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Reese Witherspoon accepts MTV Generation Award

Reese Witherspoon at the MTV Movie Awards, June 5, 2011, in Los Angeles. AP

(CBS) Reese Witherspoon laughed from the audience as her past and future co-stars Robert Pattinson, Patrick Dempsey and Chelsea Handler presented her with the Generation Award at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday night.

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Pattinson barely made it through his portion of the presentation, as he flubbed lines and laughed at his own jokes.

He let an F-bomb fly (and the censors missed it) as he described playing Witherspoon's son in 2004's "Vanity Fair" (the scene was cut) and playing her lover in "Water for Elephants."

When Witherspoon took the stage to accept the award, she had plenty of material to work with, telling the audience Pattinson should have said he was the best "motherf---er." (The censors didn't miss Witherspoon's offending word.)

She also made fun of reality stars in Hollywood and suggested that they and other young stars could learn some things from a woman her age. "When I came up in this business, when you made a sex tape you were embarrassed and you hid it under your bed," said Witherspoon. "If you take naked pictures of yourself on your cell phone, you hide your face."

In the past week, nude cell phone photos that are allegedly of Blake Lively (an award presenter Sunday night) have popped up on the Internet. Lively has denied they're of her.

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