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Kate Winslet Saved Richard Branson’s Mom As His House Burned Down

Kate Winslet is a life saver according to Richard Brnson because she helped carry his 90-year-old mother out of his home as it burned down on his £90million private island, Necker.

Winslet and her children were among 20 guests staying in Branson’s guest home on the island and all of them had to rush out of the house as it began to burn down around them after a lightning storm which was caused by Hurrican Irene.

Richard took to his blog to write about the fire and credited Winslet for helping to carry out his mother, Eve, in her arms while everyone watched the eight-bedroom house burn down before their eyes.

Other guests in the house included Richard’s 29-year-old daughter, Holly, who was due to get married in the house, which has stunning views of the surrounding beaches, on November 20th.

“Many thanks to Kate Winslet for helping to carry my 90 year mum out of the main house to safety – she was wondering when a Director was going to shout CUT!” The mogul wrote on his blog along with saying:

“Thank you for all your kind messages after the fire on Necker. We’re thankful that everyone is ok. Around 20 people were in the house and they all managed to get out and they are all fine. We had a tropical storm with winds up to 90mph. A big lightning storm came around 4am and hit the house.

My son Sam and nephew Jack rushed to the house and helped get everyone out. The main house is destroyed and the fire is not yet completely out. My office was based in the house and I have lost thousands of photographs and my note books which is very sad. But all family and friends are well – which in the end is all that really matters.

It’s very much the Dunkirk spirit here. We will rebuild the house as soon as we can. We have a wonderful staff here and we want them to stay in work. We’ll all stay here. There’s a lot of damage but we’ll create something even more special out of the ruins. Thanks again for all the kind messages you have sent – they mean a lot. Currently just huddled up with family and friends in the continuing tropical storm realising what really matters in life.”

It’s sad that the whole fire happened but luckily nobody was injured in the fire, I’m going to guess Kate Winslet will get free flights on Virgin Atlantic for the rest of her life now considering she saved Branson’s mothers life.

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The 10 Best Movie Kisses

Total Film have come up with a list of the best 50 movie kisses ever, I’ve put the top 10 together for you to read because let’s face who cares about the rest of any list apart from the top 10? If you do then head on over to their website.

10. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011)

The Kissers: Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson).

The Kiss: Y’know, that kiss. The one they’ve been building up to for a decade.

Passion Or Romance: The cute smiles after the kiss give it away – these kids are in love. Bless.

09. Titanic (1997)

The Kissers: Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose DeWitt Brubaker (Kate Winslet).

The Kiss: On top of the world. Or, technically, at the front of a big boat.

Passion Or Romance: Seeing that they don’t start shagging there and then on the deck, we have to assume it’s the real deal.

08. Lady And The Tramp (1955)

The Kissers: A classy cocker spaniel (Lady) and a mongrel (Tramp).

The Kiss: Al fresco becomes al frisky as the dogs’ dinner sees them sharing spaghetti.

Passion Or Romance: C’mon, Tramp loves Lady enough to give her his last meatball. What do you think?

07. Brokeback Mountain (2005)

The Kissers: Ennis del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal).

The Kiss: One-time lovers Ennis and Jack meet up and, despite both being married – in fact, Ennis’ missus is watching – the reunited pair lock faces.

Passion Or Romance: It started as passion, but by now it’s a full-blown love story.

06. Casablanca (1942)

The Kissers: Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) and Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman).

The Kiss: Reunited in Morocco because Ilsa needs Rick’s help saving her new husband from the Nazis, these old flames realise they still share sparks.

Passion Or Romance: The film’s theme song reckons “a kiss is just a kiss,” but this is proof of one of the screen’s most heartfelt romances.

05. Spider-Man (2002)

The Kissers: ‘Spiderman’ aka Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) and Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst).

The Kiss: Mary Jane thanks Spidey for rescuing her with a kiss, even though he’s hanging upside-down.

Passion Or Romance: Superhero fetish. It’s probably the mask that’s turning her on.

04. The Notebook (2004)

The Kissers: Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams) and Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling).

The Kiss: A reunion in the rain after years apart. Allie thinks Noah never wrote to her, but when she finds out he wrote a love letter every day, it’s lip-locking time.

Passion Or Romance: “It still isn’t over” – not when the romance is this strong.

03. Back To The Future (1985)

The Kissers: George McFly (Crispin Glover) and Lorraine Baines (Lea Thompson).

The Kiss: History in the (re)making. Not only is Marty McFly’s future saved, but George will no longer be a doormat for Biff Tannen.

Passion Or Romance: Pure enchantment, and not just under the sea.

02. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

The Kissers: Scoundrel Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Princess Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher).

The Kiss: Having fallen in love during their escape from the Empire, Leia isn’t about to let the small matter of Han being frozen in carbonite prevent their first kiss.

Passion Or Romance: “I love you.” “I know.” The most romantic kiss in sci-fi, although the follow-up in Return of The Jedi – as Leia reunites with blind Han – nearly matches it.

01. From Here To Eternity (1953)

The Kissers: Milton Warden (Burt Lancaster) and Karen Holmes (Deborah Kerr).

The Kiss: The iconic ‘snogging in the surf’ scene, memorably parodied by Airplane! and most likely copied by everyone who’s ever had some seaside lovin’.

Passion Or Romance: Karen’s married, so her clinch with Milton is pure passion. No wonder they need to cool down in those Pacific waves.

Did your favorite movie kiss make the cut? Mine would be the Sarah Michelle Geller and Selma Blair kiss from Cruel Intentions, which only made it to 29 on the list.

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Hollywood’s 8 Worst Kissers

You know when you’re watching a movie and there’s a passionate kiss in the film and you imagine the actors being an incredible kisser? Well maybe you don’t do that but I do sometimes, but anyway they aren’t all good kissers according to Hollywood Life. They’ve come up with 8 actors who are the worst kissers in Hollywood.

Robert Pattinson
Believe it or not, R-Patz isn’t the perfect kisser he appears to be. Closeness is good, but there is such a thing as TOO close. “My nose is running all over the place … and Reese had this wig on, and literally, I was wiping my nose on her wig,” he told MTV about his love scene with Reese Witherspoon in Water For Elephants.

Angelina Jolie
Angie’s Wanted co-star James McAvoy described kissing her as “awkward, sweaty and not very nice.”

Emma Watson
Hogwarts’ most fashion-forward student could apparently use a few lessons in the art of the smooch. Her Harry Potter co-star Rupert Grint compared her aggressive technique to that of an “animal.”

