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Hogan Knows Best (2005-2007)
Originally intended to showcase Hulk Hogan and wife Linda's antics with teen kids Brooke and Nick, their marriage unraveled on-camera to the point of divorce in November. While Nick is serving time for reckless driving, Brooke Knows Best will premiere in July.

Britney & Kevin: Chaotic (2005)
Britney Spears and Kevin Federline turned home videos of their courtship into this UPN reality series. The couple divorced in November 2006 after two years of marriage.

Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica (2003-2005)
The popular reality show chronicled the marriage of Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson from their post-wedding honeymoon phase to squabbling as her success eclipsed his own. The couple have blamed the intensity of the show, in part, for their divorce in November 2005.

The Hills (2006-)
Former roomies and best friends, show star Lauren Conrad famously dropped Heidi Montag after blaming her and beau Spencer Pratt for spreading rumors of a sex tape.

The Bachelor (2003)
Andrew Firestone, the show's third season bachelor, gave his final rose to Jen Schefft. Though she moved to be with him in San Francisco, the couple called off their engagement a few months later. She later turned down two proposals on The Bachelorette. Firestone is marrying model Ivana Bozilovic this summer.

My Life on the D-List (2005-)
Comedian Kathy Griffin's husband Matt Moline was her sidekick on her Bravo reality show until they divorced in May 2006. She accused him of stealing $72,000 from her bank account.

I Love New York (2007-2008)
Since Tiffany "New York" Pollard didn't have any luck winning over Flavor Flav on Flavor of Love, she tried to find a man on her own dating show. Her selection of Patrick "Tango" Hunter at the end of the first season didn't work out so she sought love in a second season of the contest.

Meet the Barkers (2005-2006)
In the vein of Newlyweds, the MTV reality show followed Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler's married life. After a bitter public split, the couple finalized their divorce in February.

Strange Love (2005)
Flavor Flav's unconventional romance with Brigitte Nielsen that budded on The Surreal Life resulted in their own spin-off. Though the couple split shortly after its single season ended, the rapper went on to greater reality stardom with the the Flavor of Love series.

'Til Death Do Us Part: Carman & Dave (2004)
The seven-episode reality show charting the run-up to the wedding of Carmen Electra and Dave Navarro didn't live up to its name: the couple filed for divorce in 2006 after three years of marriage.

Tom's Women

Heather Locklear
The pair was briefly linked in the '80s, long before her days on Melrose Place.

Rebecca De Mornay
Cruise dated De Mornay for two years after they co-starred in 1983's Risky Business, a breakout film for both of them.

Melissa Gilbert
Cruise dated the Little House on the Prairie star in 1982. "I can honestly say that he's a very sexual person," she has said.

Patti Scialfa
The singer -- who later married Bruce Springsteen -- was linked to Cruise in the '80s.

Cher
Cruise dated performer in the mid-'80s before starring in Top Gun.

Mimi Rogers
The actress is credited with introducing Cruise to Scientology during their three-year marriage that ended in 1990. "He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument," she's said. "But my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split."

Nicole Kidman
Cruised and Kidman married in 1990, adopted two children -- Isabella and Connor -- and divorced in 2001. "I always knew the rug was going to be taken out from underneath me at some stage," Kidman has said. "I think a divorce, and the demise of what your family is, is a little death in itself."

Penelope Cruz
The Cruz-Cruise relationship ended in 2004 after three years and one movie -- Vanilla Sky -- together. "I can only say good things about Tom. I know him pretty well, so I know what I'm talking about," the actress has said. "In many ways he's shown me to have a kind heart."

Sofia Vergara
Cruise dated the Colombian model-actress after splitting from Penelope Cruz in '04.

Katie Holmes
Cruise married the actress -- fourteen years his junior -- in November 2006 when she was pregnant with their first child, Suri. "I try every day to let him know how much I love him," Holmes has said of marriage. "It gets better and better. It has made my life."

HOLLYWOOD'S UGLIEST DIVORCES

Alex & Cynthia Rodriguez
The New York Yankee's wife filed for divorce in July after reports of his extramarital affairs and a close friendship with Madonna. The couple wed in 2002 and have two daughters: Natasha, 3, and Ella, 3 months.

Christie Brinkley & Peter Cook
The salacious divorce trial between model and the architect is currently underway. Cook has admitted to cheating on his wife with his assistant and spending $3,000 on porn sites.

STAR JONES & AL REYNOLDS
After three and half years of marriage - which kicked off with a lavish and very publicized wedding - the talk show host quietly filed for divorce in March. "[I] look forward to emerging from this period as a stronger and wiser woman," she said.

JENNIFER ANISTON & BRAD PITT
America's golden couple exchanged vows in 2000 but after four years of marriage they were done. In 2004, rumors swirled of an on set affair between Pitt and his Mr. and Mrs. Smith costar Angelina Jolie. Jolie and Pitt now have four kids with another on the way.

Robin Williams & Marsha Garces
The pair fell in love in 1989 when Garces worked as a nanny for the singer's son Zachary but in March, after nineteen years of marriage, they filed for divorce citing irreconcilable differences.

BRITNEY SPEARS & KEVIN FEDERLINE
Their chaotic 2-year marriage came to an end when the singer filed for divorce in November 2006. Federline now has primary custody of their two sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James.

