The Hollywood Reporter has released their annual list of the highest paid actress in Hollywood - topped by Reese Witherspoon this year. (remember when she was paid like less than $100,000 for Election.)

All of the names included are women that have been in the biz for ages, but there are a budding divas quickly climbing up the pay scale, including Katherine Heigl, Rachel McAdams and Jennifer Garner.

And this year’s Top 10 Higest earners are:
1. Reese Witherspoon — $15 million-$20 million
2. Angelina Jolie — $15 million-$20 million
3. Cameron Diaz — $15+ million
4. Nicole Kidman — $10 million-$15 million
5. Renee Zellweger — $10 million-$15 million
6. Sandra Bullock — $10 million-$15 million
7. Julia Roberts — $10 million-$15 million
8. Drew Barrymore — $10 million-$12 million
9. Jodie Foster — $10 million-$12 million
10. Halle Berry — $10 million

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Well Every Wednesday I will have three movies you should either watch if you get the time (The Good), run away from if your smart (The Bad), and skip work, family function or child’s soccer game to DEFINITELY go see (The Ugly, I know…you thought it meant horrible, but it doesn’t, it means ugly, as in good, like bad or phat.) So, on with the show…

The Good: No Country for Old Men

An ordinary man stumbles across a ring of corpses surrounding a fortune in cash and a mountain of heroin. A bad man follows in search of the money; a good man follows in search of the man. This is the set-up for the newest film from Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men — an adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name, and a brilliant example of how plot devices as simple as murder and money can be used to explore larger sweeping themes of mortality, morality and more — while still delivering rousing, intelligent pure entertainment. I didn’t look anywhere else but the screen for the whole 2 hours. and I have massive ADD so that’s saying a lot.

The Bad: Rendition

“Rendition” is overheated claptrap that takes an issue of vital national importance and turns it into an inept cartoon that emboldens the worst instincts in our national character.

The film deals with a Chicago woman (Reese Witherspoon) whose Egyptian-born husband (Omar Metwally) gets swept up by the CIA in a terror investigation and carted off to North Africa, where the local cops torture him and a CIA man (Jake Gyllenhaal) experiences pangs of conscience while looking on passively. Jake is weird and awkward to say the least, Peter Sarsgaard is kinda whiny and creepy and Reese can do no wrong and is the only thing that saves this pile of poo.

The Ugly: 3:10 to Yuma

A remake of a 1957 film starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin, the 2007 version of 3:10 To Yuma juxtaposes fierce Western action with film-noir interludes. A wry Russell Crowe plays captured outlaw ringleader Ben Wade. Christian Bale is the earnest rancher who helps bring Wade to the train that will carry him to prison.

In a frequently action-filled two hours, 3:10 To Yuma’s revitalizes such western staples as the stagecoach attack, Indian ambush and land-grabbing for the oncoming railroad. It’s an attention-holding ride through rough country of both the physical and spiritual kind.

This film has brains, lots of brawn, and amazing chops of the acting kind. Christian Bale is at his best in this film and to say the least, Russell Crow didn’t bother as much as normal. He actually held my attention and now my respect.

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OK, so we all understand that every relationship, everywhere, on this planet….goes through ups and downs! Hollywood relationship are no different. Lets go back to the beginning..Reese met Ryan on set of Cruel Intentions, they make out a little near craft service, shoot some love scenes, fall in love….cookie cutter right? Then they pop out two babies (VERY well I might add compared to the Britney/K-fed crap we have all witnessed) and then they decided, we’re not happy, we fight, maybe one of them was in it for the fame, or the wrong reasons, so they threw in the towel. Then our blond leading lady goes and makes some killer movies and winds up winning a BEST ACTRESS Oscar for “Walk the Line”. Then she wants to have some frekin’ fun, so she spanks it around a little with one of Hollywood’s Baldwin’s (not the real Baldwin’s but the term coined after the amazing film Clueless) like we all know we would. So there are pictures posted everywhere of the two going to Halloween parties and eating lunch, and even this new one of them paying a meter. Wow! A meter! They used a coin! and got parking for it!

Let’s stop eating up all our amazing actress’s that we still have in this town with crappy pointless pictures and tag lines. Let’s leave that for some chick from “The Hills” or “Laguna Beach” and focus on the amazing abilities of these REAL actress’s in Hollywood.

photo by Bob/X17 Online

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