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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.

 

Pamela Anderson Sued For $22.5 Million

Earlier this year Pamela Anderson decided to sue her ex-boyfriend for $1 million because he never gave him a condo in Las Vegas that he promised her but now she is being countersued by him for $22.5 million because he says she didn’t come through with helping promote.

Laurence Hallier‘s company built the Panorama Towers in Las Vegas and signed a deal with Anderson back in 2006 that would have her promote the sale of condos by doing several personal appearances and in return she would be given one of the condos. But he says she never bothered her ass showing up to any of the appearances.

He is now blaming her on the failure to sell a bunch of condos so he has decided to sue the Baywatch star for $22.5 million which he says is equal to the losses from the unsold units. He also says that Leonardo DiCaprio got his condo because he was so effective in helping promote that he sold over 100 condos.

Anderson sued him for $1 million because she claimed that if he never gave her the condo then he promised to just give her the money in cash but he says she is not entitled o this money because she didn’t come through with her end of the bargain.

What a mess, there’s no way in hell she can afford $22.5 million considering she has been in money troubles for the past few years.

 

Is This Blake Lively Nude? (Photos)

Blake Lively may be banging Leonardo DiCaprio at the moment but that’s not the only thing that’s seen her in the news this week because a bunch of nude photos leaked online the other day that look VERY like her.

When the photos leaked online Blake’s rep was straight on to Celebuzz to release a statement denying the photos, here is what they said: “The photos of Blake Lively which have just surfaced on various websites including Perez Hilton and Zap2it.com are 100 percent FAKE. Blake has never taken nude photos of herself.”

This didn’t settle too well with the hacker who leaked the photos because he, or she, then went on to leak a whole bunch of other photos which make me think they are definitely really the Gossip Girl actress.

Ya know I wish when nude photos of celebrities leak online they would all just take Cassie‘s approach and basically say “don’t act like you’ve never seen a titty before” and blow the whole thing off.

By the way Blake has been pictured before with the same case on her iPhone, which I know most people have a case like that so it doesn’t mean it is her, and the fake tattoos in some of the photos are like the ones she had on for her movie The Town. Anyway these photos are NSFW so take a look and judge for yourself.

NSFW Photos After The Jump!

 

Blake Lively And Leonardo DiCaprio Are Hooking Up

Blake Lively and Leonardo DiCaprio sent the rumor mill in overdrive yesterday when Page Six reported that the pair were spotted hanging out together a lot in Cannes, now there is photos of them together.

They were both spotted hanging out together and giving each other a hug on Steven Spielberg‘s yacht while in Cannes earlier on today and while this doesn’t mean they are definitely hooking up there has been rumors before about them dating.

Leo recently split up with his ex-girlfriend, Bar Rafaeli, and Blake had split up with Penn Badgley late last year so both of them are single and as we all know that means when they are spotted together it instantly means they are hooking up. Well that’s my thoughts on it anyway, with rumors and then photos there is never smoke without fire.

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The 10 Most Embarassing ‘Before They Were Famous’ Commercials

Before making it big every celebrity has to get their starting break for them to be noticed and for some of them this means doing some very cheesy commercials. Guyism have come up with a list of 10 commercials that are the most embarrassing “before they were famous” moments. I’m sure the celebrities don’t really care now since they are raking in millions. But it’s fun to watch them back then.

10. Keanu Reeves for Corn Flakes

What kind of event requires a seating placement for hundreds of people and nothing to eat but dozens of boxes of Corn Flakes? Who cares!? The point is, it’s young Keanu Reeves’ job to put all these boxes out while dancing around like a buffoon.

09. Brad Pitt for Pringles

Yep, before he got all famous and into adopting babies and stuff, Brad Pitt was pushing Pringles as a beefed up beach boy. As you can tell by the video, it’s clear that Brad wasn’t likely hired for his acting talent, but rather his ability to keep the prime Pringles target market (ostensibly, girls aged 12 to 25) glued to the TV screen with his ripple-y muscles.