PINK & CAREY HART
The singer proposed to the motocross racer in 2005 - but after two years of marriage the couple separated in February 2006.

HULK & LINDA HOGAN
The wrestler and his wife parted ways in 2007 after 24 years of matrimony and four seasons of the VH1 reality series Hogan Knows Best. Linda called their union "irretrievably broken."

KATE HUDSON & CHRIS ROBINSON
The Black Crowes frontman and the actress split in 2006 after nearly six years of marriage. The exes share custody of their son Ryder.

David Hasselhoff & Pamela Bach
After 16 years of marriage, the couple split in 1006. The actor now pays $21,000 a month in spousal support to his ex-wife and they share custody of teenage daughters Hayley and Taylor.

CHARLIE SHEEN & DENISE RICHARDS
Married in June 2002, the stars' marriage lasted just shy of three years and resulted in one of Hollywood's most bitter divorces. They had two children, Sam and Lola.

JESSICA SIMPSON & NICK LACHEY
After three years of marriage the singers called it quits in 2005. What went wrong? Their MTV reality show Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica. "It was among the dumber ideas I think I've ever seen executed," Lachey once said. "It got to a place where it was so invasive, so it became a problem."

NICOLE KIDMAN & TOM CRUISE
Kidman has said she was "shocked" when after 10 years of marriage and adopting two kids together (Isabella, 15, and Connor, 13) Cruise filed for divorce in February 2001. Kidman has since remarried Keith Urban and Cruise has 2-year-old daughter Suri with new wife Katie Holmes.

SOPHIA BUSH & CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY
Short - and not so sweet - the One Tree Hill cast-mates tied the knot in 2005 and divorced five months later. "I can't say there are no hard feelings. I feel hurt, humiliated and broken hearted," Bush later revealed.

JENNIFER GARNER & SCOTT FOLEY
The former Felicity costars met on the set in 1998 and tied the knot in 2000 - but their marriage lasted just over 2 years.

PAM ANDERSON & RICK SALOMON
The actress and Salomon, who dated for just one month before saying "I do," annulled their two month marriage on grounds of fraud in March.

REESE WITHERSPOON & RYAN PHILLIPPE
In 2002 the Academy Award winning actress admitted she and her actor hubby attended couples counseling. It didn't work. In 2006, the couple of seven years announced they were separating. Witherspoon - who is now dating Jake Gyllenhaal - share custody of kids Ava and Deacon.

PAUL MCCARTNEY & HEATHER MILLS
They couldn't work it out! The Beatles crooner and future Dancing With the Stars contestant had a daughter before splitting after four years of marriage in 2006. She was given a $48.6 divorce settlement.

Drew's Men

COREY FELDMAN
The duo dated from 1989 to1990.

BALTHAZAR GETTY
They were romantically linked in the early 1990s.

DAVID ARQUETTE
They held hands at the L.A. premiere of Bugsy in 1991.

JAMIE WALTERS
The pair were briefly engaged from 1992 to 1993.

JEREMY THOMAS
Barrymore was married to this bartender for about five weeks in 1994.

ERIC ERLANDSON
She dated the Hole rocker in 1995.

JANE PRATT
"I did have sex with Drew Barrymore," the former magazine editor admitted on her Sirius talk show in 2007. The pair were linked on and off in the mid 1990s.

LUKE WILSON
She romanced her Home Fries co-star in 1998.

ED NORTON
Barrymore dated the actor in 1999.

TOM GREEN
Barrymore was a fan of his MTV show and asked him to appear in her 2000 hit Charlie's Angels. They got engaged later that year. They wed in July 7, 2001, but Green filed for divorce less than six months later, citing irreconcilable differences.

FABRIZIO MORETTI
Drew dated the Strokes' drummer from 2002 to 2007.

SPIKE JONZE
Barrymore hooked up with the director around Valentine's Day 2007.

JUSTIN LONG
A rep for Barrymore confirmed the pair - dating since 2007 - split. "They are still friends," a source tells Us.

People's Cover - Baby Boom

1976
Cher, Gregg & Baby
The Cher & Gregg 'Soap Opera' Finds a New Time Slot: The Family Hour

1982
John-Boy's Triplets
For Richard and Alma Thomas Three's Company and a Crowd—But Nobody's Complaining

1983
A Royal First
The playmates, playthings and pomp of the royal heir's first year

1983
Chevy Chase's New High: Fatherhood
Drugs and Depression Behind Him, Chevy Chases Happiness with An 18-Pound Dream Girl Named Cydney

1984
A New Beginning for Monaco's Princess
Five and a Half Months After Her Surprise Wedding, Grace's Volatile Daughter Caroline Gives Prince Rainier His First Grandchild

1985
A Windsor War
A Battle of Wills Erupts at Harry's Baptismal Font as His Parents Take Sides Against An Insulted Princess Anne

1987
Twinkle, Twinkle, Cybill's Stars
For Moonlighting's Shepherd, Life Is a Hectic Round of Nursing, Diapering and Crying, but She'll Be the First to Tell You She's Hollywood's Happiest Homebody

