This is anti-hotness but still we couldn’t help laughing… some bad decisions from Mr. Hefner…
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40 More Hot Celebrities We Want to See Naked in Movies
Nudity is seen as art in some cultures — and blasphemy in others. Nudity in movies isn’t anything new, but there is always fresh meat to be had, and a hungry populace to feed. There are many celebrities that have yet to go nude on screen, and back in April 2009 we visited a list of 20 of them. Here are 40 more gorgeous celebrities we’d love to go nude on the silver screen. Keep in mind, some of these beautiful ladies have let some cheek or side-boob show before, some even fell victim to the nip-slip here and there, usually unintentionally, so we’re not counting that. We’re talking full-frontal nudity here. Let’s get started, shall we?
Michelle Trachtenberg
Michell Trachtenberg has sure grown up since Harriet the Spy. The Daytime Emmy-nominated actress has since starred in larger roles on the silver screen — and in our fantasies. We have yet to see her in anything less than a bikini, so we’re hoping that will change soon.
Sofia Vergara
Colombian beauty Sofia Vergera has been prancing around on TV shows like Dirty Sexy Money, and though we’re not too picky, we’d like to see more. Vergera is the most downloaded Latina in the USA, thanks to Univision, but nothing would be dirtier or sexier than something more risque.
Kristen Bell
Actress Kristen Bell has been in the spotlight since her title role in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, as well as the TV series Veronica Mars. She slipped a nip in the suspense film Spartan, but that doesn’t count. We want more.
Kristin Kreuk
Sweetheart Kristin Kreuk hails from the Great North and is one exotic mix. Half-Danish and half-Chinese, this Smallville star is making us cross our fingers for a peek at that pristine body.
Gemma Atkinson
Busty English model and actress Gemma Atkinson isn’t your average cat walking down the runway, sporting sexy curves. Best known for her role on English soap opera Hollyoaks, Gemma knows how to keep audiences at attention with that rack. Now, if only she’d slip that bra off.
Amanda Bynes
Funny girl Amanda Bynes has filled out since her days on Nickelodeon’s All That — and we like it. She’s been spotted quite a few times in a bikini, in roles like What I Like About You, but what we’d like about her more, is some more skin.
Nadine Velasquez
Nadine Velasquez has made Maxim’s list of the world’s sexiest women twice — and it’s not surprising with a body like hers. We’ve seen her boobs strain against the fabric of a few bikinis, and it’s thorough proof that what’s underneath is nothing short of amazing.
Ali Landry
Capturing an audience from her Doritos Super Bowl commercial, Ali Landry hasn’t left our sights since. She’s starred in a few low-key movies, like Repli-Kate, but has yet to reveal anything more than her bikini allows. And before you disagree, those breasts were not hers in Repli-Kate — they belonged to a body double.
Ali Larter
Actress Ali Larter hit the big time when she landed the role of the conflicted twins on Heroes. We’ve seen her in a scrumptious whipped-cream bikini in Varsity Blues and a nice shot of her ass in 3-Way, but we’ve yet to hit the jackpot. Seems like she’s getting warmer though.
Alicia Silverstone
Alicia Silverstone posed nude for a PETA ad campaign, but unfortunately we couldn’t see any of the goods. We loved her in Clueless, with that sexpot pout, but we’d like to take a gander at her other …parts. We reviewed her scene in Miss Match where a breast is supposedly visible, but no dice, it aired on NBC. She also used a body double in The Crush.
Alyson Hannigan
Ravishing redhead Alyson Hannigan is one hot mom. Her role as the bicurious Willow on Buffy the Vampire Slayer truly whet our appetites, and her recurring role on How I Met Your Mother really wishes she’d let us see if the curtains match the drapes.
Alexis Bledel
This blue-eyed, dark haired beauty has had us captivated since Gilmore Girls. She was attending film school when she was nabbed for the role, which we’re thankful for — since she would have forever been behind the camera. She’s recently signed back into a modeling contract, so we have our hopes up that she’ll consider nude work. She’s already played a prostitute in Sin City, so it’s not too ridiculous a thing to hope for, right?
Elizabeth Banks
Elizabeth Banks has charmed us with her sweet face and banging body — and we’ll never forget the lesbian scenes she did in Wet Hot American Summer. Something is missing though, and Sexual Life didn’t fill that void. We’re tired of nip-slips, they don’t count!
Beyonce Knowles
Singer Beyonce Knowles is bootylicious, and we love it. She’s crossed the divide and now dabbles in acting, with roles in films like Dreamgirls and The Pink Panther — and it’s only made us want to see more of her.
Blake Lively
Though we were hoping for a lesbian scene in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, we were disappointed yet again. Drop-dead gorgeous Blake Lively still gets us hot in the pants with her current role in the rich-kid drama Gossip Girl, but has yet to do any nude scenes. Maybe one with co-star Leighton Meester? Well, we can dream.
Nikki Reed
Actress Nikki Reed hails from LA, but gets her sultry looks from a mixture of Jewish-Italian-Cherokee roots. She plays Edward Cullen’s bitchy sister, Rosalie Hale, in the Twilight saga — though you may not recognize her right away, due to her blonde locks. She’s yet to show much skin, but we’ll still keep the memories of her thong scene in Mini’s First Time.
Christine Taylor
Christine Taylor tightened our pants in A Very Brady Sequel with that bikini of hers, but we have yet to see any less — which makes us sad. We wouldn’t be surprised if husband Ben Stiller kept her from doing any nude scenes, but we sort of understand. Lucky guy.
Cobie Smulders
Smoldering hot Cobie Smulders gets us going every episode of How I Met Your Mother as Robin Scherbatsky. This Canuck cupcake was discovered as a teen by a model scout, and we’re thankful for that. What we really want though, is a nice full-on of that sculpted body.
Eliza Dushku
Eliza Dushku is brunette perfection. We loved the view of that perfect body on Dollhouse, but we first noticed her in Bring It On — even though she’d been acting since childhood. She has yet to do a true nude scene, and fanboys will bring up her boob flash in the flick The Alphabet Killer, but it was unintentional, and barely a nipple.
Emily Browning
Aussie hottie Emily Browning was discovered back when she was performing in school plays, but she has come a long way delighting us in films like Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. So far the young star hasn’t shown anything less than her underwear, but there’s still time to bloom.
Gabrielle Union
Like Eliza, we noticed Gabrielle Union in Bring It On, and we’ve since grown to love this mocha beauty. In Bad Boys II there was a slight accidental nip slip during a back flip, but again, we’re not counting those. We want full-on.
Hayden Panettiere
Another hottie on the cast of Heroes, Hayden Panettiere made a splash with her skimpy cheerleading uniform. She’s still still young, so we expect more than the sexy scenes she’s given us so far — not that we’re complaining!
Jamie Chung
Korean-American beauty Jamie Chung was cast into the MTV reality show The Real World: San Diego, and frankly she fit the bill when it came to sleazy antics. With that said, we’re disappointed she hasn’t flashed us anything more than her panties.
Jennifer Garner
Golden Globe-award winning actress Jennifer Garner is the whole package: hot, funny, talented. She’s a mom of two little girls and is married to Ben Affleck — but we still want to see her naked. Those dimples just get us going.
Kaley Cuoco
Another actress to bloom into a gorgeous young thing, Kaley Cuoco has had a place in our fantasies since The Big Bang Theory premiered. Though we only get to see her in her underwear, it’s a glorious sight.
Katharine McPhee
Season five American Idol runner-up Katharine McPhee has shot to stardom since the show’s closing. She’s released several albums, and is dabbling in acting. She played a supporting role in The House Bunny, and although we have yet to look upon that amazing body — she is just getting started.
Katherine Heigl
With a rack begging to be set free, stunner Katherine Heigl mesmerizes us. She’s a regular on Grey’s Anatomy and has starred in 27 Dresses, and apparently showed side-boob in Side Effects. We would pay to see everything she’s got. All good things…
Katy Perry
Santa Barbara, California native Katy Perry kissed a girl — and she liked it. She rose to fame with her drop-dead looks and her dance hit “I Kissed a Girl.” Although it may not be everyone’s cup of tea, we can all agree that we’d like to see her topless, at least.
Lindsay Lohan
Say what you want about Lindsay Lohan, but she has a great rack, gorgeous natural red hair, and adorable freckles. She’s blessed us with her curves in magazine spreads and on the silver screen — albeit with at least underwear on. She’s already taken the first step to peeling it all off on screen, let’s hope she jumps on it.
Mandy Moore
When we think of Mandy Moore, we think of America’s sweetheart. She’s tried to lose some of her sweet side, in getting away from wholesome flicks, but it sticks with her. At the moment, the most you can catch is a split-second side-boob in How to Deal. We wish we didn’t have to deal with only that.
Odette Yustman
Odette Yustman started her acting career out next to Arnold Schwarzenegger in Kindergarten Cop, and has blossomed into a lovely Latina goddess. You can catch her wet and undies-clad in The Unborn, until we get her to take off more of her clothes.
