The readers of Esquire have spoken. The men's magazine has declared Katrina Bowden of "30 Rock" to be the sexiest woman alive after an epic fan-voted March Madness-style tournament.
Few would find fault with the choice. On the Web, online interest in Bowden surged more than 500% after the news. Not surprisingly, related lookups on "katrina bowden pictures" spiked even higher. Also seeing big bumps: "katrina bowden 30 rock," "katrina bowden biography," and, from hopeful men the world over, a pleading inquiry -- "does katrina bowden have a boyfriend."
For her part, Bowden was kind enough to at least pretend to be surprised by the honor. She gives credit to the "30 Rock" fans who, no doubt, helped contribute to her triumph over such perennial favorites as Megan Fox and previous winners like Brooklyn Decker and Christina Hendricks.
Esquire called her an underdog, but she ended upblazing an impressive trail all the way to the championship. In the first round, she garnered more votes than Padma Lakshmi. Then she topped Kim Kardashian, Emmy Rossum, the "Glee" girls, and Megan Fox. It's true that Esquire's award isn't exactly an Oscar. But still, expect the honor to help move Bowden ever closer to Hollywood's A-list.
Kristen Stewart - Twilight star Kristen Stewart turns 21 years old today.
No word on how Kristen plans to celebrate her birthday but it appears there's a lingering concern for her future in Hollywood - from Kristen herself.
Reportedly, Kristen Stewart fears her Bella Swan character will overshadow her future work.
“If my non-Twilight movies weren’t accepted,” she said, “that is something I would hate even more than the fact that I can’t go into Starbuck’s without being recognized.”
Kristen has several projects in the pipeline, including the rumored lead in Snow White and the Huntsman. Do you think Kristen Stewart has a long future in Hollywood? More Picture:
Daryl Hannah has been hit with a bill for over $62k in unpaid taxes.
Daryl Hannah, star of Kill Bill and Splash, is in trouble with the IRS, AZ Central reports.
The actress, who is reported to be worth around $15 million dollars, is apparently in talks with the Inland Revenue Service regarding the federal lien.
Her manager Chuck Binder appeared unconcerned about the news: "I just made a deal for her. So whatever kind of things that are owed, if she does owe, will get cleaned up next week."
This is not the first time the actress has run into legal trouble. An outspoken environmentalist, Hannah was arrested in 2009 after becoming embroiled in a protest against 'open top' coalmining with the Massey Energy Company. Hannah was amongst 30 activists who formed a road block outside the company's plant. Hannah was arrested but later released. She was also arrested in California in 2006 under similar circumstances, when she chained herself to a tree in LA to protest the bulldozing of an urban garden.
Hannah, 50, has just finished filming independent film 'Garbage' with fellow Kill Bill co-star MICHAEL MASDEN. She is reportedly signed up to several more film projects this year, including 3-D comedy horror 'El Dorado.'
Ahead of the release of "Your Highness," out today, Natalie Portman talked about many things, like her upcoming baby and her views on marijuana ("I love stoner comedies. I smoked weed in college, but I haven't smoked in years," she told Entertainment Weekly).
But the one thing she's remained tight-lipped about is the controversy around her "Black Swan" dancing double, Sarah Lane, who said last month that she did the work that won Portman a best-actress Oscar for her starring role in the film.
"I had a chance to make something beautiful with this film, and I don't want to give in to the gossip," Portman told E! News Wednesday when asked about Lane. One of Lane's gripes is that Portman didn't thank her in her Oscar acceptance speech, but Portman said she doesn't "remember my Oscar speech at all, and I'm actually too embarrassed to watch it."
In March, Lane, a soloist with the American Ballet Theatre, told Entertainment Weekly that the public had been misled about how much dancing Portman did in "Black Swan."
"On the full-body shots, I would say 5 percent are Natalie," Lane said. "I mean, from a professional dancer's standpoint, she doesn't look like a professional ballet dancer at all and she can't dance in pointe shoes. And she can't move her body. She's very stiff."
Lane lamented how she was listed in the credits as an extra rather than a dancing double. She also said producers from the film asked her to stop giving interviews before the Oscars. After her comments made headlines, she wrote a blog for the Wall Street Journal clarifying her point that Portman's limited training did not equip her to portray a pro ballerina.
"I'm not trying to instigate conflict here," Lane wrote. "The truth is that no one, not Natalie Portman, or even myself can come anywhere close to the level of a professional ballerina in a year and a half. Period."
CHRISTIE Brinkleysays her ex-husband Billy Joel gave her tips before she auditioned for her role as Roxie in the Broadway version of musical Chicago.
The mother-of-three, 57, has revealed the Uptown Girl hitmaker told her how to make the best of her singing voice.
“He helped with my projection,” she said.
Brinkley — who has appeared on more than 500 magazine covers — also revealed that dancing in the show had “definitely” improved her figure.
