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2011 was the year of youth style. From tween actors like Elle Fanning and Hailee Steinfeld, to bloggers like Tavi Gevinson, the fashion world was openly enthralled with said sartorial wunderkinds, documenting their fashion sense just as thoroughly as they would for Kate Moss and Chloë Sevigny. Leading the pack was the offspring of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, Suri Cruise. While the five-year-old stylesetter was last year's tot to envy, there's a new kid on the block that's quickly giving Cruise a run for her money--and she's only five months old.   

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Tom Cruise Ghost Protocal

During the filming of Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, Tom Cruise performed a move more crazy than jumping on Oprah’s couch, the whole Scientology thing, or any other wacky stuff he’s done with a stunt that has him dangling thousands of feet off the ground.

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Oh, Katie Holmes. We remember when you had so much promise. You were the girl next door, the sweet, unassuming Joey, who served as a wholesome opposite to slutty Jen. What happened? How did you let that Jen grow up and get Academy Award nominations, while you went on to play third fiddle to Adam Sandler and Adam Sandler in Jack & Jill

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● 8 babies, 150 episodes, and one very publicly failed marriage later, TLC has at last canceled Kate Plus 8. "And remember, this is not ‘goodbye’. I prefer to say ‘See you around!,'" tweeted Kate. See you! [EW] ● Patti Smith is adapting her National Book Award-winning Just Kids for the big screen with the help of Tony Award-winning playwright John Logan. [RS] ● Case of Ace, make it two: Sparring no expense, Jay-Z spent the weekend in Miami, where he drank $250,000 worth of champagne and left a $50,000 tip in a very serious celebration of Watch The Throne. [Radar]

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● Jason Sudekis has been tapped to host this summer's MTV Movie Awards, meaning he'll finally get to show his ex how it's done. [Ryan Seacrest] ● Last night 11.8 million people watched NBC's two-hour premiere of The Voice, a sort of mutant American Idol. [EW] ● Darren Aronofsky has been nominated jury head at this year's Venice Film Festival, where his film The Wrestler took home the Golden Lion award in 2008. [Deadline]

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● Anne Hathaway claims that her Saturday Night Love mocking of Katie Holmes was all in good fun and actually based on Holmes' Joey Potter character from Dawson's Creek. It's fine, Anne, everyone blames Tom Cruise anyway. [THR] ● Charlie Sheen's manager says you can't believe anything Capri Anderson says: "This is a woman who, for the right amount of money, sleeps with strangers." That's the way they're going to play it, really? [TMZ] ● Miley Cyrus turns 18 today, and is still too young to do the things she does. [OMG]

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● The Forbes list of most powerful celebrities includes almost no one who both wears pants and has a last name. Oprah, Gaga, Beyonce, Miley—one or the other, never both. [PopEater] ● Madonna's daughter Lola Leon has an upcoming fashion line and a blog to publicize it. "….how cool rigghhhhhht???Annnnnnd I am 4 realz excited," she writes. [ONTD] ● Jeremy Piven dropped his phone in the toilet at a sushi restaurant. This guy and the sushi! [Videogum]

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● Sandra Bullock's bombshell secret adoption is a real life plot twist, or complete resignation to the fact that as a star, your life is now more your art than your art is your art, even if you were in Speed. [People] ● The paper of record dives in -- carefully and without profanity -- to the relationship between rap music and Magnum condoms. Now your father "gets it." [NYT] ● Pictures from the Jersey Shore casting session belong in National Geographic. [TMZ]

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Forbes released a list of the 10 most trusted celebrities. Culled together by E-Poll, the rundown "ranked the A-list names Americans rated the highest in for trustworthiness, awareness and appeal." These are stars who have been so consistently respectable that we allow them creative flexibility (Tom Hanks in Philadelphia to Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump.) We feel reassured when we hear them. (James Earl Jones' voice-overs for CNN for example.) There's not an offensive name on the list (maybe Will Smith, what with his Scientology links), but at the same time, there's only a single lady--Sally Field. Which makes us wonder: Why doesn't America trust its leading ladies?

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● Charlie Sheen has bad taste in Christmas presents, exemplified by him telling his wife he wants to kill her, and worse taste in tattoos. Court documents from his recent arrest reveal a Charlie Brown with 'mom' in a word bubble, a burning Marlboro cigarette, a stingray, and a baseball. [Radar] ● Brad Pitt is on full ‘set-bitch’ duties bringing Shiloh and Zahara to visit Mommy while she re-shoots scenes for her upcoming film ‘Salt.’ [JustJared] ● Wanna know what Scarlett Johansson is doing for NYE? Nothing. At the ripe ole’ age of 25 the actress will be staying in with hubby Ryan Reynolds and a Twilight Zone marathon. [DigitalSpy]

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