Christina Hendricks
Ravishing redhead Christina Hendricks has us all panting at the sight of her assets. Buxom and talented, she’s graced several TV shows, including Tru Calling, Mad Men, and Firefly. She’s just fine with being sexy and prancing around in underwear, but she just needs to let those puppies breathe. We won’t tell anyone.
Eriko Tamura
Known stateside from a small role in Heroes as the swordsmith’s daughter, Princess Yaeko, and more recently cast as the leading role of Mai in Dragonball Evolution, Eriko Tamura is a hot commodity in Japan. She has a full-fledged music career in her native country and also speaks English, German and Japanese fluently. We’d like her to be fluent in nudity as well.
Sarah Chalke
Blonde beauty Sarah Chalke has graced our televisions for about ten years now, and we’re nowhere near tired of her. Another Canadian actress on the list, it seems that they produce some alarmingly hot women up there. Maybe this Scrubs star would be willing to get together with her Canadian counterparts and help us out by showing more skin.
Sarah Silverman
Sarah Silverman is talented, it goes without saying, and she’s one of the funniest women in the business. We take her seriously not only because of her brilliant mind, but because she’s one dark beauty that can’t be ignored. She’s already done a shoot with Maxim, so there’s not much left to take off.
Sarah Roemer
American actress and model Sarah Roemer is best known for her flicks Fired Up, Disturbia, and Asylum. Especially the latter, since there was a clip of her butt and breasts. Don’t get excited though, it was more side-boob.
Summer Glau
Summer Glau has undeniable classic beauty that we’d like to get our hands on. She caught Joss Whedon’s eye after guest-starring in an episode of Angel and has since been cast in Firefly, The 4400 The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Dollhouse. Another beautiful woman we’ve only seen in a bikini, we can only hope for less.
Ellen Page
You may remember the cute Ellen Page from the hit Juno, where she played a knocked-up teen dealing with the consequences. Putting that image out of our mind, we’re left with the petite brunette’s flash of boob and ass crack in The Tracey Fragments. Though it’s not all we’d like to see, we’ll take it as we get it.
Yvonne Strahovski
Born in Australia of Polish parents, Yvonne Strahovski has taken the US by storm with her talent and looks. She currently stars in the TV series Chuck, and the most skin we’ve seen from her is when she wears her underwear. Although she’s relatively new to the scene, we’re hoping she fits right in, and takes it all off.
Zoe Saldana
Zoe Saldana has been around for a while, but has recently gained superstardom with roles like Uhura in the new Star Trek and Neytiri in Avatar. This Dominican beauty has definitely captured the hearts of many a geek, and although we appreciate the underwear scenes we’ve seen — we can’t get enough.
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15 Most Overlooked Superhero Day Jobs
Saying that superheroes are a special breed is like saying water is wet, but what we rarely stop to consider are the somewhat normal lives most of them led before their respective shifts into the supernatural. Superheroes come from a wide spectrum of backgrounds, and some of these men and women actually held jobs that us normal folks would truly enjoy, and even consider special. These are the 15 most overlooked superhero day jobs; they’re not all lives of luxury, but they’re all professions any reasonable person could strive toward in the absence of superpowers.
Batman
Bruce Wayne is in fact purely human, but there’s no arguing that he’s been touched by fate in a way that allows him to pull off the monumental challenge of becoming Batman. The man behind the Dark Knight, however, is a man; with friends, cousins, a home, and a multinational conglomerate to fuel his massive bank account. Wayne is one of the world’s most powerful business executives, and he lives the life of a playboy industrialist. How many of us wouldn’t jump at the chance to live that life for just one day? He casually throws it to the wind in favor of his secret, super lifestyle.
Iron Man
Tony Starke, like Bruce Wayne, is a multi-billionaire industrialist playboy and head of a massive corporation. Unlike Wayne, however, Starke doesn’t spend nearly so much energy shielding his true identity while wearing the eponymous suit that makes him Iron Man. That being said, it’s Iron Man that gets all the credit, and the life of a rich genius with so much at his disposal takes the side seat.
Superman
Granted, Superman never led a normal life — he never had the chance. He may have spent his life struggling to balance his birthright with his wish to be more human, but in the time he spends as Clark Kent, he often finds himself reminded of just how mundane that really is. The kicker is that his listless alter-ego was a reporter at a major newspaper. Countless journalism students work themselves into the ground just for a shot at a job like that, and it was shown as boring.
Spiderman
Another superhero with a boring normal life that makes many college students salivate — Spiderman, or Peter Parker in this case, was a photographer for a major New York City newspaper. The job was always shown to be boring, pathetic, and beneath him, even though in reality it’s such a highly sought-after career.
The Hulk
Before Bruce Banner suffered the gamma radiation-infused accident that turned him into the Hulk, he was a nuclear physicist at the top of his field. How many kids grow up saying they want to be scientists, how many actually make it all the way to (and through) enough years of university classes to get their PhD in nuclear physics? His job was an amazing one, and it all ended the moment the Hulk was born.
Wonder Woman
Not many people remember that Wonder Woman actually did have a life outside of superpowers — as Diana Prince. Prince was a liberated young woman who began as an army nurse and worked to become an intelligence officer. Though the timeline is fragmented, and the two jobs are wholly unrelated, they both helped support her main function as a way for Wonder Woman to get the inside scoop on events that could use her intervention. Prince, though a more normal character in comparison to her super alter-ego, was very involved in crisis events and was even adventurous — unlike Clark Kent to his Super Man.
Green Lantern
The last of the Green Lanterns, Kyle Rayner was working as a struggling artist in Los Angeles when he was quite randomly chosen to receive the coveted power ring that would change his life forever. It’s funny in his case because the moment he receives the ring and becomes the Green Lantern, there’s never again any reason to revisit his life as a freelance graphic artist — a job many of us would love to have the skill to pull off.
Daredevil
Matt Murdock’s role in the Daredevil saga was no small one — the character was hugely involved in the story. At least, that’s how the writers meant it to be; to the great majority of people, Murdock the lawyer has always taken the backseat to Daredevil, the superhero — and that’s only if he’s not completely forgotten about. As much as we may talk trash about lawyers, none of us could deny it’s one hell of a job, that usually involves all the niceties in life.
Banshee
Banshee was always known for being one of the relatively few X-Men that had an adult life before joining Xavier, but in that life he experienced quite a bit. He was an inspector working with Interpol at the time his life went to hell, and he spent some time as a roaming detective at freelance before taking the plunge and donning the yellow suit. For anyone who’s ever considered a job in law enforcement, a gig as an inspector working all over Europe is like the holy grail of employment. He just walked away from it all.
Blue Devil
We’ve all watched Mythbusters, and seen countless movies or documentaries about the world of special effects and stunt work that drives the massive motion picture industry. Daniel Cassidy, who would be the Blue Devil, was one of those fortunate enough to be an integral part of that industry; he was a stunt man and special effects guru. In fact, it was while wearing a blue devil costume — while filming a movie by the title of The Blue Devil — that he got blasted with energy from a demon and wound up stuck looking the way he did.
Comet Man
Dr. Stephen Beckley led the highly respected life of an astronomer, astronaut, and astrophysicist — an expert in all his fields — when he experienced the incident (and subsequent death) that would transform him into Comet Man. Repeat that three times: An Astronomer, astronaut, and an astrophysicist. Any one of those professions is enough to be more than proud of, and this guy was a big name in all three. Once he attained the lofty prowess of a superhero, all his previous accomplishments melted away.
Mister Fantastic
Mister Fantastic never stopped being Dr. Reed Richards, but his accomplishments as a scientist always took second place to the fact that after the fateful accident in space, he was a stretchy rubber-man. The guy had more PhD’s than most of us have pairs of pants, he invented a ship that could fly faster than the speed of light, and he did it all by the time he was able to legally drink his first beer. All that, and it gets eclipsed by elastic appendages.
Thunderstrike
Before Thunderstrike became a superhero, he was just Eric Masterson, a humble architect, going about life as architects do, designing and building, generally living a contented and wonderful life as architects tend to do. Then he had a near-death experience and met Thor. His life was understandably never the same after that, but we can’t help but mention again that the guy was a successful architect, something that was basically completely abandoned at the outset of his story.
Northstar
There are surprisingly few sportsmen in the superhero business, despite the amount of athleticism present. Jean-Paul Beaubier breaks from the pack in that his special place in life outside of supernatural abilities was as a professional skier. He was already pro-level before the onset of his abilities, and afterwards he became too good for other competitors to have a chance at beating him and quit the sport. Just up and quit professional skiing — on a whim.
Hiro Nakamura
Not all superheroes come from the universes created within comic books. Hiro Nakamura discovered his remarkable ability while laboring away in the doldrums of a modern cubicle farm at his father’s corporation, Yamagato Industries. Forsaking the job he hated, he left to pursue his prospective life as a superhero, only to return and claim the entire company after his father’s death. As the head executive for a massive corporation, Hiro does nothing. A man who can control time spends all his time elsewhere, while the job he leaves behind is something the vast majority of men could never hope to attain. We blame the excessively spotty scripting for this one.