Orlando Bloom
When asked which of her Pirates of the Caribbean co-stars was a better kisser, Keira Knightley answered, “Johnny Depp certainly wasn’t bad.” Poor Orlando!

Leonardo DiCaprio
Leo may have been irresistible to Kate Winslet in Titanic, but his magic mouth apparently doesn’t work as well on land. “I think Leonardo is a nice guy, but I wouldn’t want him as a lover,” said Virginie Leydoyen, Leo’s co-star in The Beach. “I can’t really remember his kiss.”

Victoria Beckham
The late Corey Haim once admitted that ex-girlfriend Victoria “does this little grr gnaw thing,” which he likened to “a girl gnawing on your lip.”

Matt Lanter
While we have a feeling she may have been kidding, AnnaLynne McCord had less-than-kind things to say about locking lips with her 90210 co-star: ”[Matt] actually is a really bad kisser, so it kind of sucks.”

Jason Segel
He may have landed Kristen Bell AND Mila Kunis in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, but Jason’s How I Met Your Mother co-star Alyson Hannigan wasn’t as big a fan of his — at least not at first. “[Alyson] told me she would not do any romantic scenes with me as long as I was smoking,” Jason said in an interview. (Smoker’s breath? Gross!)

source: [Hollywood Life]

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Nude Kate Winslet ‘Titanic’ Sketch For Sale

Back when Leonardo DiCaprio was still on the pages of mags like Tiger Beat and Kate Winslet was a little-known British actress, there was a movie that brought both actors together for a life-changing experience — James Cameron’s disaster drama, ‘Titanic.’ The result became the highest-grossing movie of all time, a title only recently taken away by Cameron’s own ‘Avatar.’

Over the weekend, a famous prop from the blockbuster film — a nude drawing of Kate Winslet — was auctioned off.

The Telegraph reported the art was expected to rake in over $16,000. The drawing is sketched by DiCaprio’s character in the movie, but was actually drafted by James Cameron himself (those are even his hands at work — who knew?).

The drawing was up for grabs from movie memorabilia house Premiere Props, who sell items like Nic Cage’s used, sweaty wig from ‘Season of the Witch,’ but we imagine that far more movie fans were clamoring to get their hands on a nude Kate Winslet.

As if we need to remind you of the plot, in ‘Titanic’ Winslet plays 17-year-old socialite Rose, who survives the 1912 sinking of the passenger liner that struck an iceberg, killing almost 1,500 people. DiCaprio stars as Jack, a 20-year-old who doesn’t have a penny to his name but falls for the young girl who is engaged to a wealthy man almost twice her age.

It’s hard to talk about the “drawing scene” in the film — or the entire movie, really — without thinking of every pop culture parody that grew out of Jack and Rose’s melodramatic relationship, but it’s a tender moment that also plays into a big part of the storyline. After the couple make out for a bit, they head back to Rose’s suite where she shows him the Heart of the Ocean, a fancy-pants diamond necklace belonging to her fiancee, Cal (Billy Zane). Rose asks Jack to draw her wearing the necklace and nothing else. Eighty-four years later, the drawing helps a treasure hunter find Rose so he can learn her story.

Cue Celine Dion’s ‘My Heart Will Go On’ times infinity.

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Forbes’ Top Grossing On-Screen Couples

Forbes have come up with a list of the top earning on-screen couples ever and it’s pretty much full of people who starred together in a franchise. As opposed to back in the day when Hollywood stars would star in a few movies together. Before I even read the list I knew who would be on top, take a look for yourself…

Ben Stiller and Teri Polo, $1 billion

Little Fockers might be one of the worst reviewed movies of 2010, but it is making a lot of money. So far the Meet the Parents trilogy has earned $1 billion at the box office. With those kinds of numbers, a fourth movie can’t be far behind. Expect more trouble for the young marrieds played by Stiller and Polo.

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Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow, $1.2 billion

We didn’t include this couple when we first did this list last year because after the first Iron Man, they still weren’t really a couple. But in the second movie, Downey’s Tony Stark admitted his feelings for Paltrow’s Pepper Potts. No word on if Paltrow will make an appearance in the upcoming film The Avengers, which will feature Iron Man, among other heroes.

Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen, $1.5 billion

Hayden Christensen didn’t make his Star Wars debut as Anakin Skywalker until the fifth movie, Attack of the Clones. But his relationship with Natalie Portman’s Padme was crucial to the sci-fi tale as the pair ultimately became parents to Luke and Leia.

Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, $1.5 billion

Transformers is really all about robots that turn into cars but somewhere in the first two movies was a love story between LaBeouf’s Sam Witwicky and Fox’s Mikaela Banes. The two couldn’t have been that inseparable though because director Michael Bay decided to jettison Fox in the third movie in favor of Victoria’s Secret model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, $1.8 billion

While romance is secondary in some of the films discussed on this list, it’s the main theme in the Twilight series about a human girl, played by Stewart, who falls for Pattinson’s sensitive vampire. There are still two films left in the successful franchise. A movie based on the first half of Breaking Dawn hits theaters this coming November.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, $1.9 billion

For a film with equal parts romance and action it’s hard to do better than Titanic. The 1997 film featured a pair of doomed, class-crossed lovers set against the epic sinking of the giant cruise ship. The film is the second-highest-grossing of all time with $1.8 billion. DiCaprio and Winslet appeared together again in the much smaller film Revolutionary Road in 2008.

Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, $2.7 billion

Yes, the Pirates franchise is mostly about Johnny Depp staggering around like a drunk who just fell into a case of makeup. But for the first three films there was a romance that helped ground the movies. Seems like Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer didn’t think it was crucial to the story though. Bloom and Knightley’s characters have been written out of the fourth installment.

Viggo Mortensen and Liv Tyler, $3 billion

As Aragorn and the elf Arwen, Mortensen and Tyler play a pair of lovers struggling to maintain a relationship amid an epic quest to destroy evil. The pair helped make the fantasy films a bit more relatable for people who got confused by all the characters in Middle Earth. No word on if the pair will appear in the upcoming prequel: The Hobbit.

Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, $6.3 billion

It took seven movies but Ron and Hermione are finally acting on their long simmering love. In the most recent Harry Potter film, Rupert Grint got to do a bit of bravura acting watching his worst fears come to life, including Watson’s Hermione falling in love with Harry instead of him. Expect the pair to finally smooch in the final film hitting theaters this summer.

source: Top 10 On-Screen Couples [Forbes]

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Holiday Limbo & Links To Hollywood


Holiday Limbo, Anyone?City Rag

Charlie Sheen Gets Revenge Against Porn Star – Pop Eater

Jessica Simpson Celebrated Engagement With Pizza – IDLYITW

Amber Portwood Finds New Man To Belittle, Abuse – Daily Fill

Juliette Lewis Puts On A Bikini – Holy Moly

John Travolta Is A Bottom? – Tabloid Prodigy

Mean Girls 2‘ Trailer Is Really Terrible – Amy Grindhouse

Ben Roethlisberger Got Punched – The Superficial

Lindsay Lohan Wins Right To Drive – Wonderwall

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Close Call – Hollywire

Kyle Massey Needs To Win ‘DWTS’ – Hollywood Life

Jessica Lowndes’ Thick Hips In A Bikini – Drunken Stepfather

Audience Goes Nuts For Oprah’s Favorite Things – OMG Blog

Tony Parker Is A Dirty Dog – Why Fame

An Open Love Letter To Jake GyllenhaalBetty Confidential

Kate Winslet Dumps Her Model Boyfriend – Anything Hollywood

Jessica Simpson’s Friends Insist She’s Not Pregnant – ICYDK

Pink & Carey Hart At The AMAs – Celebrity Smack

Rihanna Recognized By Her Bikini Waxer – Celeb News Wire

Mario Lopez’s Daughter Tweets From The Tub – Celebrity Baby Scoop

Mariah Carey Sings To Her Baby Bump – Holly Baby

Pastor Says Facebook Is Evil, Threesomes Are Okay – Zelda Lily

Guide To Preparing For The Thanksgiving Holiday – College Candy

Jake Gyllenhaal’s ‘Source Code’ Trailer – F-Listed

Robyn’s ‘Body Talk’ Is Out Today! – Popbytes

Miley Cyrus Grinds All Over Her Boyfriend – Allie Is Wired

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Twitter Crack & Links To Hollywood


Twitter Is Crack To Courtney LovePopbytes

What’s Demi Lovato Smiling About? – Daily Fill

Kate Winslet Nude Scenes – City Rag

Chelsea Handler Is Dating 50 CentIDLYITW

Amy Winehouse Surprises With Comeback Gig – Pop Eater

Guess Who Made Out With Taylor SwiftTabloid Prodigy

Tom Brady Forgives Gisele – Holy Moly

Christine O’Donnell Is A Witchy Woman – OMG Blog

Jessica Simpson Tweets About Passing Gas. Lovely. – Hollywood Life

Sister Wives‘ Could Get 5 Years In Jail – Betty Confidential

David Beckham Never Looks Bad In The Morning – Amy Grindhouse

Christina Hendricks: Everyone Wants Me – The Superficial

Russell Simmons With Some Gold Digger Of The Day – Drunken Stepfather

Kelis Tries To Scare Off Her Fan Base – Celebrity Smack

Oksana Grigorieva Says Mel Wanted To Kill Her – Yeeeah!

Barack Obama & Education – College Candy

What Role Is Brendan Fraser Trying Out For? – Anything Hollywood

Afternoon Pick-Me-Up: Veronica LaveryF-Listed

Emma Stone Joins Spider-Man Cast – Wonderwall

Why Oprah Hates David LettermanWhy Fame

Betty White Is Still Sexual – Hollywood Dame

The Jonas Brothers: Wine Thieves – Allie Is Wired

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Multipass & Links To Hollywood


Milla Jovovich In Russian MaximIDLYITW

Martin Short’s Wife Dies Suddenly – Pop Eater

Angelina Jolie Is F’ing Amazing – City Rag

Nick Jonas Falls Down On Stage – Tabloid Prodigy

OMG, It’s Back: The MacarenaOMG Blog

Taylor Momsen Clears Up Rihanna Misquote – Amy Grindhouse

10 Things About Jennifer AnistonBetty Confidential

Rachel Uchitel Will Bang Anything – The Superficial

Kate Gosselin’s Tarty New Wardrobe – Hollywood Life

Rachel Bilson Takes It To The Beach – Hollywire

Jennifer Aniston Is Back With John Mayer? – Anything Hollywood

Britney Spears Is Doing A Second ‘Glee’ Episode? – Hollywood Dame

Kate Winslet Is Getting Laid – Holy Moly

Sexy Shots From Cheryl Cole’s 2011 Calendar – F-Listed

Jessica Alba Is Covered Up & Insecure Of The Day – Drunken Stepfather

Kiefer Sutherland In A Speedo – Celebrity Smack

Kim Kardashian Is Still Hawking Her Fragrance – Popbytes

Goodbye, Parents! Seriously, Get Out – College Candy

Go Figure: Female Sex Offenders Often Ignored – Zelda Lily

Audrina Patridge Is Doing ‘Dancing With The Stars’ – Wonderwall

First Sight Of Anna Paquin’s Wedding Ring – Why Fame

Fantasia Barrino Overdose Wasn’t An Accident – Allie Is Wired

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20 Actors Who Actually Deserve Your Support

These days most actors are only in the business to make a quick dollar and get famous, but there are some who actually still care and enjoy acting. Cinema Blend have come up with a list of 20 actors who do care and deserve your support.

Ricky Gervais

In 2004, The Office became the first British sitcom ever to win a Golden Globe for Best Comedy. They never filmed another episode. Three years later, despite reported requests to guest star from Madonna, Brad Pitt and Will Ferrell, Ricky Gervais decided not to film another season of Extras. Walking away from a starring role on a major sitcom just as it becomes most profitable is almost unheard of, doing the same thing twice is either a sign of lunacy, a testament to just how much he really cares or an almost superhuman belief in his own abilities as a comedian. Decades ago, people said the same thing about Bob Newhart, more recently, they’ve said it about Dave Chappelle. I haven’t the slightest idea what the truth is, but that’s pretty damn good company to be in. Ricky Gervais deserves your support because he left two brilliant, critically-adored television shows of his own creation to do a movie lampooning God. Then he followed it up with a sentimental dreamedy about growing up in England. It’s as if he’s deliberately killed all momentum he had, cocksure he could rebuild again at any time of his choosing. We’ve yet to see the best out of Ricky Gervais, and when it comes, Cinema Blend will be the first in line to say I told you so. We’ll probably end up sharing credit with Barry from EastEnders.

