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Judge rejects Cosby lawyers' renewed call for mistrial as jury deliberat...





After percolating out of sight, the subject of a mistrial in
the Bill Cosby sexual assault case burst into open court Friday.

Judge Steven T. O’Neill challenged Cosby’s lead lawyer on a
mistrial motion as a deadlocked jury deliberated into its fifth day. Cosby is
charged with three counts of aggravated indecent assault of former Temple
University basketball staffer Andrea Constand in 2004.

“You made motions for mistrial. And as you make them it
appears the court is being ignorant to you,” O’Neill said to the defense
lawyer, Brian McMonagle. “I have no ability to do anything but what I’ve done.”
He rejected the motion.

McMonagle argued that it was fruitless to continue
deliberations.

“What we got now is jurors trying to overcome other jurors
by reading testimony in the case,” he said. “We’re well past the point of free
will.”

The defense’s issue was the length of deliberations, which
Friday evening entered its 50th hour, as well as jurors asking for extensive
recounting of testimony.

But O’Neill shot those arguments down.

“Get me the law that supports what your rhetoric keeps
fostering,” the judge said. As long as the jury is deliberating he could and
would not stop them, and would consider declaring a mistrial only after the
jury returned with another deadlock, he said. “If they say they can’t give me a
unanimous verdict, I intend to act.”

O’Neill then called the jury into the courtroom and asked
them to keep working and let him know if they had reached a stalemate.

He also referred to four previous mistrial requests, which
were made in his chambers, out of public view, and not known before Friday. He
moved this one to open court, he said, because he wanted the public and news
media to be aware he was not pushing the jury to do anything they weren’t
already doing.

O’Neill had appeared impatient Thursday night after a news
conference by Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt exhorting the judge to call a
mistrial.

Earlier Friday, O’Neill addressed Cosby on the issue of
mistrial, an unconventional address observers believed was a response to the
Wyatt news conference. In talking to the defendant, O’Neill alluded to issues
being “explain[ed] out in the media” and wanting to “understand the decision
for requesting a mistrial is yours and yours alone.”

He also said to Cosby: “Your counsel has now made a number
of motions for mistrial. Let me make sure you understand” what’s at stake. He
then asked the entertainer a series of questions on whether he had freely given
his approval.

“Every time Mr. McMonagle says [mistrial], I am
understanding that you are consenting to what he has said,” O’Neill said. Cosby
answered the yes-or-no questions emphatically from his defendant’s chair.

The defense has repeatedly told reporters that it would
consider a mistrial to be a win.

But despite the push by Cosby’s camp—and a public eager for
resolution to deliberations that have lasted as long as the trial itself—don’t
expect a quick mistrial call. Legal experts noted the judge has a lot of
latitude in keeping deliberations going.

“The judge doesn’t have any obligation to accommodate the
defense,” said Lisa Houle, a former Los Angeles County prosecutor based in the
South Bay. “I don't know any legal authority that would allow them to call the
shots and have the judge call it quits.”

She said jurors would have to come back and say they’re
hopelessly deadlocked for the judge to consider calling a mistrial, and even
then he might be reluctant. That said, Houle predicted a mistrial is where the
case would probably go—eventually.

“I don't think jury wants to give up, and there seem to be
significant issues that would [prevent a verdict,]” she said.

Indeed, the jury Friday continued seeking to review
testimony, requesting that the judge define a linchpin of the defense’s legal
argument.

“What is reasonable doubt? (The definition),” came the jury
request.

The question suggested the panel was mired in whether the
defense had cast enough legal doubt on the prosecution’s case.

O’Neill then read the definition, which included a doubt
that would cause a “reasonable person” to “hesitate before acting on a matter
of importance” as well as a doubt that was not “manufactured to avoid the
carrying out of an unpleasant duty.”

The jury also requested that the judge read aloud portions
of deposition testimony from the trial involving Cosby’s past purchase of
Quaaludes to facilitate sex with women.

“Was it in your mind you were going to use the Quaaludes for
young women, plural, that you were going to have sex with?” a questioner had
asked.

“Yes,” Cosby had said in the deposition, adding that
Quaaludes “happened to be the drug that young people, kids were partying with,
and I wanted to have it just in case.”

It was the first significant request by the jury to review a
piece of testimony that did not specifically concern the night of the Constand
encounter, and it suggested that jurors were trying to widen their scope as
they sought to break their stalemate.

On Friday afternoon the jury continued to expand the breadth
of questioning even further—suggesting, to some observers, they weren’t making
a lot of headway. The panel requested the testimony of Constand’s mother about
a phone call she had with Cosby as well as Constand’s phone records.

That more diffuse focus — combined with the fact that the
jury approached its 50th hour of deliberations Friday evening — led some
observers to think O’Neill might not send jurors back if they reported another
deadlock. The order for a deadlocked jury to resume deliberations, known as the
Spencer Charge, was already administered by O’Neill on Thursday morning; a
second would be somewhat rarer, especially after that much time had passed.

