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Kate Winslet has followed up her Oscar-winning role in The Reader with a damages-winning role as the Litigator.

The A-lister has banked more than $40,000 in damages after winning a lawsuit against Britain's Daily Mail for a story that falsely claimed she lied about her workout routine.

The article in question, headlined "Should Kate Winslet Win an Oscar for the World's Most Irritating Actress," was published in January alongside naked pics of Winslet.

The 34-year-old thesp was not in court for the verdict, but her solicitor read a statement on her behalf explaining how the story had offended her and caused her a "great deal of distress"—not only because it was "simply not true," but also because it gave people the wrong impression about her views on the female body.

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What's nearly two billion dollars look like in 3-D?

More than 10 years after becoming king of the movie world, James Cameron's Titanic may soon be padding its $1.8 billion worldwide gross with a 3-D rerelease, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The trade paper says the upcoming rerelease of the Toy Story films has got other studios around town looking to pull films out of the vault and back into theaters with some souped-up effects.

So if you've ever wondered what Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet would look like if she were stretching her arms out right toward your face, well, dreams do come true.

Frankly, we aren't sold on the idea.

But maybe it's just Titanic we aren't needing to watch in special glasses. Are there any films you'd like to see rereleased in 3-D?

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While you ponder, why not check out other upcoming films in the Casting Couch gallery.

Harper's Bazaar UK; Peter Lindbergh for Harper's Bazaar

Rachel Weisz and Kate Winslet have deemed themselves the keeping-it-real gurus. Each actress fights the war on Hollywood fakeness in their respective August Harper's Bazaars, Weisz in the U.K. and Winslet stateside.

Weisz, a 39-year-old British actress, believes SAG should make it illegal for actors to use Botox or something. "It should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen," she says. "Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?"

Meanwhile, fellow Brit Winslet echoes that thought in her interview...

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• Bret Michaels performed with Poison and the cast of Rock of Ages at the Tony Awards last night, but the real story is his nasty kaboom! with a set piece. Host Neil Patrick Harris said the star was fine, but what we really want to know is if Rock of Love Bus winner Taya was there to tend to his wounds.

• Britney Spears has silly topless photos from the "Gimme More" meltdown days. Are we really all that surprised?

• Goldie Hawn is putting her foot down on daughter Kate Hudson's rubber-bouncy-ball dating habits and wishing she'd just enjoy the single life for a while.

• Ouch! Looks like Robert Pattinson may be having a hard time getting in to some swanky NYC lounges.

• Terrence Howard stops traffic to save a baby bird, reminding us that it's hard out there for a pimp.

• Lindsay Lohan puts a ring on her own hand and suddenly that's news.

• Dear Kate Winslet: Next time you cook for John Krasinski, please consider inviting us, too. Love, Rise 'n' Shine

Respect(acle) the spectacles and check out our Gorgeous in Glasses gallery.

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• Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, as well as director James Cameron, are Titanic-sized do-gooders. The trio have donated money to help the 98-year-old final remaining survivor of the ship pay her medical bills.

• It's probably safe to say Barbra Streisand is hiring a new receptionist.

• Colin Quinn says America is like Michael Jackson. Strangely enough, it makes sense.

• Raise your hand if you want to see 75-year-old Partridge Family matriarch Shirley Jones pose for Playboy. Yeah, that's what we thought.

• We're wondering if Heidi Montag brought everything and the kitchen sink in that bag she took to her Mother's Day festivities.

• Dear Susan Boyle: Your competition this week, Greg Pritchard (who looks a bit like Adam Lambert), is rather interesting. Simon Cowell compares him to "a dog meowing." You can probably take him, but keep an eye out nonetheless. Love, Rise 'n' Shine

Just in case you aren't sure who's hanging out in the Big Picture gallery: Gwen Stefani and Kingston Rossdale wear cheat sheets.

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Kate Winslet has always been comfortable in her own skin. Unfortunately, one of Britain's tabloids isn't quite as accepting.

The Oscar winner has filed a libel suit against the Daily Mail, seeking roughly $225,000 over an article claiming she had lied about her fitness regime.