Viggo Mortensen

Viggo Mortensen is a smolderer. He opens those intense, I-know-how-to-build-my-own-kitchen eyes, and he wins my girlfriend over every time. Obviously, I want to hate him because anyone that ruggedly handsome has to be despised on principal alone, but like Paul Newman and his absurdly delicious salad dressing, there comes a day when you just have to admit a dude’s alright. Viggo Mortensen could have gone the way of Eric Bana, it certainly would have been expected by this writer, but since The Lord Of The Rings climaxed, he’s done nothing but take intense borderline indies and one movie about horses. Turns out that’s excused because he’s reportedly just real into horses. I would write a movie about polish sausage if someone paid me, a man can’t change who he is. Viggo Mortensen is a character actor at heart, he’s a method, no-restraint genius who looks like a mechanic, crossed with zoo keeper, crossed with a brooding former model turned emotionally-tortured bad boy. I need to stop holding that against him. If not for my own credibility, so he won’t steal my girlfriend and kill me with his bare hands in my sleep on his way to winning at least three Oscars before he’s done.

Bill Murray

Bill Murray doesn’t have an agent. He has an answering machine. Leave him a message and if he likes your movie, he might call you back. Most likely he won’t. I suspect Bill Murray cares about life more than he cares about movies. He spends his days on drunken golf outings or eating lunch with Anthony Bourdain. When he chooses a movie it’s only because he thinks it’ll enrich his life to do it. Maybe it’ll enrich yours too. He’ll show up on set when he feels like it and when he arrives, he’ll be everything you could ever hope Bill Murray would be. He’ll hang out at crack jokes, he’ll entertain the crew between takes. When someone turns the camera on, he’ll give it his dead pan all, he’ll elevate every scene he’s in, he’ll make your movie better than it ever could have been if you’d cast anyone else. Then he’ll wander off back to his life, randomly tending bar in Austin and doing whatever it is that Bill Murray does with his endless weekends. He’d like to win an Oscar, he probably should have gotten one for Lost in Translation. But he doesn’t care about pleasing his fans, he won’t do anything just because you want him to. He’ll only do it if he wants to. Bill Murray mostly he cares about life and while you’re cashing paychecks for doing movies about giant robots, he’ll be out there living his.

Kate Winslet

I think Kate Winslet would be better off if she made more movies like The Holiday. That opinion, along with many others, is why I’m not necessarily a writer you should support. For all the laurels I’ve rested on, all the middle-of-the-road, audience-pleasing editorials I’ve delivered, I could never be Kate Winslet. Conventional wisdom dictates one should take roles which further her career, monetarily or critically, Kate Winslet has spent the last decade and a half taking movies like Little Children and The Reader which have merely reinforced her reputation as a woman more interested in achieving than pleasing. There’s nobility in that aim. Only the virtuous would sacrifice manufactured emotion for brutal honesty. That’s why I’m willing to sacrifice Michael Caine, who was originally going to be on this list. 20 actors is more search friendly than 21. Kate Winslet is better than that. That’s why she gets her own paragraph.

Crispin Glover

I’m pretty sure I get Crispin Glover about thirty percent of the time. That’s about twenty percent higher than most people and twenty percent less than Crispin Glover gets himself. Maybe. The how’s-and-why’s of the most honestly, happily eccentric man in show business are too confounding for a single paragraph. There was his Letterman appearance where he fired a roundhouse kick at Dave’s head, his republishing of a book about rats with CIA-style blackouts, his asking the director to remove all of his lines in Charlie’s Angels. The outlandish idiosyncrasies are enough to make OCD-patients look benign. He’s either accidentally stumbled upon that genius level of insane a few people have every generation or he’s carefully calculated an intentionally eerie public persona, the likes of which haven’t been topped since Nero. Lou Reed, on his most desperately anti-social day, skewers toward mass appeal projects twenty percent more than Crispin Glover. It’s like he carefully measures out just enough rope to almost hang himself and then climbs further up the tree. Peeping Toms, one-armed bellhops, Andy Warhol, these are the men Crispin Glover puts life into. He’s a personification of the mystery box, a creepy, off-putting Knave of Hearts lurking behind door number three. I can support that, at least thirty percent of the time.

Morgan Freeman

Wanna know what Morgan Freeman is up to right now? He’s narrating Through The Wormhole on the Discovery Channel. Let’s take a second to think about that. Morgan Freeman, a beloved actor with his handprints at the Chinese Theater, is doing the voice work for a little-seen basic cable documentary series. It’s certainly not because he can’t get work or because he’s somehow now incapable of acting, Morgan Freeman is still at the height of his cinematic power and influence, which is why he’s narrating one of the most fascinating programs on the origins of life I have ever seen. Maybe Through The Wormhole shows up without Freeman’s involvement, in fact, it likely does, but would Discovery be running highly-rated marathons of it? I seriously doubt it. Morgan Freeman invokes an aura of legitimacy. Even when he does absolute shit like Evan Almighty, it never really tarnishes his ability, probably because he never stoops or panders, grovels or lowers himself to embarrassment. All the greats, Joe Dimaggio, Ted Williams, they struck out too, but they did so with class, with a confident, I’ll-get-you-next-time grin. Don’t believe me? Then go ahead and stamp your forms, sonny. I doubt Morgan Freeman gives a shit.

Michelle Williams

Michelle Williams made a movie about walking around town looking for your dog, and it was one of the best movies of 2008. If there’s a great movie you’ve never heard of, odds are she’s in it. She could do blockbusters, where she’d invariably be cast as some superhero’s girlfriend. She’s pretty enough, she’s talented enough, and she’s well known enough. I’m sure Marvel wishes they could get her in The Avengers. They can’t. I doubt they’d even ask. Michelle Williams isn’t in it for the glory, or the money, or even accolades. She’d have to be in movies people are likely to see, to get any of those. I’m left to assume that she works because she genuinely likes acting, and chooses her roles accordingly. She’s quietly perfect in everything she does. When she’s in an ensemble you may not even notice her, because she’s so good she’s simply that character. She’s famous, but when you see her you’ll almost never think “hey that’s Michelle Williams”. Even though you’ll never notice, everything is better with her in it, and if it wasn’t already good she wouldn’t be in it anyway. Got a lost dog? A midget in need of a friend? A gay husband in need of a confidant? Got a quiet, incredibly smart movie which probably won’t sell tickets but really should be seen anyway? Give Michelle Williams a call.

