It’s almost the end of summer and Star magazine wants to make sure we all know what the best and worst of the season were…here are some of their choices. Click on them to enlarge.

Who are your favorites from the bunch?

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Shiloh Jolie-Pitt and Suri Cruise are featured in this week’s Star Magazine. This is how they are compared…

Shiloh’s Life:

• Hand-me-downs
• Cookie monster
• Twin dollies
• Free spirit

Suri’s Life:

• $$$ Designer duds
• Still a bottle baby
• Security blanket
• Calls the shots

I’m thinking I would like to be Shiloh…I love to be a cookie monster! Here are the scans from the magazine.

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CBS has partly listened to us and has signed on Alex O’Loughlin to a one-year holding deal. They are hoping that Alex will star in a new CBS show that is in development. I am so happy that we will be able to see Alex again…but I still would love Moonlight back!

Anne Hathaway is Marie Claire magazine’s August 2008 cover girl. I love the photo shoot that she did and I just had to share it.

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This is this weeks Entertainment Weekly cover features The Dark Knight. Yes, we have all become swept up in the crazy amount of money that this movie has made. I would love this issue…but they don’t sell it anywhere near me!

And now that The Dark Knight is smashing every record like making $222 million in six days…it can only go up from here.

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Amber Heard is the August 2008 cover girl for Maxim magazine. I totally loved Amber in that show Hidden Palms. She was for sure the break out star in that show. Her character was awesome and the whole reason I would watch that crazy show every week.

She is now starring in the movie Pineapple Express. What is it about?

Seth Rogen and James Franco play these potheads trapped in this comedy of errors, and I get thrown into the mix as Seth’s neurotic young girlfriend, Angie, who is horrified that he’s such a drug user. She’s very square. Looking at the two of them as a couple, you’re like, What are these two people doing together?

She also says in her interview that she wants to have sex with as many guys as possible before she gets married. Wow…what a great role model that is…

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David Duchovny covers Best Life magazine’s August 2008 edition. He is building up hype for the new X-Files movie…and even offers up some spoilers for the movie. What are some of David’s best things?

David’s Best Album? The Beatles’ White Album

David’s Best Seats? Anywhere in Madison Square Gardens.

David’s Best Scare? The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

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Usher and his baby son, Usher, are in August 2008 issue. Usher talks about marriage and being a dad. Here are the highlights of the interview.

What would you say to young men and women about what they should expect from a man who’s a father? What is living right as a father? How do you define that? How would that man look? That man would accept his responsibilities as a father, regardless of whether he was with the mother of the child. Men will leave a situation for several reasons. One, it’s not comfortable. It may be violent. The two of you may grow apart. But you should never abandon that responsibility, which is to be there, reading with your child, being supportive of your child’s growth. That is communicating. That is making the choice to put your child before your own vanity.

If you could take your finger and touch your 9-month-old son, Usher V, on the head and impart some certain knowledge, what would you want him to know? First of all, I’d actually look inside myself and evaluate what I felt like I missed from my own father.

What did you miss? Knowing that I was accepted. That I mattered. And hearing that he cared enough to put me before himself.

His baby is super cute!

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Scarlett Johansson is Cosmopolitan magazine’s August 2008 cover girl. Inside she reveals 7 things people might not know about her.

1. She recently directed her first movie, a short film for a compilation called New York, I Love You.

2. Her almost didn’t name her Scarlett because she didn’t want people to think it was for Scarlett O’Hara.

3. She actually has crippling stage fright.

4. As a child actor her deep voice “freaked out” casting directors.

5. She celebrated her 20th birthday at Disneyland and her 21st at a strip club.

6. Her teenage crush was Patrick Swayze.

7. She loves to bake — especially key lime pies.

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Blake Lively is the August 2007 cover girl for Seventeen magazine. I’m not sure what happened with this cover because she is so pretty and this cover is not!

Here are some highlights from the interview:

On her real-life high school compared to Gossip Girl: “Oh, my goodness, my real-life high school experience could not be more different than Gossip Girl. Burbank feels like a small town in the big city of L.A. So for a fun night out, we would go to school fund-raisers. I was very involved in school – I was class president! And all of my friends were good – nobody was too wild. The kids on Gossip Girl enjoy getting a great education, but they couldn’t care less about school itself. But I think at the core, everyone deals with similar things in high school: jealousy, people making up rumors, dating someone you shouldn’t, or wanting to be with someone who’s unattainable.”

On her most awkward moment on Gossip Girl: “Chace and I had to do that scene in the first episode when I’m sitting on his lap on the barstool. Then they call, ‘Cut!’ and I just have to sit on the lap of this guy I met two weeks before! And I’m like, ‘So, you want to get some pizza tonight or something?’ What do you even talk about?!? It’s not as romantic as people think it is.”

On playing Guitar Hero: “I play in tournaments in Brooklyn. I’ll cover myself in sailor tattoos and dress like a rock star. Everyone else dresses totally normally and must think I’m a complete freak!”

On being compared to a hotel heiress: “I once heard someone say that I’m similar to Paris Hilton – since I have a dog and blonde hair, that must mean we’re alike. “It’s a dumb thing to say. I dont think that makes Paris and me similar … I don’t go to clubs, I don’t party, I don’t dance on tables, and I don’t like sex tapes.”

On her relationship with her on-and-off-screen boyfriend and how actors fall for each other: “Penn [Badgley] does these silly dance moves, and he’s very witty and quick, so it’s fun to have sharp banter with him… When you’re saying these words [from the script] that people are making you say to one another, nothing about it is real or genuine. So if two people connect outside their characters, then that’s how they get together.”

On being passionate: “When I care about somebody, whether it’s my best friend or somebody who I would date, I give them all of my heart. I’ve just been so loved, and I’m used to really loving people and trusting them.”

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