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Madoff pleaded guilty on March 12 to 11 felony counts, including securities fraud, perjury, investment-adviser fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, false filings with the SEC and theft from an employee benefit plan. The scam's victims included high-profile celebrity names such as actress Kyra Sedgwick, actor Kevin Bacon, director Steven Spielberg, actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, actor John Malkovich, New York Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman and the family trust of DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, as well as charities, universities, hedge funds, banks and pension funds around the world...
...ideal friend or girlfriend. From her first hits, Speed and While You Were Sleeping, she knew how to get laughs and produce tears with equal, unforced agility. And with Julia Roberts' four-year break from starring roles (until this spring's Duplicity), Bullock is the one enduring star actress of her age. All this stokes a rooting interest in film folk and audiences alike. They just wish she were in better movies...
...average, considering her subpar romantic comedies (Two Weeks Notice), dramas (The Lake House) and female-bonding weepies (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood). Yet every year or so, Bullock goes back in front of the camera, trying to prove there's a place in movies for a star actress with a light, sure touch. And each time, her fans show up, hoping this will be the film that is as winning as they know she can be. (Watch "The Never-Ending Role of Sandra Bullock...
...women was Fawcett that she could lend suspense to another true-life horror story, the 1989 Small Sacrifices, in which she's a mother bringing her three injured children to a hospital, claiming they were attacked by a "bushy-haired man." (The woman had assaulted the children herself.) The actress snagged another Emmy nomination for this bold emotional about-face...
...actress - and Fawcett fooled her fans by becoming an excellent one - can find an arc of redemption through suffering. Fawcett was given a diagnosis of anal cancer in 2003 (the same year O'Neal came down with leukemia), and after a period of remission, it returned in 2007. She was the third of the original Charlie's Angels to suffer from cancer...