Tom Hanks

More than anything else, this list is a celebration of risks. It’s an ode to the men and women who try new things, carve their own paths and make us alter the way we see movies; why is why, at first glance, Tom Hanks seems a bizarre fixture amongst the Viggos and Kate Winslet’s. There’s something intuitively safe about Tom Hanks. One big budget film a year in which he plays a loveable good guy tearing at the audience’s sympathies. But like a wise father who knows when its time for discipline and when it’s time for ice cream, Tom Hanks is only safe because he’s consistently proven for two decades that he knows what he’s doing. Ask people what their favorite Hanks movies are and not only will you get different answers, you’ll get different genres. Philadelphia is a legal drama about AIDS. Saving Private Ryan is a horrifying World War II picture. That Thing You Do, my personal favorite, is a disposable piece of early 60s nostalgia. Cast Away, The Green Mile, Catch Me If You Can, Bachelor Party, hell even You’ve Got Mail has its ardent supporters, me included. Tom Hanks may not stray us too far from our comfort zones, but right now, at this moment, he is the only actor in Hollywood who still carries a legitimate seal of quality. This paragraph was written in the USA and is Hanks-approved.

Edward Norton

I’ve never played Clue with Edward Norton, but I’m almost positive he takes notes on the questions other players ask, just like I’m positive he buries players for cutting across the middle, argues like a woman scorned and consistently orders the best thing on the menu. Edward Norton is the type of guy who despises second place performances and phoned in efforts with every ounce of his will power. One could argue he simply fights for the sake of fighting, obsesses for the sake of obsessing, his difficult-to-work-with reputation would probably speak to that, but I honestly believe he’s just life-or-death invested in everything he does. You can’t partially commit to paying a skinhead, nor can you obscure your own identity behind a mask for an entire movie because it somehow selfishly helps you. Edward Norton cares, probably too much. He’s the guy who corrects the teacher when he’s misinformed, even when he knows it’ll get him kicked out of class. What’s worse being a tedious failure or a disliked genius? I don’t know. Let me rewatch Primal Fear before I answer that.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Lewis spent eight months learning and training for his character in The Last Of The Mohicans. This is not unusual in itself—the training—even the guys in The A Team went to Army Boot camp. But the performances of Daniel Day-Lewis are different from that of Bradley Cooper not simply because of Day-Lewis’ clearly superior acting or his ability to mold dialogue (which are obviously not part of Bradley Coopers will-be-handsomer-than-thou schtick), but in the choosing of characters and the projects he picks. This becomes obvious with only one glance at Day-Lewis’ Filmography. While the man has been on the radar since the mid eighties and has been given leads since ’88, when he played in Philip Kaufman’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being, in the last twenty years, he has acted in nine films. Nine, yes the same number, yes, there’s a joke in there somewhere, but we’re not finding it so let’s move on. Suffice to say, we should support Daniel Day-Lewis, because if we don’t, he might actually have to take his first role for a paycheck in decades. I hear Phil’s character needs a father in The Hangover 2.

Julianne Moore

Do you remember Julianne Moore in The Fugitive? I do, and I saw that movie once, probably five years ago, played on cable with commercials. And it’s not just her hair (that would clearly cause members of South Park to riot), it’s not her height, her lissom lack of curves, or even her charming smile. It’s not the role she plays in the film—she’s a doctor who helps Harrison Ford’s character in a modestly important part. There’s something more important than a striking appearance in Moore’s portrayal of Doctor Anne Eastman. She’s memorable, and whether her convincing acting was the entire culprit or whether her body language and facial features played a part is an entirely beside-the-point argument, because on the merit of this role in The Fugitive, Spielberg cast her as a lead in The Lost World without an audition. Then, P.T. Anderson had to actually court her repeatedly for his film Boogie Nights. I’d like to present a few more points of evidence. Ms. Moore has often and repeatedly taken roles that would offer her more interesting parts over more money, although she has had successful box office hits. Her recent foray The Kids Are All Right exemplifies this. She once said, “I don’t understand fame without content.” And if there is anything a movie watcher should support, it’s content over fluff. Julianne Moore has taken the acting world into two hands and triumphed. And maybe, just maybe, Julianne Moore could be the one ginger South Park residents could love.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is 29 years old. In acting years, this is the equivalent to Julianne Moore appearing in the made for tv-movie Money, Power, Murder. It’s Pacino before The Godfather, Spacey before Glengarry Glen Ross… it’s Costner while his scenes were being deleted from the Big Chill. I know, I know, the opposite argument could be applied to this paragraph—that many actors begin youngish careers and are successful. What separates Joseph Gordon-Levitt from these other young career seekers is his choice of roles. He’s not picking roles blindly, he’s not an “if you find a fork in the road, take it” kind of guy, but he’s also not simply an obscure-indie-loving, “I took the road less traveled by,” kind of guy. By straddling two worlds, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is able to have his cake and eat it too. Which means we get to see him play fresh characters across the board, from Brick to The Lookout, from (500) Days of Summer to Inception. Even when he chooses big budget films like G.I. Joe, he still feels Downey fresh. Pretty clean for a kid who began his career doing peanut butter commercials.

Jet Li

Jet Li is on this list because he isn’t Jackie Chan. Both once had an unmatched talent for brilliant action sequences. Earlier in his career and right up through the 90s, Jackie Chan made better movies than Jet Li. He just did. Jackie had better stunts, Jackie has a sense of humor. Jet Li simply has the ability to kick ass. But in the new millennium, as they both got older and the stunts got harder to do, Jackie Chan sold out. He stopped doing his own stunts and lied about it. He started doing horrible, Hollywood babysitting movies, just for the paycheck. And while early in his career Jet Li was never as good as Jackie Chan, later in their careers he’s the one who didn’t sell out. Instead of using his fame to get big paychecks doing terrible movies, Li used it to fund passion projects like Hero and the beautiful martial arts history movie Fearless. When he does do a big Hollywood movie, he tries to pick something interesting. His movies aren’t perfect and neither are his choices. But even though he’s older and the stunts that made him famous are getting harder to do, Jet Li hasn’t sold out. Jet Li will never be as fun to watch as Jackie Chan, he’d never be able to pull of a real acting role like Jackie’s in The Karate Kid. Jet Li’s idea of slumming it is doing a ridiculously fun movie like The Expendables or being the best thing about a bad Mummy movie. Jet Li will never be a babysitter and his work, while far from perfect, is almost always worth the price of admission.

