You've heard this story before: a gorgeous girl moves to New York City and strikes it big as a model. Music videos, advertisements, Cosmopolitan, and then the kicker: six straight years in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and even a career-making shot on the cover in 2010. But where Brooklyn Decker's story takes a turn is that even at 22, she knew she wanted more. That year, just after marrying her tennis pro husband Andy Roddick, she parlayed her new fame into a guest appearance on three sitcoms. Sure, she played a bikini model, but she knew it was her start. Two years later, she had ...

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In Tim Burton's Dark Shadows, there's a rock concert by Alice Cooper. Played by Alice Cooper. This wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, except that Dark Shadows takes place in 1972. Which means 64-year-old Alice Cooper is portraying himself at age 24. Face it people: the creaky, golf-playing Republican Alice Cooper of 2012 doesn't even remotely look like the proto-goth/glam rock/metal rocker of the Nixon years, no matter how much pancake makeup he's slapped on. And Tim Burton's biggest feat of imagination is expecting audiences to sit through an entire song pretending otherwise.

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Rachelle Kirchner is Operations Manager at The Event Team.

As told to Boxoffice:

We are the Samuel L. Jacksons. We come in and tell a team what to do, and then find a way to motivate them. People come to us when they want something fun and completely different than the boring meetings that they do every day. We offer team-building events like the Olympics or Corporate Castaways, where we act as if they're on a deserted island and need to survive. We build bikes, there's a Sangria Challenge. We're getting into Iron Chef a little bit. Actually, doing superheros like in The Avengers would also be really fun.

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"Sickos never scare me—at least they're committed," purred Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman in 1992's Batman Returns. She meant it: after Pfeiffer hung up the whip, she continued to seek out quirky, complicated and sometimes sinister roles, playing everything from a perfectly coiffed racist in Hairspray to a deadly poisoner in White Oleander. Despite breaking the record for the number of times she's landed on People's Most Beautiful list (six times in the '90s alone) Pfeiffer made a point of only choosing parts where she could be more than a pretty face. And ex...

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A Bag of Hammers
Families are stabilizing forces, even to lazy car thieves like Ben and Allen. Bros for life, they spent their youths running from commitment, but when they find a neighbor boy whose mom isn't around, they see in him the lost kid they were (er, still are) and take him in.
Director: Brian Crano
Writers: Jake Sandvig, Brian Crano
Stars: Jason Ritter, Jake Sandvig, Chandler Canterbury
Genre: Comedy

Changing the Game