London, Dec 9 (ANI): Record-breaking 'Twilight' director Catherine Hardwicke has revealed that she won't helm the film's sequel, 'New Moon'.

The US filmmaker feels that she needs more time to work on the film and could not commit to a late 2009-early 2010 release date, according to reports.

"I am sorry that due to timing I will not have the opportunity to direct New Moon," BBC quoted Hardwicke, as saying.

The film's producer Summit Entertainment said it had "a mandate" to release the next instalment "in a timely fashion".

"We are able to pursue an aggressive time frame as we have the luxury of only adapting the novels into screenplays, as opposed to having to create a storyline from scratch," said Summit's Erik Feig.

Hardwicke said New Moon has 'a great story' and sent the producer her best wishes.

No replacement for the sequel has been named, while the film has yet to announce when it will commence shooting. (ANI)

Washington, Dec 3 (ANI): Hollywood actress Jessica Alba has shown off her post-baby shape in Campari's 2009 calendar.

In the fine-looking photos shot in Malibu by Mario Testino, Alba is featured wearing a bathing suit, evening gown and short shorts.

"All the clothes were very cool. They're young, sexy and fresh, I'm usually walking around in comfy clothes with a baby on my arm and it's nice to dress things up and feel sophisticated, sexy and surrounded by so much beauty," US Weekly quoted mum-of-one, as saying.

"It was all very chic, but still young and cool, my favorite combination!" she added.

The Sin City star, 27, gave birth to baby daughter Honor Marie Warren in June, this year. (ANI)

London, Dec 3 (ANI): William Shakespeare might have stopped writing because he had lost his sight, a leading playwright has claimed.

Shakespeare, who died in April 1616, stopped writing three years before his death in 1613, and Thomas suggests that years of writing by candlelight would have left Shakespeare with bad sight.

Thomas has just written a play, For All Time, about why the bard left London for Stratford-upon-Avon in 1613.

"I started off thinking about how Shakespeare would spend his working day, He would have been rehearsing in the morning, he would have been performing in the afternoon. So if he was going to write at all it would have been in the evening. So for six months of the year that would have been in candlelight," The Telegraph quoted Thomas, as saying.

"If you think about it in those terms it would have been virtually impossible for him to get to the age of 48 and still have 20-20 vision," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

"I just can't see that Shakespeare could have had that clear vision," he added.

Thomas also suggests that Shakespeare was frightened of staying in London in case his health failed at the speed it left his father.

And also after leaving London, the Bard didn't write any plays.

Thomas said: "When William was a teenager, his father John 'went through a strange situation when he lost a lot of money very quickly. I wonder if one of the reasons might be that he was a diabetic, lost a lot of money and couldn't work, and William was worried about that happening to him later on in life."

The chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stanley Wells, stated that the blindness theory was an interesting one, but Shakespeare could have left London after being traumatised by the Globe theatre burning down in 1613.

He also casts doubt on the assumption that Shakespeare lived full-time in London before moving back home.

"He didn't exactly depart from London. I think that's a very simplistic way of putting it, he started spending more and more time in Stratford, it would appear, but I think he spent far more time in Stratford [throughout his career] than has been acknowledged," Stanley said.

"He never had a house in London - he only had lodgings there - but he had the second-biggest house in Stratford," he added.

Wells also argued that Shakespeare had his eyesight intact, as his 5 of 6 signatures are the ones before his death.

"He was able to see well enough to sign his quite elaborate signature within two months of dying," he said. (ANI)

Melbourne, December 3 (ANI): Lindsay Lohan has been blocked from logging into her own Facebook account after the site's administrator thought its user was 'fake.'

The actress-singer revealed to her My Space fans that she was 'shocked' after she read the reason for the disabled sign-in process, reports News.com.au.

She wrote: "I signed onto Facebook with my new password because someone keeps hacking into my account, and when I typed my password and "log in" name in, a red sentence came up saying: 'Account Disabled - Your account has been disabled by an administrator. If you have any questions or concerns, you can visit our FAQ page here'."

"Wow! I was in shock. Once I got to that it gave a note saying why it was disabled which stated the note saying that it was disabled because they believe that I was a fake of myself. genius."

The 'Mean Girls' star, who had though taken the matter with a pinch of salt initially and later admitted to having turned red, further added that she was taken aback by the social networking site's lack of generating a warning before locking her out of her own account.

She said: "At first I laughed, and then I got angry. All I can think is, who is running this site? and how can they just "disable" my account without first, sending me a warning notice, or at least asking me some account verification questions." (ANI)