James Franco

James Franco is not a good actor. But it’s not a lack of effort which makes him mediocre at best, merely a lack of talent. Franco compensates by making it a point to be interesting. He picks roles he has no business doing, seeks out projects that better actors might be afraid to touch, and damn his ability he’s doing them anyway. James Franco should probably try to get by solely on his James Dean good looks, he should probably go wherever that crooked smile takes him, but he’s not interested. Talented or not he’s out there doing the insane and the ridiculous. He shows up when you least expect him, playing the weirdos, the stoners, pulling off the crazed hillbilly cameo in a movie for an audience which will ultimately forget he was ever in it. James Franco does soap operas, just because it seems like fun. He finds his way into movies which, if his role were played by someone else, might have won them an Oscar. James Franco’s only real asset is that he’s pretty, but he refuses to use it. James Franco is not a good actor and many of the movies he’s been in might have been better if his role were given to someone else. But that’s not his fault, that’s not his problem. Some of those movies wouldn’t have been made at all without him. James Franco is not a good actor, but that hasn’t stopped him from giving it his all. He’s too small to play running back, too slow to hit a fast ball, too short to dunk on an NBA regulation hoop. Sure he could give it up, move to China, and have a successful career in men’s table tennis instead; but he’s out there, giving it everything he’s got anyway. James Franco should probably be Ashton Kutcher, but he’d rather be Dustin Hoffman. He’ll never get there, and I suspect he knows it, but you have to love the guy for trying.

Jeff Bridges

Jeff Bridges didn’t really like making movies at first. He did it because everyone else in his family did it, and they sort of talked him into it. But Jeff wasn’t going to stick with it, unless he really fell in love. At some point, he did. These days Bridges doesn’t do it unless he loves it. Jeff is Hollywood legacy, he doesn’t have to make movies, he chooses to make them. When he chooses one, he chooses it only because it’s something he believes in, only because it’s something he thinks you’ll believe in. Sometimes he’s wrong (The Door in the Floor) but most of the time he’s right. Every time Jeff Bridges shows up on screen there’s always reason to think and hope that this could be the next Big Lebowski, the next Fisher King, the next Tucker, the next Starman. Jeff Bridges cares about what he’s doing. He cares about the characters he’s playing. He cares about his audience. Maybe he’ll make the occasional wrong move, every once in awhile he’ll do The Men Who Stare At Goats. It doesn’t matter, the movie may be bad, but odds are he’ll still be the best thing about it. He’ll probably even make it watchable. The day Jeff Bridges stops caring is the day he stops doing it and holes up somewhere to focus entirely on his photography. It doesn’t matter what Jeff Bridges is in, rest assured that he’s only doing it because he believes it’s worth your time.

Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep is so good that she’s become a cliché. She’s good in everything and everyone knows it. She’s a character actor, when you need someone to play a culinary Big Bird or the bitch from hell boss. She’s a leading lady, whenever you need someone to make out with Alec Baldwin. She has two Oscars, but she’d probably have more, except these days everyone just expects Oscar-worthy performances from her. Lately, she delivers at least one of those, almost every year. She’s done it by being good and making it a point to work with good people. These days she really doesn’t have to go through the effort. She’s Meryl Streep and if she’s attached to a project other good talent will surely follow. So she could phone it in, and let the Steve Martin carry the load. But she won’t. She’s the consummate professional. Meryl’s name on a movie poster is a symbol of quality, it means something, the way Ford used to back when Henry was still alive and the company gave a damn. The way Disney used to, before everyone found out Walt was probably a secret Nazi. The way GE used to be, back when they were all about making great toasters. Most of the names we’ve come to rely on have long since had their reputations tarnished. But not Meryl Streep. She’s still going strong.

Adrien Brody

After winning an Oscar for his work in The Pianist Adrien Brody had the hardware he needed to chart his own course. He could have carved out a career doing period dramas and kissing girls in corsets. That’s what respectable Oscar winners do. Or he could have thrown it all away for a series of big paychecks lending credibility to horrible films, let’s call that the Cuba Gooding Jr. method. Instead he decided to make movies about things he liked and Adrien Brody, it seems, loves smart quirky, genre movies. He likes brain-benders about science run-amok. He likes detective stories, and time travel and fantasies about strange other worlds. Maybe his choices haven’t always worked out, I don’t think anyone would argue in favor of The Jacket, but they’ve all come from the right place. Brody picks movies because he thinks they’re interesting, or because they’re about things he’s interested in. Whether or not that results in something good every time around, it always seems to result in something that tries. The thing is, Adrien Brody is out there trying. He’s not cashing paychecks or chasing more awards attention, he’s just doing movies he thinks he’d like to see on screen and in the process hopes that it’s something you’d like to see too. Everything Adrien Brody does at least attempts to be something bigger than the sum of its parts. It’s not the usual shlock. He could do Transformers 3, and maybe he’d make more money. He could do a Jane Austen movie, and he’d almost certainly get more respect from the cinematic snobs. But instead Adrien Brody does Splice and Adrien Brody does Predators, because Adrien Brody is doing what he loves.

Leonardo DiCaprio

As I write this, Leonardo DiCaprio has 22 film projects in development. He’s not starving for an audience; in fact, he may be one of four individuals whose films I will see regardless of whether I am interested in their content (the others being Day-Lewis, Spacey, and Cruise). I’m not choosing to write about him because I feel an urgent need for readers as individuals to support DiCaprio—he is such a prevalent icon at this point regardless of whether you liked his accent in Blood Diamond or the authenticity of his knife throwing skills in Gangs of New York. In the last decade, nearly every movie he’s made is watchable, in the sense it has some interesting shit going on, often because of DiCaprio himself (and most often because these films are good). Did you read the Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road is based on? It’s like F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night, only it gets more aplomb in critical circles. The reason I bring up Revolutionary Road, is because the narrative closely follows my feelings on DiCaprio. The first thirty pages are classic, filled with new and interesting narrative styles and ideas, the ideas. If you reread again there is always something new, something you missed the first time that you wouldn’t have even known how to look for. After that, the book sort of takes on its own vibe, goes in directions that aren’t reassuring or familiar, and are sometimes even unlikeable. Yet for some reason, it is still compelling, and you find yourself sucked in to the very end. This is DiCaprio’s talent, to try new things, to sometimes steer off course, to go out to sea, but to know that when he’s going, to paraphrase Chris Rock, he’s going out fucking.

