Renee Zellweger

Kidman was one of the sexiest actresses around for a long, long time â€“ sheâ€™s kept her shiny gloss for nigh on twenty years now. And sheâ€™s probably aged better than anyone else on this list, but that doesnâ€™t mean she hasnâ€™t gone past her “Use By” date. Her face has begun to look like an evil bubble, those beady little eyes bearing down on whomever dares draw near.

Itâ€™s easy to see why Tom Cruise would have grown tired of this uptight Aussie getting up in his grill every night. And after the bomb that was Australia, I think itâ€™s clear that audiences are not drawn to her in droves anymore (were they ever?). Kidman works best now as a villain or a mom. She and Keith Urban deserve each other.

9. Teri Hatcher

Teri Hatcher first came to our attention in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and a classic episode of Seinfeld in the mid-’90s. And she was pretty darn hot. Skinny, large-breasted, big eyes, and an even bigger smile…there really wasn’t much not to like about her. Sure, her acting chops were never anything to write home about, but dang if she didn’t know how to stand around and look pretty.

Oh, how times change. Though she continues her television work in Desperate Housewives, her days of hotness have most definitely come to an end. She got the skinny thing down, but then she kept getting skinnier. And skinnier, and skinnier, and skinnier, until we couldn’t even remember what it was we liked about her so much to begin with. She now looks like a scary mix between Michael Jackson and the mummy of King Tut. This is not what we want to be looking at having affairs with the pool boy and the next door neighbor.

Someone get this woman a cheeseburger on the double.

8, Drew Barrymore

Okay, letâ€™s be honest: Drew Barrymore was never really all that hot. In fact, hot was never the appropriate adjective for her. She was cute as a little kid in E.T. and sometimes adorable in her twenties, and nowâ€¦well, now sheâ€™s just another talking chubby face attached to a chubby body that should know better than to be projected on a giant movie screen.

The tragedy is that at 34, Barrymore doesnâ€™t even come close to being old. But there are only so many romantic comedies she can foul up with that Batman chin of hers and that Iâ€™m-so-adorable-and-donâ€™t-even-know-it voice that shreds your ears like a cheese grater. Enough is enough. Someone do the right thing and get this woman in the plus-size section of a JCPenney catalogue, stat!

7, Helen Hunt

Helen Hunt was actually aging very gracefully for a while; she was lovelier with each successive film she starred in. The movies she chose werenâ€™t always winners (What Women Want, Pay It Forward) but hell if she didnâ€™t look good acting in them. In Castaway you really feel bad for Tom Hanks because of how bad fate screwed him over â€“ he lost a damn fine woman!

And then along came anorexia. In the last film she starred in, Then She Found Me (also her directorial debut) she looked like an emaciated victim of malnutrition on the brink of death. The movie should have been called Then She Found My Skeleton Walking Around and Talking. Because thatâ€™s what it looked like was going on: a corpse had been reanimated and given some heartfelt lines to say. It was more than a bit frightening, and somewhat perplexing, that someone so intelligent would buy into the unattractive Hollywood fad of self-starvation.

6. Renee Zellweger

Renee Zellweger has always walked the fine line between cute and hot, and usually fell on the side of cute. But these days she doesnâ€™t fit in either. Her squinty-eyed circle of a face often seems like a pumpkin thatâ€™s been ham-handedly carved into a woman, and itâ€™s not something most people care to spend too much time looking at.

It doesnâ€™t help that sheâ€™s continually starring in stupid movies, or movies that she doesnâ€™t really belong in. Leatherheads, Appaloosa, New in Townâ€¦none of these movies have done well and it doesnâ€™t seem like an accident that sheâ€™s been the female lead in all three of them.

There was once a time when Zellwegerâ€™s cutesy, girl-next-door qualities were called for. And then the credits rolled at the end of Jerry Maguire.

5. Lindsay Lohan

Thatâ€™s right. At the tender age of 23, Lohan has already worn out her welcome with moviegoers. Jack Nicholson has publicly declared that heâ€™ll never act in a movie sheâ€™s in â€“ Jack Nicholson! I mean, come on, you know itâ€™s bad when one of the original bad boys has had enough of your shenanigans.

If itâ€™s not one thing itâ€™s another. Lohan is either flashing her vagina or doing another stint in rehab or banging up her brand new zillion dollar carâ€¦it just never ends. And thatâ€™s fine. This is America, sheâ€™s free to come out of the closet and jump back in and burst back out, and do it all while high on cocaine and driving to her next session of rehab without any underwear on. Thatâ€™s cool, itâ€™s her prerogative. Free country.

