Leonard

A lot of movies come out every year. Some of them are quite good. Some of them are quite bad! There's a lot in between, of course, and still more that never get made. No one will blame you if you can't follow along, but fortunately, Franklin Leonard is here to do it for you. Every year, he curates the Black List, a collection of unmade and underappreciated screenplays that gets passed around buy-now studios like herpes simplex II. 

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Last fall, after flipping off most of the Upper East Side, Gossip Girl’s Taylor Momsen toured the country in support of Light Me Up, her surprisingly accomplished debut album with The Pretty Reckless. Well, yesterday it was confirmed that Momsen (and former costar Jessica Szohr) won't be returning to the show that made her famous enough to have a music career in the first place. Now that she's a full-time rock star, we wanted to find out how she likes life on the road. Let’s just say, Little J. wouldn’t last an hour.

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"I grew up—Shouldn’t you?"

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"I am not talented, I am talent."

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"I hate when I’m not the only model on a shoot, hello."

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Sure, he looks sweet enough, but deep down, southern charmer Luke Wilson is one Texan you don’t want to mess with. Here, the star of this summer’s porn-caper comedy, Middle Men, rattles off the things that stoke his ire.

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Grand dame of comedy Joan Rivers, the subject of next month’s documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, opens the floodgates with a list of 10 things that get her all hot and bothered (and not in a good way).

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Ten things he hates about New York

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Oh, it’s on all right. MTV canned her talk show late last year, but don’t expect Alexa Chung to take the news lying down. We asked the model, television host and indie fashion goddess -- who recently teamed up with Madewell to design her debut clothing line -- to purge her angst with a list of things she simply cannot abide.

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The character of a character actor brings his act back

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