Brinkley was criticized for her dancing in the 1983 video for Joel’s hit Uptown Girl – but insists she has improved since.
Christie recently insisted she is in no rush to find the man of her dreams.
“Most of the time, I’ve got my kids with me, so I’m not as prone to meeting people,” she said.
“And then, you never really know if someone is talking to you because you’re a celebrity. It’s not my number one priority.
“I always knew I wanted to be a mother … it takes a lot of work.
“My work makes me a better mom. It gives me a little door to step out of my parenting and bring the excitement from that day back home.”
Jennifer Lopez is keen to compete in another triathlon - as long as she doesn't have to swim in the sea.
The singer/actress and American Idol judge admits the swimming part of her 2008 triathlon was the toughest part of the feat - because she's terrified of the ocean.
Lopez tells the Globe, "I'd love to do another one, but I don't want to swim in the ocean again. That was the worst part for me.
"I would swim in a pool, even if it is 100 laps... It was a great fear of mine to swim in the sea. I conquered that fear once, but I wouldn't do it again."
Meg Ryan - Actress Meg Ryan is scheduled to make her directorial debut on "Into the Beautiful". According to Variety, Wendy Finerman of "Forrest Gump," and "The Devil Wears Prada" and Nathalie Marciano have signed on to produce the film. "I'm often drawn to pictures that make you laugh and cry," Finerman told Variety. "I think this is the perfect project for Meg to bring to life. She's poignant and funny and heartfelt."
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Shooting for "Into the Beautiful" is scheduled to begin in September in New York. Are you looking forward to Meg Ryan's directorial debut?
Amanda Bynes 's dog Little Angel has died. Just four months old, the caramel-colored pomeranian went missing on Tuesday.
"[She] got out of my house somehow and is LOST," theEasy A actress, 25, tweeted to her 53,000 followers. "If anyone finds her I BEG you to please contact me thru Twitter."
Then, later that day, Bynes shared sad news. "Little Angel is in heaven now," she wrote. "RIP. I love you."
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actress Ashley Judd says in a new memoir that she had a lonely, painful childhood that included sexual abuse and thoughts of suicide while her mother Naomi Judd and sister Wynonna sought to build a career as country music stars.
In excerpts of "All That Is Bitter and Sweet," and in a TV interview on the "Today" show on Tuesday, Judd spoke of feeling neglected and emotionally abused while constantly moving homes with the Judd country legends.
"My family of origin, the one into which I was born, was also brimming with love but was not a healthy family system. There was too much trauma, abandonment, addiction and shame," the "Double Jeopardy" actress writes in the memoir, which was published on Tuesday.
Judd, 42, wrote that she was molested by a family friend as a teenager, witnessed inappropriate sexual behavior between her mother and her new boyfriends, and said drugs were regularly available in her home.
Many of the memories, including times when she played with her mother's gun after school and thought about shooting herself, were repressed and were recovered when Judd underwent therapy in 2006.
Judd told "Today" in an interview that the goal of her book was to better explain the humanitarian work she does around the globe involving impoverished and abused women in brothels, slums and refugee camps.
"I was really encouraged by people I trust to include some of my own story, because why I love (humanitarian) work really baffled people, and so I eventually got willing to put it there," the actress explained.
Naomi Judd said in a statement to the "Today" show: "I love my daughter. I hope her book does well."
Ashley Judd called her mother's attitude to the revelations "exquisitely gracious."
Naomi Judd and her country singer daughter Wynonna are set to reveal details of their own tempestuous relationship in a six part TV documentary series starting on the Oprah Winfrey Network on Sunday.
Miley Cyrus is "epic," troubled actor Charlie Sheen says, days after the teen pop star rejoined Twitter after more than a year.
The 18-year-old actress and singer, who rose to fame as the star of Disney Channel series "Hannah Montana," quit the social networking service in late 2009, saying in an YouTube video that she wanted to keep her personal life private. She had Tweeted that her then-boyfriend, actor Liam Hemsworth, did not use the service himself and wanted her to delete her account.
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On March 29, Cyrus surfaced on Twitter again under the username gypsyhearttour, referencing the name of her upcoming "Gypsy Heart" tour of South America and Australia, which begins at the end of April.
Sheen has making headlines over the past few months due to a rehab stint for alcohol and drug abuse, a custody battle with his estranged wife and on-air rants on television, radio and on the Web against the co-creator of his CBS comedy series, "Two and a Half Men." He was later axed from the show and producers said he had "been engaged in dangerously self-destructive conduct and appears to be very ill."
The 45-year-old actor, who has struggled with substance addiction for years, gained a slew of new fans, especially younger ones, after he joined Twitter in early Marchjoined Twitter in early March. He often touts his live-in girlfriends, who are at least 20 years younger than him. For weeks, millions of people have recited quotes he has made in interviews and on Twitter that have now become catchphrases, namely the sarcastically-toned "Winning." (Read some of Charlie Sheen's craziest quotes.)