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Sesame Street Says Breasts Are Yummy
Getting a little edgy for the kids aren’t we Sesame Street?
N begins Nummies … which are really nice to eat at night … before you nuzzle down in between the sheets.
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15 Celebrity Cringe-Worthy Rock Bottom Moments
Celebrity and scandal go hand in hand and sometimes a celebrity can overcome and move on. Either their fans are forgiving, like with Michael Jackson, or it just takes a while and people just stop caring, like with Hugh Grant. But sometimes a celebrity does something so ridiculous that, for whatever reason, their career never really rebounds and for the rest of their lives, they’re going to be known as “that” person. These are the moments when they hit the lowest point imaginable, and they’re saddled with the fallout forever.
Danny Bonaduce Punches a Transvestite
Everyone likes a good celebrity sex scandal, but usually they involve infidelity or, at the very least, a hooker. Danny Bonaduce almost fit into that second category.
One night, while admittedly totally wasted, Bonaduce tried to pick up a prostitute. What he got was Darius Barney, a 220lb man dressed like a woman. How does someone make a mistake like that? Wasted.
Bonaduce says that as soon as he saw Barney in the light, he wasn’t so wasted that he couldn’t tell what happened, and he told Barney to get out. Barney demanded $40 for his time and effort so when the two got out of the car, Bonaduce did what any self-respecting, wasted man would do when confronted with a transvestite that outweighed him by about 70lbs, he sucker punched him. The result was probation for Bonaduce and the loss of his job at KKFR radio. And probably a story that Darius Barney still tells to this day.
OJ Writes a Book
Arguably OJ became more famous, or at least infamous, after his media circus of a murder trial, but man, did he take the cake a couple of years later when he tried to write a book about it. You may have forgotten Simpson’s “If I Did It,” a book that was supposedly a fictional account of how he would have killed Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman. It’s possible someone, somewhere, has had a worse idea. It’s possible.
After the entire human race choked in disbelief, protests sprang up, the publisher who OK’d the book was fired and a judge put the kibosh on the whole thing and awarded any rights to Goldman’s family, to help pay off the many millions still owing them in the civil suit they won against Simpson. This one act cemented it for anyone who might have held hope that OJ was really innocent that, innocent or not, the man is a complete jackass.
Ashlee Simpson Jigs
Arguably being a member of the Simpson clan means you have a lot stacked against you already in terms of credibility. With a sister who can’t tell fish from chicken and a father who likes to point out his childrens’ racks, things have always been rough, despite the fame. Still, the family as a whole got to experience an all-time low when youngest star Ashlee was doing her thing on Saturday Night Live and the audio track she was lip synching to got messed up, playing the wrong song. What’s a girl to do? Dance a horrifyingly awkward jig on stage and wait for producers to cut to commercial.
David Hasselhoff Gets Fired
In the last decade or so, David Hasselhoff has been riding a wave of kitschy popularity. People like him in a kind of mocking way, for his music career, for his drunken Youtube videos, for remembrances of Baywatch Nights, the most preposterous show ever. He even parlayed that into a gig co-judging America’s Got Talent. For a while.
Those aforementioned drunken Youtube videos were a part of Hasselhoff’s problem as apparently the Hoff has a severe issue with alcoholism. One that leaves him belligerent and difficult to work with. Reports from the show indicate Hasselhoff was either always drunk or hung over and entirely unpleasant to be around, so producers finally had enough and gave him the axe, removing a man whose music career is sustained solely by people looking for a laugh from a television show that typically plays out like a poor man’s American Idol with ventriloquists and magicians.
Ricky Martin Supports Golden Showers
You may not remember, but for a time Ricky Martin was insanely popular. Why isn’t he so popular anymore? Maybe he moved back into the Spanish language market for a spell, or maybe because back in 2005 for reasons that will probably never be adequately explained, Martin told Blender magazine that he really digs golden showers. You know, peeing on someone for sexual gratification? Yeah, that.
The interview was short and mostly unremarkable, save that when they asked Martin about what kind of porn he watched last he strayed into pee talk. The result, surprising to no one but Martin himself, was a whole slew of disgusted people and criticism directed at the singer and even the charity he founded, causing Martin to attempt to defend himself and his work while forever being unable to shake the image from people’s minds that he’s a pee fan.
George Michael Loves Men in Public
There’s a hilarious scene in There’s Something About Mary when Ben Stiller’s character stops at a highway rest stop and gets caught in a police sting as hordes of gay men run from the scene. The joke is that highway rest stops are havens for gay men trolling for anonymous sex. If you take out Ben Stiller and put in George Michael, you’re no longer in a movie, but real life.
Michael, who managed to still be famous even after being in Wham!, has been arrested for drug possession before, but in 1998 he was nabbed by an undercover cop for engaging in a lewd act. Which is to say Michael was doing a bit of pocket pool minus the pockets.
Having finally been outed as gay, Michaels seemed to spiral into depravity faster than you can jitterbug, getting arrested again for sex in a public park and admitting in interviews that he’s pretty content to troll for anonymous sex whenever the mood strikes.
Boy George the Kidnapper
So Boy George has always been a bit weird, but that seemed to be his gimmick. He was Lady Gaga in the 1980s. Things got weirder in 2008, however, when George apparently decided that holding people hostage would be a good course of action.
According to George, the victim in question, a male escort, had been stealing files from his computer. So George handcuffed him to a wall and investigated in the style of all great, sexually confusing detectives. Whether or not he found evidence of file stealing chicanery is somewhat secondary to the false imprisonment charges and ensuing media circus that allowed the world a new glimpse at the bald, skull-tattooed felonious George we never knew existed.
Tom Cruise Loses his Mind
You may not remember this, but Tom Cruise was a respected superstar once. He was Top Gun, and that was awesome. He made Days of Thunder, which was Top Gun on the ground. It was less awesome, but it didn’t make people wince. But then, one day, Tom Cruise found religion. Sorta.
Tom’s public involvement with the Church of Scientology pretty much ruined the man in the eyes of the public. He went from being easily one of the most bankable stars in the world to the butt of jokes that continue years later and have left his career tarnished.
The problems really got rolling when Cruise went on Oprah to announce his love for Katie Holmes, a woman most people who don’t watch angsty teen dramas had never heard of. While shouting and jumping around like a lunatic, it suddenly became clear that Tom Cruise was an odd duck.
In a whirlwind of horrible public appearances around the same time, Cruise compared psychiatry to the Nazi party, got into a verbal fight with Matt Lauer, trash talked Brooke Shields for just short of no reason whatsoever, made an ass of himself after being squirted by water in a practical joke, made a string of less and less impressive movies, culminating in a leaked Scientology training video that makes him look like he’s a near total madman who thinks he can cure disease and save the world with the power of his mind.
Michael Richards Can’t be Heckled
During his time on Seinfeld, Michael Richards was a comedy icon. Kramer had become a part of pop culture in the way characters like Bart Simpson and Lucy had. They still sell that velvet Kramer painting in some stores.
Post-Seinfeld Richards seemed to disappear for a while and then apparently started doing stand-up comedy. Bad move. If there’s one thing you need to have when it comes to comedy, it’s thick skin. People love to trash talk, insult and heckle. So when two hecklers in the audience to one of his shows wouldn’t shut up, Michael’s should have responded with some fast-paced zingers that would have got the audience on his side and against the hecklers. Hel, he could have just called them douchebags. Instead, Michaels opted to start shouting racial slurs at the two black men. Bad choice, Cosmo.
Michaels later made a kind of awkward apology on the Late Show with David Letterman but by then the damage was already done. On the upside, Michaels actually parodied the incident in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm in a way that was so tasteless it’s actually really funny.
Bald Britney Flies into a Rage
For a while there, Britney Spears was the biggest thing in music. Then, as she became more popular and people started being given more access to her personal life, it became clear she was remarkably ridiculous as well. Because seriously, Kevin Federline? The guy wore undershirts 9 times out of 10 and appeared to never bathe.
That aside, after years of public scrutiny and a couple of failed marriages and the pain of having to live with being responsible for some of the most gibbering bubblegum pop ever recorded, Britney snapped like a twig. And she shaved her head bald.
While a bald Britney isn’t the craziest thing you’ll ever see, a bald Britney attacking people with an umbrella is pretty much priceless. And because the intended victims were paparazzi, you better believe that was caught on tape.
Straight out of THX 1138, Britney rained holy hell down upon a paparazzo’s car after trying to visit her ex only to find him not at home. The camera catches many delightful angles that make her look a bit like a slimmed out Alfred Hitchcock on a bender.
Tara Reid Frankenboob
Party girl Tara Reid is still pretty much only famous for the American Pie films. And a show in which all she did was get wasted. And how, in real life, all she did was get wasted.
While most bad girl celebrities were busy “forgetting” to wear panties and accidentally get themselves plastered on the internet, Reid opted instead to take a classier path and showed off some boob. So far so good, right?
