When we first broke the news back in January 2008 that the follow-up to the smash film “Alvin and The Chipmunks” would feature the Chipettes, hundreds of fans weighed in with their eagerness to see Brittany, Jeanette and Eleanor. In the months since, rumors have run amok with various female names who could be providing their high-pitched voices, including Miley Cyrus, Joanna “JoJo” Levesque and Drew Barrymore.

Yesterday, we caught up with Alvin himself: Mr. Justin Long. And he gave us some big news on two of the famous females who’ll be loaning their vocal talents to the December follow-up.

“I’m working on the ‘Chipmunks’ sequel,” said the busy actor, who stars in director Sam Raimi’s very scary “Drag Me To Hell” at the end of the month. As Long explained to us, his recording sessions with returning Chipmunks Matthew Gray Gubler (Simon) and Jesse McCartney (Theodore) are about to be invaded by an old friend.

“Anna Faris called me,” Long revealed to us, invoking the name of his “Waiting…” co-star. “I hadn’t talked to her in awhile, and I was like ‘Hey, what’s up?’ She said ‘You’re doing the Squeakquel!’ and then something happened and we couldn’t talk anymore. So, I’m pretty sure she’s doing it.”

As for the next Chipette, Long said the role is going to a longtime comedy star whose talents have graced such films as “Anchorman” and “The Rocker,” as well as the TV show “Samantha Who?” “I heard Christina Applegate [for another Chipette],” Long said. “And then there’s a third; and I’m not quite sure who that is.”

Knowing that Justin and Drew Barrymore are close friends who recently starred in “He’s Just Not That Into You” together, and they are currently developing another romantic comedy, I figured he’d know better than anyone if Barrymore was indeed going to voice the third Chipette.

“No,” he said, basically shooting down the Barrymore rumor. “I don’t think she’s doing it.”

“Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel” will star “Chuck” breakout Zachary Levi as the cousin of Jason Lee’s David Seville character from the first film, and will depict the Chipmunks going to school for the first time. Although Long didn’t specify which Chipettes will be played by Faris and Applegate, he did have a suggestion for the final female role.

“I think it’s Helen Mirren,” he joked.

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Anna was at the launch party for the new Sidekick by T-Mobile on Thursday night in Los Angeles. She was photographed on the red carpet and inside with actress Rashida Jones – I have added 32 photos from the event. Check them out by clicking on the thumbnails below!

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It’s a film modeled after such instant classics as “American Graffiti” and “Dazed and Confused.” It features big names like Topher Grace, Anna Faris and Michelle Trachtenberg. So, why haven’t we seen “Kids in America” yet?

If you’re looking for the answer, you might want to start inside Dan Fogler’s nose.

“That is called ‘Young Americans’ now,” the “Balls of Fury” funnyman told me recently when I asked what had happened to the hilarious-looking film whose set I visited in early 2007. “I think that is going to open this year…there’s a lot of talk about it now, but nothing is solidified.”

Unfortunately, the tale of “Young Americans”/”Kids in America” is a long and twisted one that began when Grace was a red-hot actor on the verge of “Spider-Man 3″ superstardom; after he poured himself into writing, producing and starring in the Eighties-set film about an aimless college grad trying to find himself at an all-night party, Fogler told me that the people behind the film learned a valuable Hollywood lesson: Marijuana is funny, but cocaine is not.

“The movie has sort of become a hot potato, because there is a tremendous amount of drug use in it and it ain’t just pot,” explained Fogler, whose directorial debut “Hysterical Psycho” recently ppremiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. “It’s cocaine, and a lot of it is done by my character. And I think that became a very sensitive issue.”

“It’s one thing if it’s just pot. But when you introduce cocaine and you introduce how wildly it was abused back in the Eighties, I think that some people got a little touchy-sensitive,” explained Fogler, who plays Grace’s hard-partying pal in the film. “It started to float around [among distributors] like ‘Who wants to be responsible for releasing this insane movie?’.”

The dilemma of “Young Americans” exposes an interesting double-standard in Hollywood. While modern-day audiences have embraced pot-loving characters in the “Harold & Kumar” movies, “The Wackness,” “Weeds” and the rest, many within the industry are convinced that abusers of other drugs carry more risk of controversy and less comedic potential.

But, according to Fogler, there might be light at the end of the “Young Americans” tunnel. “I think it’s finally gotten into the right hands…It feels like a classic, rated-R Eighties movie, and I think there is a huge audience for that,” Fogler insisted. “And whoever finally releases it is going to be really happy.”

With any luck, we’ll finally see “Americans” in late ‘09/early 2010. And, in the meantime, Fogler laughed, perhaps somebody can try pushing the comedic boundaries of another drug.

“I guess you can find something hysterical about heroin,” he laughed. “But I don’t want to be the man that tries.”

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Anna was serving up meatballs to promote “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” at the Lollipop Theatre Network’s Inaugural Game Day. I have added 37 photos from the event into our gallery – check them out by clicking on the thumbnails below!