Ellen Page

Ellen Page has no business being on this list. She’s only 23. She hasn’t been around long enough to earn a place on it. We didn’t want to put her on it, but her work demands it. The thing is, Ellen Page may be only 23 but she’s already been in more good movies than more famous, more well-traveled, better respected Hollywood actors twice her age. That just can’t be an accident. Sure she had a role in the mostly terrible X-Men 3, but the brilliant part of that decision is that the entire movie was so shallow and empty odds are you’ve already forgotten it. But starting with Hard Candy in 2005 she’s made it a point to show up in some of the best and most interesting movies released every year and worked with some of the best writers and directors the movie industry has to offer. Maybe it’s her unconventional look or her even more unconventional style of acting that keeps them casting her, but a lot of it, you have to think, has been up to her. It’s not just that she keeps picking good movies, but she keeps picking different movies. Movies that no one else is doing. She’s been a molested child out for revenge, a pregnant hipster, a genius prodigy, a roller girl, and a dream designer. All of that in a space of less than five years. Ellen Page is too young to be on this list, too new to have a reliable track record. But here she is anyway.

Russell Crowe

It feels like Russell Crowe has made about thirty bad movies in a row. I looked it up. In actuality, he’s made nine movies in a row worse than A Beautiful Mind. That’s ten movies in a row worse than Proof Of Life, eleven movies in a row worse than Gladiator, and twelve movies in a row worse than The Insider. That’s not to say everything he’s done since The Insider has successively debilitated like the reflexes of Mohammed Ali after Joe Frazier beat the living hell out of him in Manilla, but it has been a slow, yet steady chug down from the untouchable good graces of the American public. Twelve movies in a row worse than The Insider, yet Russell Crowe is on this list largely at my behest. I can’t fully explain it away, or excuse his choices, but I can say I still believe in Russell Crowe. I believe in him because he narrates documentaries about Robin Hood on the History Channel, because he did a fucking Western. His recent choices may not have proven fruitful but it wasn’t because they were back-up plans. This is a man who truly cares about getting other men right, getting the nuances down, getting stories he believes in made. Cinderella Man is a good movie; so too are American Gangster and 3:10 To Yuma; they can’t all be better than The Insider. But if you keep watching long enough, another one of ‘em will be.

source: 20 Actors Who Deserve Your Support [Cinema Blend]

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Invention Of The Year & Links To Hollywood

Invention Of The Year & Links To Hollywood

Invention Of The YearCity Rag

Gisele Clarifies Her Breastfeeding Comments – Pop Eater

Sophie Turner Is Over It – IDLYITW

Ke$ha Looks Like She Kissed A Smurf – Holy Moly

Britney Spears Is Looking Happy – Amy Grindhouse

Michael Lohan Is Banging This – The Superficial

Linda Hogan Not Engaged, Says Son Nick – Why Fame

Bret Michaels To Co-Host Miss Universe Pageant – ICYDK

Cher Continues To Turn Back Time? – Tabloid Prodigy

OMG, Photos: Robyn Live In Toronto – OMG Blog

Zac Efron Will Not Marry Vanessa HudgensHollywire

Dina Lohan Needs Rehab, Too – Hollywood Life

First Date Red Flags To Watch For – College Candy

Amy Winehouse Up All Night – Celebrity Smack

Olivia Wilde Nude In Cowboys & Aliens – Celeb News Wire

Aretha Franklin Breaks Ribs In Fall – Wonderwall

Montana Fishburne Believes Porn Is The Gateway To Fame – Zelda Lily

Jessica Alba Does FHM In Very Little – F-Listed

Panty Pictures To Keep Kristin Cavallari Relevant? – Drunken Stepfather

Exclusive Chat With Betty WhiteBetty Confidential

Kate Winslet Dating Model Louis Dowler – Hollywood Dame

What Is Heidi Klum Hiding? – Anything Hollywood

Daniel Radcliffe Has A New Girlfriend – Allie Is Wired

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Four Actors Who Regret Going Topless

It is not uncommon for female celebrities to go topless for movies or TV shows and nearly every single male actor has gone shirtless in movies, but not all of them are happy with their choice to do this. Here are four actors who have spoken out against their decisions:

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Kate WinsletThe Reader

Nearly every male viewer who saw Kate Winslet, 34, in her Oscar-winning role as Hannah in “The Reader” has nothing to complain about. But she did win an Academy Award for the role, but we’re still uncertain as to whether flashing her goodies played a part in that. “I don’t want to become that actress who always gets her kit off,” she says. But whether her ‘kit’ is on or off, we still agree that Kate’s a fantastic actress and deserves all the accolades.

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Mary-Louise ParkerWeeds

Mary-Louise Parker, 45, was extremely regretful after going nude for a bath scene on the hit television series “Weeds.” “I’m bitter… I knew it was going to be on the Internet,” she said. You may be bitter, Mary-Louise, but if it makes you feel any better – there are a lot of folks (mostly potheads) out there who continue to support your decision, though.

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Taylor LautnerTwilight

Despite a limited role in “Twilight,” still images of a shirtless Taylor Lautner (17) promoting the film’s sequel, “Twilight: New Moon,” surfaced; and the actor made it clear that he wasn’t proud of flashing his bulging torso. “If I had to choose, I would never take my shirt off again in a movie,” he said.

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Natalie PortmanHotel Chevalier

I’d be lying if I said I’d seen the 13 minute short film “Hotel Chevalier” – basically a prelude to Wes Anderson’s “The Darjeeling Limited” – prior to seeing 28-year-old Natalie Portman’s erotic scenes. However, it’s nearly impossible to type “Hotel Chevalier” into any search engine and not have an image pop up showcasing the star in the nude. “I shouldn’t have done it”, she said.

I don’t for a single second believe them when they say they regret going topless because every actor has said they would do it for the right script, which basically means that money talks and if they believe they could win an award they will strip down. I mean look at Kate Winslet she got an Oscar for The Reader.

source: Four Stars Who Regret Going Topless [Starpulse]

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A Precious World & Links To Hollywood

A Precious World & Links To Hollywood

A Precious WorldCity Rag

Afternoon Pick Me Up: Caitlin KellyF-Listed

Are Beyonce’s & Jay-Z’s Dreams About To Come True? – Hollywood Life

Elizabeth Hasselbeck Vs. Sarah PalinBetty Confidential

The Battle for Sunny: What Rights Does Sandra Bullock Have? – Pop Eater

Serena Williams In A Bikini – The Superficial

OMG, Q & A With Alison GoldfrappOMG Blog

LegalBytes: Joe Jackson Vs. Dr. MurrayPopbytes

Robert Pattinson Punches Like A Girl – Amy Grindhouse

Russell Brand Is Another Cheater? – Why Fame

Paris Hilton Craps Out A New Song – Celebrity Smack

Chloe Sevigny Has No Love For Big Love – Celeb News Wire

Robert Pattinson Has Taken A Bath! – Tabloid Prodigy

Courteney Cox On The Set Of ‘Cougar Town’ – Pacific Coast News

Kardashian Sisters: Massive Miami Mounds – Ninja Dude

Michelle McGee Laughs: I Wasn’t The Only One! – ICYDK

Lilith Fair 2.0 Is Going To Suck – Litely Salted

Kesha Is So Revolting – Yeeeah!