But we donâ€™t want to have to pay 10 to 15 bucks to look at this tore up ho no moâ€™. Somebody get her a sitcom or a long session of electroshock therapy, just get her the hell out of the movies. Please.

4. Sarah Jessica Parker

Some of you cynics out there are saying, â€œCome on, Sarah Jessica Parker? Was she ever pretty?â€ To which I have a very simple answer: the 1980s. Girl was halfway decent. Twenty years ago.

But, in all seriousness, she had some game back when she did Girls Just Want to Have Fun (donâ€™t pretend like you havenâ€™t seen it), Flight of the Navigator, and Footloose. In other words, back before she became HBOâ€™s reining queen of materialistic shallowness. And sheâ€™s actually done some fine acting in recent films like The Family Stone and Smart People.

Nonetheless, her expiration date has long since passed, and at this point itâ€™s hard not to make comparisons to Mr. Ed and Henry Kissinger whenever we see her prance across the small and large screens all dolled up like Cinderella, marketing some crappy movie or makeup. Weâ€™ve had enough.

Girls might just want to have fun, but guys just want to have movie stars to look at who donâ€™t make their retinas puke. Is that really so much to ask for?

3, Meg Ryan

For a while it was looking like Meg Ryan was going to be able to scrunch up her nose and melt the hearts of America for the rest of eternity. She proved that just because you starred in one hit romantic comedy with Tom Hanks didnâ€™t mean you couldnâ€™t make the exact same movie all over again five years later and have it become just as big a hit. For that we have her to thank.

But time has finally caught up with Ryan and it is not a pretty sight. Sheâ€™s begun to look like Mickey Rourkeâ€™s twin sister, her face all puffed up and de-wrinkled from Botox. We would probably feel kind of sad about it all if we werenâ€™t so damn sick of her. Can anyone remember the last time they saw her in a movie that didnâ€™t annoy the living crap out of them? Anyone? Anyone?

Me neither.

2. Cameron Diaz

There were a solid six years when Cameron Diaz charmed our pants off. From her grand entrance in The Mask to Charlieâ€™s Angels, she was looking pretty fine. Her million dollar smile, her blonde locks, and her effervescent energy combined to give us a classic American babe. Now we look forward to her work in Shrek 4 because we wonâ€™t have to look at her.

Along the way Diaz has kept her airheaded personality, but she doesnâ€™t really look the part anymore. Her face looks like a worn-in baseball glove when she smiles and she appears tired and ill-kempt when she isnâ€™t wearing five pounds of makeup. Must the studios keep foisting her upon us as the “Hot Girl” when weâ€™ve got the likes of Megan Fox and Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt to pick from?

1. Julia Roberts

You have to hand it to her, Julia Roberts was Americaâ€™s Sweetheart for a real long stretch. She really hung in there, and she definitely had her share of detractors along the way. But she always kept her head up and moved past whatever personal scandal or cinematic failure cropped up. She was a one-of-a-kind movie star, and she pretty reliably brought in the box office.

Somewhere along the way things changed and she wasnâ€™t quite as ravishing as she once was. She hasnâ€™t aged as terribly as some of the ladies on this list, but sheâ€™s certainly begun to display the ravages of time. Between Oceanâ€™s Eleven and Oceanâ€™s Twelve the numbers started to show. By the time she appeared in Charlie Wilsonâ€™s War her eye sockets appeared to be empty caves from which two orbs of desperation peered into the abyss.

Itâ€™s quite possible that Roberts will continue to dazzle and amaze us for many more years, and she might even hold onto the title of Americaâ€™s Sweetheart for longer still. But people have already begun to show less interest in her films and the studios will soon realize they canâ€™t bank upon her appeal to men and women alike any longer: her throne is in danger.

Queen Elizabeth the first was praised as the beautiful Virgin Queen until the day of her death at age sixty nine. But none of her subjects truly believed there was a hottie underneath all those layers of white make up and frilly dresses. They just kind of got used to the title.