1989
The Presleys' Newest Star
Swaddled in Secrecy, Danielle Riley Keough, Lisa Marie's Daughter and Elvis's Only Grandchild, Takes Her First Peek at the Planet

1990
Bringing Baby Home
Di Has Her Boys; Now Fergie Has Her Girls—and a Second Chance to Change from Raucous Royal to Marvelous Mum

1996
Bringing Up Babies
As Clocks Tick and Instincts Prevail, Stars Single and Married Are Heeding the Nesting Urge

1998
Babies, It's You!
It's Not Just Jodie: Among Hollywood's Biological Clock-Watchers, Motherhood Is Busting Out All Over

1999
Cindy's Joy
Very Ready to Be Parents, Model Mom Cindy Crawford and Her Man, Rande Gerber, Celebrate the Arrival of Presley Walker, Delivered at Their Brentwood Home

2001
Boy Oh Boy!
With husband René Angélil by her side, Celine Dion gives birth to a long-awaited son

2004
Charlie's Angel
Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards Carefully Planned the Birth of Their Daughter Sam. But Like Her Dad, This Baby Did It Her Way

2004
Baby It's You!
After a Much-Watched Pregnancy and a Difficult Labor, Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin Welcome a Beautiful Girl

2004
New Moms, New Lives
These First-Time Moms Have Brought Home Their Newborns and Survived—Happily—the Ensuing Sleepless Nights. True, for Celebs Domestic Help Usually Adds to Their Domestic Bliss, but Now the Real Labor Begins as They Get Back in Shape, Learn to Juggle Jobs and Kids, and Start a New Life Where Parenthood Suddenly Takes Center Stage.

2005
Best Role yet
Knitting, Strolling in the Park, Visits from Grandma—Julia Roberts and Danny Moder Savor Quiet Time with Hazel and Finn

2005
Working Mom: Angelina Jolie
After a Health Scare, Baby Zahara Is Happy and Healthy and Keeping Up with Maddox. and Their Mom? She's Got Her Hands Full with Work, Playtime and Brad. and Dinosaurs

2006
Goodbye, Baby Blues
After Battling Postpartum Depression with Her First Daughter, Brooke Shields Feels Nothing but Bliss with Her Second

2006
Hello Shiloh!
Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie Show Off Their Newest Little One

2007
Daddy's Boys
Say 'Awwww.' Taking a Break from Double Diaper Duty, Grey's Anatomy's Patrick Dempsey and His Wife, Jillian, Show Off Their Brand-New Twin Sons, Darby and Sullivan

2007
"Better Than I Even Imagined"
Desperate Housewives's Marcia Cross delights in her twin girls

2008
"I'm Head Over Heels"
From Singing Lullabies to Scrapbooking to Breast-Feeding, Christina Aguilera Embraces Motherhood to Her Month-Old Son Max (He Rocks Out to Led Zeppelin!)

2008
The Real Tori
Behind-the-Scenes Drama on 90210, Leaving Her First Husband for Dean McDermott and Trying to Make Peace with Her Mother. It's All There in Tori Spelling's New Memoir, Stori Telling. An Exclusive Excerpt—Plus Tori Talks for the First Time About Being Pregnant with Baby No. 2

2008
"She Gives Life a Whole New Meaning"
Nicole Richie and Joel Madden Show Off Their 'Perfect' Daughter Harlow—and Open Up About Her Birth, Nicole's Changing Body and How Her Surprise Pregnancy Transformed Their Lives

2008
"The Most Magical Time"
Diaper Duty, Sleepless Nights and the Best Sung Lullabies in the Business. Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony Joyfully Nest with Their Month-Old Twins, Max and Emme

Stars With Twins

JULIA ROBERTS AND TWINS PHINNAEUS AND HAZEL
Now that Julia Roberts, 40, has put the focus on her family - 3-year-old twins Phinnaeus and Hazel and 8-month-year-old Henry, with hubby Danny Moder - she feels no need to hit the party circuit: the fun is right at home! She tells Us, "[My kids are] fun and happy and honest and just fill me with so much joy. I guess I didn't realize that you could really just like your children as much as your friends, you know?"

PATRICK DEMPSEY AND TWINS DARBY AND SULLIVAN
He's McDreamy to the masses, but Dempsey's most important role? Dad to 6-year-old Tallula and twin 13-month-old sons Darby and Sullivan. Married to makeup artist Jill Fink, 40, the proud papa, 42, says his family is paramount to his small screen successes. "I'm trying to have a calm family life, to make my marriage work," Dempsey told Us in October of 2006.

MARCIA CROSS AND TWINS EDEN AND SAVANNAH
MARCIA CROSS AND TWINS EDEN AND SAVANNAH
The Desperate Housewives star, 45, always wanted children, but she never expected to have two at once! Cross remembers the panic that overcame her when she heard the big news: "I was sort of blown away that I was having twins, so I just needed a minute to deal with it." Daughters (dad is investment banker Tom Mahoney) Eden and Savannah are 13-months-old.

SEAN COMBS AND TWINS D'LILA AND JESSIE
"They're trying to stand up and discover everything," father Sean "Diddy" Combs tells Us of his twin daughters, 14 months (mom is ex Kim Porter). "All it takes is one look from them and my heart melts."

