Amy explore all of her pregnancy options, no matter how controversial they may be?

Yes. I will say that Amy makes her own choice in terms of what she wants to do about her pregnancy. And it was very, very important to me that that was clear. Though I won’t tell you what [Amy's] choice is right now..

In the ’80s, you were the go-to teen actress. Is it weird to be playing the mom of a teenager now?

It is weird, but it’s kind of good, too. I’m an actor and I’ve done a lot of different stuff, but because those movies were so successful, it’s kind of stuck in people’s heads that I’m that figure. It’s good for me to be seen in a different light. I’m in a project with teenagers and I’m not the teenager, so I’ve come full circle in a way.

A couple of years ago there were rumors of a ‘Sixteen Candles’ sequel. Where does that stand now?

It was in the works. It was something that I definitely wanted to do, but [writer-director] John Hughes wasn’t interested, and I didn’t feel comfortable doing it without his involvement. If we can get John to agree, I think it would be great. I think there are definitely a lot of people who would love to see it, and I would love to do it.

Is ‘Sixteen Candles’ the only one of your teen movies you’d like to revisit?

I think so. I would ordinarily not want to do something like that, but I think that ‘Sixteen Candles’ lends itself to [a sequel]. I mean, ‘Breakfast Club,’ is just so perfect as is. I guess ‘Pretty in Pink’ is possible, but ‘Sixteen Candles’ is really the one … it was such a Cinderella story. And I was interested to see what happened to this girl.

Do you ever watch any of those movies when you come across them on TV?

I don’t really sit down and watch them. I mean, I’ve seen them so many times, you know? I think when my daughter’s old enough, I’ll probably watch them with her.

On Vanity Fair:

“I was embarrassed… but also it’s like, every career thing that I do can’t be perfect, and sometimes my decisions are wrong. I think that just makes me even more relatable. I don’t think people will look at me any differently because they’re like,’You know what, I’m going to do stupid stuff too, and I’m going to make mistakes, and that’s fine.’ It still hurts when I think about it.”

On the new album:

“It’s grown-up. I wrote all the songs except two. My last one, ‘Meet Miley Cyrus,’ was more just meeting me, finding out who I am, and here it’s more getting in depth of what’s been going on in my life in the past year.”

On her passion for songwriting:

I wrote my first song when I was probably 7–it was called “Pink.” That shows what kind of song it was about—it’s about the color pink. But you know what, darn it, I wrote it and I’ve been writing since I was my little sister’s age.

In regards to fans being shut out of her last tour:

In terms of the kids who couldn’t get in, I don’t know if I could do more–we did 76 shows last year and I don’t know that I could do more than that.

Maybe I could do that and take a little break and go back into it? Also, the 3-D movie was awesome for the people that didn’t get to come see the show.

On Hannah Montana:

It will wrap up, eventually. I mean, I won’t be Hannah Montana by the time I’m 30. But we’ve only done two seasons, so we definitely want to work on that hopefully for another two years.

On acting in an “edgy, indie flick” not related to Disney or Hannah Montana:

I’ve been talking to people about some cool movies, but right now I mostly want to stay within my company and keep them happy and keep everything that we’re doing successful and focus on that. I like to do everything that I do 120% and unless I can focus hardcore on that, I don’t want to do it yet.

On trying to be a role model:

It’s something that I’ve been super blessed with, that I’ve had the opportunity and the ability to spread the light. That doesn’t mean that I’m not going to make mistakes and do things that everyone’s going to be happy with, because there¹s no such thing as perfection.

I just like to be the role model that doesn’t say you have to be perfect all the time.

On you show recently being highlighted as being great for young women in that it showcases a wide range of body types.

I stress about that stuff like everyone else, but at the end of day, I’m a good ol’ Southern girl that likes her Cracker Barrel at 9 o’clock at night and if I want it, gosh darn, I’m going to eat it. I’m not going to make myself miserable. And for so many girls, you don’t want to be thin because you want the guy to think you’re gorgeous or whatever–you do it all for women, you do it all for a competition. That’s so silly, it’s such a game.

[Why] waste your time with a game you’re never going to win?

Interview and performance.

Alanis Morissette recently spoke with Newsweek’s Jac Chebatoris about her new album “Flavors of Entanglement,” her upcoming book and her ex-boyfriend Ryan Reynolds.

Let’s just get it out of the way: how do you feel about your ex-boyfriend Ryan Reynolds’s engagement to Scarlett Johansson?
[Laughs] I’m really happy for him.

Wasn’t your record originally supposed to come out on the same day as hers?
My album release date has been moved five times, so I wasn’t even aware of what dates were what at this point.