08. Tina Fey for Mutual Savings Bank

This 1995 bank commercial pretty much sums up the poor fashion choices that were the 1990s. While she may be one of the hottest ladies in comedy these days, that short mom haircut and stylish floral vest just don’t do her beautiful personality justice.

07. Leonardo DiCaprio for Bubble Yum

The truth is out, Leo’s actual totem in Inception was a single package of Bubble Yum Bubble Gum. Check the video to see a Growing-Pains-era DiCaprio using his adorable teen looks to blow your mind with the bursting flavor of this outrageous gum.

06. Bruce Willis for Seagram’s Wine Coolers

Hey, check it out — we’re just a bunch of fun-loving guy who like to sing and get tipsy off of totally manly wine coolers! While the advertising idea isn’t all that solid, what is solid is Bruce Willis’ corny dance moves and overly enthusiastic smile.

05. Morgan Freeman for Listerine

Yikes! Poor Morgan Freeman is forced to take on a somewhat racist dialect in this old-school commercial for Listerine. Clearly, Listerine was after that exciting and still fairly new idea of targeting the “ethnic” market.

04. Seth Green for Snapp’s Hamburgers

Ooh… those expensive burger joints make me SO ANGRY!! Thankfully, a young Seth Green (circa 1991) and his enthusiasm for overcharging has shown me just how terribly those “other” hamburger restaurants are treating their customers. From now on, I’m getting my burger fix at Snapp’s (FYI – Snapp’s is now Rally’s)!

03. Jack Black for Atari’s Pitfall

Little Jack Black looks about 200-lbs. lighter in this commercial for the early video game classic, Pitfall. While he may have put on a few pounds over the past couple decades, that unique enthusiasm he brings to the screen still holds true.

02. Demi Moore for Diet Coke

How far would you go to get your Diet Coke fix? Well, if you’re a young Demi Moore, you’d climb out onto a high-rise ledge to get yourself some of the sweet, sweet soda. Thankfully, despite the ridiculous shoulder pads and apparent plummet to her death, lucky Demi seems to find love in the end.

01. Lindsay Lohan for Jell-O

Here’s a sad reminder of innocence lost. Lindsay Lohan and her awesome hat team up with Bill Cosby to push Jell-O in this 1996 commercial. Though her appearance is nothing more than a cameo, I think it’s fair to say those little freckles of hers stole the show.

source: [Guyism]

 

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.

 

Vanity Fair’s Top 10 Earners of 2010

Vanity Fair have come up with a list of Hollywoods top 40 earners from last year in the business which includes actors, producers, directors etc. Here is the top 10 for you to see…

10. Robert Downey Jr.
ESTIMATED 2010 EARNINGS: $31.5 MILLION
(2009 rank: 28)
$15 million: Fee for starring in upcoming untitled Sherlock Holmes sequel
$12 million: Iron Man 2 (back-end, based on worldwide gross of $627 million, and share of DVD and pay-TV revenue)
$3.5 million: Sherlock Holmes (back-end, based on worldwide gross of $523 million, and share of DVD and pay-TV revenue)
$1 million: Older film revenue

9. Taylor Lautner
ESTIMATED 2010 EARNINGS: $33.5 million
(2009 rank: —)
$12.5 million: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn—Part 1 (fee for co-starring in upcoming penultimate Twilight film)
$12.5 million: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn—Part 2 (fee for co-starring in upcoming final Twilight film)
$7.5 million: Abduction (fee for starring in upcoming John Singleton thriller)
$1 million: Older film revenue, mostly from Twilight franchise

8. Todd Phillips
ESTIMATED 2010 EARNINGS: $34 million
(2009 rank: 5)
$15 million: The Hangover Part II (fee for writing, producing, and directing)
$13 million: The Hangover (back-end for producing and directing; excludes $39 million earned in 2009)
$3 million: Due Date (back-end for producing and directing, based on worldwide gross of $200 million, as of December 31, 2010)
$2 million: Older film revenue
$1 million: Project X (fee for producing upcoming low-budget comedy)