"Do not fear...the Sheenius is here!" a message on the gypsyhearttour Twitter account said on Sunday. "I'm I'm not gonna lie. I came back to twitter for 2 reasons. My fans and to follow @charliesheen #winning."
A message on Sheen's Twitter page on Monday said: "Dear Miley, Welcome back to Twitter! Always felt you were epic... Now you proved it! Thanks for the love! ybh c @gypsyhearttour."
Sheen is currently on his first stage tour, as fans wait to see what the actor will do with his entertainment career. Sheen's first show in Detroit on Saturday, April 2, did not go over well, as audience members booed and walked out, but the actor earned a standing ovation at a show in Chicago a day later.
Cyrus has undergone a turbulent year herself.
She caused some controversy lwhen she showcased a more mature image in performances and music videos, which marked a sharp contrast to her "good-girl" "Hannah Montana" persona seen on "Hannah Montana," the show that made her a worldwide star.
In October, her father and "Hannah Montana" co-star Billy Ray announced he and her mother, Tish, were ending their 17-year marriage. He announced in mid-March that he had called off a divorce and that they were reconciling.
In December, Cyrus was criticized after a video posted on TMZ showed her smoking salvia, a herb legal in California, out of a bong and swearing. Cyrus later said the move was "a bad decision."
In Cyrus began her acting career when she was eight and rose to fame with her role on "Hannah Montana," which ended in January after four seasons. She starred in her first major film, "The Last Song", with Hemsworth, her on-again, off-again boyfriend, last year. On Sunday, Cyrus won the Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Movie Actress for her performance (see a list of winners).
Hemsworth was recently cast in "The Hunger Games" alongside Jennifer Lawrence, while Cyrus is filming the sorority comedy "So Undercover" with friend Kelly Osbourne, who also defended her after the "bong" video surfaced.
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Charlie Sheen may have bombed on tour. But he picked up at least one follower: Miley Cyrus. The pop star took over her 'Gypsy Heart' Twitter account after a two-year break from tweeting, posting, 'I'm not gonna lie. I came back to twitter for 2 reasons. My fans and to follow @charliesheen #winning.'
LOS ANGELES — Kirstie Alley and "Dancing With the Stars" partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy have taken a tumble in the ballroom during the live performance show.
Just seconds into their rumba routine to "Over the Rainbow" on Monday, Chmerkovskiy fell to the floor, taking the 60-year-old actress down with him.
A limping, apologetic Chmerkovskiy later told the judges that his thigh "just gave out."
After a few moments the pair recovered and went on to earn the praise of the judges and a score of 21 -- one point higher than their score for last week's quickstep.
Judge Carrie Ann Inaba says, "Sometimes tragedy leads to amazingly beautiful moments."
KATIE Holmes is desperately hoping that people tune in to her new TV show The Kennedys — the miniseries that airs Sundays on ReelzChannel.
In the show — which was scrapped by The History Channel in January — Holmes plays Jackie Kennedy opposite Greg Kinnear as JFK.
And the actress — who’s married to Tom Cruise – is keen for the project to be a success.
During a recent interview, Hows described the eight-part miniseries as “like a Greek tragedy” and said she admired Jackie’s devotion as a mother.
“I hope people find it and watch it,” Holmes said.
The show premiered this past weekend.
Meanwhile, Katie has revealed how she was left shocked when her daughter accidentally picked up some penis-shaped candy.
The actress was recently pictured treating Suri, three, to a trip to an ice cream parlor, where the little girl was seen grasping the rude candy, and insists she thought they were a type of US confectionery called Swedish Fish.
“Recently, I took her to get ice cream in New York at this place called Serendipity that we go to all the time. It’s for kids,” Katie said.
However, the brunette beauty was horrified when she realized her tot was holding a comedy packet of sweets shaped like male genitalia.
Spelling out the word, an embarrassed Katie said, “P-e-n-i-s gummies. I said, ‘Oh wow those aren’t Swedish Fish!’
“They are called p-e-n-i-s gummies and they look like it. She was holding the box and I was like, ‘OK, wow, we don’t need that right now.’ “
The former Dawson’s Creek star was then left with a dilemma with how to take the offensive sweets away from Suri in case she asked what they were.
“I thought if I said, ‘Put that back!’ then she’s going to say, ‘What is this?’ and I really didn’t want to have that conversation,” she said.
The 32-year-old actress is still surprised a family-orientated establishment would sell such a lewd product.
“I was like, ‘Why are they selling these here? This is for kids’,” she said.
It's true that Esquire's award isn't exactly an Oscar. But still, expect the honor to help move Bowden ever closer to Hollywood's A-list.
