A woman who helped break up Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon, and a man that hasn't had a hit movie in years, might be dating.

Indeed, sources link Abbie Cornish with Josh Hartnett. The two were spotted together on Saturday night at Warren 77, a bar owned by professional hockey player Sean Avery. They got cozy and - brace yourselves! - left together.

We'll report more on this story as news breaks... if anyone cares about the duo.

Jessica Simpson recently turned red when some douchebag relayed stories of tapping that to Playboy, sending shock waves across the celeb gossip landscape.

Here she's just wearing a red dress and looking sexy as all getout. She says she loves her body, and we can certainly see why. Damn, girl. Great selection.

Meanwhile, actress and famed Reese Witherspoon home wrecker Abbie Cornish rocked a similar frock and turned heads with that brilliant tomato red color.

Who looked better, though? That's your call. Vote below!

Who looked hotter in their red dress?

Oh, good. Natalie Portman, beloved crush object of straight boys who sing a cappella, is finally teaming up with her Cary Grant, Ashton Kutcher — beloved crush object of aphids and wood ticks. They'll be starring together in a romantic comedy written by cult-ish playwright Elizabeth Meriwether, tentatively called Friends with Benefits. (Which is also the name of a current TV pilot, but Meriwether's original title, Fuckbuddies, probably wasn't going to play in word-panic America.) Oscar nominee Portman and People's Choice Award hopeful Kutcher will be directed by Six Days, Seven Nights director Ivan Reitman. A dream project on all fronts, really. [Variety]

Miranda Cosgrove, star of America's favorite TV show iCarly, has just become a very rich teenager. She's signed a deal with Nickelodeon to continue on the anarchic cyberpunk David Cronenberg series for 26 more episodes, so long as she's paid "low to mid seven figures." iCarly might have six million dollars and you might have none. The world tilts. [THR]

Speaking of kids making a lot of money. Taylor Lautner, the newly-18-year-old set of abs currently inciting your daughter's sexual awakening, will be paid $7.5M for his next film, an exacting Michael Winterbottom drama called Stretch Armstrong. Yes, somewhere someone has enough money to pay the star of the gymnastics team nearly ten million dollars to say words and take his shirt off in a movie based on a toy that stretches. Either the economy is fixed, or it's more broken. [TheWrap]

Find a nerd and hug them (hugging yourself counts too). Ian McKellan — beloved crush object of pretty much everyone, just admit it — announced on his website that The Hobbit will begin filming this July in New Zealand. He says that casting is currently happening in New York and LA, so put on your elf ears or hobbit feet or orc face and get on out there! This could be your chance to be the next Billy Boyd! [Ian McKellan's web site]

Abbie Cornish, beloved crush object of Reese Witherspoon, is capitalizing on her Bright Star reviews and lining up two new movies. She'll star in Dark Fields with Bradley Cooper and Robert DeNiro and in Madonna's W.E., about the affair between King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson. Because, you know, Madonna is just exploring her native country's history. [Variety]

24 showrunner Howard Gordon, beloved crush object of Richard B. Cheney, has decided on his next TV project. As is currently in fashion, he'll adapt an Israeli series for American audiences. He's taking their hit Prisoners of War and turning it into the patriotically-named Patriots, about three soldiers gone missing and considered dead in the 2003 liberation of WMDs who return ten years later and try to readjust to life at home. We'd expect nothing less from a 24 showrunner, frankly. [THR]