I agree with them all except for Drew Barrymore, thoughts?

source: The Top 10 Actresses Past Their Expiration Date [Spike]

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Foxy Brown’s Sex Tape & Links To Hollywood

Roberta @ Gone Hollywood

Foxy Brown's Sex Tape & Links To Hollywood

Foxy Brown’s Sex Tape Has Leaked – Tabloid Prodigy

Renee Zellweger Is Going To Wear A Fat Suit – Websters Is My Bitch

Jordin Sparks Loves Her Some Milk – Popbytes

Eric Dane Is Suing Over His Non-Sex Tape – Pop Eater

David Walliams Meets Panda, Doesn’t Shag It – Holy Moly

Cops Enjoy Some Wii Bowling During A Drug Raid – F-Listed

Lil Kim Still Looks Like A Hot Mess – The Superficial

This Is The Opposite Of Snuggie – Celebrity Smack

Diablo Cody To Ruin Sweet Valley High – Celeb News Wire

You’ve Been Dumped, Let’s Move On – College Candy

Chemistry Is Educational AND Funny – City Rag

Ashlee Simpson Is Trying To Look Mean & Evil – ICYDK

Elizabeth Berkley Is No Longer A Showgirl – Pacific Coast News

Kanye West To Enter Rehab? – Anything Hollywood

Dita Von Teese Releases New Naughtier Wonderbra Line – Celebitchy

Justin Timberlake Is Cheating With Rihanna? – Hollywood Dame

Sure Beats Prison For Chris Brown – Ninja Dude

Megan Fox Eats! Who Knew?!?? – Yeeeah!

Jessica Simpson’s Meltdown Is On The Way – Allie Is Wired

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25 Memorable Slasher Starlets

Paul @ Gone Hollywood

With Sorrority Row being the latest slasher movie out now and because it is a cast full of women, Rotten Tomatoes have decided to throw together a list of the top 25 women from slasher films.

Janet Leigh — Psycho (1960)
Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal slasher took Janet Leigh, already a star, and made her an immortal — by killing her off early in the indelible shower scene. Leigh got an Oscar nomination for her work, remained a big star through the 1960s and, importantly for the genre, gave birth to Jamie Lee Curtis, with whom she’d co-star in 1998′s Halloween: H20. Meanwhile, Psycho’s Vera Miles, who played “final girl” Marion, worked only sporadically in B-grade flicks until she took a role in 1983′s Psycho II. A lesson here: sometimes it pays to die big.

Margot Kidder — Black Christmas (1974)
Bob Clark’s hugely influential slasher flick, which anticipated Halloween’s seasonal title and stalker-cam, as well the he’s-calling-from-inside-the-house of When a Stranger Calls, offered two lead scream queens. Olivia Hussey, already a star for Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 Romeo and Juliet, played “final girl” Jess. But it was up-and-comer Margot Kidder, as the boozy, foul-mouthed and soon-to-die Barb that audiences remembered. While Hussey’s star waned, Kidder’s soared, thanks to the Superman movies and The Amityville Horror. Her career derailed in the mid-1990s due to her bipolar disorder, but she returned to acting and popped up recently as Laurie Strode’s headshrinker in Rob Zombie’s Halloween II. Another lesson: old scream queens never die, they just do cameos.

Jamie Lee Curtis — Halloween (1978)
Arguably the most enduring and liked scream queen in cinematic history, Jamie took a leaf from her mom’s book by making her name with her debut in John Carpenter’s terrifying Halloween. While Laurie was in danger of being overshadowed by her more sexed-up co-stars, particularly P.J. Soles, her nice-gal virgin status meant she lived to see the end credits. And Curtis wasn’t above making more genre flicks — and for the next five years she did nothing else, with The Fog, Prom Night, Terror Train, Halloween II (pictured) and Road Games. Realizing she needed to move on, Curtis successfully branched into comedy with hits Trading Places, A Fish Called Wanda and Freaky Friday, and also showed us how good she could look in True Lies. Not forgetting her roots, the actress also returned to the Laurie Strode role in Halloween: H20 and Halloween Resurrection.

Carol Kane — When A Stranger Calls (1979)
By the time Carol Kane made this film, she was a very respected actress who’d starred in The Last Detail, Dog Day Afternoon and Annie Hall, and who’d been Oscar-nominated for 1975′s Hester Street. It was an unusual choice, but the film was a minor box-office hit, largely on the strength of its opening 22 minutes. But after that Kane’s career trajectory saw her take more supporting roles, and not always in successful films, with Transylvania 6-5000 and Joe Versus the Volcano stinking up her resume. Things weren’t helped by Kane reprising the Jill Johnson role in 1993′s TV movie When A Stranger Calls Back. Possible lesson: if you’ve worked with Woody Allen, Sidney Lumet and Hal Ashby, you probably don’t need to do a slasher film.

