W Magazine

This is supposed to be an actual photograph of Kate Hudson and not some artist’s rendering of her as Red Sonja crossed with a Thundercat (thanks for that, Dlisted).

The former Lance Armstrong flame is featured in September’s W and does the usual interviewy stuff: She says her ex-husband, Chris Robinson, “will be in my life for the rest of my life,” she’s learned some “things are better left private,” and that she really loves her son. All pretty routine, so let’s get back to the real issue at hand.

This Photoshop thing has just gone too far. With Jessica Simpson’s recent Elle cover, they gave her a totally new waistline, but at least she still looked like a real person and not something from the Cartoon Network. Agreed? Or are you diggin' the wackness?

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Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon are, at long last, ready for their closeups. Their outlandishly overpriced, highly anticipated, paparazzi-thwarting closeups.

As has been long expected, the deep pockets over at People magazine won the bidding war for the U.S. and Canadian rights to the twins' first photoshoot, with Hello! magazine snagging the international exclusive.

Though there's no official word on how much the publications shelled out to show the world Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's genetically blessed double act—or whether the newborns can out-cute big sis Shiloh's People debut—reports have placed the camera coup at $14 million.

For those keeping score at home, that's more than double the $6 million People shelled out for the exclusive for Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's twins, Max and Emme.

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Is it possible there’s more to the The Hills than meaningful stares over cocktails, clubbing at L.A.’s hottest spots and staged Speidi fights?

Entertainment Weekly tries to add some sort of depth to the show in this week’s cover story about the peachy life of millionaire/earthquake survivor Lauren Conrad now that we're all addicted to her little personal dramas.

Of course there is the obvious comparison of L.C. being “a West Coast reincarnation of Carrie Bradshaw (if Carrie were a millionaire).” Fair enough—the show does feature four girls with no real jobs who lunch, go out for drinks and talk about boys.

It’s the comparison of the show to the novels of Charles Dickens that seems a bit off...

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FAME PICTURES

Even cowgirls get the blues.

Jessica Simpson speaks candidly in the September issue of Elle magazine about the trials and tribulations that have worked their way into her upcoming CD.

"There's nothing on my album that you're gonna hear that I don't relate to or that I haven't experienced. Because the only way I know how to sing is from life experience."

For instance, one of her new tracks, "Remember That," contains the lyrics, "It doesn't matter how he hurts you / With his hands or with his words / You don't deserve it / It ain't worth it / Take your heart and run."

She's reluctant, however, to divulge details about what led to recording such a song.

"I don't want to talk about it," says Jessica. "But I have definitely experienced abuse in a way that I would tell people to take their heart and run."

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In the wake of Shia LaBeouf's recent DUI bust, a revealing cover story on the actor in Details magazine's September issue is generating a lot of attention.

Most notably, the Transformers star's openness about past rituals with his dad.

"We would drink together and smoke together," the 22-year-old reveals. "And it's just a bad deal. It's not something that is conducive to being a role model—no iconic actors that I know of have problems like that. And I don't know how to do it like a gentleman. I don't know how to have one drink."

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The Jonas Brothers are pretty much perfect—they’re adorable, have spectacular heads of hair and wear cool clothes. And that is exactly the reason why their Rolling Stone feature is, um, boring.

At least it is until the end, when the writer insinuates there’s a little somethin’-somethin’ going on between the youngest bro, Nick, and up-and-coming Disney star Selena Gomez. The two are totally touching in a blurry picture taken backstage that a Disney publicist asked to be deleted but, of course, was not.

And now the graphic details of a photo that could devastate legions of fans. Seriously, don't continue reading if you can't take it:

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We've often thought of Ben Affleck as being like our neighbor's golden retreiver Sandy: a cheery, dependable lunk, but not too bright. Sort of like a much nicer version of his Dazed and Confused character, O'Bannion.

So imagine our surprise when we see ol' Benny in the August issue of O magazine, listing what books made a difference to him, and choosing Strunk & White's classic writing how-to, The Elements of Style.

It's cute and refreshing for an A-lister like Affleck to give props to the old standard, when most of H'wood believes The Elements of Style is Tim Gunn's new tome and good grammar refers to Kelsey Grammer's Emmy awards.

On behalf of copy editors and English teachers everywhere, thanks for caring and sharing, Ben!

W Magazine

She may be an in-demand, Oscar-nominated actress now, but there was a time when Penélope Cruz probably thought it would be better to simply leave Hollywood and volver to her homeland.

The Spanish siren reveals in the August issue of W magazine that when she was working on her first English-speaking film, 1998's The Hi-Lo Country, there was definitely more lows than highs.

"Many times I would pick up the phone and realize there was no one to call, because I didn't have any friends," says Cruz about her early days in the States.

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