Per papers filed in London's High Court (where judge's tend to be more sympathetic than their U.S. counterparts to slighted celebrities), lawyers for the 33-year-old star said that the January article, titled "Should Kate Winslet Win an Oscar for the World's Most Irritating Actress?," left her "distressed and embarrassed" and "injured her personal and professional reputation."

"[Winslet] was particularly upset by what she regarded as the very unpleasant and nasty way in which the article was written," according to her April legal filing.

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Two days, two 100-strong lists of movers, shakers and genetically blessed stars...not a whole lot of overlap between the two.

But leave it to the man-boy who can send both tweens and cougars into a tizzy of equal measure to straddle the divide—just one day after he was named one of People's 100 Most Beautiful beings, Zac Efron also managed to stake his claim as one of the world's most influential people on the Time 100.

The magazine is no doubt hoping his influence is particularly strong when it comes to newsstand sales.

The rest of the list is chock-full of A-listers, including six-time honoree Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Tom Hanks, Jay Leno, M.I.A., Penélope Cruz, Tina Fey, Kate Winslet, John Legend, Slumdog Millionaire composer A.R. Rahman, Barack and Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, financial guru Suze Orman and, brace yourselves, the ladies of The View.

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Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy!

As excited as she was about her big Best Actress win at the Oscars last night, Kate Winslet surely saw it coming. In fact, she predicted only a few years ago that participating in a Holocaust film not unlike The Reader might bring her a little gold man!

In 2005, the much-lauded actress appeared on the comedy series Extras playing herself. When Ricky Gervais' character commends the actress for doing a Holocaust movie, she tells him it has nothing to do with spreading the message.

"I don't think we need another film about the Holocaust, do we?" her character version of herself says. "It's like, how many have there been? We get it. It was grim. Move on. No, I'm doing it because I've noticed that if you do a film about the Holocaust, [you're] guaranteed an Oscar. I've been nominated four times—never won. The whole world is going, 'Why hasn't Winslet won one?' That's it. That's why I'm doing it. Schindler's bloody List. The Pianist. Oscars coming out of their ass!"

Something tells us the statuette wasn't the main reason Winslet signed on to play Nazi guard Hanna Schmitz in The Reader. But perhaps her moment on Extras left a minor impression...

If there was ever anyone not in need of a home court advantage, it was Kate Winslet heading into tonight's Orange British Academy Film Awards.

Well, her and anyone who had anything to do with Slumdog Millionaire.

Like the SAG Awards and Golden Globes before them, the BAFTAs did their part to keep putting the "win" in Winslet, naming the Reader star the year's Leading Actress over, among other notable contenders, herself.

Winslet was nominated twice in the category, for both The Reader and Revolutionary Road, all but guaranteeing Angelina Jolie (who turned up with another ultimately snubbed nominee, Brad Pitt), Kristin Scott Thomas and Meryl Streep yet another night in which to practice their "it's-an-honor-just-to-be-nominated" faces.

The Slumdog Millionaire crew, meanwhile, didn't need to fake it...mostly

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Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella have received one of the rarest of posthumous honors.

The prolific filmmakers, both of whom died last year, have been included as coproducers on the 81st Annual Academy Awards ballot for their work on Best Picture nominee The Reader. This is only the fourth time that a deceased producer has been in the running for the night's top prize—and the first time ever that two have been in consideration at once.

The decision, announced Tuesday by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, brings the number of producers who could end up winning for The Reader to four.

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Actors typically don't want to be typecast. But apparently they don't mind a little repetition.

At points it seemed as if the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards was following the same script as a certain spherically themed film- and television-honoring awards show that took place two weeks ago, but tonight's ceremony did feature a few variations—despite the fact that Slumdog Millionaire, Heath Ledger, Kate Winslet, Mad Men and 30 Rock still won a whole new slew of shiny trophies.

As Slumdog Millionaire continued to bust out of its little-film-that-could shell by winning the evening's final award, Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Ledger and Winslet racked up more supporting-actor ammo heading into next month's Academy Awards.

Winslet was honored again for her role as a former concentration camp guard who has a lusty affair with a teenager in The Reader (a role for which she's competing in the Best Actress Oscar race), while Ledger seemingly cemented his Oscar-frontrunner status for his still-resonating performance in The Dark Knight.

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