The problem here was that Reid has recently had breast implants and the surgery was done by an orangutan with some kind of palsy, if the pictures are any indication. Standing on the red carpet at some manner of formal event put on by P Puffy Diddy Daddy, Reid’s dress slips and she’s completely unaware that one scarred, misshapen boob is screaming to be euthanized in front of the cameras.
Kanye West is Kanye West
Like Tom Cruise, Kanye West has a career full of incidents you could point out as being pretty much preposterous. Unlike Cruise, West has been able to get away with it for a long time. Every time he said some egomaniacal thing, or performed some outrageously douchey act at an awards show, people shrugged it off. Until that last time.
At the 2009 MTV Music Video Awards Kanye apparently thought his ability to obnoxiously push people out of the way and say whatever he felt was still in full swing. So when Taylor Swift won Best Female Video, West figured he’d take her microphone, just to let her and the world know that while she’s good and all, she shouldn’t have won. West had gone from being a douche on his own behalf to being a surrogate douche for others.
In the aftermath, everyone capable of speech rained trash down on West, even President Obama called him a jackass.
Pee Wee wanks in a theatre
Paul Reubens was one of the most successful children’s entertainers of the 1980’s, even if he had an offputting sort of menace to him all the time. He was colorful and eclectic and kids dug that sort of thing. In fact, adults dug him too simply because he was so damn bizarre on TV and in film.
Then, in 1991, while visiting relatives, Pee Wee decided to visit a porno theatre. This is where police found him, spanking little Pee Wee, and arrested him because even though it seems counterintuitive, you can’t masturbate in public, even if it is a porno theatre.
The arrest brutalized Reubens’ career in ways few scandals had done to any celebrity before. He was roasted in the media, his show was canned immediately, even his toys were pulled off of store shelves. Reubens retreated from the public eye, unable to escape stigma of what had happened, and hung up Pee Wee’s bowtie almost for good after a small number of public appearances around the same time of the arrest. It wasn’t until 2006 that Reubens would return to the character, a full 15 years later of being almost completely out of Hollywood.
Tiger Woods Drives into a Tree
When it comes to golf, Tiger Woods is, or at least was, the King. He was the game’s Babe Ruth, its Michael Jordan. He could do no wrong. But that was just on the fairway.
Off the fairway he had a bit of a reputation as being somewhat standoffish, but not many people were prepared for the explosion that happened in 2009 when word hit the street that Tiger Woods apparently has to have sex with everything that has a vagina that comes within 10 yards of him. And how did the story break? With Tiger driving right into a tree amidst rumors his wife was beating him with a golf club.
Though the Tiger scandal is an ongoing, long and multi-faceted thing, it was all set off by the mysterious circumstances around Tiger’s car accident. He ran into a hedge, a fire hydrant and a tree, then refused to talk to the police. Then released a statement saying it was private, which is much like saying “yes, the rumors are true, I hump many woman” and from there it all went downhill for Tiger as woman after woman came forward claiming to have had an affair with him.
Tiger lost endorsements left and right, he retired from golf, word leaked one of the women had nude photos of him and his wife is now going around without her wedding ring on any more. Things are not looking good for Tiger, however this CG reenactment from Taiwan does make them look intense.
Dustin Diamond does the Dirty Sanchez
Dustin Diamond played Screech on the kid’s show “Saved by the Bell” back in the 1990’s. He was the creepy weird, kid. In real life, he became a creepy, weird adult. How creepy and weird? He made a sex tape featuring himself, two women, and the Dirty Sanchez.
Inexplicably thought to be a PR stunt, the very idea of Screech giving someone a dirty sanchez is terrifying. For those who don’t know, the dirty sanchez is something you’re better off not knowing. But if you must know, even though there’s no non-horrible way to describe it, it involves using one’s penis as a pen to draw a mustache on another human. For this to work, one must engage in anal sex prior to the drawing to allow for there to be something on the penis with which to draw, if you follow us. Feel free to go weep or vomit.
The tape got huge media exposure, mostly because it’s one of the most awful things that has ever existed. It’s unclear if it actually helped his career in any way, since apparently he’d been suffering through a lot of debt and arguably couldn’t have had his career in worse shape, but it’s certainly going to be an awful monkey on his back for the rest of his days.
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15 Greatest Celebrity Arrest Rants and Mugshots
Celebrities are seen as role models to many children, and often adults place them on the same pedestal. Whether it be for fashion inspiration or just for entertainment, we look to celebs as personal friends — even though we will probably never meet them. Something we should all realize, it that they’re human too — and they get arrested like the rest of us. Though many celebs get away with a lot due to special treatment, some don’t; here are 15 of the greatest celebrity arrest rants and mugshots.
Jane Fonda
Academy Award-winning actress and fitness guru Jane Fonda was arrested in 1970 at an airport. Apparently, she had a large stash of pills in her baggage — which turned out to be vitamins. Resisting arrest, she kicked a police officer on the scene and was taken to a Cleveland jail. We love this mugshot because of her “f the man” attitude. The greatest part about this one was that she stuck to her guns.
James Brown
James Brown, Godfather of Soul, was arrested in January 2004. He was charged with domestic violence after allegedly pushing his wife, Tommie Rea Brown, to the floor during an argument at the couple’s South Carolina home. He looks like he was taken from his home before he could change out of that funky bath robe, then stuck in a wind tunnel for half an hour. This was by no means the only time he had been arrested, but the mugshot is certainly the most fun of the bunch.
Nick Nolte
The Prince of Tides star Nick Nolte was arrested in 2002 by the California Highway Patrol for driving under the influence. It was also found that he had traces of GHB — the date-rape drug — in his system. He later pleaded no contest to the charges of driving under the influence. We don’t know why GHB would be his drug of choice, but his mugshot is awesome.
David Bowie
Music legend David Bowie was arrested in March of 1976 on a felony pot possession charge. He was nabbed along with his friend Iggy Pop, along with a few others, and was placed in a Monroe County, NY jail for a few hours. The Thin White Duke was only 29 at the time, but his mugshot oozes utter badassery that we can’t ignore. Seriously, the guy looks better in jail than most of us can ever hope for.
Rip Torn
Actor Rip Torn was arrested in 2006 after being pulled over for drunk driving. His car collided with a tractor trailer and he refused to take a breathalyzer test at the scene. This mug shot was taken soon after, at a Westchester, New York police station. It’s dangerous to drink and drive, but it’s awesome to have a name like Rip Torn. Life balances out.
Mel Gibson
Film star Mel Gibson has, arguably, one of the greatest celebrity arrest rants in the history of celebrities. Period. If you missed it, in 2006, Gibson sped home from a Malibu bar while sloshed beyond all belief and sipping from an open tequila bottle. He resisted arrest by the highway patrol officer, dropped quite a few F-bombs and slurs, then launched into an anti-semite rant. The best part? He proceeded to call the female officer who booked him “sugar tits.” He got released on bail.
Robert Downey Jr.
The mugshot on the left of everyone’s favorite star Robert Downey Jr. was taken in 1999 — while he was already serving time on a drug conviction. The one on the right was taken a year later in 2000 after his arrest at the Merv Griffin Resort for drug possession. To say the least, he needed help. Although we love the face he’s making in the left shot — like he was proud of himself — we’re glad he got help and is now able to give us amazing movie experiences again.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
A Hollywood actress more well-known for her string of husbands than body of work, Zsa Zsa Gabor was pulled over in Beverly Hills back in 1989 for an expired license and registration. Impatient for the officer to check records, Gabor up and drove away. When pulled over again, she was asked to step out of the car, and slapped the officer in the face. She was swiftly arrested and charged for battery, disobeying a police officer, driving without license and registration, and driving with an open container of alcohol. She apparently likes her flasks of bourbon.
Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey was arrested in 1999 after a neighbor called the police complaining about loud music blasting from the actor’s house. He was arrested for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. See his smug grin? He’s probably thinking about how much fun he was having dancing around his house naked and playing the bongos when the cops stopped by.
Glen Campbell
Country singer Glen Campbell was arrested in 2003 on drunk driving and hit and run charges. The 67-year old plowed his BMW into another car in a Phoenix, AZ intersection and fled the scene. When the cops caught up to him at his house, it was apparent how smashed he was. After Campbell was booked, he kneed an officer in the thigh and was further charged with aggravated assault. It must be hard being a rhinestone cowboy.
Mickey Rourke
Mickey Rourke was arrested in 2007 while driving under the influence on a scooter. The star of such flicks as Sin City and 9 1/2 Weeks was booked at a Miami-Dade County Jail and was released on a $1,000 bond. Too bad he couldn’t pay us to ignore that douche-stache.
Pee-wee Herman
Pee-wee Herman, AKA Paul Rubens, has had quite a rocky career. He skyrocketed to popularity with his iconic character back in the 80’s, but after several arrests it’s taken him years to regain any traction. This mugshot was taken in 1991 when he was first arrested for jerking off in a porn theater. He got off (pun very much intended) with doing community service and paying a few fines, but he was arrested several times in connection with child pornography thereafter. You’re a loner, Pee-wee. A rebel.