You strike me as someone with a Zen quality.
I just did a tour with [Matchbox Twenty's] Rob Thomas, and he kept saying that whenever I wasn’t with him, his imagining was that I was levitating somewhere, meditating. Cut to we had the most debaucherous, entertaining, hysterical time together, so they were the first to say that their perception of me was a little off!

You’re writing a book?
I’m so excited about it. I’m having to put a pin in it right now because I’m touring and I can’t focus on it, but it will re-emerge when this cycle of touring ends. It’s a book of essays that I’ve written and photographs from my travels and self-care practices.

What do you mean by “self-care”?
Just what to do when you’re completely depressed about—fill in the blank. Little exercises you can do.

I need that book!
I want it for myself! It’s a total selfish endeavor.

After “You Oughta Know” came out, you were known as Angry Alanis. Do you still get that?
I think anger is an incredible life force, and I’m proud of my own anger. I think so much of it has to do with where you channel it. I’d been repressing for a long time this sort of cultural thing for me, as being a Canadian, was that I was very passive-aggressive. So a lot was squashed down, and all of a sudden I had this freedom to write whatever I wanted, so of course this was going to come out.

Do you think a lot of people might have that wrong impression of you?
Well, what happens is that in interviews, I’d wind up being really philosophical, so the levity and the debauchery were in my private life, and then, the other persona came forth in my more public life.

W did a fantastic job interviewing Charlize Theron in their latest issue. Her photoshoot isn’t so bad either. Ok, it’s like, super hot.

I just love Charlize. She’s amazingly, I mean amazingly, gorgeous, but as this article points out, she isn’t one to exploit her beauty. She’s intelligent, witty, talented, and she has that old Hollywood charm about her.

Hotness.

From W:

When Charlize Theron arrives at our interview, poolside at the Sunset Tower Hotel in West Hollywood, she’s still showing the effects of a weeklong bout with the flu. With her blond hair pushed back into a no-fuss ’do and dressed Hollywood business casual in jeans, a white shirt and a black sweater vest, she looks, well, incredibly normal. And yet, days earlier, on the set of the W photo shoot at the western edge of the Mojave Desert, there was no overlooking her ultralean Amazonian physique, her mile-long legs and her startling green eyes, framed by a perfectly symmetrical heart-shaped face.

Perhaps surprisingly then, for an actress whom Esquire last fall named the “sexiest woman alive,” the 32-year-old Theron has always resisted taking on roles that play only to her innate beauty. She fired her first manager after he sent her scripts on the order of Showgirls and Species. “So, we can see where he saw my career going,” she quips. But ever since her haunting, Oscar-winning portrayal of Aileen Wuornos in Monster—for which she gained 30 pounds, wore prosthetic teeth and cannily captured the physicality of the hard-bitten lesbian serial killer—Theron has been dogged, she says, by a public perception that she actively seeks to mask her beauty whenever she plays steely-minded, gritty women.

In fact, the surest way to rile her is to suggest that she’s somehow “transformed” herself yet again in several post-Monster roles, among them, a female miner battling sexism in the Minnesota iron mines in the 2005 film North Country, a Tennessee detective (who’s a brunette) in 2007’s In the Valley of Elah and, most recently, a desperate single mom in this year’s Sleepwalking.

“Oh, no, you better not be bringing up ‘ugly,’” she admonishes when I broach the subject. “Look, I get it,” she says. “Monster was a transformation.” But after that, she points out, whenever she’s played “women in middle America living normal lives,” she’s heard cries of “ugly,” no matter what they looked like. “North Country was dirt. That’s what happens when you go into a mine. In the Valley of Elah—that’s when I took real offense, because that was just my real hair color and me with no makeup.”

Her greater transformation, she says, comes on the red carpet. “It’s great fun when you have three people coming to your house, and one’s doing your nails, one’s doing your hair and one’s doing your makeup. Two hours later, you look gorgeous,” she says. “But that’s not my life.” Looking at her, you have to conclude that Theron is being unduly self-deprecating, and that the truth lies somewhere between the red carpet and North Country.

Read the rest of the interview and see the rest of the photos at W magazine.

Check out the rest of her appearance HERE.

Tila Tequila managed to land the cover of Blender’s June issue and in it she dishes on her bisexuality.  She says that she believes all women are born bisexual.

Tila says in the interview, “Before I was 10, I had had experiences with girls. But when you’re that young you don’t think, ‘Oh, I’m having sex! I’m a lesbian!’ Still, I always knew. I didn’t have my first kiss with a guy until I was 15. I was with women long before that.”

Tila says she never outed herself until her MTV reality show, A Shot at Love came out -so to speak -but she claims that she has always had the support of her friends and family.

