Mary-Kate Olsen is in New York City for the long weekend, taking a break from filming Beastly in Montreal. Gawker stalkers spotted her twice over the past few days, catching up with friends and enjoying a break from work.

On June 29th, a 7pm, Mary-Kate was seen drinking marjaritas with friends at Mary-Ann’s:

Was sitting with two friends at Mary Ann’s on 2nd ave and 5th st at around 7pm today and saw Mary Kate Olsen walk by, then she walked into the restaurant and ate at the table next to us in a mumu looking dress and sunglasses with two girlfriends. ordered a pitcher of margaritas, and later had two guys join them. she looked a hot mess.

On July 1st at 3pm, she was seen walking at the corner of Lafayette and Astor:

Mary-Kate Olsen Walking with a guy and a girl, wearing a huge blue dress and purple tinted sunglasses. Very small in person.

According to Ashley’s interview in Hamptons, while MK is in the city, she’ll be in Montauk, having a private and relaxing weekend. She loves being on the water and the seclusion of the place:

I like to stay in most of the time or go out on a boat. The water is so beautiful. I like really secluded places. The history and the location of Montauk and the views—it’s different. You feel like you’re at the end of the world almost. You actually feel like you went away.

Wherever they are this July 4th weekend, I hope they have a great time!

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Ashley Olsen and Justin Bartha are enjoying a romantic vacation in Paris! They deserve it - Justin has been busy promoting his film The Hangover, which has been a surprise summer smash.

People.com spotted the twosome strolling the streets of Paris yesterday afternoon. They had their arms around each other and didn’t seem to notice the photographers. See the photo here.

PopSugar has a few more pictures of the couple enjoying Paris and each other’s company!

I think they look a lot like Mary-Kate and Nate in that photo, don’t you? The messy layering, the sunglasses, the quirky bag, the plaid, the look doesn’t seem very Ashley. I’m glad she’s getting adventurous in her style, as I love seeing her try on new looks.

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Ashley Olsen and her boyfriend Justin Bartha are enjoying a quiet getaway in Paris. A Perez Hilton reader caught up with them at Lavenu, where they were enjoying lunch. You can see the photos here.

Perez’s spy says that the twosome were “definitely nice celebrities” and allowed people to stop and chat and have a quick photo with the couple. Unfortunately, Ashley was smoking freely the entire meal and had four cigarettes before her appetizers even came.

While I’m always disappointed to see or hear about Mary-Kate or Ashley smoking, I’m glad to see Ashley has taken some time for herself. I hope she and Justin enjoy Paris!

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Entertainment Tonight visited the Montreal set of Beatly last week to get an early peek at the modern day fairy tale. They talked to Vanessa Hudgens, who plays the beauty Lindy, Alex Pettyfer, who plays Kyle the beast and Mary-Kate, who plays Kendra the witch!

Mary-Kate says Kendra is a “witch-type” but everything she does is for the good. She’s a strong woman and knows what she wants.

Vanessa says filming the movie is a blast and that Mary-Kate is very sweet. MK has lots of nice things to say about Vanessa and Alex, calling them both great actors.

Beastly will premiere on July 30, 2010. Can you handle the year-long wait?

On Monday, Entertainment Tonight will visit the set of Beastly, Mary-Kate Olsen’s new film! The modern-day adaptation of Beauty and the Beast is currently filming in Montreal and will premiere on July 30, 2010.

ET checks out the set and interviews MK’s costars Alex Pettyfer and Vanessa Hudgens. No word on whether they get a few minutes to chat with Mary-Kate, but I hope they do!

Check your local listings for Entertainment Tonight in your area and don’t forget to tune in Monday!

Ashley Olsen was the lone Olsen twin at last night’s CFDA Awards. While Ashley rocked the red carpet, MK was in Montreal filming Beastly. The glam event was held in New York City and celebrated the best in American fashion. Lots of celebrities were in attendance, including Blake Lively, Kirsten Dunst, Ashley Olsen, Lydia Hearst, Hilary Rhoda, Claire Danes, Rachel Zoe, Coco Rocha and Molly Sims.

