BEST
Jennifer Aniston snaps back at her platinum ex: "Billy Idol called. He wants his look back."
WORST
Paris & Nicole's breakup: Cmon, we loved them! They were a modern, extremely tan Lucy and Ethel. In Versace. Hope they air-kiss and make up.
BEST
A female Tiger Woods: This year Michelle Wie became the first female to qualify for the all-male U.S. Golf championship. And she's only 16!
WORST
Starved, the world's most awful idea for a TV show: This FX channel "comedy" tracks four characters with eating disorders. They binge, they purge...and they're sinking fast.
BEST
Brooke Shields speaks out: First she wrote a book about her post-partum depression. Then, when Tom Cruise said that vitamins would have helped her, she responded with a smart New York Times editorial in which she hoped that his "ridiculous rant" got the disease attention. Brooke for President!
BEST
Sandra Bullock's show of sisterly love: Superstar Bullock put on an apron and went behind the counter to serve customers on the opening day of her sister's bakery in Montpelier, Vermont. Sweet!
BEST
Lindsay Lohan's paparazzi secret weapon: She's been seen spritzing photographers with something called Karma Guard--so much classier than giving them the finger.
BEST
The women in the Nike and Dove ads: How refreshing was it to see real bodies in magazines and on 20-foot-high billboards? Keep those curves coming, ad people.
WORST
This response to the Dove ads: "Really, the only time I want to see a thigh that big is in a bucket with bread crumbs on it...ads should be about the beautiful people." --Chicago Sun-Times Reporter Lucio Guerrero
WORST
Cigarettes as an accessory: Lara Flynn Boyle, Kirsten Dunst, & Mary-Kate Olsen have all been spotted lighting up lately. Whatever happened to carrying around a little dog?
BEST
Nonglitzy weddings: Heidi & Seal, Jen & Ben, and Demi & Ashton all opted for simple, low-key affairs over the Cinderella-fantasy thing. Here's hoping that commando brides of the world get on this tasteful bandwagon.
BEST
The love scene in March of the Penguins: The nuzzling, cuddling lovebirds won over audience everywhere--and they didn't even have to strip.
WORST
Colin Farrell on paying for sex: "It's like ordering a pizza."
BEST
Lisa Kudrow's gutsy role on The Comeback: How could this show have been canceled? Kudrow's performance as Valerie Cherish, a has-been actress trying to return to sitcom stardom, was fearless--and revelatory, since it made you realize how rarely actresses risk looking uncool and unsexy. Almost every word out of Val's mouth was so I-just-want-to-be-loved vulnerable, it was nails on a blackboard: you couldn't help but squirm. Bravo, Kudrow, for having the courage and confidence to take this one.
WORST
The media's obsession with catfights: So there was a little tension on the set of a Desperate Housewives magazine photo shoot. Who cares? Shooting the cast of a mostly male hit show might involve a bit of jostling for center stage as well...if there were a mostly male hit show.
BEST
The Bachelorette turns down two proposals: An affirmation to single women that being alone really is better than being with the wrong guy. And that maybe reality TV isn't the best way to find a life mate.
BEST
Gwen's I-am-woman song: "I ain't no hollaback girl."
BEST
Hot older women, everywhere: Think Diane Lane, 40 in Must Love Dogs; Catherine Keener, 45, in The 40-Year-Old Virgin; and Susan Sarandon, 59, in Revlon makeup ads.
WORST
Car dancing: Jessica Simpson writhed on a Dodge Charger for her "Boots are Made for Walkin'" video; Paris loved up a Bentley in a Carl's Jr. commercial. Just what all women do in their garages, right?
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Best and Worst star trends and moments of 2005
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