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Which New Actress Grossed Over $1 Billion at the Box Office This Year?

Ready for some shocking monetary figures that will put your $9/hour filing paychecks to shame? According to Forbes, Leonardo DiCaprio grossed $1.1 billion at the global box office in 2011 thanks to the fearsome twosome of Shutter Island and Inception . Okay, maybe DiCaprio’s perch on top of this year’s highest-grossing list is not that shocking. What is surprising, though, is which young actress finished just behind the actor, grossing over $1 billion. Any guesses?

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Stark Black Swan Posters Somehow Subtler (and Better) Than Actual Movie

Spoiler of the lowest order: Black Swan is chockablock with obvious swan imagery and a black/white motif that swallows the movie — even if the photography itself is swoon lake. (Laff.) But unless you’re hungry for psychodramatic, meth-level convulsions, you can actually glean the best parts of Black Swan through these new posters by design firm LaBoca. Check out their sanguine splendor after the jump.

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The 11 Most Anticipated Entertainment Options for 2011 — Julie’s Picks

December is drawing to a close which means that it is time to stop dwelling on this year’s deluge of disappointing entertainment and look forward to the most promising television and film projects of 2011. Herewith, the big and small screen moments I am genuinely excited about in the coming year. As always, I’d love to hear about yours in the comments below.

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Spider-Man Injury Update: Safety Inspectors Plan to Visit Production

If Broadway had an NFL -like injury report, Julie Taymor’s production of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark would be listed as “questionable.” In the wake of Monday night’s latest injury — when a stunt performer fell nearly ten feet into a pit beneath the stage — safety inspectors with the New York State Department of Labor will pay a visit to the production. “We’ll be talking to the production team, checking the harnesses, cables, and other equipment, and trying to determine what happened, and we’ll have more information after that,” said a department spokesman to the Times . Developing… [ NYT /ArtsBeat ]

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Do You Have Any Questions for Marilu Henner’s Extraordinary Autobiographical Memory?

Last night on 60 Minutes , Leslie Stahl interviewed the only six people known to have hyperthymesia, or “superior autobiographical memory.” These folks can recall nearly every day of their lives and remember tons of minutia from any calendar date (like the weather, expressions on people’s faces, and their own feelings), all with impossible speed. Mysteriously, one of these half-dozen savants is former Taxi / Evening Shade actress Marilu Henner. The 58-year-old has an unbelievable historical memory, and she can name the exact dates on which she bought every pair of shoes in her giant closet. On that note, what a perfect occasion to ask the affable-seeming Henner some super-specific movie-and-TV-related questions (especially since she has a book coming out about the subject in spring). Contribute your own!

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The Naked Women of Tron

Dominating the box office this weekend was Disney’s high-powered sci-fi sequel TRON: Legacy . Despite the utter lack of nudity, the movie managed to rake in $43.6 million. That’ll buy you a lot of light cycles! But while TRON may have been non-nude, some of the babes you see in their skin-tight light-up suits have been seen wearing a lot less in other movies. Star Olivia Wilde —whose chosen last name is just as appropriate as the name she was born with, “Cockburn”—famously flashed her funbags in the 2006 flick Alpha Dog . Beau Garrett didn’t strip as the leader of the butt-kicking babes known as the Sirens. But Ms. Garrett wasn’t afraid to bare it in 2006’s Turistas (where she also costarred with Olivia Wilde). Former America’s Next Top Model contestant Yaya DaCosta played one of the Sirens under Beau’s command. But in the romantic comedy The Kids Are All Right, Yaya showed that her tits are all right when she showed T&A with Mark Ruffalo . Finally, Cindy Morgan wasn’t in TRON: Legacy, but she was in the 1982 original. And two years before that, Cindy showed skindy in the 1980 comedy classic Caddyshack . Retro rackage anyone?

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Who Had the Worse Weekend: How Do You Know or the NY Giants?

Man, oh, man, what a weekend for sadists. If watching a bloated cultural institution run aground in front of millions of viewers — thus squandering its talent and goodwill before finally collapsing beneath the weight of ego, misjudgment, bad decisions and competitive pressure — is your idea of a riotous spectacle, you were in all kinds of luck. But enough about How Do You Know .

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VIDEO: New, Painful Short from Oscar-Nominated Don Hertzfeldt Tackles Dental Surgery

If you have a high tolerance for stick-figure violence, Wisdom Teeth is today’s must-watch video. The latest short from Oscar-Nominated animator Don Hertzfeldt (of Rejected fame) premiered at Sundance and is now part of a Showtime program called Short Stories . Despite Hertzfeldt’s excellent track record, I’ll admit I had a tough time getting psyched to watch even a slapstick cartoon about dental surgery because well, sometimes the dentist really is that scary. But rest assured, the animator’s unmatched knack for comic absurdity makes it completely worthwhile and the ridiculous ending will have you in…stitches. I’m sorry.

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Tron Star Olivia Wilde’s Nude Legacy

Tron: Legacy opens in theaters now, and Mr. Skin knows where to find star Olivia Wilde at her wildest… and nudest. On DVD, Naomi Watts is electrifyingly naked in Mother and Child, and Emmy Rossum makes her nude debut in Shameless. No shame in that!

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