Adrienne King — Friday the 13th (1980)
Having seen what Halloween did for Jamie Lee, no doubt Adrienne King had her sights set on stardom when she landed the “final girl” role of Alice in Friday the 13th. She survived the film — memorably chopping off mama Vorhees’ head — and starred in 1981′s Friday the 13th: Part 2. Problem was, her screen presence inspired a deranged stalker, who tried to break down the door of her apartment. The life imitating art angle of this impressed Adrienne not at all, and she instead carved out a career as a voice actress and artist. Her role in this year’s horror Walking Distance marks her first screen appearance in 28 years.

Melissa Sue Anderson — Happy Birthday To Me (1981)
What’s a 1970s TV star to do when falling ratings finally mean you get evicted from The Little House On The Prairie? In Melissa Sue Anderson’s case she took the lead in this Canadian slasher, whose poster memorably promised death by shish kebab. Tastier is that Melissa played both Ginny, the “final girl”, and her doppelganger, the birthday-obsessed wack job. Look for a new generation of fans when it’s re-released on DVD this year, with the original artwork intact. But Happy Birthday To Me didn’t break Melissa Sue Anderson into the big-screen business, with her subsequent acting in either TV movies (10.5 Apocalypse) or obscure indies (1990′s Dead Men Don’t Die).

Holly Hunter — The Burning (1981)
Just as Halloween aped Black Christmas and Friday the 13th aped Halloween, The Burning was a close fit for Friday the 13th, being the story of kids at a camp where bad stuff once went down. Enter a killer named Cropsy. He has a molten face, a big pair of scissors and a very bad attitude. The Burning’s trailer, with its repeated voiceover warning “Don’t!”, was one of the inspirations for Edgar Wright’s hilarious fake trailer in Grindhouse. This is most notable for being the debut for Holly Hunter who, perhaps anticipating her Oscar-winning turn in 1993′s The Piano, was given no dialogue. Other fun facts — Jason Alexander, future George in Seinfeld, was in this, and it was the first flick produced by Bob and Harvey Weinstein under their Miramax banner. [Note: Holly's... not pictured.]

Heather Langenkamp — A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
Wes Craven’s slasher revitalized the ailing, hacky genre with the introduction of a new supernatural villain who was even freakier than Halloween’s The Shape, Friday’s Jason or The Burning’s Cropsy. But Freddy Krueger’s charisma was a problem for Heather Langenkamp, who played “final girl” Nancy Thompson. While popular in the original and two sequels, she wasn’t able to translate that success into mainstream success, with the nearest thing she got to fame again being a five-episode arc in 1980s sitcom Growing Pains. Not to worry, though, she found a niche running the environmentally friendly Malibu Gum Company.

RenÃ©e Zellweger — The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994)
Early in her career, RenÃ©e Zellweger teamed up with Matthew McConaughey for this flat-out insane take on the family of cannibal killers. Written and directed by Kim Henkel, who wrote Tobe Hooper’s 1973 original, this has long been derided as one of the worst movies of the 1990s. Take another look. Yes, it’s loud and crass and crazy but it’ll also have you on the edge of your seat, thanks to the wild performances from McConaughey, as the killer with the robot leg and some sort of Lynchian link to world power, and Zellweger as his much-abused victim who finally finds the will to fight. Within a few years, Zellweger would, thanks to Jerry Maguire and her Oscar-winning Cold Mountain, have no further use for the horror genre. But, with her last three live-action movies bombing (New in Town, Leatherheads, Appaloosa), maybe she could use the boost that creepy-kid flick Case 39 might offer.

Rose McGowan (scream)
After Elm Street, slasher-horror entered a decline until Wes Craven and scriptwriter Kevin Williamson turned the genre on its severed ear by sending up its conventions in the hyper-self-aware Scream. The Weinsteins put up the $14m budget — a fortune for such fare — and that meant it needed names, which it got in Drew Barrymore, Courtney Cox and Neve Campbell. But it was also the launch-pad for little known Rose McGowan, who’d until then been relegated to bit parts in Pauly Shore flicks and was the praised lead in underseen indie The Doom Generation. While her character Tatum’s mission to get brewskis from the garage would lead to Ghostface arranging her head-squashing with the roller door, McGowan’s career fared a bit better, with Charmed and Planet Terror earning her a devoted fanbase, if not yet a breakout mainstream hit.

