She may have lost out on the Oscar for her breakout turn in the indie drama Winter's Bone, but the 20-year-old ended up topping best-dressed lists everywhere in this sleek, deceptively simple Calvin Klein number. And with the buzz came the real prize: The role of fierce teen heroine Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games, which should only make her an even bigger star when it hits theaters in March.
The tried. They really did. The May-Decemberette couple went to Israel. They went to Kabbalah counseling. They camped. But in the end, Demi pulled the plug on their six-year marriage.
Minus all the sex 'n' stuff in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, this was as good as it got for fans of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. The real-life, just-how-serious-are-they couple shared a smooch on their way out of an afterparty following the NYC premiere of Rob's Water for Elephants.
B'Day, indeed! Jay-Z's missus revealed at the MTV Video Music Awards that she was expecting their first child after four years of blissful, bling-filled matrimony. It is so satisfying when a gestating rumor finally gives birth to a real bun in the oven!
While we were all busy wondering what the meat- and felt-favoring pop superstar would wear to the Grammy Awards in January, she was busy spending 48 hours in an egg, preparing to be reborn onstage in honor of her new single, "Born This Way."
It may not have been Lindsay's first time, but it was the first time the world got to see the wayward starlet get marched into custody with her hands cuffed behind her back—a vivid illustration of just how wrong everything has gone for Lohan since...wait, did it used to not be like this?
The third time's got to be more charmed than the first and second times, right? The 30-year-old (can you believe Brit's 30?!) pop princess gleefully celebrated her engagement to agent Jason Trawick—and flashed her new Neil Lane diamond—at a party with friends and family in Las Vegas.
What with going shirtless onstage and waving a machete from a rooftop, the potently quotable actor could have taken up every spot on this list. But we ultimately went with a shot from the interview that started it all—his sit-down with Good Morning America, during which he vowed to sue CBS and revealed that he was on a drug. "It's called Charlie Sheen," he so memorably informed us.
More than 10 years after their epic movie-making adventure began, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe—all now in their twenties and way past legal apparition age—posed together for one of the last times at the world premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 in London.
Not everyone swooned with the romance of it all when the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge locked lips in front of the world for the first time. In fact, Will's goddaughter, Grace Van Cutsem, looked rather bothered by the whole thing.
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