The adorable actress appeared on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and set the record straight on her co-stars from “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” and “Up in the Air.” I’d have to go with Clooney.

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I think we can all agree that “The Blind Side” and “The Proposal” all but erased the memory of the dismal “All About Steve.”  Collectively, her films snagged her the top money-making star of the year, according to a poll of hundreds of theater execs.

“The Proposal” earned $315 million at worldwide box offices after its June release, while “The Blind Side” scored $193 million only in the U.S. and Canada since its Nov. 20 release. It’s yet to roll out to other countries, so that number will be much higher in the big picture.

When you think that Bullock beat out such stars as George Clooney and Denzel Washington, that’s no small stuff. The last woman to top the list was Julia Roberts in 1999.

Coming in No. 2 was “Public Enemies” star Johnny Depp, followed by Matt Damon, George Clooney, Robert Downey, Jr., Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, and Denzel Washington.

Go, Sandy!

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According to UK’s Daily Mail, Winslet’s figure tops the most desirable celeb bodies list, followed by Halle Berry and Kelly Brook. See a pattern here? They’re all not exactly stick-thin (thank goodness).

On the other hand, skinny-minny stars like Victoria Beckham and Kate Moss made the very bottom of the list.

The poll quizzed 2,000 women aged 18 or over, and Winslet scored 16 percent of the votes. Moss and Price came in dead last with one percent of the votes.

Good news? I’d say so. It means we’re valuing women with real bodies! Ok, maybe not real like the rest of us out here, but more real than most of the anorexic-looking celebrities.

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Look for Sheen in “Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps,” in theaters April 23, 2010.

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It’s funny because Lautner was just on “Saturday Night Live” in December, and his opening monologue involved a skit where he defended Swift on the Kanye West debacle. But it sounds like they might have been kaput even before that. Look for both Taylors in “Valentine’s Day,” in theaters Feb. 12, 2010.

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On Showbiz411, Roger Friedman gives some insight as to what was happening behind the scenes with Murphy’s husband, Simon Monjack. It sounds like he was bad news.

Apparently, Murphy had been fired from the film “The Caller,” because Monjack came on the set inebriated. The producers wanted to keep him away, but Murphy defended him. So she was let go.

Even after hearing this story, however, director Michael Z. Gordon planned to cast her in a movie called “Shrinking Charlotte.”

Friedman reports that Monjack is not a favorite of the Hollywood crowd. “I spoke to two others movie producers today who came in contact with him on a project in the last couple of years. They described him as a ‘con man.’ Neither had anything nice to say, but one of them warned: ‘He’s a dangerous guy.’ According to this producer, Monjack presented himself as someone with a lot of money and had none at all. A lawsuit was settled after the film in question was made.”

The British Monjack also has a lot of legal problems. He was arrested a month prior to marrying Murphy in May 2007 because his visa had expired. The tabloids have speculated that he married her to avoid deportation.

He’s also a defendant in several lawsuits. In 2006, the British bank Coutts and Company received a judgment against him to the tune of $470,000. In 2005, he and his girlfriend were evicted from their New York apartment for $7,025 in back rent. And in November 2007, six months after marrying Murphy, Monjack was chased into a Los Angeles Superior Court by his ex-wife, Simone Bienne. She claimed that Monjack never paid her the $50,000 she was owed from their 2006 British divorce. The court awarded her the money, plus fees and interest.

You know who this reminds me of? Martin Melcher, the con man who was married to Doris Day and bilked her out of millions. Murphy even looks a little like a young Doris Day. The rumor mill is also buzzing that Murphy had drug problems, though. If Monjack is everything Friedman is reporting, it’s no wonder she did.

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Actor Ron Livingston, star of “Office Space” and several upcoming movies, including “Going the Distance,” is dealing with that conundrum. Apparently, an anonymous Wiki writer keeps editing his entry to read that the actor is in a gay relationship.

But Livingston is fighting back, and more power to him! He’s married to actress Rosemarie DeWitt and calls the rumor that he’s in a relationship with Lee Dennison “malicious.” As such, he’s filed a suit with the Los Angeles County Superior Court, seeking unspecified damages for libel, invasion of privacy, and for using his name and likeness without permission.

If that’s not enough, Livingston also believes the perp has created fake Facebook profiles for both he and Dennison, and both pages claim the two are in a relationship with each other.

Seriously, who would do this? Who has enough time on their hands and nothing better to do than make someone else’s life miserable? I hope the Wiki guy has to pay big-time!

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At the “Lovely Bones” premiere last night in New York, Wahlberg told Showbiz 411 that the show has two seasons left, but don’t look for it to end after that. “We’ll see,” said Wahlberg. “There could be more. But then, a movie.”

Wahlberg is currently filming “The Other Guys,” a comedy with Will Ferrell. “I don’t really get to do comedy,” he said. “We waited for just the right thing. It’s a buddy movie.”

411’s Roger Friedman also had an interesting little chat with Wahlberg, in which he asked whether any of the people at the premiere party were friends from Boston.

“All my friends from Boston are either dead or in jail,” said Wahlberg.

“They can’t still be in jail after all this time?” asked Friedman.

“The stuff they did, you don’t get out of jail,” said Wahlberg.

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It’s interesting that he’s saying this now, with a hit TV show (“30 Rock”), a big moving coming out in a few weeks (“It’s Complicated”), and a gig co-hosting the Oscars with Steve Martin.

I mean, it’s sort of a slap in the face to his fans, isn’t it? If he doesn’t have any interest in acting anymore, then why is he still doing it? There are probably other things he could be doing to pay the mortgage.

Yeah, maybe I’m just cynical, but if someone achieves the amount of fame that Baldwin has, it just seems a little hypocritical for some reason, to just say, ok, I’m sort of done with it.

As for his film career, he says, "I consider my entire movie career a complete failure. The goal of movie-making is to star in a film where your performance drives the film, and the film is either a soaring critical or commercial success, and I never had that."

So all of those actors who’ve done really well but never headlined a film are failures? No, they’re not, Alec. 

On the other hand, even though actors like Baldwin bring in a nice paycheck, it would be a tough way to make a living. Your life really doesn’t belong to you; it belongs to the paparazzi and the media. I can see why he’d want to do something else.

Anyway, I don’t really think he’ll be done with acting, no matter what he says.

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The huge ad takes up the entire side of a building on the corner of Houston Street and Lafayette Street in Soho, New York City. Residents there want it taken down.

What do you think? Too sexy for a billboard? And is that guy’s…? I must admit, I’d have to shield my kids’ eyes if we walked by that.

Here it is up close. After the jump, check out the far-away version. Would love comments from someone in that neighborhood.

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