MARCIA GAY HARDEN AND TWINS HUDSON AND JULITTA
Working mom Marcia Gay Harden, 48, spent quality time with her 3-year-old twins Hudson and Julitta (she also has daughter Eulala, age 9) on the set of Law and Order in January of 2006, but says it isn't always easy being a showbiz mom. Says Harden: "It's hard to balance work and family. [Sometimes] I expect them to march to the rhythm of my schedule."

DENNIS QUAID AND TWINS THOMAS AND ZOE
Dennis Quaid, 53, and wife Kimberly Buffington didn't get to welcome their now 3-month-old twins Thomas and Zoe into the world the way they had imagined - the twins were given an accidental drug overdose at L.A.'s Cedar-Sinai Medical Center when they were just 12 days old. Now at home and healthy, dad Quaid confirms the family is doing just fine. "Things went wrong, very wrong there for a couple of weeks with them but everything's good now," Quaid says.

MELISSA ETHERIDGE AND TWINS MILLER AND JOHNNIE
"The creation of life brings about immeasurable love, and pours hope into the future. The joy will help carry us through our upcoming sleepless nights," said singer Melissa Etheridge, 46, of raising twins - Miller Steven and Johnnie Rose, now age 1 1⁄2 - with partner Tammy, who carried the babies.

NANCY GRACE AND TWINS JOHN AND LUCY
The CNN Headline News anchor welcomed twins, John and Lucy, with husband David Lynch, on November 4. For Grace, having twins has been a life-changing experience. She says, "When you love something so much, even tiny little things that weigh less than ten pounds each, everything is a wonder!"

ELVIS COSTELLO AND TWINS DEXTER AND FRANK
Singer-songwriter Elvis Costello, 53, occasionally parts with his guitar...to spend the day strolling in lower Manhattan with wife, singer and pianist Diana Krall, and 14-month-old twins Dexter and Frank.

HOLLY HUNTER AND TWINS
Actress Holly Hunter, 49, is just like Us! In January, she went food shopping at Deli Market on University Place in New York City, and then took a leisurely walk home with actor beau Gordon MacDonald and twin sons, now age 2.

Bromances

Matthew McConaughey & Lance Armstrong
The macho pair - here jogging in Malibu in July - have made light of rumors that their friendship has turned physical. "We tried it - Wasn't for us," Armstrong has quipped.

Owen Wilson & Woody Harrelson
The actors have traveled together to Peru, Maui and Miami among other destinations.

Ed Westwick & Chace Crawford
The Gossip Girl costars have also denied gay rumors. "These endless rumors are absolutely untrue," Crawford's rep told Us.

Brad Pitt & George Clooney
This A-list pair bonded while shooting the Ocean's Eleven films.

Matt Damon & Ben Affleck
These Bostonites had the same trajectory of stardom: costarring in 1997's Good Will Hunting, which they also co-wrote.

Tom Cruise & Will Smith
The action-packed duo are among the top grossing stars of all time. Smith recently came to Cruise's defense when he was disparaged over Scientology.

Brody Jenner & Frankie Delgado
The Hills supporting stars are well-known wingmen in young Hollywood. Jenner, for his part, will headline Bromance, an upcoming MTV reality show contest for his new BFF.

David Cook & David Archuleta
Though Cook was named American Idol over Archuleta in 2008, the singing buds have remained close despite the competition

Justin Timberlake & Trace Ayala
Timberlake counts Ayala as his BFF and business partner. The pair collaborate on designs for the singer's William Rast collection.

Joel & Benji Madden
The brothers not only spend their time together at work on their band Good Charlotte - they also spend downtime with their BFF BGs Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton.

Bruce Willis & Ashton Kutcher
Kutcher, Demi Moore's husband, has said he had to "get over my ego, which was screaming," in order to befriend her ex, Willis. "Once I did that, it was a cakewalk," he added.

FAST (FOOD) FRIENDS

From pizza to burgers, Lohan and Ronson take their food to-go in June before reportedly visiting Nicole Richie.

BIRTHDAY BUDDIES

Before Lohan's big day, the actress helped Solange Knowles celebrate her 22nd birthday in June at a bash thrown by Beyoncé at a Hollywood Hills mansion. Lohan sat nearby the deejay booth as Ronson spun tunes for partygoers like Ne-Yo and Ludacris.

CRUISE PARTNERS

What's a visit to Cannes without a yacht party? Lohan and Ronson cozy up to each other while aboard Diddy's boat during a May bash.

SALON BEAUTIES

Think they coordinated nail polish colors? The two friends say "yes, please" to a little pampering – enjoying a chair massage (and adjoining seats!) in April.

WORKING GIRLS

She may be hard at work on her latest film Labor Pains, but Lohan makes time for Ronson when the cameras aren't rolling. The deejay stopped by the Woodland Hills, Calif., set in early June.

TRAVEL COMPANIONS

Lohan preps for takeoff from Los Angeles in February with a must-have travel accessory: her best friend. Just a week later the actress and Ronson were spotted together again back in town at hot spot Goa, where the deejay was spinning.

SOLID SCENESTERS

Visiting New York to host a photography exhibit at the Atelier in early March, Lohan jumps behind the deejay booth to keep Ronson company.