The defense could also continue to bring case law to the
judge to bolster its argument that periods of quiet from the jury should lead
the judge to unilaterally call a mistrial, though O’Neill has thus far rejected
the precedents presented to him as not sufficiently similar to this trial.

O’Neill continued to press the jury to find a verdict.

“I hope you are well-rested,” he told jurors. “Your form of
questions does indicate you are deliberating, which is exactly what the court
[wants].”



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Police say 6 people slain in ‘terrorist incidents’ on London Bridge and ...





Police say 6 people slain in ‘terrorist incidents’ on London Bridge and in
nearby market

LONDON — A van driving at high speed mowed down
pedestrians on London Bridge late Saturday night before the occupants got out
and began stabbing patrons at nearby bars and restaurants, witnesses said in an
attack that police described as the latest in a string of deadly terrorist
strikes to hit Britain this spring.
Witnesses described a rampage that left a trail of bloodied
bodies on the bridge and in the adjacent Borough Market — both of which are
London landmarks.
The low-tech but high-profile attack will raise questions
about how British security services failed to stop yet another mass-casualty
strike after years of thwarting such attempts.
Police said in a 4 a.m. news conference on Sunday that six
people had been killed, and that officers had shot dead the three attackers.
London Ambulance Service tweeted a statement saying it had taken “at least 48
patients to five hospitals across London.”
The attacks set off scenes of panic in the heart of London
on a cool June evening as the city’s streets were filled with people heading
home from dinner or out for a drink.
In packed pubs — normally scenes of Saturday night revelry
and merriment — patrons threw chairs, bottles and glasses at the attackers as
the assailants used long knives to slash their way through
crowds. Tourists gaped at the carnage from the roofs of double-decker
buses.
London’s Metropolitan Police said the attacks were being
treated as “terrorist incidents.” 
British Prime Minister Theresa May, who returned from the
campaign trail to 10 Downing Street for emergency meetings with security
officials, had earlier described the “terrible incidents” as “a potential
act of terrorism.”
May’s Conservative Party later said it had suspended
national campaigning for the general election, which is scheduled for Thursday.
Other parties were expected to follow suit.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan issued a statement
condemning “a deliberate and cowardly attack on innocent Londoners and
visitors to our city enjoying their Saturday night.”
People in London should expect more police on the streets in
the coming days, Khan said in a television interview on Sunday morning. But
Londoners should not be alarmed and should not let terrorists disrupt daily
life or the upcoming election, he said.
“We can’t allow them to do that,” Khan told Sky News. “We
are not going to be cowered by terrorism.”
In a dawn news conference, Assistant Police Commissioner
Mark Rowley said the three attackers had been shot dead and that authorities
did not believe anyone else was directly involved in carrying out the carnage.
Rowley said the men had not used explosives, despite a
widely distributed photo that appeared to show one of the assailants lying
prone with metal canisters strapped to his body. Rowley said the vest was “a
hoax.”
Saturday marks the third major attack in Britain this
spring. The evening’s carnage carried grim echoes of a similar incident in late
March, when a driver swerved into pedestrians at Westminster Bridge, another
Thames crossing, killing four. The driver then stabbed to death a police
officer at the gates of Parliament.
May had lowered the nation’s threat level only days ago —
from “critical” to “severe” — after having raised it following a bombing last
month at a Manchester pop music concert that was claimed by the Islamic State
and that killed 22 people.
But even with the lower threat level, the nation’s
intelligence services had continued to judge that another attack was likely.
Witnesses reported that a white van was traveling fast —
approximately 50 mph — when it mounted the sidewalk and plowed into a
group of people crossing the Thames River on foot just after 10 p.m. 
The van collided with a guardrail. Bystanders said they
thought the crash may have been an accident, until the occupants got out.
The three men who had been in the vehicle immediately began
stabbing people on the bridge with knives before making their way to
Borough Market, a foodie paradise nestled under the archways of railway
viaducts that attracts locals and tourists from around the world.
It was in the market, located just south of the bridge,
where police killed the attackers and ended the rampage.
“I heard many gunshots, and I heard people running away,”
said Joe Dillon, 23, who was nearby when the attack occurred. “Police
officers were shouting: ‘Get out of here, you need to go!’ I heard at least
eight rounds of gunshots, but I’m not sure who was shooting.”
Cellphone video from a restaurant in the market showed
people diving under tables amid the sound of breaking glass as officers rushed
in and ordered patrons to stay down.
Tamara Alcolea, 24, who works as a bartender in a pub called
Southwark Rooms, which is near the bridge, said the first indication that
something was wrong was when she heard that someone had been stabbed in the
proximity of London Bridge.
“Then we heard gunshots, and people started to hide beneath
the tables,” Alcolea said. “We locked ourselves in the office. From the window,
I could see an injured person being treated by emergency personnel. Then the
police came in and told us to run. Everyone was panicking.”
As Alcolea recounted her story, she saw two friends who
she had lost track of during the melee. She cried and hugged them as they
reunited outside a police cordon.
Chris Jacobs, 52, and his wife Kavita Jacobs, 49, were woken
up by police officers banging on their door on the third floor of an apartment
building at Borough Market. 
“I heard gunshots as we left the building,” said Chris
Jacobs, who stood next to a petrol station outside the cordon, with no shoes on
and holding his dog.
Alex Shellum, an eyewitness, told the BBC he was at the
Mudlark pub in the London Bridge area when at around 10 p.m. “a woman
probably in her early 20s staggered into the pub and she was bleeding heavily
from the neck and from her mouth. It appeared to myself and my friends that her
throat had been cut.”
Another witness, identified by the BBC as Gerard, said he
saw three men running with knives: “They said, ‘This is for Allah. Then they
ran up and stabbed this girl, I don’t know how many times, 10 times, maybe 15
times.”
He said he and others threw whatever objects they could find
— including bottles, glasses and chairs — at the attackers in a futile attempt
to stop the rampage.
Within minutes of the attack, dozens of police cars sped to
London Bridge and to Borough Market, with helicopters hovering overhead. Police
closed the bridge and urged the public to avoid the area.
The incident caused chaos in the heart of London in an area
normally bustling on a Saturday night. Pedestrians near the bridge said they
were ordered by police to run, and video footage showed people fleeing in a
panic. Other images showed members of the public being escorted away from the
bridge by police with hands on their heads.
Two hours after the incidents began, police were still
widening cordons and pushing bystanders farther back from the scenes, as the
sound of explosions — apparently controlled blasts carried out by police —
echoed through the night.
British leaders scrambled to respond to the attacks. 
May, a Conservative Party member who had been out
campaigning ahead of an election slated for Thursday, returned to Downing
Street and was being briefed by security officials.
Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the opposition Labour Party, said
on Twitter: “Brutal and shocking incidents reported in London. My thoughts are
with the victims and their families. Thank you to the emergency services.”
President Trump was briefed on the incident, and immediately
took to Twitter to say: “We need to be smart, vigilant and tough. We need the
courts to give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of
safety!”
After taking criticism online for trying to use the attack
to advance a policy goal that is now under review in the courts, he sent a
follow-up tweet minutes later: “Whatever the United States can do to help
out in London and the U. K., we will be there — WE ARE WITH YOU. GOD BLESS!”
The White House later issued a statement saying Trump and
May had spoken by phone and that the U.S. president had “offered his
condolences for the brutal terrorist attacks.”
A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
said the agency was monitoring the incidents in London. 
“At this time, we have no information to indicate a
specific, credible terror threat in the United States,” the spokesman said.