Sarah Michelle Gellar — I Know What You Did last Summer (1997)
The success of Scream helped this straighter, duller slasher, also from the pen of Kevin Williamson, get into cinemas. Jennifer Love Hewitt was the “final girl” but before long her similarly tripled-barreled co-star Sarah Michelle Gellar would be the bigger star. That year saw her take on TV’s Buffy and the megahit Scream 2. A smart gal, she opted for a more serious route with Cruel Intentions and went for rom-com in Simply Irresistible. Thing is, audiences really want to see her spooked, whether for laughs in the massive-grossing Scooby-Doo flicks or in the likes of The Grudge, which raked in $110m. With her last few flicks (Suburban Girl, The Air I Breathe) tanking, it might be time for Sarah to face off once again against a creep in a yellow slicker, a creep in a ghost mask… or maybe just Edward Cullen.

Tara Reid — Urban Legend (1998)
Following the Psycho formula re-established by Scream’s early kill of Drew Barrymore, this one offed Natasha Gregson-Wagner in the opener. That left Rebecca Gayheart, Alicia Witt and new cutie Tara Reid in the picture to be killed off. Playing a college sex therapist helped audiences remember Tara, and she was soon on her way to the A-list with American Pie and Cruel Intentions. Even flops like Josie and the Pussycats and Dr. T and the Women weren’t career killers, and she was back at the top of the box office with American Pie’s sequel and early Ryan Reynolds’ hit Van Wilder. But then the Tara Reid car crash began, with her party-girl shenanigans making people forget how they’d warmed to her raspy comic appeal. The slide translated to the big screen, with her thereafter languishing in F-grade horror such as Uwe Boll’s Alone in the Dark and Incubus.

Michelle Williams — Halloween: H20 (1998)
Between Brokeback Mountain, I’m Not There and Wendy and Lucy, Oscar nominee Michelle Williams is shaping up as one of the finest actresses of her generation. But her first big box-office hit was this belated resurrection of the franchise. In it, she stars as Molly, a horny student at the exclusive school run by Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode. Of course, Michael, aka, The Shape comes a-calling. Getting chased by him did Michelle’s career no harm but, that said, it’s unlikely she’ll be back ducking psycho blades at any time in the future. Unless, of course, you count Scorsese’s Shutter Island.

Brittany Murphy — Cherry Falls (2000)
In this under-rated and sly comic take on the slasher genre, the kids scramble to lose their virginity because the maniac only kills the pure, hence the title. Having then-rising star Brittany Murphy, fresh off Girl, Interrupted, didn’t help Cherry Falls’ prospects and this $14m production, which had to go to the MPAA five times before they approved a cut, didn’t even make it to theaters. Brittany’s climb would continue for a while — with 8 Mile, Just Married and Sin City — but the misses soon outnumbered the hits. As her pay packet has shrunk, she’s returned to horror-tinged thrills with Deadline, Abandoned and Something Wicked.

Katherine Heigl — Valentine (2001)
No-one can accuse Ms. Heigl of being an overnight success, and she’s been working solidly since 1992. During the ’90s she played daughter roles to Gerard Depardieu and Steven Segal, and in 1999 signed on to this, director Jamie Blanks’ follow up to Urban Legend. In it, Heigl, who supposedly later claimed she wouldn’t have done it if she’d read the script properly, plays Shelley, a med student who has her throat slit early in proceedings. Fun fact: Tara Reid and Jennifer Love Hewitt were originally cast in the roles that went to Jessica Capshaw and Denise Richards. As for Heigl, despite being dead, she passed her med school exams and graduated to mega-stardom in Grey’s Anatomy and then Knocked Up, 27 Dresses and this year’s The Ugly Truth.

Jessica Biel — The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
Like any number of slasher starlets before her, Jessica Biel jumped from a successful TV series — in this case, 7th Heaven — to “final girl” in Marcus Nispel’s forceful remake of Tobe Hooper’s ferocious original. Dudes who wouldn’t be caught dead watching 7th Heaven became overnight Biel fans. But it has been a rocky-ish road since then for the actress. After Blade: Trinity, Biel broadened her horizons but hasn’t often found the right material to suit her talents. She was good in The Illusionist, but seemed out of place in I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry and Stealth. Horror’s not on her immediate horizon, but her next flick Nailed sounds like it could be on offcut from an offal-spiller. In it, she plays a girl who gets a nail stuck in her head, which causes her to act erratically but leads her into the arms of Jake Gyllenhaal.