SHOPPING PALS

The next day, the twosome head to the stores in SoHo and stop to try on shoes. Several weeks later, on a separate visit to the Big Apple, the pair managed another New York pastime: eating pizza. The friends dined on pizza, pasta and Shirley Temples at midtown Italian eatery Serafina.

LUNCH BUNCH

Pizza must be a favorite! In L.A. in mid-March, the BFFs enjoy a slice (or two) at a Larchmont Village restaurant. But that was just the start of their day: Lohan and a group of friends later stopped by Teddy's in the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel for a dance party deejayed by, yep, Ronson!

DRIVING PARTNERS

After another night of clubbing in March, this time at West Hollywood's Villa, Lohan settles into the passenger seat as Ronson takes the wheel.

DOMESTIC DUO

Even scenesters need a home-cooked meal once in a while. After a night at Teddy's, Lohan and Ronson grab some groceries at Hollywood's Beachwood Market last Sunday. A day of rest?

The Dark Knight Sneak Peek

Heath Ledger
The Joker

Aaron Eckhart
Harvey Dent

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Aaron Eckhart
Rachel Dawes and Harvey Dent

Aaron Eckhart
Harvey Dent

Christian Bale
Batman

Heath Ledger
The Joker

Aaron Eckhart, Gary Oldman and Christian Bale
Harvey Dent, Lt. James Gordon and Batman

GARY OLDMAN
Lt. James Gordon

Maggie Gyllenhaal
Rachel Dawes

Heath Ledger
The Joker

Heath Ledger and Christian Bale
Batman and The Joker

Christian Bale
Batman

Heath Ledger
The Joker

Maggie Gyllenhaal
Rachel Dawes

Christian Bale
Batman

Heath Ledger
The Joker

Christian Bale
Batman

Heath Ledger
The Joker

Watchmen - 2009

Who's watching Watchmen? Freakin' everybody in San Diego this week. Zack Snyder's graphic-novel adaptation, with Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach, easily boasts the Con's biggest buzz.

The Spirit
Scarlett Johansson may star in this take on Will Eisner's seriously iconic character, but she won't be at Comic-Con. Director Frank Miller (best known as the author of 300, Sin City, The Dark Knight Returns) will, however, be all over the place. Sorry, boys.

Terminator Salvation
Christian Bale is pretty busy these days, but with or without him, the first Arnold-free flick in this franchise will be getting plenty of love at Comic-Con.

Dollhouse
We have a feeling Buffy guru Joss Whedon already has tons of fans for his new show, previewing at Comic-Con, with Eliza Dushku and more.

Star Trek
Fans will be able to pick up these special-edition posters, featuring the first cast shots from J.J. Abrams' version of Kirk 'n' Spock's early days.

Ninja Assassin
Korean pop sensation Rain is, like, a ninja assassin, in this Wachowski bros-produced martial-arts flick. He'll be at the Con, but seriously: Has there ever been a better name for a movie?

Friday the 13th
Look for a more sympathetic psycho-killer named Jason Voorhees, in director Marcus Nispel's reboot of the franchise, previewing at Comic-Con.

RocknRolla
Director Guy Ritchie and Gerard Butler (300) will be on hand to discuss their new mob thriller. Think they'll talk about those Madonna rumors?

Fringe
Lost guru J.J. Abrams will open his hatch of tricks to promote his new supernatural cop show with Josh Jackson and Anna Torv.

Land of the Lost
Will Ferrell and the Sleestaks will get some pimping at the Con, though neither are scheduled to attend.

Repo! The Genetic Opera
Paris Hilton may be the only reason you've heard of this high-concept musical/horror flick, and word is she might even show up in San Diego Friday night.

Watchmen
What the heck. Let's do another Watchmen pic. Dig Jeffrey Dean Morgan as The Comedian.
Patrick Wilson as Nite-Owl and Malin Akerman as Silk Spectre in Warner Bros. Pictures' Watchmen - 2009

Red Sonja 2009
Rose McGowan stars in Nu Image/Millennium Films' Red Sonja - 2009

Drag Me to Hell - 2009
Alison Lohman in Universal Pictures' Drag Me to Hell - 2009

The Wolfman - 2009
Benicio Del Toro, Emily Blunt and Anthony Hopkins in Universal Pictures' The Wolfman - 2009

The Unborn - 2009
Gary Oldman and Odette Yustman in Rogue Pictures' The Unborn - 2009

Watchmen - 2009

Apollonia Vanova as Silhouette, Niall Matter as Mothman, Dan Payne as Dollar Bill, Clint Carleton as the original Nite Owl, Darryl Scheeler as Captain Metropolis, Carla Gugino as the original Silk Spectre, Glenn Ennis as Hooded Justice and Jeffrey Dean Morgan as The Comedian in Warner Bros. Pictures' Watchmen - 2009

Superbad: Top Movie Supervillains




Without a fearsome, memorable villain, your average superhero just doesn't have the opportunity to shine. With the release of The Dark Knight, featuring Heath Ledger's very creepy Joker, here's a closer look at some of the most evil and powerful supervillains in movies.

DARTH VADER - The Empire Strikes Back
Darth Vader has all the hallmarks of a true supervillain. He's committed evil acts like killing scores of Jedi knights, blowing up a planet, and lopping off his son's hand. He has superpowers he uses for evil purposes, like choking people from across the room. But the most obvious sign that he's a supervillain is that he wears a black cape. There's no clearer signal to the world that you follow the Dark Side than a black cape.