Daniel Baldwin
American actor, producer and director Daniel Baldwin was arrested in 2006 for “borrowing” a friend’s SUV… without permission. And that was just what led to this mugshot. He looks pretty rough here, but we’re sure all of the cocaine didn’t help. He’d been arrested before for smashing his Thunderbird into several parked cars going 80 MPH, as well as other drug related charges.
Paris Hilton
Hollywood princess Paris Hilton was arrested in 2006 under suspicion of drunk driving. She was basically given a slap on the wrist, but she proceeded to violate her probation and was arrested again — even after she was informed that her license was suspended. She only served 23 days of her 45-day sentence, due to good behavior. We think it was really because of her awesome glamour mugshots.
Foxy Brown
Something about beauty treatments gets rapper Foxy Brown all fired up. She was arrested in 2007 after going nuts in a Florida beauty supply store. An employee caught her in the bathroom using store products, and she refused to leave. She threw hair glue and spat on the employee before 911 responded. After swinging at the cop, she was also charged for battery. Brown was previously arrested for attacking manicurists at a Manhattan salon. In taking a look at her mugshot, we’ve determined that since she can’t fit her hair in the frame, she should really quit hating on beauty products.
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15 Most Ridiculous Celebrity Photoshop Disasters
Celebrities are in the public eye 24/7, whether they like it or not, and that requires professional sylists, PR coaches, image-consultants, and touch-up artists, among other busy-bodies. All this help keep celebs looking good, but when a celeb shows up in print, that truly becomes their time to shine. With a team of Photoshopping professionals, a celebrity can go from drab to fab without even trying — that is, if someone doesn’t screw it up. We’ve all seen more than our fair share of overly airbrushed celebrities — most of the time without realizing it — and our perception of beauty is skewed because of it. Here are the 15 most ridiculous examples of celebrity Photoshop disasters we could find.
Nia Long
Nia Long, best known for her roles in Big Momma’s House and Soul Food, is posing here for the PETA ad campaign supposedly banishing fur from her life. It’s an admirable cause for sure, but it seems like she’s missing some fur of her own. Or even a remnant of a crotch, or even a belly button. We understand that full frontal nudity wasn’t the goal here, but the art direction at PETA could have surely done a better job at making her bottom half look less like Barbie. That’s all on top of the fact that she’s obviously not really in a subway car.
Beyonce
Poor Beyonce. She conquered the music industry as a solo act, which is hard enough as it is, much less coming from a huge group act like Destiny’s Child. That aside, her impact on the film industry is something we have yet to see, and apparently the same goes for her real skin color. We’ve seen everything in print ads from a light beige to a nice mocha, but with so many possibilities, how can we really know what’s real? This is just a glaring side-by-side example of the same shot of her on two different magazine covers.
Brad Pitt
We understand why women, and even some men, tend to drool more than a little over Brad Pitt — whether it be for his movies or pectorals. Many liken his physique to a Greek god, but in this ad for Edwin Jeans, it isn’t the case. Everything below his waist is shrunken down to schoolboy proportions — which we’re sure is a disappointment to Angelina.
Nia Vardalos
Nia Vardalos shot onto the celeb B-list after her starring role in My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Here is the Italian DVD cover for her follow-up flop My Life in Ruins, in which it looks like she has Elephantiasis. Her US DVD cover release looks normal, but this version, for some reason, renders her legs the size of logs. Which isn’t flattering on anyone, trust us.
Penelope Cruz
Gorgeous international starlet Penelope Cruz is looking a bit off in this picture taken from the L’Oreal website. It looks like she’s the spawn of a human and a giraffe. Or maybe she got a hold of those tribal neck rings, attempting to stretch her neck beyond the natural limits. The creepy hand coming from nowhere to hold her head up certainly doesn’t help matters. Either way, L’Oreal noticed and has since taken the picture down, and replaced it with a shot of an average model. All is well.
Heidi Klum
Heidi Klum looks amazing, despite giving birth to four children. We’re just going to chalk it up to to hard workouts, sound nutrition and the blessing of good genes. The March 2009 cover for GQ in Germany showed off her nude figure, but it just didn’t look like we’re used to. It seems that the art direction at GQ Germany opted to completely shave her butt off, along with making her look so smooth that it borders doughy. Just give us our old Heidi back!
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Academy Award-winning actress Catherine Zeta-Jones has captured audiences around the globe, and dazzled us in flicks like Chicago. She was named the face of the Di Modolo jewelery brand back in 2007, with ads appearing in Vogue, InStyle, W, and Town and Country. She’s a beauty, but we don’t understand why the jewelry she started fronting isn’t even on her. It looks like the pieces were just sloppily pasted onto her in post production.
Britney Spears
Britney Spears has had her ups and downs over the years, and we’ve followed her wherever she goes — be it bald and crazy or a bubblegum teeny bopper. In late September 2008, Spears released her sixth studio album, Circus, with positive feedback. It seemed like she was on the right track, but when the art for her single Womanizer was released, it looked a bit ridiculous. Here you can see her legs airbrushed beyond all rational belief, to the point that it looks like she’s sporting twigs instead.
Jessica Alba
We all know what starlet Jessica Alba’s body looks like. We’ve been given plenty of fuel to fire our imaginations, especially after Sin City. But after we saw this ad campaign for Campari, we knew something was very, very wrong. It seems like the art direction at Campari decided Alba’s body wasn’t good enough, and replaced it with some other model’s body. We noticed when we thought she looked like a bobble head doll. Not that the mystery model’s body isn’t hot, it’s just that we want Alba’s back.
Demi Lovato
Spawn of Disney, Demi Lovato, is best known for her music and role in Camp Rock. She usually has a cute little dimple in her chin, but in this promotional poster for Camp Rock, it’s been abducted by evil Photoshop pirates. In it’s place is one of the worst airbrush jobs we’ve ever seen. We couldn’t believe it, so we checked every version of the original we could find — and this is it. We don’t know why it’s like this, but art direction at Disney should stop using MS Paint.
Michael Phelps
Olympian Michael Phelps has been in the news quite a bit recently, after his run-in with drugs and partying. We still love him, but we don’t know what happened to this clip from TV Guide’s Olympic Stars to Watch gallery. It seems like the dreaded copy-paste monster attacked Phelp’s head, stole it, then placed it onto the body of a skin-covered steamboat. Or maybe it’s a flesh colored raft? Either way, this is terrible — but hilarious. We can’t stop laughing.
Christina Aguilera
Songbird Christina Aguilera looks innocent and cleaned up, which is a far cry from her Dirty phase. We like it, but there must be something wrong with her finger. Her dog is adorable, but look closer — her ring finger is twisted beyond belief. It seems that someone was trying to touch up around the finger and dog fur, but something went terribly, terribly wrong. It looks painful.
Adam Lambert
Singer Adam Lambert, who was the American Idol eighth-season runner-up, knows how to push the envelope. In November of this year, Lambert performed For Your Entertainment at the American Music Awards and shocked audiences with kissing, grabbing, and grinding on his male back-up dancers. We all know that this MySpace glamour-shot style album cover is appropriate for him, but it seems like someone cut off his shoulder. And that’s without even going into how ridiculous over-processed his face is.
Mandy Moore
Mandy Moore is America’s girl-next-door actress and musician. Though her career has faded a bit since the start, she still pops up every once in a while. Here, Yahoo! Music featured her and included several shots of the musician. All was well… except for that chunk of head missing. It seemed like one of those unbelievable mistakes, but in checking the original — and sure enough, it’s no joke. We don’t know what was so terrifying that Yahoo! felt the need to scalp Mandy Moore, but it must have been pretty bad to leave her in such a state.
Brittany Murphy
The late Brittany Murphy dazzled us with her natural beauty and talent, and her sudden death is a loss to the entire entertainment community. What we can’t understand is why anyone would want to airbrush all of her natural beauty into oblivion. Real people DO have pores, lower eyelids, and smile wrinkles. Brittany Murphy was flat out gorgeous because of her distinct looks. We hope for the day that art directors will realize that we want to see real beauty, and we all know how much it would help our younger generation. RIP Brittany.
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15 Celeb Couples That Still Baffle Us
It’s said that love is blind, and we’d have to agree — especially after checking out these utterly bizarre mismatched celebrity couples. Here are 15 celeb odd couples that still baffle us; some of them are from different worlds, and some of them take the concept of beauty and the beast to the next level.
Nicole Richie and Joel Madden
Nicole Richie and Joel Madden have recently welcomed their new baby boy, and also have a 23-month old baby girl together. They’re not even married and supposedly have no plans to tie the knot, either. It looks weird enough that the Good Charlotte front man and the girly socialite do the same things together, let alone have children.
Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore
Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore are both very beautiful people, don’t get us wrong. What’s a bit odd about it is the 15 year age gap between the two. Think about it: her kids grew up having a crush on him, since, well, he’s practically their age.
