“Nobody cared she wasn’t there. The movie belonged to Penelope and Rebecca anyway with great help from Javier.” Recently-engaged actress Scarlett Johansson is unfortunately turning into a bit of a diva.

When the studio that produced Woody Allen’s latest flick rejected the blonde bombshell’s long list of demands for attending the Cannes Film Festival, she opted to stay home over strutting down the red carpet alongside her fellow Vicky Cristina Barcelona costars.

The Daily Mail reports that while the French branch of Warner Brothers Films “spent weeks negotiating with Johansson’s representatives about flying her to Cannes,” the starlet refused read more ....

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It’s the year that sees the United States of America going to the polls to vote for the next leader of the Free World. It’s the year that China hosts the Olympic Games and 2008 is the year that Maxim has come up with one of its hottest top 100 lists of The ultimate of the world’s most beautiful women.

So here, we’ll take you through the count down in good old traditional, reverse order, from 10 - 1.

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Still only 22 years old, Ashley Tisdale comes in at a respectable number 10 and with at least another 10 read more ....

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It’s official - after a year and two months of some serious courtship, Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds are getting hitched!

On Monday the Ghost World starlet’s representative slipped the exciting news to People magazine. According to Marcel Pariseau, the lovebirds are “…both thrilled” about the recent engagement. And although they haven’t set an exact date, friends are speculating that they may choose to wait until next year because of their hectic schedules.

During the previously mentioned day, a beaming Johansson proudly flashed her brand new diamond ring for the cameras while attending the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume read more ....

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Former Hole frontwoman - and current solo artist - Courtney Love had a painful weekend as she checked into L.A.’s Cedars Sinai hospital due to chest & throat discomfort.

According to her spokesperson, the 43-year-old mother of one was diagnosed with strep throat after getting poked & prodded by doctors in the wee hours of the a.m. What’s more, she was supposedly forced to see a psychiatrist after being quizzed on her habitual drug use.

In an act that makes my own gullet sore just by thinking about it, Courtney made a detour on the way home to pick read more ....

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Think of a romantic, handsome, versatile actor and somewhere in there would be Australian born Hugh Jackman, always the gentleman, as seen in Woody Allen’s Scoop with Scarlett Johansson and the romantic love interest of Meg Ryan in Kate and Leopold.

So to see him in the murdering role of Jamie Getz/Wyatt Bose in Deception comes as a bit of a shock only causing a girl’s pulse to beat faster with fright rather than passion!

Hugh, in this manipulating tantalizing role, is teamed up with Michelle Williams (partner of the deceased Heath Ledger) whom he takes from a street read more ....

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Drew Barrymore contemplating her first bite!

Birthday girl Drew Barrymore dressed (decidedly down) for her 33^rd birthday dinner last night when she hit Mr Chow’s with boyfriend of six months Justin Long.

Drew choses the face first!

Clearly she should have had bigger portions� on her plate, or at least stopped long enough for dessert, because as soon as she’d taken the short walk to the car she found she was still hungry and decided to take a chunk out of Justin’s face!

Drew wipes the evidence of ‘human bean’ from her face!

Drew’s 29 year old beau has read more ....

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After rounding up the making of the movie The Other Boleyn Girl, in which she stars with Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson thinks that having her life ‘intrguely’ hounded by the paparazzi is similar to the living in the court of Henry VIII in 1500’s England.

She told a packed press conference at the Berlin Film Festival that being hounded by paparazzi and having her personal life splashed across celebrity magazines was a high price to pay to make films.

So Scarlett, tell us where does the comparison come from?

“Even though it’s a historical piece, they’re people and the read more ....

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