LORD VOLDEMORT - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is the most evil wizard to come down the pike in nearly 400 years. He wants little more than to return to his former glory as the dark overlord of the non-Muggle world. Unfortunately, that cursed Potter boy always gets in the way.

MEGATRON - Transformers
A robot that shrinks down into a handgun that other robots have to hold to shoot? Not exactly a threat to the planet. So it's no surprise that the leader of the Decepticons was given a new "alien jet" vehicle mode for the movie. Not that he needed to turn into something to wreak havoc; he tears poor Jazz in half with his bare hands.

DAVY JONES - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Plenty of villains can be described as being "heartless." Few, however, have the dedication to remove said organ and lock it away. With his crew of undead fish-men, Jones ruled the oceans, claiming the souls lost at sea. Jack Sparrow incurred Jones' wrath when he tried to weasel his way out of their deal for the Black Pearl. But if you really want to make him mad, just order calamari.

AGENT SMITH - The Matrix Reloaded
Agent Smith isn't just evil. He's a bureaucrat with a license to kill. Think of him as an IRS agent who packs heat, punches through concrete, and dodges bullets. And if there's anything that Smith hates more than humans, it's rebellious humans sporting leather pants, cool shades and clunky cell phones from the late 90's.

DOCTOR OCTOPUS - Spider-Man 2
He lost his wife, he ruined his career, and he got four robotic arms with malevolent artificial intelligence fused onto his back. But did Otto Octavius give up? No, he decided to continue his research using alternative sources of funding. Namely, robbing banks. You'd think a dweeby kid who calls himself an arachnid wouldn't stand a chance against a guy who really does have eight limbs.

THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST - The Wizard of Oz
The debate continues whether the Wicked Witch is a green-skinned incarnation of evil or a wronged woman rebelling against the tyrannical Wizard of Oz. In any case, she rules the Winkies with an iron fist, commands an army of fearsome airborne primates, and probably has dubious personal hygiene habits. But if your house accidentally drops on one of her siblings, watch out. She'll get you and your little dog too.

GENERAL ZOD - Superman II
Lex Luthor is as evil as he is bald, but at the end of the day, he's just an ordinary guy. General Zod, however, is just as super as Superman. Though Zod and his henchmen gleefully created global chaos once they busted out of Krypton's answer to San Quentin, the Forbidden Zone, the General really only wanted one thing - for the son of Jor-El to kneel before Zod.

MAGNETO - X-Men: The Last Stand
Eric Lehnsherr survived a Nazi concentration camp as a child only to be ostracized as an adult for being a mutant. His friend Charles Xavier tried to convince him that their kind and humans could live in harmony, but he saw mutants as humankind's betters, not their equals. Using his incredible magnetic powers, Magneto will bring humans to their knees - especially the ones with ######l pins in their legs.

KHAN NOONIEN SINGH- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Most genetically-enhanced, cryogenically-preserved war criminals have anger management issues, but this one had his reasons to be ticked off. When his scheme to hijack the USS Enterprise didn't go as planned, Captain Kirk dumped Khan and company on a remote planet that quickly became a barren wasteland. When his wife died, Khan became obsessed with dishing out some revenge served cold. And it is very cold in space.

T-1000 - Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Whats the one thing that can go mano-a-mano with a time-traveling cyborg bodyguard? A fluid, Silver Surfer-looking dude in a police uniform. The T-1000 can walk through jail bars, pick locks with his finger and take a direct hit from a grenade with nary a dent. He makes the T-0 seem as uncool as last year's iPod.

THE QUEEN - Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
There are many different reasons why villains do villainous things. Some want revenge. Others want power. The Queen simply wants to be the fairest in the land, and she will stop at nothing to see it through - including slipping poisoned fruit to a would-be competitor and trying to drop a boulder on seven cohabiting dwarves.

THE ONE RING - The Lord of the Rings
Yes, the antagonist of the three-film epic was ostensibly the Dark Lord Sauron. But, come on, he was an eyeball. The real menace came from the little band of gold that everyone wanted so bad. It could turn you invisible, but that drew Ringwraiths around like flies to honey. More devastating was the effect it had on the mind. Keep it long enough and you too will become a withered, raspy freak with multiple personalities

SYNDROME - The Incredibles
If obsessive fandom was a superpower, Buddy Pine, AKA Syndrome, would actually be the superhero he longs to become. But his enthusiasm nearly gets him blown up and leads to all supers being forced into hiding. With his dream thwarted, he uses technical prowess, dastardly schemes, and, of course, a black cape to turn into the Incredible family's worst nightmare.

Jen & Brad: The Way They Were
September 1999
Hand-in-hand, the couple made their first public appearance together at the Emmy Awards in L.A. "Jen is the fire we all crowd around for warmth," Pitt once gushed of his date - who would soon become his fiancee.

NOVEMBER 1999
Aniston showed off her engagement ring onstage at NYC'S Beacon Theater during a Sting concert.

MARCH 2000
"Brad is the kindest person I know... the sweetest goofball on the planet," Aniston (with Pitt at the Erin Brockovich premiere in Westwood, CA) once said.