The Party Girl’s 5 BFFs – College Candy

Osama Chin Laden Turned Lesbian – The Dirty

Jimi Hendrix’s Long Lost Sex Tape – Hollywire

Kristin Cavallari In Her Stripper Dress – Drunken Stepfather

Kiefer Sutherland Announces The End Of 24 – Wonderwall

Baby Slings Recalled Infant Deaths – Zelda Lily

Dennis Hoppers & His Hollywood Stars – Celebrity Baby Scoop

Leonardo DiCaprio & Kate Winslet Secret Couple? – Anything Hollywood

Matt Kemp Moves In With RihannaAllie Is Wired

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Oscar Curse – Win Best Actress Then Get Divorced

Yesterday it was announced that Kate Winslet and her husband of seven years, Sam Mendes, were divorcing. As we all know that if you win an Oscar there is a curse, it seems for women on top of their career dying they tend to end up divorcing. Here are some of the famous ones:

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Benjamin Bratt was the lucky man on Julia Roberts’ arm when she won the Oscar for her role in “Erin Brockovich” in 2001. Three months later their relationship was over—he went on to marry Talisa Soto, while she’s had three kids with husband Danny Moder. She’s yet to be nominated for a second time, so hopefully this relationship is safe.

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The second actress to fall victim to this trend? Halle Berry, who won Best Actress in 2002 for “Monster’s Ball.” She’d been dating hot musician Eric Benet for years, and the two got hitched in 2001. Shortly after winning her Best Actress Oscar, Benet started cheating on her and allegedly went to sex addiction rehab. But it wasn’t enough—the couple separated in 2003 and divorced in 2005.

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Infamously, Hilary Swank forgot to thank her hubby Chad Lowe, brother of Rob, when she won Best Actress in 2000 for her role as Brandon Teena in “Boys Don’t Cry.” Still, Chad seemed ultra supportive of her, and they were the ultimate down-to-earth Hollywood couple. They had just crossed the 13-years-together mark when Hilary won again in 2005, for “Million Dollar Baby,” and she made sure to thank him, first thing. The two divorced a year later. Rumors circulated that he couldn’t handle the level of success she’d found.

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Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Philippe met at her 21st birthday party—she supposedly walked up to him and said, “I think you’re my birthday present”—and got married less than a year later. Reese had already popped out two kidlets seven years later, when she won Best Actress for her role in “Walk the Line,” and the pair seemed forevers. Nope. They split eight months after she gave her acceptance speech. Many assume Ryan was cheating on her with Abbie Cornish.

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Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise had already shocked the world by getting divorced when she won the Best Actress Oscar for portraying Virginia Woolf in “The Hours.” But she was clearly still having a hard time with the split at the time of her win. “He was huge; still is. To me, he was just Tom, but to everybody else, he is huge,” she told Ladies Home Journal. “But he was lovely to me. And I loved him. I still love him.” After rumored flings with Jude Law and Robbie Williams, Nicole allegedly gave Best Actor winner Adrien Brody her number backstage at the Oscars, and the two dated for a little while. She, of course, ended up getting remarried to Keith Urban.

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Charlize Theron‘s relationship with actor Stuart Townsend seemed solid when she awed the Academy with her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos and won the Oscar. The two never officially tied the knot because they were waiting for same-sex couples to have the right to do the same. But Townsend said, “I don’t need a certificate or the state or the church to say otherwise. So no there’s no big official story on a wedding, but we are married … I consider her my wife and she considers me her husband.” Until the two sadly split up in January.

I guess that means Sandra Bullock should be worrying about her marriage to Jesse James could end up with the same faith since she won the Oscar this year.

source: Oscar Theory #5: Win Best Actress, Get Divorced [The Frisky]

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Jessica Simpson’s Hangover Look & Links To Hollywood

Jessica Simpson's Hangover Look & Links To Hollywood

Jessica Simpson’s Hangover LookCity Rag

Kate Winslet Didn’t Waste Any Time – The Superficial

DJ Angela On Shady 45 – The Dirty

Madonna Made Some Sunglasses – Amy Grindhouse

Donna Simpson Wants To Be The World’s Fattest Woman – Celebrity Smack

Lady Gaga On “Glee” – Hollywire

Jessica Simpson Is A Big Lady In Red – Drunken Stepfather

J-Woww Says She Won’t Go Bigger – Pop Eater

Ashley Cole Is Jealous Of Will.I.AmHoly Moly

Adam Lambert’s Kookiest Outfit Yet? – Hollywood Life

Genesis Gets Inducted Into The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame – Wonderwall

Teacher To Class: I’m Becoming A Stripper – Zelda Lily

What’s Happening To Obama’s Student Loan Plans? – College Candy

Kara DioGuardi’s Bikini Stunt Saved Her Job – Celeb News Wire

Jennifer Garner’s Piggyback Pick Up – Celebrity Baby Scoop

Anna Nicole’s Daughter, Dannielynn With Daddy At The Park – Dipped In Cream

Mark Wahlberg Still Has It – Popbytes

Kate Moss Turns Heads in Recycled Mosquito Net Dress – Betty Confidential

Stacey Dash & Jamie Foxx Are Hooking Up? – Why Fame

Emma Watson Dumps Boyfriend for Rafael Cebrian – Hollywood Dame

6 People Carla Bruni Is Starting To Look Like – Tabloid Prodigy

Madonna Blocks Jesus Luz & Lindsay Lohan Hookup – Allie Is Wired

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Kate Winslet Splits With Sam Mendes

Kate Winslet and her husband Sam Mendes have announced that their marriage of seven years is over.

Kate Winslet Splits With Sam Mendes

The couple broke up earlier this year but they didn’t announce exactly when they decided to separate, nor have they announced if they have begun divorce proceedings have started. They issued the following statement through their lawyer today:

“Kate and Sam are saddened to announce that they separated earlier this year. The split is entirely amicable and is by mutual agreement. Both parties are fully committed to the future joint parenting of their children.” 

The couple who got married in 2003 have a son, Joe (6-years-old), together and Winslet has a 9-year-old daughter, Mia, from her first marriage with Jim Threapleton.

You know that all the Titanic fangirls are praying to god that Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio finally get together.

source: British actress Kate Winslet splits from husband [AP]

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