7. Adam Sandler
ESTIMATED 2010 EARNINGS: $50 MILLION
(2009 rank: 12)
$25 million: Just Go with It (fee for producing and starring in upcoming comedy opposite Jennifer Aniston)
$20 million: Jack and Jill (fee for producing and starring in upcoming comedy with Katie Holmes and Al Pacino)
$3 million: Grown Ups (back-end for starring and writing, based on worldwide gross of $271 million, plus share of DVD and pay-TV revenue)
$2 million: Older film revenue

6. Tim Burton
ESTIMATED 2010 EARNINGS: $53 MILLION
(2009 rank: —)
$50 million: Alice in Wonderland (back-end for directing, based on worldwide gross of $1.02 billion, and share of DVD and pay-TV revenue)
$3 million: Older film revenue

5. Leonardo DiCaprio
ESTIMATED 2010 EARNINGS: $62 MILLION
(2009 rank: —)
$59 million: Inception (back-end for starring in somewhat convoluted Christopher Nolan film)
$3 million: Back-end for starring in somewhat convoluted Martin Scorsese film Shutter Island, older film revenue

4. Christopher Nolan
ESTIMATED 2010 EARNINGS: $71.5 MILLION
(2009 rank: —)
$69 million: Inception (back-end for writing, producing, and directing, based on worldwide gross of $823 million, and share of DVD and pay-TV revenue)
$2.5 million: Older film revenue

3. Steven Spielberg
ESTIMATED 2010 EARNINGS: $80 MILLION
(2009 rank: 2)
$50 million: Universal-theme-park royalties and consulting fees
$20 million: War Horse (fee for directing and producing upcoming World War I drama)
$10 million: Older film revenue

2. Johnny Depp
ESTIMATED 2010 EARNINGS: $100 MILLION
(2009 rank: 21)
$40 million: Alice in Wonderland (back-end for starring in Tim Burton film, based on worldwide gross of $1.02 billion)
$35 million: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (up-front money for starring in next installment of Jerry Bruckheimer’s waterlogged but ludicrously profitable franchise)
$20 million: The Tourist (fee for co-starring in one of the year’s bigger flops alongside Angelina Jolie)
$5 million: Older film revenue

1. James Cameron
ESTIMATED 2010 EARNINGS: $257 MILLION
(2009 rank: 4)
$248 million: Avatar (back-end for writing, producing, and directing, based on 2010 worldwide box-office gross of $1.95 billion, and share of DVD and pay-television revenue; excludes $50 million earned in 2009)
$5 million: Avatar (share of toy licensing, other revenue)
$4 million: Older film revenue (e.g., back-end and royalties from earlier projects, other payments)

You can see the full 40 top players in Hollywood at the source below, and by the way there is only 2 women in the top 20 – Jennifer Aniston at 18 and Twilight’s Kristen Stewart at 13. Sexism is still well and alive in Hollywood.

source: Hollywood’s Top 40 [Vanity Fair]

 

Disappearing Ink & Links To Hollywood


Disappearing InkCity Rag

Dr. Conrad Murray’s Medical License Suspended – Pop Eater

Taylor Swift Will Die Alone – IDLYITW

Kendall Jenner Scores Another Modeling Gig – Daily Fill

Rachel Zoe Seven Months Pregnant With A Boy – Amy Grindhouse

Lea Michele Is Kind Of A C-Word – The Superficial

Joan Rivers Plastic Surgery At 77: Would You? – Celebrity Smack

Amy Winehouse’s Boobtastic Vacation – Celebs.com

Mark Wahlberg Puts The Bong Down – Wonderwall

Has Britney Spears’ Extensions Looked Worse Than This? – ICYDK

Cuban Valerie Cruz Engaged To An English Man – Why Fame

Is Blake Lively Hooking Up With Leonardo DiCaprio? – Anything Hollywood

Cameron Diaz Talks ‘Charlie’s Angels 3′ – Hollywood Life

Tia Mowry Is Pregnant – Holly Baby

Hugh Hefner Takes Over Playboy – Betty Confidential

Should MTV Be Doing More For Their Teen Moms? – College Candy

Afternoon Pick-Me-Up: KortnieF-Listed

Kate Gosselin & Kids: Filming In New Zealand – Celebrity Baby Scoop

OMG, He’s Naked: Model Luke WorrallOMG Blog

Nuthin’ But A ‘Glee’ Thang – Popbytes

The Many Faces Of Cameron Diaz Of The Day – Drunken Stepfather

Katie Price & Alex Reid Split! – Hollywire

Simon Cowell Should Be Exterminated? – Holy Moly

Stephanie Seymour’s Son Responds To Racy Photos – Allie Is Wired

 