SEPTEMBER 2000
"You know if there's ever an argument, it's not like you can go, 'Screw you, I'm outta' here!' You're there for the long haul," Aniston (with Pitt at the 52nd Annual Emmy Awards in L.A.) once said of marriage.

FEBRUARY 2001
"Just when you think you've gotten all you can out of it, you get knocked upside the head," Pitt (at The Mexican premiere in Westwood, CA) once said of his love for Aniston. "It's good fun. We still have that friendship; we still have a good laugh."

JANUARY 2002
The couple shared a hug at the Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, CA. "I love the feeling of being in love," Aniston has said. The equally romantic Pitt famously sneaked into her dressing room on the set of Friends to fill it with roses and spell out 'I Love My Wife' in petals."

September 2002
Pitt supported Aniston after she won an Emmy for Best Actress in a Comedy Series for Friends.

JULY 2002
A scruffy looking Pitt and a tank top-clad Aniston stayed close a the Full Frontal premiere. One of the low-key duo's favorite snacks? Chips and guacamole!

APRIL 2003
Aniston and Pitt chatted up Courteney Cox at Project A.L.S. "Friends Finding A Cure" event in Beverly Hills.

May 2004
With rumors churning about Pitt's chemistry with Angelina Jolie on the set of Mr. and Mrs Smith, the pair were all smiles at the Cannes Troy premiere. Days later, during an interview in Japan, Pitt proclaimed, "I love my wife." On January 7, 2005 the couple announced they were splitting.

JANUARY 2005
The two took a vacation to Cabo San Lucas Mexico shortly before announcing their split.

Top 10 Historically Inaccurate Movies




We all accept that movies stretch the truth in the interest of building drama. The following ten flicks, however, treat the truth like it was Silly Putty -- pulling and twisting it until it's unrecognizable.

10,000 B.C.
Director Roland Emmerich is usually a stickler for realism (see: sending a computer virus via Macintosh to aliens in Independence Day). So we hate to inform him that woolly mammoths were not, in fact, used to build pyramids. Heck, woolly mammoths weren't even found in the desert. They wouldn't need to be woolly if that were the case. And there weren't any pyramids in Egypt until 2,500 B.C or so.

Gladiator
Emperor Commodus was not the sniveling sister-obsessed creep portrayed in the movie. A violent alcoholic, sure, but not so whiny. He ruled ably for over a decade rather than ineptly for a couple months. He also didn't kill his father, Marcus Aurelius, who actually died of chickenpox. And instead of being killed in the gladiatorial arena, he was murdered in his bathtub.

300
Though this paean to ancient moral codes and modern physical training is based on the real Battle of Thermopylae, the film takes many stylistic liberties. The most obvious one being Persian king Xerxes was not an 8-foot-tall Cirque du Soleil reject. The Spartan council was made up of men over the age of 60, with no one as young as Theron (played by 37-year-old Dominic West). And the warriors of Sparta went into battle wearing bronze armor, not just leather Speedos.

The Last Samurai

The Japanese in the late 19th century did hire foreign advisers to modernize their army, but they were mostly French, not American. Ken Watanabe's character was based on the real Saigo Takamori who committed ritual suicide, or "seppuku," in defeat rather than in a volley of Gatling gun fire. Also, it's doubtful that a 40-something alcoholic Civil War vet, even one with great hair, would master the chopsticks much less the samurai sword.

Apocalypto

This one movie has given entire Anthropology departments migraines. Sure the Maya did have the odd human sacrifice but not to Kulkulkan, the Sun God, and only high-ranking captives taken in battle were killed. The conquistadors arriving at the end of the film made for unlikely saviors: an estimated 90% of indigenous American population was killed by smallpox from their infected livestock.

Memoirs of a Geisha

The geisha coming-of-age, called "mizuage," was really more of a makeover, where she changed her hairstyle and clothes. It didn't involve her getting... intimate with a client. In the climactic scene where Sayuri wows Gion patrons with her dancing prowess, her routine - which involves some platform shoes, fake snow, and a strobe light - seems more like a Studio 54 drag show than anything in pre-war Kyoto.

Braveheart

Let's forget the fact that kilts weren't worn in Scotland until about 300 years after William Wallace's day and just do some simple math. According to the movie, Wallace's blue-eyed charm at the Battle of Falkirk was so overpowering, he seduced King Edward II's wife, Isabella of France, and the result of their affair was Edward III. But according to the history books, Isabella was three years old at the time of Falkirk, and Edward III was born seven years after Wallace died.

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

In 1585, when the movie takes place, Queen Elizabeth was 52 years old - Cate Blanchett was 36 when she shot the film - and was not being courted by suitors like Ivan the Terrible (who was dead by then). And though the movie has her rallying the troops at Tilbury astride a white steed in full armor with a sword, in fact she rode side saddle, carrying a baton. She was more of a regal majorette than Joan of Arc.

The Patriot

Revolutionary War figure Francis "The Swamp Fox" Marion was the basis for Mel Gibson's character, but he wasn't the forward-thinking family man they show in the flick. He was a slave owner who didn't get married (to his cousin) until after the war was over. Historians also say that he actively persecuted and murdered native Cherokees. Plus, the thrilling Battle of Guilford Court House where he vanquishes his British nemesis? In reality, the Americans lost that one.

