![Picture: Does Landing The Cover Of People's 'Most Beautiful' Issue Come With A Curse? [Beautiful And Damned]](http://imagecache03.pixsy.com/04302008/82/8269077a-5314-4433-b3c4-576bb701f656.jpg)
Does Landing The Cover Of People's 'Most Beautiful' Issue Come With A Curse? [Beautiful And Damned]Today, People has revealed that Kate Hudson will appear as the cover girl for their 2008 Most Beautiful People issue, and we'd certainly like to send out a hearty congrats to the recently divorced single mom who's currently nursing Owen Wilson back to health. But after taking a look back at the list of stars who've previously nabbed the annual issue's cover spot, we fear there may be a curse accompanying the glossy honor. Sure, Leonardo DiCaprio (1998) and Julia Roberts (2000, 2005) haven't slipped up since having their smiley visage top the list, but a sizeable chunk of the winning alumni eerily saw their public and private lives undergo a downward spiral following their appearance on the issue's cover. We took a closer look at the possible curse-laden honor after the jump: Meg Ryan appeared on the special issue's third cover, following Jodie Foster and Cindy Crawford, in 1994. Happily married to Dennis Quaid and still enjoying that whole America's Sweetheart phase, Ryan was a natural choice. But as we all know, five years later Ryan entered an affair with Proof Of Life co-star Russell Crowe, which led to divorce, trout pout and making dirty movies. Oops. As for Mel Gibson, People's 1996 cover star, beauty gradually descended into bigotry and all kinds of sugar tit-laden anti-Semitic madness we just don't even feel like discussing in detail at the moment. The very next year, none other than Tom Cruise and his uber-serious mug graced the cover. Officially adored by the world after appearing in Jerry Maguire the year before, Cruise was still married to Nicole and every woman in the country felt that Cruise truly "completed" them. But after hiring a divorce lawyer, a beard (in the form of Penelope Cruz), and a new wife, Cruise's beauty is now only recognized by those with OT-V clearance and above. And finally, 2004's issue featured a blissfully married Jennifer Aniston, who sadly spent most of her interview "laugh[ing] off speculation of then-husband Brad Pitt's rum
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Published: 2008-04-30
Provider: Defamer
Keywords: Angelina Jolie, Beautiful And Damned, Brad PItt, Dennis Quaid, Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Meg Ryan, Mel Gibson, most beautiful people, People, Russell Crowe, Tom Cruise, Top
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![Picture: First Photo of Brad Pitt Hints 'Basterds' Is Just a Catalogue Shoot [War Heroes]](http://imagecache03.pixsy.com/10-17-2008/4a/4a1621af-3ea3-4fe8-a284-73fce28fefe9.jpg)
First Photo of Brad Pitt Hints 'Basterds' Is Just a Catalogue Shoot [War Heroes]After a long slog winning over everyone from skeptical Germans to Cloris Leachman, Quentin Tarantino is already a little more than a week into shooting his World War II action epic Inglourious Basterds [sic]. And now the first photo from the set features star Brad Pitt in smooth, modelesque repose — just the way we remember our grandfathers telling us about the European front. See him in all his Nazi-scalping sartorial splendor after the jump. We thought at first that Pitt looked a little aged as Basterds' Lt. Aldo Raine; maybe not Benjamin Button-aged, but certainly more distinguished than the frosted flake he portrayed last month in Burn After Reading or the sandaled hero sure to follow in his forthcoming The Odyssey. It's most likely just us, though, perhaps having missed the stage direction in Tarantino's bootlegged script that called for "a tall, brooding Jew, Abercrombie-coiffed, and boasting the weathered visage of one top-secret orphan-hunt too many." Either way, wake us up when Cloris arrives. First Look At 'Inglourious' Brad Pitt [Empire via /Film]
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Published: 2008-10-18
Provider: Defamer
Keywords: War Heroes, Brad PItt, inglorious bastards, Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino
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