• Lindsay Lohan told all about her drug abuse to The Sun: "I tried to mask my problems with alcohol, cocaine and mind-altering substances." She hit "rock bottom" "when my father was going public." (Subtle laying of blame? I mean, it obviously was his fault.) She went to rehab three times, including one time that she took Ambien, turned on the bathtub, then woke up on the bathroom floor in a watery swamp. "When I woke up I was so scared, I called my therapist and said, 'Can I just go somewhere for a month?'" She's learned how to dump bad influences (Samantha Ronson? Nicole Richie? We want names!) and is "allowed to drink now but I know my limits." [Sun]
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• Now, LiLo is addicted only to shots of Vitamin B12. Isn't that the stuff from carrots? Is this a new fad diet? She's chain smoking, too. [P6]
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• Katy Perry says Russell Brand leaves her "bedridden most of the week." Eww. "He's a walking genius. Just standing next to him makes me smarter." Aww. (But kinda "eww," too.) [ShowBizSpy]
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• Vancouver police have been flooded with Andrew Koenig sightings ever since they went public with the Growing Pains star's disappearance over the weekend. Some of the sightings sound pretty wild but cops say they're still looking "for a living person." Meanwhile, a Brooklyn friend says Koenig returned borrowed items and had good-bye-ish interactions before going to Vancouver. [TMZ] [NYDN
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• At least one tabloid editor says he's "thinking twice before printing lies" about Brangelina. Judging by yesterday's Angelina plastic surgery story, the honeymoon is already over. [NBN second item]
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• This is a new take on movie promotions. Johnny Depp is taking a break from the Alice in Wonderland circuit to advocate for "three men convicted of murdering three boys in a suspected satanic ritual," in part due to their love of heavy metal and Stephen King. One man is on death row; the other two have life sentences. Depp is going on 48 Hours Mystery to say the trial wasn't fair; he joins peculiar company of Winona Ryder, Metallica, and the Dixie Chicks in this cause. I sort of think they could find a better advocate than Johnny Depp, though. He's kinda satan-y, himself. [P6]
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• Lady Gaga is ready to make babies and have a husband, and once considered "style collaborator Matthew Williams" for the role (can you believe her stylist is straight?) but "mixing work and love became too difficult" so now she's back on the market. [ShowBizSpy]
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• Sen. Chuck Schumer opened his car door all fast and almost killed two scooter riders, who cursed him out until they suddenly realized it was a famous person, and got all quiet. [P6]
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• Remember how yesterday's Philippe-Cornish break-up spin was that he was a family man, and she ran out without reason? Looks like Abbie's people are firing back: Ryan partied constantly and cheated. Gatecrasher is on Abbie's side: "We'll say: Most recently, Phillippe was out and about in NYC, and Cornish was nowhere in sight." [Gatecrasher]
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• Pee Wee Herman got caught going 50 in a 35MPH zone. He was driving a 2009 Lexus. No word whether he honked a laugh. [TMZ]
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• Charlie Sheen's wife Brooke Mueller is suing her rehab facility for leaking info about her stint there. Rehab-to-the-stars joints must be so used to this particular legal battle. [TMZ]
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• Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald got out of five traffic tickets because cameras revealed the driver was a white guy and thus could not be him. This is the first time that driving while black got someone off the hook. [TMZ]
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• David Remnick strenuously disagrees with the characterization of his forthcoming Obama book as a "pimped out" version of that one New Yorker article. It will be "pumped up," he says. It's all pomp to me. [P6]
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• Producers for Ellen and The View are fighting for Oprah's time slot, and right now The View is winning because Joy Behar is on fire these days. Did you know Joy is from Williamsburg, Brooklyn? Back when it was an Italian neighborhood. She's O.G. [NBN]
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• "You became gay in the '70s" is how 58-year-old B-52's frontman Fred Schneider explains being a gay of the certain age. He came out to his mom and she said "Oh I know, Freddie." So he was like, "Well, OK. I guess I'll go back outside and smoke some pot." [Popeater]
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This much we know: Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish have broken up.

This much is still unclear: which side ended the relationship?

Initial reports indicated that Cornish finally realized she was dating a cheater whose real-life personality isn't all that different from his character in Cruel Intentions.

“Abbie has always questioned Ryan’s loyalty. How could she not? When she began dating him he was married, she’s a smart girl," a source told OK! Weekly. "She knows men don’t change, she hoped he would, but she always knew deep down this wasn’t forever.”

HOWEVER, a friend of Ryan's says otherwise. This insider told Hollywoodlife.com that Phillippe was the one who called it quits.

“Ryan ended the relationship recently while she was in Australia. He asked her to remove her belongings from his house, which she did this weekend," the source said.

So, THG readers: which side do you believe? Is Phillippe a disloyal boyfriend, or Cornish a heartbroken Aussie? Moreover, how great of a film was I Know What You Did Last Summer?!?

He supposedly cheated to get her, and now Ryan Phillippe may have cheated and lost her.

After a three-year relationship that started when the actor cheated on wife Reese Witherspoon with Abbie Cornish, the latter has finally come to her senses and dumped Phillippe.