Shawnee Smith — Saw (2004)
This $1.2m indie, which generated a franchise worth half-a-billion, added “torture porn” to the psychotic killer mix, with controversial results. A considerable degree of Saw’s impact was thanks to a cunning viral campaign which featured Shawnee Smith with her mouth about to be ripped off by an explosive face trap. Despite having done a lot of movies in the 1980s and 1990s, including Summer School and The Desperate Hours, Smith was at the time of Saw’s production best known as “the dumb girl from Becker”. This movie changed all of that, and she’s appeared in each of the sequels (see Saw II, pictured). As for whether she’ll break from horror, well, if she’s getting back-end each time a Saw is released in time for Halloween, she’ll probably never need to work again.

Paris Hilton — House of Wax (2005)
The loose remake of the 1933 early-Technicolor experiment Mystery of the Wax Museum and 1953 3-D hit House of Wax had one special effect: Paris Hilton’s ability to generate publicity. Producer Joel Silver admitted the heiress had been cast for just that reason. In fairness, she wasn’t terrible in the film, but the death scene, which mocked her infamous home video, was just, well, weird. Happily, this one’s box-office failure just as effectively killed off Paris’ serious big-screen hopes. But if you really want to be frightened by a film she’s in, just try to sit through The Hillz or The Hottie and the Nottie.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead — Final Destination 3 (2006)
This franchise cast Death his bad self as a serial killer, whose favorite method is inescapable fate, directed mostly at teens via insanely complicated series of events that culminate in spectacular terminations. Mary Elizabeth Winstead — who’d been noticed in kiddie comedy Sky High — landed the role of the final girl, the one who lives long enough to see her pals suntanned to death, impaled and nail gunned. She wasn’t so lucky in 2006′s Black Christmas remake (above), which saw her blood spray all over a car, but she at least avoided such a fate in 2007′s Death Proof. Winstead’s next role — as love interest Ramona V. Flowers in Edgar Wright’s comic fantasy Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World — sounds just the change of pace.

Scout-Taylor Compton — Halloween (2007)
Once Mr. Zombie had established the whys-and-whats of Michael Myers’ “backstory” in his reimagining of Halloween, he switched over to more familiar ground — The Shape stalking Laurie Strode on Halloween. Compton held her ground well enough against her big, bad brother well enough that she was brought back for Halloween II. The daughter of a mortician, she’s a true believer in the genre and happy to tell fans about her love for Chucky, Jason and, of course, The Shape. She has another teen thriller in the can — Triple Dog, which looks a cross between Sorority Row and Dead Man’s Curve — but after that, Scout’s smartly diversifying as Lita Ford, opposite Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning, in The Runaways.

Jaime King — My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009)
This blonde beauty’s career started with a bang — her third film was Pearl Harbor — but there’s been a lot of whimper since and she has struggled to nail leading lady status on the big screen. Her turn as Goldie in Sin City helped keep her in fanboy hearts but critically panned flicks like White Chicks, Bulletproof Monk and The Spirit did her few favors. Redemption, perhaps, has been found in the slasher genre. As Sarah in this year’s 3-D My Bloody Valentine remake, she was the last girl standing, with the film clocking up an impressive $51m at the box office. Realizing she’s on a good thing, King has signed on for Saw sequel director Darren Lynn Bousman’s remake of Mother’s Day.

Danielle Panabaker — Friday the 13th (2009)
Like Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Danielle got her start in Sky High. She then gravitated toward the killer-thriller with a supporting role as Kevin Costner’s daughter in the nutty but enjoyable Mr. Brooks. She embraced the role of Jenna in Friday the 13th but didn’t quite make it out of that one alive. She did however impress enough that her next two flicks are horrors. Panabaker co-stars opposite Timothy Olyphant in next year’s remake of George A. Romero’s viral horror The Crazies and she’s now shooting The Ward, Halloween director John Carpenter’s long-awaited return to fright features.

Rumer Willis — Sorority Row (2009)
We won’t spoil it for you by revealing when/if/how the daughter of Bruce and Demi buys the farm in this week’s Sorority Row. But we’re thinking that after playing support roles in her parents’ movies — 1996′s Striptease; 2005′s Hostage — this is Ms. Willis’ way of announcing herself to the world. But we can’t really foresee a scream queen future for her, with her next film supposedly a quirky comedy called Slightly Single in L.A. As for her star prospects, we’d rate them as pretty good. It’s in the genes, you know. And in the address book.

