I know what Jennifer Love Hewitt may be doing with her boyfriend Alex Beh this spring.

She and Beh will be in Chicago filming the coming-of-age indie flick Warren. Beh not only wrote the movie, but he’s also producing, directing and costarring in it. Hewitt is playing his ex-girlfriend.

And then she’ll be going behind the camera to make her feature film directorial debut with a big screen adaptation of children’s horror book, Wait Until Helen Comes. “I directed [Ghost Whisperer] a few times so this is new and exciting,” Hewitt told me earlier this week at TV Land’s party for Hot In Cleveland and new series Retired at 35.

She wants to shoot in the flick in Rhode Island. Casting hasn’t begun, but Hewitt said, “I would love Maria Bello to be in it. I would love her to play the mom in it.”

For now, Hewitt has Sunday’s Globes to worry about. She’s up for Best Actress in a Miniseries/TV Movie for her starring role as a suburban housewife-turned-call girl in Lifetime’s The Client List.

She’s already jotted down some notes for an acceptance speech—not because she thinks she’s a shoo-in to win. “I’m terrified to speak in public,” she confessed. “It’s bad, so I did write a few things down on a little piece of paper.”

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Jennifer Love Hewitt has made a statement about her Golden Globe nomination – read it below!

Jennifer Love Hewitt, Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie, The Client List: “I am so thrilled and grateful for this nomination. When I first read the story that inspired the movie, I knew it was powerful material, and I’m so happy I had the chance to bring it to life.”

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Jennifer Love Hewitt has been nominated at the 2011 Golden Globe Awards for her role in the film “The Client List”! She’s nominated in the “Best Performance By An Actress In A Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For Television” – let’s keep our fingers crossed that Love will bring home the award!

Sure we have to give props to flicks like “127 Hours,” “Inception,” “The Social Network,” “The Fighter,” “The King’s Speech” and “Black Swan” for their Golden Globe nominations, but as we were watching the nominations being announced this morning, MTV Newsroom Blog editor Kyle Anderson and I were delighted to find out one of the nominations went out to Jennifer Love Hewitt for her turn as a desperate mom turned masseuse turned prostitute turned whistle blower in the greatest film of 2010 (and a Lifetime Original!), “The Client List”

Hewitt’s character in “The Client List” doesn’t chop off her arm to save herself or kidnap people’s dreams, nor does she start up a controversial multi-billion dollar social network or struggle with self-identity while she trains for a high-profile ballet performance, but Hewitt’s Samantha Horton did had an overbearing mother (just like Natalie Portman did in “Black Swan”), a drug problem and the audacity to sell out the men she “massaged” in order to face a less harsh jail sentence — that’s some straight-up Mark Zuckerberg business right there, people!

In the category of Best Performance By An Actress In A Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For Television, she’s up against Hayle Atwell for something called “Pillars of the Earth,” Claire Danes for those eyelash commercials (or maybe it was for “Temple Grandin”), Dame Judi Dench for “Return To Cranford” and Romola Garai for “Emma,” but of course our money is on Love to take home the coveted prize.

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Jennifer Love Hewitt will join Santa in delivering toys to disadvantaged children at the Los Angeles Mission this Christmas Eve.

If you can’t pay the rent, and don’t have enough food, the idea of getting toys for the kids is way down the list And the economic reality for many in the Skid Row community makes Christmas a sad time of year. But the Los Angeles Mission Christmas Eve Event will provide real relief for families and children with generous donations of thousands of toys, coats for all guests and other gifts. Hundreds of volunteers from the entertainment industry, political leaders and others will bring the joy of the season to Skid Row.

Toyota will sponsor the event, with toys donated by JAKKS Pacific, Inc. and coats from One Warm Coat and Aérospostale.

More celebrities will be announced, and the event will take place on December 24 at the LA Mission, 303 E. 5th Street (Corner of Fifth and Wall St.).

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“The Client List” is set to be released on DVD on February 1, 2011 and is available for pre-order at Amazon.com (for $15.99). There is also a listing for a Blu-ray release – but there is currently no release date set for that version of the film.

On the heels of his holiday CD debut, Very Merry Christmas, acclaimed songwriter and performer Dave Barnes is releasing his new Christmas music video for the song “Christmas Tonight”, which features the guest vocals of Hillary Scott from Lady Antebellum.

Filmed in Los Angeles, the video guest stars movie and television actress Jennifer Love Hewitt. “Christmas Tonight” will premiere on Barnes’ You Tube channel next week.

Additionally, November 9 is release day for Dave Barnes’ highly-anticipated holiday project. Courtesy of Razor & Tie, Very Merry Christmas showcases the quintessential Dave Barnes – hip, classy, and romantic with a solid dose of his traditional Southern upbringing. At first listen, Barnes evokes the traditional essence of the holiday season partnered with his well-known lively persona.

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Now that she’s no longer whispering to ghosts, Jennifer Love Hewitt has been busy behind the camera developing several TV projects.

Through her Fedora Films shingle, Hewitt and production partner A.J. Rinella have set up comedies at ABC and Fox, as well as a series adaptation of her TV film “The Client List” at Lifetime.

At ABC, Hewitt is behind “Bad Taste in Men,” from scribe Austin Weinberg. The single-camera half-hour comedy centers on a Chicago woman who’s been unable to find the right guy and settle down.

Hewitt is exec producing with Rinella, Brillstein Entertainment’s Peter Traugott and Untitled Entertainment’s Dannielle Thomas. ABC Studios, where Fedora has a first-look deal, would produce.

In the case of “The Client List,” Lifetime is looking to develop a fresh take on the TV movie, which starred Hewitt as a Texas housewife who becomes a prostitute.

“The Client List” posted Lifetime’s second-highest audience for an original TV movie this year.

Jordan Budde (“90210″) will write the series project, which will offer a new take on the idea — originally based on a Texas Monthly magazine article.

Hewitt, Rinella, Thomas and Howard Braunstein (whose Jaffe-Braunstein shingle produced the movie) are all exec producers.

Then there’s the untitled comedy project at Fox, which is being written by Tiffany Paulson. Single-camera laffer is a romantic comedy told from the p.o.v. of a career-driven woman.

Walt Becker is exec producing with Rinella, Dana Dubois and Walt Becker.

Hewitt will be seen in the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie “The Lost Valentine” opposite Betty White. Telepic will air on CBS in early 2011.

Hyperion recently published Hewitt’s book, “The Day I Shot Cupid.”

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