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]

 

The 10 Most Charitable Stars Of 2010

This year has seen soem of the biggest celebrity scandals ever, from affairs to trips to rehab to drug scandals, but not all of them were bad this year. Do Something have come up with a list of the most charitable celebrites for the year. Take a look at the top 10…

10. Justin Bieber

Justin Bieber visited and dedicated a music video to the many children battling illness worldwide, even raising $150,000 for a Buffalo, NY children’s hospital. Bieber also works with Pencils of Promise to help build schools and increase education opportunities in the developing world,donating $1 from every ticket sold to the org, which is no small change when you’re selling out giant arenas.

9. Oprah

Oprah donated $40 million to charity, making her The Giving Back Fund’s top celeb philanthropist. O talks education inequities, dedicating a 2-part series of her show to education reform. In September, O presented checks for $6 million in grants to 6 different US charter schools whose groundbreaking leadership provide quality public education.

8. Leonardo Dicaprio

A noted environmentalist, Leonardo DiCaprio took on preserving endangered tigers this year. He traveled to Asia to witness the tiger population threats firsthand, and met with world leaders from the 13 tiger-inhabited countries, including Russia’s Prime Minister Putin. Leo launched Save Tigers Now with the World Wildlife Fund, and in November, donated $1 million for tiger conservation.

7. Matt Damon

Last YearMatt Damon co-founded Water.org to provide safe drinking water & sanitation in developing countries. This August he traveled to Ethiopia to increase water conditions there. He also personally reached out to top celebs like Stephen Colbert asking them to promote the initiative. Recently, he helped design the organization’s water bottles with 100% of the proceeds going to the cause.

6. Nick Jonas

Nick Jonas isn’t just 1/3 of the The Jonas Brothers and their Change for the Children Foundation. A leading diabetes advocate, Nick became this year’s National Chair for JDRF’s Walk to Cure Diabetes. He supports the cause everywhere he can, writing a blog that promotes diabetes awareness and even offering a personal visit for diabetes-sufferers who made a difference in their communities.

5. Ellen DeGeneres

Before and after other celebrities spoke out for the issue, Ellen dedicated episodes of her show to the harms of bullying. She teamed up with the The Trevor Project to raise over $150,000 for LGBT people struggling with mental health issues and delivered a heart-wrenching important message about the epidemic.

4. Ashton Kutcher

Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore launched the DNA Foundation to combat child sex trafficking. Since then, the couple has traveled to meet with world leaders to discuss ending slavery worldwide. On Valentine’s Day the two sent roses to survivors. Ashton also used his Twitter to successfully pressure Craigslist to shut down their harmful ‘adult services’ section.

3. Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift is a Tennessee girl, so when Nashville flooded this year, she jumped to its aid & donated $500,000 the relief effort. She also posed for a picture next to her favorite Nashville landmark to raise additional funds for the cause. Later this year, Taylor joined Scholastic to promote literacy through READ NOW.

2. Alicia Keys

Keep a Child Alive founder Alicia Keys worked harder than ever this year to make sure her organization continued to provide AIDS treatment worldwide. She launched the celeb-packed Digital Death Campaign, raising $1.1 million dollars. Alicia also announced that she and hubby Swizz Beatz adopted a South African village where they will build schools and provide support for the residents.

1. Lady GaGa

In 2010, Lady Gaga had breakout popularity and breakthrough advocacy. Gaga called for the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, walking the VMAs red carpet with service members and speaking at a rally. Her ladyship also hosted the Hands Up for Marriage Equality event supporting same-sex-marriage and was the face of MAC Viva Glam, with 100% of the proceeds going to prevent HIV/AIDS worldwide.

source: This year’s top 20 Celebs Gone Good: [Do Something]

 

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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