Ashley looked superb in a surprising orange dress. The vintage-inspired gown is from Ashley’s own collection, the Row. It’s a bold choice for Ashley, but is very much reminiscent of the Row aesthetic. It has a similar dramatic back to the long white gown Ashley wore to the MET gala last month.

Rodarte, consisting of design duo Kate and Lauren Mulleavy, took home womenswear designer of the year. The sisters topped Narciso Rodriguez and Marc Jacobs for the honors. Scott Sternberg of Band of Outsiders won menswear designer of the year and Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton took home the international award.

Olsen favorite Proenza Schouler won accessory designer of the year and Alexander Wang took home the Swarovski award for womenswear.

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Happy birthday, Mary-Kate and Ashley! Today, the girls celebrate turning 23 years old! Born in 1986 in Sherman Oaks, California to David Olsen and Jarnette Fuller, the girls have accomplished so much during their lives.

In the past year alone, Mary-Kate starred in The Wackness, made a guest appearance on Samantha Who? and was a Tribeca Film Festival juror.

The girls collaborated to release a book, Influence, and expand both the Row and Elizabeth and James into menswear, developed jewelry and a shoe line for Elizabeth and James.

Many of these projects have been in the works for years, but they only became realized recently. I’m so proud of Mary-Kate and Ashley and all they’ve accomplished. They’ve grown into sophisticated, intelligent and successful young women. I’m excited to see what the coming year has in store for them!

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Mary-Kate Olsen will join the cast of Beastly, a modern day take on the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale, Variety reported today. Beastly is based on the Alex Flinn fantasy novel that moves the story of the Beast and Belle to modern day New York City.

The project, which is being put together by CBS films, will also star High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens as the fair maiden.

Mary-Kate’s role sounds pretty small. The tale starts when a spoiled rich kid dumps his date (played by MK). Mary-Kate is Kendra, the evil witch, who decides to punish the prince for scorning her. His punishment? A nasty curse that turns him into everything he hates. The only way to break the spell is to find true love.

Beastly will begin shooting on June 13th in Montreal, Canada. Also starring in the film is Alex Pettyfer, who plays the beast.

I think this will be a fun and different role for MK. It can’t be that large, because it’s filming the same time as her other project Meskada. It’s one of CBS’s first feature film projects so I’m excited to see how they adapt the book while still staying true to the fairy tale so many people know and love.

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Mary-Kate Olsen made an appearance at the same red carpet event as Ashley last night - the premiere of The Hangover. The sisters walked the red carpet separately and both showed off their individual style and sunny smiles. Ashley’s boyfriend Justin Bartha stars in the film about a bachelor party gone wrong. Justin plays Doug, the grrom-to-be, who gets lost during the drunken escapades. The next morning, it becomes the groomsmen’s quest to find the lost man before his fiance finds out.

Mary-Kate looked great in a blazer, a TopShop dress, pink Lennon sunglasses and Prada heels. Her hair looks shiny and healthy and I love that both she and Ashley flashed big smiles for the camera. I hope they enjoyed the film!

MK has her own film project in the works now, the independent movie Meskada filming starts in New York in a few days. I’m really excited to see Mary-Kate back on the big screen. Hopefully we’ll hear of more 2009 projects soon!

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Ashley Olsen looked crisp, clean and stunning at the premiere of The Hangover last night atHollywood’s Grauman’s Theatre. Ashley made the rare red carpet appearance to support her boyfriend, Justin Bartha, who stars in the film. Ashley didn’t want to steal Justin’s thunder though, so they walked the red carpet separately.

I don’t think anyone in Hollywood does minimalism as well as Ashley is right now. She pairs a simple Calvin Klein dress with snakeskin sandals and no accessories (except her glowing skin and a smile!) and looks fabulous. She’s also debuting the hair cut she got while she texted Marie Claire. I like the shorter ‘do. Do you?

The Hangover is about a bachelor party in Los Vegas gone horribly awry -so awry that the groomsmen lose the groom-to-be. Hilarty ensues. The Hangover has opened to very positive reviews and I’ll admit I’m excited to see it. Justin plays Doug, the missing groom, so who knows how much screen time he’ll get. Regardless, it should be fun. Justin was adorable in the National Treasure films.

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