Charlize Theron was in Las Vegas on Thursday night to accept the Distinguished Decade Of Achievement In Film Award from CinemaCon.  She wore a shoulder-baring little black dress with illusion panels by Dion Lee, and looked pretty dang fab.

CinemaCon is an annual convention for operators and owners of movie theaters.  The organization explained why Theron was selected for the honor:

“Over the past decade, Charlize Theron has proven that as an actor, she can do it all. Whether her role be comedic or dramatic, she never ceases to entertain audiences with her unique ability to capture the essence of any character. Her thought-provoking, engaging and riveting performances have garnered her critical acclaim and multiple awards and nominations.”

In other words, people buy tickets to see her movies.  With two movies opening this June, there will be ample opportunities for theater owners to cash in on Theron’s success.  She plays the Queen in Snow White And The Huntsman, opening June 1.  She also appears in the science fiction flick Prometheus, opening June 8th.

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 Singer Brandy Norwood was profiled in VH1′s Behind The Music this week, a show I often find sad, and never moreso than when the subject is a child or teen star.   Brandy’s episode did nothing to dispel this perception.  The singer, whose 1994 song “I Wanna Be Down” catapulted her to fame when she was just 15 years old, revealed that she was deeply unhappy despite her fame.

She said:

“People don’t understand that being the hottest star or making the most money does not mean anything.  I’m here to tell you I was making so much money — I was omnipresent — and I was the unhappiest teenager probably in the world.”

Brandy’s negative feelings manifested themselves in an eating disorder.   She admitted:

“I wanted to be so thin. That was my main thing.   So I started not taking care of myself – not eating properly, not eating at all, diet pills, regurgitating, and all of these things that girls do.”

These days, Brandy’s got a lot more on her mind.  She’s focused on her 9 year old daughter, Sy’rai, and her new gig on BET’s The Game.  Much better times!

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Comedian Martin Lawrence and his wife Shemicka Gibbs have announced that they are ending their marriage. The couple, who have been married for just two years but together for 17, released a statement noting their “joint decision to part ways.”

There don’t seem to be any hard feelings, at least from what they’re sharing.  Lawrence and Gibbs say they’ll keep things civil for the sake of their two girls, Amara (9) and Iyana (11).   Their statement continued:

“Out of love and respect for one another we will continue to remain friends and raise our two beautiful daughters together.”

Shemicka is Lawrence’s second wife; he has a daughter, Jasmine (16), from his marriage to Patricia Southall.

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Model Heidi Klum has been the rather quiet face of Astor for a couple of years, but she’s pretty much guaranteed that you’ll never forget about this gig now.

To celebrate its 60th birthday, the cosmetics company has released an ad featuring a nude Heidi covered in ribbons of colorful body paint.  (We like this a lot more than her freaky skinned corpse body paint this past Halloween!)

She revealed the photo and blogged about her experience of creating it with makeup artist Joanne Gair:

It took 12 hours for Joanne to complete my look, but this actually wasn’t the first time she has painted me from head to toe. This was probably close to the 13^th time I’ve been body painted by her, so I’m used to getting it done–the process takes awhile, so you have to be good at being patient! I don’t mind sitting still for such a long time though, it’s a living piece of art that I’m so honored to be a part of.

However, I get so sad when the shoot is over because the beautiful paint all gets washed down the drain!

See more of Heidi’s work for Astor, and catch a behind the scenes video from her photoshoot here.

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Emma Watson caught the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Struck By Lightning this weekend. Her look for the evening mixed demure, almost dainty florals with a black leather jacket for a schoolgirl goes punk vibe.

Struck By Lightning marks the screenwriting debut for Glee‘s Chris Colfer, who also stars.  It looks back on a high school senior’s last few weeks of life, leading up to his death by – you guessed it – a bolt of lightning.   The cast also includes Christina Hendricks, Allison Janney and Sarah Hyland.

More views of Emma after the jump.

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 It was a whirlwind romance that culminated in a walk down the aisle yesterday:  actress Carey Mulligan married Mumford & Sons frontman Marcus Mumford in England.

The couple, who have been engaged just a year and together not much longer than that, were wed in the barn at Stream Farm in Somerset.  Mumford’s father, who is a vicar, conducted the ceremony.

The rural location didn’t stop celebrities from attending:  among the 200 guests were (reportedly) Sienna Miller, Jake Gyllenhaal and Colin Firth.

Congratulations to the happy couple!

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 The famously bad-tempered Alec Baldwin is getting hitched!  He proposed to his much-younger girlfriend, 28 year old yoga teacher Hilaria Thomas, last weekend on Long Island.

The New York Daily News reports that back in Manhattan on Monday, Thomas was seen wearing a stunner of a ring on her left hand.  An observer (a student of hers?) described the diamond as:

 “huge, very clear, perfect clarity, Cartier.”

The pair began dating in 2011, and their relationship became public news in September of that year.   This will be Thomas’ first marriage; Baldwin was famously married to Kim Basinger from 1993-2002.    Here’s hoping that he does better this time around.

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Congratulations are in order for actress Lake Bell and her tattoo artist beau Scott Campbell. The couple is engaged, says Bell’s rep.

The pair hooked up in 2011 when Campbell guest starred as himself on Bell’s HBO show How To Make It In America.

Friends say that it’s the right next step for these two lovebirds.  A source told E! Online:

“They’re absolutely thrilled about the engagement. They’re a wonderful couple who make each other very happy. Lake is beaming about it.”

Bell recently appeared in the thriller Black Rock, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.

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 The trailer for the film Sparkle was released on Monday, giving fans a glimpse of the late Whitney Houston in her final movie role.

Sparkle, a remake of the 1976 film of the same name, tells the story of three sisters trying to make it big as a girl group in 1960s Detroit.  The story was inspired by that of The Supremes, who came out of Detroit during the Motown era.   It stars American Idol champ Jordin Sparks as the title character.  Houston played the sisters’ struggling single mother, who had herself been a singer when she was younger.  The cast also features Cee Lo Green and Mike Epps.

Houston died on February 11 after accidentally drowning in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.  Her other film credits include The Bodyguard, The Preacher’s Wife and Waiting to Exhale.

Read on to see the full trailer for Sparkle, out in theaters on August 17.

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The Los Angeles County Coroner has concluded its investigation into the cause of Whitney Houston‘s death on February 11.

The singer, who was found in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, died of “accidental drowning,” said Chief Coroner Investigator Craig Harvey.   There were also multiple substances present in Houston’s system, including cocaine, marijuana, Benadryl, Xanax and others.  He explained:

“There was water found in her lungs that indicated to us that she was alive when she was submerged underwater.  According to our tests, the level of cocaine was not necessarily a lethal level of cocaine. But her death was complicated by chronic cocaine use and heart disease.”

This information led the coroner’s office to two theories about how Houston’s death occurred.

“She could’ve passed out first due to the intoxication from the cocaine, or she could’ve had a heart attack and then drowned.”

Cocaine, which constricts arteries, is well-known to cause cardiac problems.  The risk is much higher for users who, like Houston, already have heart disease.

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