Sorry, Angelina Jolie lovers.
Jennifer Aniston is officially the Hottest Woman of All Time – at least according to a new list from Men’s Health.
So just how hot is Aniston?
Hot enough to beat some of pop culture’s sexiest starlets, past and present, including Marilyn Monroe (no. 3), Mila Kunis (no. 96), Jennifer Lopez (no. 60) and Rita Hayworth (no. 58).
Kim Kardashian was named no. 26, while Megan Fox ranked 14th.
As for Jolie, she came in at no. 10, falling behind the likes of Jane Fonda and Pamela Anderson, among others.
Aniston topped Raquel Welch for the magazine’s highest honor.
But the humble “Friends” star admitted she would give the title to someone else if it were up to her.
Italian police on Wednesday raided Florence’s most famous palace over allegations that a US quest for a long-lost Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece is damaging a fresco believed to be covering it.
“Police have visited the scene and have closely examined the fresco, as well as speaking to restorers,” Marco Agnoletti, a spokesman from Florence’s city council, which is based in the same building, the Palazzo Vecchio, told AFP.
The last reference to Da Vinci’s unfinished “Battle of Anghiari” was in the 16th century — but Florence’s top art authority believes it is hidden behind a fresco by Giorgio Vasari and has launched a controversial project to find it.
Da Vinci began his work in 1505 and Vasari painted his fresco in 1563.
San Diego University art historian Maurizio Seracini, who was mentioned in Dan Brown’s bestseller “The Da Vinci Code”, is leading the project.
National Geographic, which has reportedly paid $250,000 (187,000 euros) for exclusivity on any findings from the research, is also taking part.
Reseachers bored holes into the Vasari work in the hope that tiny cameras would confirm San Diego art historian Maurizio Seracini’s theory that the Renaissance artist’s bloody depiction of warfare is hidden underneath.
The technology used in the project was developed by a senior US nuclear physicist, Robert Smither, who came up with a special camera to generate high-resolution images of a cancer’s location in the human body.
LOS ANGELES: Universal Studios will spend several hundred million dollars to build a Harry Potter attraction inside its existing Hollywood theme park in hopes of mimicking the success of a similar park in Orlando, Florida.
Executives announced the project Tuesday with much fanfare, spraying confetti and hoisting mugs of the wizardly brew butter beer.
The attraction, based on the Warner Bros. movies about the boy wizard in J.K. Rowling’s novels, will create more than 1,000 jobs at Universal and even more indirectly from an expected boost in tourism, officials said.
At the same time, Orlando’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter will get an expansion.
Since the Harry Potter attraction opened in Florida in June of last year, company executives have said attendance has jumped by about 50 percent, but did not give raw figures.
”It was a game changer for us and frankly for Orlando,” Universal Studios president Ron Meyer told reporters after an announcement at the Universal Studios Hollywood.
”The expansion in Orlando will make it that much more of a must-see, and we’ll have the same experience here.”
Executives did not immediately detail their plans for the Hollywood park, but Meyer said there was enough room to expand.
”We’re not landlocked,” Meyer said. ”We’re (on) 400 acres on this lot and 200 of them are still not developed.”
Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky said he was told that a live concert venue, Gibson Amphitheatre, would be scrapped to make way for the attraction.
He said it would open around 2014, but officials did not give a date.
The widely expected announcement happened in typically dressed-up Hollywood style, complete with staff wearing scarves representing the various houses of the fictional wizard’s school, Hogwarts, beneath a theater marquee that said, ”Hogwarts is coming to Hollywood.”
Was the highest-grossing movie of all time based on a stolen idea?
That’s the argument behind a new lawsuit reportedly filed against Avatar writer and director James Cameron.
The award-winning filmmaker was allegedly pitched an “environmentally themed 3-D epic about a corporation’s colonization and plundering of a distant moon’s lush and wondrous natural setting” back in 1999.
Eric Ryder claims he had several meetings with Cameron’s production company about the potential project, until he was allegedly told in 2002 that no one would see such a film.
Ryder’s attempts to get recognition in 2009, when the record-breaking movie starring Sam Worthington was released, were reportedly rebuffed.
Tom Cruise confirmed that 25 years after his hit Top Gun, there’s talk about doing a sequel.
“We’re working on it,” he told MTV News at the Dubai International Film Festival, adding, “I hope we can figure this out to do it again.”
Cruise, who was promoting Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, said he’s been talking with Top Gun director Tony Scott about the film’s plotline.
“We never thought that we would do it again,” said Cruise. “Then, they started to come to us with these ideas of where it is now. I thought, ‘Wow… what we could do now.’”
He further notes, ”We all want to make a film that is in the same kind of tone as the other one and shoot it in the same way as we shot Top Gun.”
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Camille Grammer is calling out Life & Style for making up a story about her still wearing a diamond ring from ex-husband Kelsey Grammer.
The tabloid claims Camille keeps the 10-carat sparkler “on her right hand as a validation of her 13-year marriage.”
But Grammer herself calls the item false, tweeting, “Life and Style took certain liberties in stating things that are not true!”
“Want to say That The @Life_And_Style Article about Me Still wearing [my] ex’s ring is incorrect!!!” writes Grammer.
She adds, “They stated things incorrectly as usual. They can’t help themselves but make up bull!”
Kris Jenner is going to make a rare television appearance!
The Kardashian “momager” will be among seven judges charged with picking the new Miss America in January 2012.
Jenner joins Teri Polo, Lara Spencer, Mark Ballas, “The Bachelor” executive producer Mike Fleiss, “Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition” host Chris Powell and photographer Raul de Molina.
The finals, hosted by Chris Harrison, will air live from the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas on January 14.
Jenner and her fellow panelists will judge contestants based on appearance, talent, and interview responses.
The winner rules the United States with an iron fist until the following January.
