Zooey Deschanel is more "adorkable" than adorable (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Zooey Deschanel has been described as adorable in virtually every single article ever written about her - including this one. But the actress told a room of reporters gathered at the Television Critics Association summer press tour's session for her new Fox comedy, "New Girl," that she doesn't think of herself that way.

"My mom told me when I get compliments to cover my ears," said Deschanel, covering her ears at a question inquiring when she first discovered that she was adorable. "I'm so embarrassed now. Thank you for saying that. I don't know if I'm adorable. I don't think of myself that way but I will take the compliment."

She should probably cover her ears whenever she sees ads for the comedy, in which she plays a woman who moves into an apartment also shared by three guys after catching her boyfriend in an act of infidelity. The promos refer to her character, Jessica, as "adorkable."

Other highlights from the "New Girl" panel:

Deschanel wrote and recorded the theme song for the show. Her musical background as the lead singer of the band She and Him (a collaboration with songwriter M. Ward) will lead to her heartbroken character spontaneously bursting into short snippets of songs -- which she referred to as "songlets."

A few reporters compared her character to the one she played in the 2009 film "500 Days of Summer," who would also break into song when the mood struck her, such as when she belted out the Smiths' classic "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out."

But Deschanel said she thought the two fictional women were only similar in one way. "The characters feel different," she said. "Obviously they look alike."

Creator Liz Meriwether said the main notable difference is that Jessica hasn't discovered the Smiths yet.

Someone asked a sarcastic question about whether Emily Deschanel, Zooey's sister, who stars in the long-running Fox drama "Bones," had given her pointers on how to navigate the unsavory business of working with Fox executives.

"She gave me hints on how to deal with the delightfulness of Fox," countered Deschanel playfully. "My experience here has been amazing."

Meriwether also addressed a salient question about how many season the "new" in the title would ring true.

"Maybe by the tenth season it will be 'Newish Girl," she joked.

"New Girl" debuts September 20 at 9 p.m.

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The Mouse is Mine: Paul McCarthy Blocks Auction of His Adorable Cartoon Critter Drawings (ARTINFO)

Everyone is familiar with the Beatles' transformation into cartoon characters in "The Yellow Submarine," and diehard Paul McCartney fans also speak fondly of "The Frog Chorus," another animated film based on a McCartney song from 1980. The holy grail of McCartney cartoons, however, is the fabled and never-released "Bruce McMouse Show." Sketches for the hour-long show — chronicling the life of a mouse and his family living beneath the floorboards of a concert stage — were scheduled to hit the auction block last week, but McCartney's lawyers suddenly blocked the sale, charging that the animator's daughter does not have the rights to the images.

Maggie Thornton, the daughter of animator Eric Wylam, counters that the drawings had been in her family for the past 40 years, the BBC reports. "My father was given a pile of scrap paper covered in rough drawings and I always believed they belonged to my father," Thornton said. "Hopefully it's all just been a misunderstanding." According to Chris Albury of Dominic Winter Auctioneers, the auction house attempted to contact McCartney about the sale back in March but received no reply. Then, shortly before the items were to go up for auction on Thursday, McCartney's lawyers blocked the sale, saying that the images are the property of the musician's company, MPL Communications.

The 26 drawings, which were estimated at ?25,000 ($40,500), were made by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, and Linda's daughter Heather while on vacation in Antigua. They were then used as the basis for "The Bruce McMouse Show" in 1973, which included interactions between the mouse family and Wings using footage from the band's 1972 European tour. Maggie Thornton, who is one of the few people to have seen the film, told the Daily Mail, "I can see why it was never released. The storyline doesn't really work and some of the cutting between the singing and the animation isn't very good." The drawings, however, are extremely cute, as you can see in the slide show on the left.

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Watch Ellen DeGeneres Dance with Jennifer Hudson's Adorable Son

It looks like Jennifer Hudson may have passed along her sense of rhythm to her young son, David. The pair stopped by 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' this week, and the popular talk show show host boogied with the little guy on set.

According to Just Jared, Hudson, 29, appeared on the daytime show to chat with DeGeneres about her weight loss struggle. The soulful singer recently teamed up with Weight Watchers to promote a healthy lifestyle and has lost over 10 dress sizes in the past year and a half.

"I just knew, after I had my baby, I just wanted my body back. Whatever body that was," Hudson said. "That was when I made up my mind. I was going to go for it." Watch DeGeneres and David dancing on set after the jump.
She continued, "And then I realized when I was pregnant, I was like, 'Man, I was wearing the same clothes I was wearing before I was pregnant.' That was kind of like a wake up call and I wanted to set a good example for my son."

It looks like it's working. David, at 18 months old, looks like he's ready to hit the dance floor, showing off his moves with DeGeneres. Watch the video below!

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