“I think a lot has changed. It’s not the ’90s anymore. I think the gay community is a lot more accepted these days,” she added.

This is so very true. I had a great friend in the early 90s (Tom- where ARE you?!) who I was the very first person who he had told about being gay. Except for past lovers of course. I remember thinking how horrible that would be to have to hide who you were. Awhh…that was a great night. We were in B.C. and my car was towed, we were trippin’, and were pretty much broke. Gawd, I miss being 20. Heh.

Anyhow, Back to Tequila. A Beverly Hills psychologist, Leslie Seppinni, was asked about Tila’s comments and here is what she had to say..

“All women aren’t born bisexual; Tila seems to have a lack of self-esteem and is using that to justify her own sexuality. Americans love trainwrecks and the controversy over her sexuality, but she’s using this to defend her actions instead of saying that she’s gay. Tila should seek counsel to discover who she really is rather than swinging back and forth.”

The June issue of Blender hits shelves Tuesday.

Oh boy, throw an attention whore in front of a camera and watch her hurl people under the bus.

Heidi Montag tells David Letterman that the reason she and Lauren Conrad stopped hanging out is that Lauren told her if she didn’t break up with Spencer they couldn’t be friends. And that’s after Lauren supposedly told Heidi how much she loved Spencer and wanted him to meet her dad. Yeah, I don’t get it either…whatever.

Basically the entire first half of the interview is about Heidi and Lauren, with Heidi talking smack as much as possible.

The second half of the interview is Heidi talking about her Rolling Stone cover with the girls of The Hills and of course, Spencer. Dave doesn’t seem to care for Spenc too much and asks Heidi, “What does he do?” And Heidi’s answer is hardly surprising. “He’s a money making media mogul.”

AP: Why take your search for a new best friend to the reality-TV world?

Paris Hilton: Well I did ”The Simple Life” for five seasons. I had a great time. I love reality TV. It’s my favorite to watch. When I was approached with this idea I just thought it would be so much fun, being a producer on the show as well, having boys and girls move into a house all vying to be my best friend, I just thought it’d be fun and I’d also like to meet some new friends.

AP: Do you think you can find a real, lasting friendship this way? Do you have a preference of male or female?

I just want to see the contestants and see how they are. I don’t care if it’s a boy or a girl, just as long as its someone I can trust, someone I can have fun with and just someone who’s going to be able to like handle all the other things that are going to come with being my best friend.

AP: Like what?

Just being in the media, just someone who’s not going to care about that, just someone who cares about me.

AP: What are some of the qualities you’re looking for in a new best friend?

Just someone who’s fun, someone who I can trust and just someone who, I don’t know, just someone to get along with that is not going to screw me over. Just someone to have a great time with.

AP: You recently found a new best friend in Benji Madden. What are some of the challenges in finding friends you click with?

It is hard meeting new people. Most of my friends I’ve had my entire life, like obviously my sister and Nicole Richie have been with me forever. So when I meet new people, I’m always a little wary of the reason they may want to become my friend. I can usually just tell by when we’re out in public and there’s paparazzi around, I see, you know, who gets a little bit too excited or whatever. I can tell how those people are.

AP: Because it’s a show, it’s possible that some contestants might be more interested in being on TV than being your best friend. How will you determine people’s sincerity?

We’re at MTV right now and just going over all the challenges and different things we’re going to be putting the contestants through. I can’t really tell because they’re all top secret.

AP: How has this experience been different from ”The Simple Life” and your feature-film work?

This is like completely different. ”The Simple Life” was more fish-out-of-water, Nicole and I just doing things we’ve never done.

AP: What kinds of things appeal to you when you’re looking at the videos on ParisBFF.com?

Just people who are fun, people who I know are going to be great on TV, people who have fun personalities, they’re not shy, the people who tell their deepest secrets, people who are open to being honest and having a great time. That’s what my show’s about.

AP: Talk about your role as executive producer.

Actually I was a producer of ”The Simple Life” as well. Well, just being in control of everything and making all the decisions and just really being on top of everything, coming up with ideas. The casting process, with ”The Simple Life” I didn’t do all that, so this has been a lot of work but a lot of fun as well.

AP: What else is going on with you?

I’ve just been traveling for a while and just launched my clothing line and my shoe line. I’m just getting ready for my movie - ”Repo! The Genetic Opera” is coming out soon. So I’m just getting ready for that.

AP: With all your projects, do you still have time for fun?

Not as much as I used to when I was younger. But I’m always traveling. I have a lot of businesses I run. Everything is so successful so it feels really great and I’d rather be working than doing anything else.