Christina Aguilera and Jordan Bratman
Who is Jordan Bratman and why did Cristina Aguilera go for him? Apparently he’s a music marketing exec — which makes a little more sense given Christina’s background. They’ve been married for four years and have a child together. He may be big in her world, but to us he just looks like some guy who hangs out at the corner store.
Sandra Bullock and Jesse James
Sandra Bullock is a gorgeous woman and Jesse James is, well, a bit rough around the edges — to say the least. He’s the star of reality TV series Monster Garage where he plays grease monkey all day. This may be one of those Hollywood Beauty and the Beast tales with some longevity in it, as the couple has been married since 2005.
Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise
Another attractive couple, stars Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise still make this list. Why? For one, Katie towers over Tom by two inches or so, without heels. He usually takes advantage of stairs, if they’re around, for photo ops. We shouldn’t have to mention the Scientologist husband tarnishing good-girl Katie’s image thing, but we will anyway. Odds are overwhelmingly against this fiasco going on for much longer; we’re all very curious as to when the whole experiment comes to an end.
Deborra-Lee Furness and Hugh Jackman
Many women would love to have a piece, or two, of Hollywood stud Hugh Jackman. Sorry to inform though, he’s been married to Deborra-Lee Furness since 1996. She oddly got more attention than her husband when he was named Sexiest Man Alive in 2008, since there’s supposedly a great woman behind every great man. This one happens to be — and look — way older.
Calista Flockhart and Harrison Ford
Calista Flockhart and Harrison Ford have been together for seven and a half years, but Harrison just recently popped the question earlier this year around Valentine’s Day. Harrison Ford is a pretty awesome guy, but he’s 22 years Calista’s senior. And it shows too — the picture above looks like it was taken at Bring Your Daughter to Work Day.
Clive Owen and Sarah-Jane Fenton
Clive Owen is another one of those actors that everyone assumes is single, like Hugh Jackman. Maybe Sarah-Jane Fenton looked better when she was younger, but she looks like a mom now, his mom. And Clive, well he just looks as good as ever. The couple has been together since 1995 and have two children together.
Eric Mabius and Ivy Sherman
Yet another Beauty and the Beast Hollywood story, but in reverse. Eric Mabius, Ugly Betty star, and interior designer Ivy Sherman have only been married since 2006, and now have a child together. Unlike Hugh and Clive, this marriage is fairly new. We’re thinking she looked just about the same as she does now. Maybe he married her because she was preggers.
Heidi Klum and Seal
Heidi Klum is gorgeous. She could practically get any man in the world. It was a huge surprise when the two got together, especially because she was pregnant with her ex-boyfriend’s child at the time, which is a lot to take on. They’ve been happily together since 2005 and have had three children, while Seal legally adopted her other child.
Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher
All we can think of when we see Sacha Baron Cohen is Borat — Isla Fisher is simply too adorable for this guy. They’ve been together since 2002 and got engaged in 2004. Their wedding has since been postponed many times for reasons including Isla’s film work, we would cross our fingers that they break it off, but they’ve recently welcomed a baby boy into their lives.
Eva Longoria and Tony Parker
Eva Longoria is another star who could have had her pick of men, even the married ones, but went for Tony Parker. The couple has had their share of drama, but finally tied the knot in 2007. Maybe he has a great personality, but we think he’s too tall and just too thuggish looking for dainty Eva.
Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn
We don’t even know where to start with this one. Soon-Yi Previn was the adopted daughter of Woody Allen’s “domestic partner” — and he was her father figure. She denies that it’s weird, and swears that he never was her father figure, but we can’t shake that awkward feeling. That aside, there is a 34 year difference between them. They have been together though since 1997, though, so it seems to be going strong.
Salma Hayek and Francois-Henri Pinault
Salma Hayek and Francois-Henri Pinault met back in 2006, but just tied the knot earlier this year. They recently welcomed a baby girl into their lives and finally seem happy together, despite some rocky spots. Salma is another naturally gorgeous star that could have nabbed anyone — and the two just don’t fit. Love must conquer all in this Beauty and the Beast tale.
Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick
We don’t really think that Sarah Jessica Parker is the Beauty in this story. Matthew Broderick isn’t on Hugh Jackman’s level, but we like him a lot more than we like her. He’s funny, talented and handsome while she’s just all hair. Maybe one day he’ll come to his senses, but they’ve been married since 1997 and have three children together, so we’re not holding our breath.
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15 Hottest Women of Racing
Professional motorsports have been, and still are, heavily male-dominated. There have been few females to break through this barrier, and even fewer have actually experienced any level of success. We’re hoping to see more women enter the field, hauling ass in drag racers, stock cars and motorcycles — we’re getting tired watching the same guys year after year. Here are 15 of the hottest women in the world of racing — get ready to eat their dust.
Danica Patrick
Gorgeous Danica Patrick has been racing since the early age of 10. She’s since moved on from Go Karts and now competes in the IndyCar series, and has taken away one win in Japan at the 2008 Indy 300. Not only does she fire up the track, but has modeled for the likes of FHM, Sports Illustrated, and is the current face of GoDaddy.com.
Ashley Force
Daughter of 14-time NHRA Funny Car national champion John Force, Ashley was the first female to claim a professional NHRA Funny Car win — and it was against her own dad. In 2007 she was named NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series’ Rookie of the Year, and stomped out Danica Patrick the same year on the AOL Sports Poll as Hottest Athlete.
Brittany and Courtney Force
Brittany and Courtney Force are Ashley’s little sisters, and good looks definitely seem to run in the family. Courtney, the youngest at 21, picked up her first National event in the Top Alcohol Dragster category at the 22nd annual NHRA Northwest Nationals. She’s competed against her sister Brittany three times, and has been victorious every time. Brittany, identified by Force as his “problem child,” is a headstrong California blonde with a serious need for speed.
Melanie Troxel
Competing in the NHRA’s Top Fuel and Funny Car divisions, Melanie Troxel is one of drag racing’s fastest female drivers. She ran her first race at age 16 — the soonest she was able to get her racing license — in a car with an engine she rebuilt herself. She boasts five wins in her career, and is the first female to score wins in both the Top Fuel and Funny Car categories.
Hillary Will
As of 2008, Hillary Will is the World’s Fastest Woman, posting a 335 MPH lap down the quarter-mile race track. She’s only been racing professionally as an NHRA Top Fuel driver for three years, but her love of all things fast began at the ripe age of 17. Her first competitive car was a 1973 Dodge Challenger that topped out at 99 MPH, and she’s since been named one of the top ten female racers in the world by Sports Illustrated.
Kate and Diana Harker
Daughters of renowned International Top Alcohol Funny Car driver, Steve Harker, Kate and Diana are two hot Aussie twins. Their love of racing began at age 13 when they got ahold of a 110cc Briggs and Straton powered 10-second Junior Dragster. Just 10 years later, the two packed their bags and moved to America to join the NHRA Top Fuel category. In 2008, Diana made history at the Lucas Oil Super Nationals when she became the first Australian female to win an NHRA National event.
Deborah Renshaw
Shifting gears from drag racing, we found a rare female competitor in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. Growing up around her two brothers, Deborah Renshaw took to racing like a duck to water. She first participated in NASCAR when she began racing in the NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series in 2001 and 2002, finishing in the top 10 thirteen times in the two seasons. In 2004 she ran in 14 of the last 15 races of the 2004 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season, and despite finishing no higher than 15th, she became the first woman to ever lead a race in the series when she led one lap in the Darlington 200.
Katherine Legge
Sultry Katherine Legge is a driver hailing from Britain, and she’s currently racing in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters. She was the first woman to test an A1 Grand Prix car in 2005, and became the first woman since 2002 to test a Formula 1 car. Year 2005 was Legge’s best year, in which she finished the season third in the Toyota Atlantic Championship and received the Toyota Atlantic BBS Rising Star 2005 Award.
Erica Enders
Beginning her drag racing career at just 8 years old, Erica Enders became the most successful female Pro Stock driver in NHRA history. She has racked up 37 career Jr. Dragster wins in eight years of competition, and was named Jr. Dragster of the Year in 1995. In 2006 she finished runner-up in the Gatornationals in Gainesville, Florida. To top it off, the Disney Channel made her life story into an original TV movie called, Right On Track.
Angelle Sampey
Angelle began her racing career in 1996 and has the most wins for any female in both NHRA competition and professional motor sports as a whole — which is saying a lot. She races American Pro Stock Motorcycles, which are basically the most badass crotch rockets you’ll ever lay eyes on. She’s one of only two women to ever win more than one championship in her division — she won three.
Milka Duno
Venezuelan beauty, Milka Duno is the first woman from her native country to start a career in Motorsports at an international level. Not only is she one of the top female sportscar racers in history, but she is also a qualified Naval Engineer with four master’s degrees — in Organizational Development, Naval Architecture, Fishing and Aquaculture, and Maritime Business –- earning the last three degrees simultaneously. Beauty and brains. In 2007 she set, and still holds, the record of highest finish for a female driver in the 24 Hours of Daytona.