2001: A Space Odyssey

According to this film, in year 2001 we would have had manned voyages to Jupiter, a battle of wits with a sentient computer, and a quantum leap in human evolution. Instead we got the Mir Space Station falling from the sky, Windows XP, and Freddy Got Fingered. Apparently the lesson here is that sometimes it's better when the movies get the facts all wrong.

Top 10 Scientifically Inaccurate Movies




If movies were completely scientifically accurate, they'd probably be as interesting as a Physics 101 lecture. In real life, there are no explosions in space, gas usually doesn't explode from a lit cigarette, and Bruce Willis/Jackie Chan/Will Smith would most likely be in a coma after getting kicked in the head. Some movies, though, put science front and center in the story and more often than not the science proves to be head-slappingly bad. Here are some of the worst offenders.

Armageddon
We could put together a long list of all the things wrong with Michael Bay's feel-good ode to global destruction, but NASA has already and they counted at least 168 mistakes. But perhaps the biggest problem is that the plot itself -- splitting a Texas-sized rock in two with a single nuke -- has a Texas-sized hole in it. We don't have a nuclear bomb anywhere near powerful enough to do the job. As strange as it might seem, this is a case of a Michael Bay movie not having a big enough explosion.

Independence Day
That mammoth mothership hovering over the earth in geostationary orbit would be doing more than just freaking out the world's population. Because of its close proximity and mass -- 1/4th that of the moon, according to the film -- the flying saucer's gravitational pull would cause massive tidal waves, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. The aliens wouldn't even have to roll out their anti-matter ray to blow up the White House -- it would already be underwater.

Starship Troopers
Could a band of cave-dwelling, preverbal giant insects really have the sophisticated mathematics and technology to hurl a rock millions of miles through space to crash into Earth? Plus, 70% of the planet's surface is covered in water, so they only had a 3 out of 10 chance at even hitting solid ground, let alone a major city like Buenos Aires.

The Day After Tomorrow
Roland Emmerich brought his trademark academic rigor to the realm of climatology and the result proved to be so silly that NASA refused to help with the filming of the movie. For one thing, it would require most of Antarctica to melt in order to submerge New York City to the level it is in the movie. If all the rays of the sun were directed at the South Pole, its ice would melt in about two and half years. This ridiculousness drove Duke University paleoclimatologist William Hyde to publicly state, "This movie is to climate science as Frankenstein is to heart transplant surgery."

The Core
In the movie, the Earth's inner core -- a nickel-iron mass about 1500 miles in diameter -- stops rotating, causing the planet's magnetic field to collapse and microwave radiation from space to blast through the atmosphere. But microwaves aren't affected by magnetism, and the radiation that comes from space is too weak to damage anything here. What's more, if the core did stop rotating for whatever reason, we'd have more to worry about than that. The energy stored in the core would have to go somewhere, and the effect on the planet would be equivalent to five trillion nuclear bombs going off at once.

The Matrix

Much in the way of physics in the Matrix -- like dodging bullets and running up walls -- gets a pass because it's all within a massive virtual world. But in reality, our supposed robot overlords are a bit dim. Humans are a remarkably inefficient energy source. Instead of turning the human race into Duracells, the machines would probably get more energy just setting those goopy people pods on fire.

Jurassic Park
Having a wildlife park full of dinosaurs would be a really cool idea if it weren't for a few problems. No, not imperfect security or the possibility of spontaneous lizard sex changes. The problem is that it would be almost impossible to clone the dinosaurs based on DNA pulled from the guts of a 25 million-year-old mosquito. The dinosaur DNA's double helix most certainly would have been broken down into individual chunks, mixing together with whatever else the mosquitoes might have eaten along with some of the insect's own genetic material. Any creature constructed from that mess might be the stuff of nightmares, but probably wouldn't look like a T. Rex.

Total Recall
The red planet's gravitational pull is roughly 1/3rd that of the Earth's. So if, for example, an Austrian bodybuilder were to visit Mars, he would be bounding across the room like Michael Jordan. Another problem: when exposed to the thin atmosphere of Mars, like bad guy Cohaagen at the end of the movie, you would likely suffer from a raging case of the bends and you would asphyxiate -- both of which are plenty lethal -- but your head wouldn't bulge out and explode like an overused stress toy.

Outbreak
A monkey threatens a small town with a virus that kills everybody in less time than your average DMV visit, and only Dustin Hoffman can stop it. The trouble with a disease that virulent is it kills the host too fast to spread. Otherwise, we would be dead from the Ebola virus. Also, it generally takes longer to make a cure from monkey serum than it does to make a latte. Dustin Hoffman does look great in a hazmat suit, though.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Indiana Jones has survived a lot of improbable adventures, be it fleeing ancient spherical boulders or fighting off cult members while dangling off a rope bridge. But few scrapes have tested the bounds of believability more than Indy's escape from a nuclear bomb blast thanks to a lead-lined fridge. The problem is that, even if he didn't get flattened, horribly burned or suffocated (kids, don't hide in refrigerators), Indy almost certainly would have gotten a lethal dose of radiation from the fallout. And that's a lot scarier than snakes.