Briana Evigan — Sorority Row (2009)
For our money, Briana Evigan is the one to watch out of the current crop of slasher starlets. Like Rumer, her dad was an actor, most famous as B.J. McKay in B.J. and the Bear (where, one asks, is the big-screen version of that?). Briana made her debut in 1997, aged just 10, opposite him in horror flick Spectre, but really impressed with both her dancing and acting in last year’s Step Up 2 the Streets. As moral center Cassidy in Sorority Row, she’s a knockout, and it helps that the movie is shaping up to be one of the more enjoyable slashers in years. But it’s the one-woman film she already has in the can that really could prove her breakthrough. Burning Bright (above) has her as a teenage girl who has to protect her autistic brother from a tiger loose in their house in the chaos after a hurricane. “Briana is authentically Briana,” Bright’s director Carlos Brooks told RT. “That’s why both the fanboys and the girls love her. She’s got huge crossover appeal — she’ll be a star because she’s got the guts to be herself.”

Rooney Mara — A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010)
Rooney’s the wild card because so little is known about her work. She did make her debut in 2005′s straight-to-disc Urban Legends: Bloody Mary and has a part in the upcoming Michael Cera comedy Youth in Revolt. What we do know is that she’ll take on the Nancy Thompson role and that she has apparently signed on for a sequel. Lesson: learn from the Langenkamp.

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Top Ten Best Celebrity Quotes This Week

Roberta @ Gone Hollywood

There were some funny quotes on TV this week, and we’ve nailed down the top ten, for your viewing pleasure. Which is your favorite?

1. Ramona Singer

“I feel like an older Cameron Diaz.”

â€“ “The Real Housewives of New York City’s” Ramona Singer, recalling her reaction to her new shorter do

2. Anna Wintour

“I’m an ice queen, Iâ€™m the Sun King, Iâ€™m an alien fleeing from District 9 and Iâ€™m a dominatrix. So I reckon that makes me a lukewarm royalty with a whip from outer space.”

â€“ Vogue Editor-In-Chief Anna Wintour, finding the humor in the not-so-nice things people have called her, on the “Late Show with David Letterman”

3. Julia Louis-Dreyfus

“It’s the anti-reunion reunion, and I’d like to copyright that.”

â€“ Julia Louis-Dreyfus, on the upcoming “Seinfeld” reunion on “Curb Your Enthusiasm”

4. Eli Roth

“So when I was beating the guy, I started thinking, ‘What if I was Hannah Montana?’ . . . And little do they know that that’s why I look so insane . . . I’m torturing myself with thoughts of, ‘How could I actually pull off being a high school student and a pop star at night?’”

â€“ “Inglourious Basterds” star Eli Roth, revealing the inspiration for his Nazi-beating character

5. Renee Zellweger

“Where’s the chips?!”

6. Wanda Sykes

“I’m going to leave The Wanda Sykes Show and try to get her job because $5 million ain’t too bad!”

â€“ Wanda Sykes, joking about Paula Abdul’s reasons for leaving “American Idol”

7. Willie Nelson

“My lungs are in good shape â€“ and there are lots of people all over the world wondering how that could be, like Michael Phelps.”

â€“ Willie Nelson, on his good health despite his reputation as a smoker

8. Bill Maher

“There’s something about being able to pee on your own land.”

â€“ Bill Maher, explaining to recent “transplanted Easterner” Conan O’Brien the benefits of living in California over New York City

9. Marissa Jaret Winokur

“You could wake up one morning and start getting ready for work and then look in the mirror and say, ‘Forget it, I’m calling in fat.’”

â€“ Marissa Jaret Winokur, inventing an excuse for not working, in her weekly “People” weight-loss blog

10. Will Ferrell

“Our goal is to raise money for charity, but also to put Coppertone out of business. You can be charitable, but still be a bloodthirsty capitalist.”