Liz Halliday
Liz Halliday is a rare breed of female athlete. She dedicates her life to not just one, but two international sporting careers — the first being racecar driver and the second as an equestrian. Her ambitions are mighty: to claim a place on the US Olympic equestrian team and to win the famous 24 LeMans race. She seems very focused and driven, which is an intimidating combination to say the least — factoring in her beauty as well, and she’s downright scary. In just two seasons, she’s already the most successful female driver ever in the history of the American Le Mans Series. We look forward to seeing what she’ll accomplish in the coming years.
Cyndie Allemann
Hailing from Switzerland, Cyndie Allemann started her racing career in karting at the age of 7, and eventually moved to cars in 2004. That same year, she finished sixth in the Formule Renault 2.0 Suisse. Only two years later, she moved up to the Formel 3 Cup and placed ninth.
Erin Crocker
Erin Crocker’s love of racing began when she raced quarter midgets at the age of 7. In 2004, after racing professionally for two years, she won the opportunity to drive for Ford Motor Company’s driver development program. She became the first woman to win a World of Outlaws race. After a couple years struggling in the Busch Series and Craftsman Truck Series, she returned to racing sprint cars under her own banner.
Valerie Limoges
Beating the boys at extreme sports since a young age, Valerie Limoges first experienced a race track at age 13, and hasn’t turned back since. Once her great potential was discovered, she went on to make history by being the first girl to clinch the Quebec 125cc Shifter Cup Championship in 2001. Now 22, she is competing in the Formula Renault 2000 Series in North America.
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15 Greatest Proponents of Marijuana Legalization
Marijuana is called many names, across different cultures, largely due to the fact that it’s been around for over five thousand years. An estimated 162 million people in the world use cannabis every year, so it shouldn’t be surprising that so many big names touch the green stuff too. Some celebrities are more forthcoming with their love of weed than others — ahem, Willie Nelson — but you might be surprised at a few that fight for the drug’s legalization. Here are 15 of the greatest proponents of marijuana legalization.
Bill Maher
Social critic, comedian and television host Bill Maher gets passionate about what he supports. Along with gay marriage and PETA, he supports the legalization of marijuana quite publicly — although that’s just his style. He’s even on the advisory board for NORML, and on the 2009 debut of his HBO show Real Time he proposed just how to solve the economic crisis: by legalizing marijuana.
Adam Carolla
Radio shock jock and television personality Adam Carolla is not a pot smoker anymore, so he says, but that doesn’t stop him from supporting the cause — he’s even joined the MPP’s advisory board. He’s said that pot will eventually win the fight: “It has to… We don’t have a bigger fish to fry than pot? It’s going to happen. It’s just going to happen. It will come to pass,” stated Carolla.
Peter Coyote
Peter Coyote, American Renaissance man, has dabbled in acting, directing, and authoring books as well as screenplays. Born to a Jewish family, he has since converted to Zen Buddhism — so it’s understandable that he has a wide cultural experience and mindset. He supports marijuana and believes that “jailing people for the mild alteration of their consciousness will appear to future generations as cruel and draconian as the tortures of the Inquisition appear to us today. May the reputations of today’s jailers suffer the same fate as Torquemada’s reputation today.” Strong words.
Jack Black
Funny man Jack Black has entertained us with the likes of both film and music. In a recent interview, he spoke of his own drug use — trying acid and cocaine as early as the ninth grade. When it comes to pot — he still smokes — but it’s now “an occasional celebratory jay… not a wake-and-bake scenario anymore at all.” Either way, he smokes it, supports it, and is on the MPP advisory board.
Jack Nicholson
Actor, film director, and producer Jack Nicholson is so good at what he does, that he’s been nominated for 12 Academy Awards, and he’s even won two of them. He’s a big voice in Hollywood, so when he says something — people listen. “My point of view, while extremely cogent, is unpopular… That the repressive nature of the legalities vis-a-vis drugs are destroying the legal system and corrupting the police system.” Cogent may be an understatement, the man can speak, but what the movement lacks in numbers, guys like Nicholson make up for in words.
Jennifer Aniston
While some may be surprised at the fact that American sweetheart and actress Jennifer Aniston smokes bud, she’s admitted her love for it on several occasions. While she was with actor Brad Pitt, they apparently smoked all the time. Now she will “Enjoy it once in a while — There is nothing wrong with that.” She’s been caught by the paparazzi before, smoking in private — we’re sure she’d enjoy the legalization.
Jesse Ventura
Retired professional wrestler turned tv show host Jesse Ventura has dabbled in so many different things in his 58 years, no wonder he looks like a wreck now. He’s known to express his support for medical marijuana, but is even more adamant about his support for the complete legalization of the drug. His mother lived through Prohibition, so he took some pointers from her and believes that:
“The war on drugs is a failure for the same reasons Prohibition was a failure… Just imagine if we could find some way for addicts to get their drugs cheaply, safely, and legally. The bottom would drop out of the illegal drug market. We’d see a huge drop in organized and violent crime.”
Johnny Depp
Award-winning actor Johnny Depp has quite an interesting take on drugs, especially marijuana. He was known to take quite a few drugs in his day — so he speaks from experience. In fact, he’s stated that he wants his kids to get drugs from him if they’re going to try them, instead of some other dealer. He’s been criticized for the statements, but he holds strong and maintains his support for legalization.
Joycelyn Elders, M.D.
Dr. Joycelyn Elders, 15th Surgeon General of the United States, went on to become a professor of pediatrics after she was fired by former President Clinton for her radical views. And by “radical” views, we mean the support of condom distribution in schools, abortion rights and suggesting the legalization of drugs to reduce the crime rate. She’s on the advisory board for the MPP and supports them “because it is a professional organization attempting to change our destructive marijuana laws.”
Kirsten Dunst
Actress Kirsten Dunst, who gained international fame with her role in Spiderman as Mary Jane Watson, is known for her views on weed. Not only does she like the drug, but she believes that “America’s view on weed is ridiculous” and that it would make the world “a better place” should weed be legalized.
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg, current Mayor of New York City, has smoked weed before — and “enjoyed it.” Back in April 2002 he was featured in an ad that some campaigners had started circulating in protest to Bloomberg arresting pot-smokers. He wasn’t thrilled that they were using his name and words, but it still stands that he’s fond of the drug. We think he’s in denial for political reasons.
Morgan Freeman
Another award-winning actor in support of legalization, Morgan Freeman still smokes to this day at the ripe age of 72. In an interview with the UK newspaper The Guardian, the legendary actor told reporters he had given up his use of hard drugs, but that he would never quit his relationship with Mary Jane. In fact, he referred to marijuana as “God’s own weed.”
Richard Branson
Sir Richard Branson, British industrialist and chairman of Virgin Group, has a net worth of over 2.5 Billion dollars to go with his douchey attitude — but in all fairness, he’s a good douche. He’s one of the world’s richest people, but he spends his money in aggressive, forward-thinking ways. Just look at Virgin Galactic. Staying true to his out-of-the-box thinking, Branson supports the legalization of marijuana — and said he would even sell it in Virgin stores if it were openly available.
Stephen King
Stephen King, writer of contemporary horror and suspense, is all for legalization. Instead of avoiding the topic, as many celebrities and politicians do, he embraces it. He thinks that “marijuana should not only be legal [but that] it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There’s some pretty good homegrown dope.” If weed were legalized, he also believes that it would be even better, due to the use of commercial fertilizers and greenhouses.
Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt, actor and film producer, calls himself an artist when it comes to rolling a joint. Apparently he has stopped smoking recently because it turns him “into a doughnut,” but he’s been known to publicly support marijuana — he smoked on several movie sets, including Ocean’s Twelve and Thelma and Louise. He wants pot legalized as much as he wants gay marriage legalized, and he won’t stop supporting either until changes are made.
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15 Hottest Magazine Covergirls of the Decade
This past decade can truly be dubbed the naughties. From fashion pages to TV Guides and, of course, men’s magazines — gorgeous women don the covers to draw us in. Many covergirls have done these years justice by gracing our publications with taut bodies and luscious locks. Here are 15 of the greatest magazine covergirls of the decade so far. Who will we see at magazine stands this final year? Whoever it may be, they’ll have to keep up the pace set by these lovely ladies.
Scarlett Johansson
Actress Scarlett Johansson has graced the silver screen since her 1994 debut in the film North. She recently expanded her horizons by releasing an album in September 2009 and will be featured on Broadway. The beauty has been seen on the covers of everything from Elle to Vanity Fair. The cover above is from French Vogue, April 2009.
Angelina Jolie
Sexpot Angelina Jolie was practically born into the business — she began modeling at the age of 14, and acting at 16. She shot into superstardom after her roles in Girl, Interrupted and Tomb Raider. Here she is on the cover of Esquire, July 2007, but she has been on the cover of so many magazines — close to 175– it’d make your head hurt if she wasn’t so good to look at.
Charlize Theron
South African bombshell Charlize Theron is the first African to win an Academy Award in a major acting category, receiving it for her role in Monster. She gained status in the late 1990s with roles in The Devil’s Advocate and The Cider House Rules. She’s since graced many covers, like the sultry GQ July 2008 issue above.
Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale, British actress, is best known from her roles in Underworld, Van Helsing, and Pearl Harbor. Her first cover was in 1998, for the UK mag Deluxe, and she has since stepped up to the big leagues. She caught the cover of the November 2009 issue of Esquire, after being named the “Sexiest Woman Alive.”
Jessica Alba
Sexy Jessica Alba has been acting since the age of 13, when she first started appearing on television. She’s blossomed into quite a beauty to say the least. Alba is frequently on Maxim’s “Hot 100″ list and was named “Sexiest Woman in the World” by FHM in 2007. The cover of GQ’s April 2005 issue really got everyone’s motor going.
Britney Spears
Singer, dancer, songwriter Britney Spears revived teen pop in the 1990s with her debut … Baby One More Time. She has since been on a veritable roller coaster ride of divorce, baby momma drama and rehab, but she’s on the rebound — slowly but surely. No matter her personal history, she’s one of the most famous covergirls of the decade, gracing around 200 magazine covers around the world since 1999 — including the sweetly sexy March 2008 Blender cover above.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Jennifer Love Hewitt gained popularity in American culture in the FOX series Party of Five, and then later, in I Know What You Did Last Summer. She’s also done a bit of work in voice acting, but we just love to look at her. Hewitt has been a covergirl every year since 1997, in a variety of magazines — one of her recent covers being the September 2009 issue of German FHM.
Nicole Kidman
Fiery beauty Nicole Kidman is an American-born Australian actress known for her roles in Dead Calm and critically acclaimed The Hours. She first appeared as a covergirl in 1989 and has done many, many covers since then. Kidman shines most recently on the December 2009 GQ cover — looking far younger than her 42 years.
Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera burst onto the scene in 1990 on the television series Star Search, and has since turned American pop music upside down. Her look has changed over the years, going from dirty girl dreadlocks to classic glam blonde bombshell. She’s posed on many a Rolling Stone cover, scantily clad — but this August 2006 issue is our favorite.
Eva Longoria
Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria captured the attention of millions of women — and men — when the ABC series took off. She was named one of FHM’s “Sexiest Women in 2008″ and has appeared on many covers since 2004. Though she’s not on as many covers as some of her compatriots on this list, she’s made an impression on us all.
Halle Berry
Gracing the covers of magazines and the silver screen, actress Halle Berry has kept us drooling since her beauty queen days. Her role in Monster’s Ball earned her an Academy Award and everyone else a pair of uncomfortable pants. Her first cover was in 1993, and her 2007 Esquire cover has the same effect today that it did then.
Jennifer Lopez
Bootylicious beauty Jennifer Lopez has kept us entertained as both a singer and actress. Though she’s most well-known now for her careers in music and movies, she actually started out as a dancer on In Living Color. Her role as covergirl has been consistent since 1998, and she dazzled on this October 2008 Elle issue.
Jessica Biel
Brunette beauty Jessica Biel played the tomboy for a chunk of her career, but worked her way into America’s heart while doing it — with her work on 7th Heaven. Once she blossomed, it was quickly noted that she was, well, hot. We’ve not gone back since and we’re thankful she’s been on as many covers as she has, looking especially stunning on the June 2009 issue of Allure.
Lindsay Lohan
Like her list counterpart Briney Spears, Lindsay Lohan has had her career — and personal — ups and downs. Lohan started off as a cute little redhead in flicks like the revamped Parent Trap, but has grown up to be quite the hottie. Putting her flops aside, we still love to look at her and her amazing covers, like the September 2009 issue of Elle.
Megan Fox
Megan Fox has been compared to the likes of Angelina Jolie — in terms of looks at least. Her career as a mainstream actress is relatively new, and she’s faced a box office flop already with Jennifer’s Body. The Transformers franchise really kick-started her fame — and our attentions — and she has since fueled our fantasies with amazing shoots. A less mainstream cover, the May 2009 issue of Empire is something you can add to your collection.
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15 Sexiest Female Musicians (That Don’t Suck)
These days, we’re inundated with overly-airbrushed female musicians supported only by their underwires and overproduction. While many lesser-known artists are slowly being recognized by larger audiences, we’d still like to see many more female musicians in the spotlight who have raw talent — with whatever instrument it may be. Here are 15 incredibly sexy female musicians — that don’t suck.
Jenny Lewis
Jenny Lewis is the primary vocalist of the indie rock band Rilo Kiley, and is one hot ginger. She’s since released two solo albums, and dabbles in indie folk, rock and alternative country. Her vocals ooze raw emotion, and her songwriting is tops, too. It doesn’t hurt that she wears cute little numbers up on stage, either.
Sara Bareilles
Singer-songwriter and noted pianist Sara Bareilles gained mainstream popularity in 2007 with her hit single, Love Song, and we haven’t been able to keep our eyes, or ears, off of her since. This sultry beauty dabbles in pop, pop rock, and soul. A nice plus that you’ll see a lot with the girls on this list — her voice is amazingly versatile and flawless live.
Amy Lee
Amy Lee not only catches the public eye for fronting the rock band Evanescence, but for her stunning looks as well. She often sports corsets and fishnets on stage, but she’s the classiest broad you’ll ever see wearing them. She’s a classically trained pianist, and can also play the harp, organ and guitar. Besides all that, her vocal range is unbelievable — without the help of Autotune.
Sarah Brightman
The word opera doesn’t conjure an alluring image to many in this day and age, but Sarah Brightman definitely changes that for all who experience her music. A British crossover soprano, Brightman is known best for her role as Christine Daae in the original The Phantom of the Opera, a part that was written for her voice. She has a staggering 160 Gold and Platinum awards in 34 countries and a three-octave voice of an angel — with looks to match.
Neko Case
Neko Case, singer-songwriter extraordinaire, is best known for her solo work and contributing work with Canadian indie rock group The New Pornographers. With looks to kill and a voice to match, she’s nabbed a Grammy nomination and remains a champion among women in rock music with a style distinctly her own.
Emilie Simon
Emilie Simon is a beautiful singer-songwriter from France. She brings electronic and experimental influences to the table — along with a light, whispy voice and sexy accompanying accent. Though her musical journey only started in 2003, she has since moved to New York City to take on the rest of the world and shows no sign of stopping any time soon.
KT Tunstall
KT Tunstall, a singer-songwriter and guitarist from Scotland, shot into the mainstream after her stellar performance on the British music television show Later… with Jools Holland. She’s since picked up a Grammy nomination and BRIT Award — along with an engagement ring. We know she’s spoken for, but we can still look.
Hayley Williams
An American singer and songwriter, Hayley Williams fronts the rock band Paramore — best known for singles Misery Business and Decode. The band truly shot into stardom when Decode was featured in Twilight, but Williams truly has a voice that carries it’s own. Hottness doesn’t hurt in the business either — she won Sexiest Female at the Shockwaves NME Awards 2009.
Cat Power
Chan Marshall, AKA Cat Power, is a singer-songwriter known for her amazing, breathy voice, minimalist style, and home-grown beauty. In 2007 she became the first female solo act to win the Shortlist Music Prize when her album, The Greatest, was voted album of the year.
Rachael Yamagata
Japanese-American beauty Rachael Yamagata is a singer-songwriter that has seen great success in her 32 years. Her music is considered blues rock and alternative — and it’s has been featured in shows like Nip/Tuck, Grey’s Anatomy, and How I Met Your Mother. Her looks are classic, and she has a twin, but to our disappointment we found out it’s a guy.
Feist
Leslie Feist, who performs under the name Feist, is a Canadian singer-songwriter known for her solo work, but is also a member of the indie rock group Broken Social Scene. She dabbles in anti-folk and baroque pop — and gained a reputation for putting out some catchy beats. We’d like this Grammy-nominated musician to get feisty with us.
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift was thrust into the spotlight earlier this year when Kanye West interrupted her at the VMAs while she was accepting her award for Best Female Video. Her voice is solid and her songs are highly autobiographical — that night she became the first country singer to ever win a VMA, and solidified her place in our hearts — and pants.
Emily Haines
Emily Haines is best known for her role as vocalist for indie rock band Metric, but has maintained a strong solo career as Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton. Compared to Metric, her solo work is more mellow and piano-based — which suits her haunting voice perfectly. Born in New Delhi, India and raised in Canada, this musician is worldly, talented, and hot.
Angel Deradoorian
Twenty-two year-old multi-instrumentalist Angel Deradoorian is best known as bass player/vocals for Brooklyn-based experimental rock band Dirty Projectors. This Armenian stunner released her promising solo debut this past May, and proved her musical proficiency — whether it be with vocals, on bass flute or guitar.
Ingrid Michaelson
Cute-as-a-button Ingrid Michaelson is an American singer-songwriter best known for her single The Way I Am, which was featured in Grey’s Anatomy, Scrubs, and the Fall 2007 Old Navy commercial campaign — all of which gave her huge exposure. She picked up piano at age four and hasn’t stopped performing since. We’d like to see her do another duet with Sara Bareilles, actually.