"Abbie ended the relationship with Ryan and she moved out of their home," her rep told People.

The break-up takes place after months of celebrity gossip rumors made Phillippe sound like the Tiger Woods of acting, minus the talent. He's been spotted with other women at nightclubs around the globe.

Asked about the cause of the split, Cornish's rep took the high road and said: "No comment."

Cornish has been in Vancouver for the last seven months shooting a movie whose title could well sum up the demise of her relationship: Sucker Punch.

• Still in Venice, Brangelina are keeping a rigorous schedule of photo opportunities, with Angelina meeting up with estranged father Jon Voight for a taxi boat ride with Brad and baby Zahara. Family therapy by photo ops? The Daily Mail points to two "large tucks of skin underneath her right ears." [fig.1] The Mail is implying facelift, but the "tucks" so bizarrely placed, blatant, and plain old weird-looking, I'm too confused to draw a conclusion. You'd think Angelina's work would at least be decently well done? (Her nose job, and any other intervening actions, have been pristine.) [TMZ] [DailyMail]
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• After TMZ posted a video of Travis Barker cursing out and possibly slashing the tires of a photographer's car, Barker took to Twitter: "Paparazzi cried like young girls when it was no longer 3 of them against me and my kids. Didn't they remember threatening me an hr ago??" Paps can be awful, but so can Travis Barker, so I'm calling this one a wash. [TMZ] [Twitter]
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• Speaking of photog-star brawls: The photographer Sean Penn kicked in October says he had to have knee surgery to repair the damage. All this time we were wasting him on dramas, who knew Penn was meant to be a kung fu star? [TMZ]
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• TMZ and US Airways had a race to see who could get a lost wallet back to Jersey Shore's Ronnie first. A passenger gave Ronnie's stray wallet to a flight attendant, while another passenger contacted TMZ, which in turn contacted Ronnie's agent, who took it from there. Why do we even bother with communication that isn't tabloid? [TMZ]
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• At the Maui Four Seasons, Hilary Duff sported the ginormous engagement ring that Mike Comrie gave her [fig.2] which is, I kid you not, as round and wide across as her ring finger. [JJ]
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• Also photographed with a new ring: Daniel Craig's girlfriend of six years, Satsuki Mitchell, who is gorgeous and intelligent, a movie producer is she. Bitch. [DailyMail]
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• ...and it's official: Charlize Theron is a kabbalist. She was photographed with the telltale red-string bracelet. Sometimes I think how funny it'd be if Rabbi Shmuley (or whoever's advising the Charlize Therons of the world) is right, and Heaven is populated by a combination of dour-faced rabbis in black suits and glossy blonde pop tarts. I'm sure the rabbis would be pissed. I, on the other hand, would be greatly relieved to be going to Hell. [DailyMail]
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• Vanessa Redgrave did a huge bow to Prince William at the BAFTAs. William's bald head was clearly visible. Poor guy. [DailyMail]
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• Jay-Z says he taught Beyonce all her best moves: "The 'uh-oh' dance—that was me." Yeah, but nobody wants to see you doing it, Jay. Quit stealing your girlfriend's thunder. [DailyMail]
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• Abbie Cornish dumped Ryan Phillippe and absconded from their home while he was out shopping for toys with his kids. This story line has perhaps too symbolic a narrative arc to be believed. [JJ]
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• Graydon Carter's Monkey Bar: The hottest spot for reconnecting with old white collar crime partners. Martha Stewart ran into the stockbroker who aided her insider trades, and Clive Davis and James Galanos were there, watching. Both ex-cons "acted elegantly," on account of both continuing to be filthy rich. Money buffers all blows. (Also: Didn't Martha run into ImClone chief Sam Waksal at a different lunch last week? These people need some new haunts.) [P6]
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• A Broadway theater wrote a high school theme role specifically for Lea Michele. If this distracts her from Glee in any way, heads will roll. [P6]

It’s become a trend for Vanity Fair to shoot an issue every year titled “A New Hollywood” that includes up and coming actress that have recently made splashes in Hollywood. When I first saw the cover for the 2010 issue, I did a small double take. The article included Twilight’s Kristen Stewart but not Gabourey Sidibe? Then I decided to look at the full spread, hoping she’d be there; but no, she wasn’t. And as I examined the spread more, it came to my attention that there was something seriously missing here: African-Americans! A friend of mine made a comment that it was the “skinny white girl” issue and honestly, I could not agree more.