â€“ Will Ferrell, on his Cancer for College sunscreen, which raises money to help cancer survivors afford school

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Ashlee Simpson’s Long Face & Links To Hollywood

Roberta @ Gone Hollywood

Why The Long Face, Ashlee Simpson? – City Rag

Robert Pattinson’s Abs Are Real – Popeater

Lady Gaga Is A Slut. Surprised? – Holy Moly

Jon Gosselin Thinks He’s A Slut – The Superficial

Alicia Silverstone Airs Out Her Crotch While Gardening – Celeb News Wire

Katie Price Is Ugly Under All Of That Makeup – Celebrity Smack

80% Of The Future Is Robot Hookers – F-Listed

Midgets Can’t Take Out Hitler – Splash News

This Chick Looks Hungry – Fatback Media

The Pot Calls The Kettle Something – Websters Is My Bitch

Sarah Jessica Parker Is So Vein – Pacific Coast News

Hayden Panettiere Takes LiLo’s Sloppy Seconds – Anything Hollywood

Saved By The Bell Tribute Rap – Tabloid Prodigy

Brody Jenner Has An Awful Birthday – ICYDK

What He Really Thinks Of Your Shoes – College Candy

Renee Zellweger Compares Motherhood To Slavery – Allie Is Wired

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Links To Hollywood – #292

Roberta @ Gone Hollywood

Dr. Arnold Klein Is Shady! – Pop Eater

Britney Spears’ Nipples Are Touring Europe – City Rag

Ingesting LSD Will Not Make You The Terminator – F-Listed

Monica Hansen Sues Her Plastic Surgeon – The Dirty

Lindsay Lohan Unveils Her Latest Hideous Shoes – Holy Moly

Tyson Ritter: Just because he’s cute – Popbytes

Daniel Radcliffe Is A Lazy Son – ICYDK

Trent Reznor Is Not Afraid Of You – Websters Is My Bitch

Madonna Kills People – Fatback Media

Renee Zellweger Is Afraid Of Germs – Celeb News Wire

Hot Or Not? Kat Von D – Celebrity Smack

Tom Cruise Dances To Beyonce – Anything Hollywood

Jake Gyllenhaal In “Prince Of Persia” – Hollywood Dame

Michael Jackson’s Father Beat Him Sterile? – Yeeeah!

Adam Lambert Talks Bras, Panties, & His Future – Allie Is Wired

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Links To Hollywood – #291

Roberta @ Gone Hollywood

Name That Navel – City Rag

Sophie Reade Gets Cream In Her Eye – Holy Moly

Is Jon Gosselin Back In The Picture? – Popeater

Kim Kardashian Eating Watermelon In A Bikini – F-Listed

Robert Pattinson Stiffs His Waitress? – Hollywood Dame

Megan Fox Doesn’t Like Us – News Toob

Lourdes Leon Is Growing Up Fast – Celebrity Smack

Nicole Kidman Is Afraid Of The Sun – Celeb News Wire

Christina Aguilera Will Sing For Your Supper – Anything Hollywood

David Beckham’s Kids Want Tattoos – ICYDK

Renee Zellweger Forgot Something – Websters Is My Bitch

Emma Watson Nude – The Dirty

Lindsay Lohan Is Probably Not Flattered – Popbytes

Meet The Project Runway Season Six Designers! – Allie Is Wired

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Angelina Jolie & Jennifer Aniston – Top Earning Actresses

Paul @ Gone Hollywood

It’s that time of again, when we all (or most of us) read articles like this and then think of our bank accounts and cry ourselves to sleep, because Forbes have just released Hollywood’s Top-Earning Actresses.

Brad Pitt must do something good to women because Angelina Jolie tops the list while his ex wife Jennifer Aniston is right behind her.

Most of Angelina’s money came from the $341 million that her movie Wanted made, plus she got a chunk of money from her next movie, Salt.

As for Jennifer’s money, her film Marley & Me made abotu $244 million, she gets money from being the spokesperson for SmartWater, she got money for her next film The Baster and of course she still rakes in cash from Friends residuals.

The top 15 list looks like this:
1: Angelina Jolie – $27 million
2: Jennifer Aniston – $25 million
3: Meryl Streep – $24 million
4: Sarah Jessica Parker – $23 million
5: Cameron Diaz – $20 million
6: Sandra Bullock – $15 million
6: Reese Witherspoon – $15 million
8: Nicole Kidman – $12 million
8: Drew Barrymore – $12 million
10: Renee Zellweger – $10 million
11: Cate Blanchett – $8 million
12: Anne Hathaway, $7 million
12: Halle Berry, $7 million
14: Scarlett Johansson, $5.5 million
15: Kate Winslet, $2 million

According to Forbes, The Top 10 women earned a combined $183 million compared to $393 million for the Top 10 men. And they said sexism was dead?

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