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The magazine uses this issue to features what it considers to be the next wave of big Hollywood talent, and they're often correct. They even help pay off Annie Liebovitz' debt by hiring her to shoot them. But for every Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, Renee Zellweger or even Sienna Miller there is a Alison Elliott, Gretchen Mol, Monica Potter, Marley Shelton, Sarah Wynter, Brittany Murphy (RIP), or Alison Lohman. So, just who are all these girls and should we even bother learning their names? Some yes, some no. Here they are, from left to right.

Abbie Cornish
What She Has Going for Her: An excellent turn in Jane Campion's Bright Star. She's pretty in a conventional way.
What She Has Going against Her: A critic's darling doesn't always translate into big box office. If she can't make people money, she's be doing BBC literature adaptations for the next 30 years.
Staying Power: Decent, but depends on her next move.

Kristen Stewart
What She Has Going for Her: A rabid female fanbase thanks to Twilight, getting edgy playing a stripper opposite James Gandolfini in Welcome to the Rileys, getting all girl power in The Runaways. Everyone wants a piece of Miss Stewart.
What She Has Going against Her: She got real famous real quick, and her "I'm so different and angsty" shtick is tiresome. Having a career after being the center of a cultural juggernaut is not easy, just ask Mark Hammill.
Staying Power: Excellent in the short term. The long term looks a bit fuzzy.

Carey Mulligan
What She Has Going for Her: Her performance in An Education has everyone raving and she's an cinch for an Oscar nom. She's also in Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps.
What She Has Going against Her: She's in Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps.
Staying Power: Better than average, especially if she can work her cute pixie aesthetic into being a thinking man's sex symbol.

Amanda Seyfried
What She Has Going for Her: A supporting figure in hits Mean Girls, Big Love, Mama Mia!, she is the star of Nicolas Spark's latest emotionally manipulative masterpiece Dear John and then makes out with Julianne Moore in art house sure-fire Chloe. Everyone from middle America to the coastal elites are gonna love this girl.
What She Has Going against Her: Sometimes her performances tend to be on the wooden side, and we have a feeling she won't age well.
Staying Power: Even better than fellow mean girl Rachel McAdams'.

Rebecca Hall
What She Has Going for Her: She was the one who wasn't Scarlett Johansson in Vicky Christina Barcelona, the one who wasn't Frost or Nixon in Frost/Nixon, and the one who isn't Blake Lively in The Town.
What She Has Going against Her: Rebecca Who?
Staying Power: Find a rich producer and latch on, Rebecca. It doesn't look good.

Mia Wasikowska
What She Has Going for Her: A critics darling for In Treatment, the HBO show that is only watched by critics, she'll be in every megaplex (and in 3-D!) as Alice in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.
What She Has Going against Her: This is why the studios used to change actresses names.
Staying Power: Burton muses don't have a great track record (where is Winona?), but talk to us after we see how Alice does in the theaters.

Emma Stone
What She Has Going for Her: Pretty and funny in Superbad, funny and then pretty in The House Bunny, and pretty funny in Zombieland, she could be the new go-to girl for the sassy girlfriend in gross out comedies.
What She Has Going against Her: Comedy is a man's game, and we have yet to see her do anything dramatic. Also, we can't quite pair her name to her face. She needs to get out there more.
Staying Power: Very good if she sticks to the funny and finds a starring role of her own.

Evan Rachel Wood
What She Has Going for Her: She has been in Oscar hits The Wrestler and Thirteen. Also doesn't have a horrible singing voice.
What She Has Going against Her: She's committed to the doomed Spider-Man musical on Broadway and she continues to be linked to the bloated '90s artifact Marilyn Manson.
Staying Power: Unless she cleans up her act and gets a bankable role soon, not good, sadly.

Anna Kendrick
What She Has Going for Her: Has the name and face recognition of Twilight without being too linked to its phenomenal success. Instead she'll be better known for her inevitable Oscar nomination for Up in the Air. Also, she is pretty, quirky, obviously talented, and her role in Up in the Air shows she can do the serious as well as slapstick.
What She Has Going against Her: We're stumped.
Staying Power: Jump on this bandwagon.