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The world’s most beautiful queens and princesses





The world’s most beautiful queens and
princesses

1. QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN



Rania Al-Abdullah is married to
King Abdullah II, and has been queen consort of the country since 1999

 2. GRACE KELLY



The actress became Princess of
Monaco after marrying Prince Rainier III

3. CHARLOTTE CASIRAGHI



She is the daughter of Caroline,
Princess of Hanover, and niece of Prince Albert II of Monaco

4. KATE MIDDLETON



Kate became Duchess of Cambridge
by marrying Prince William

5. PRINCESS ALEXANDRA OF LUXEMBOURG



Alexandra is the fourth child of
Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg

6. QUEEN LETIZIA OF SPAIN



She became queen consort in 2014
after marrying Felipe VI

7. CATHERINE OXENBERG



The actress is the daughter of
Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia

8. PRINCESS MADELEINE, DUCHESS OF
HÄLSINGLAND AND GÄSTRIKLAND



She is the youngest daughter of
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden

9. JETSUN PEMA



Queen consort of Bhutan

10. HAYA BINT
HUSSEIN



Daughter of King Hussein of
Jordan

11. LADY GABRIELLA
WINDSOR



The only daughter of Prince
Michael of Kent, who is, in turn, cousin to Queen Elizabeth II

12. AMEERAH
AL-TAWEEL



Princess of Saudi Arabia

13. PRINCESS DIANA
OF WALES



The late "Princess of
Hearts" is still one of the world's most adored royals

14. CHARLENE,
PRINCESS OF MONACO



She became princess consort in
2011 by marrying Albert II

15. PRINCESS
SIRIVANNAVARI NARIRATANA OF THAILAND



The only daughter of King Maha
Vajralongkorn

16. ELIZABETH OF
YUGOSLAVIA



Princess of the now-defunct
Kingdom of Yugoslavia

17. NANDI ZULU



Daughter of Goodwill Zwelithini
kaBhekuzulu, King of the Zulu nation in South Africa

18. TATIANA OF
GREECE AND DENMARK



Wife of Prince Nikolaos, son of
Constantine II

19. VICTORIA, CROWN
PRINCESS OF SWEDEN



The eldest daughter, and heir to
the throne, of Carl XVI Gustaf

20. SOFIA, DUCHESS
OF VARMLAND



Sofia Cristina Hellqvist is the
wife of Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Varmland

21. QUEEN MÁXIMA OF
THE NETHERLANDS



Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti is
married to King Willem-Alexander, and has been queen consort of the Netherlands
since 2013

22. YASMINE PAHLAVI



Yasmine Pahlavi is the wife of
Reza Pahlavi, the last crown prince of the former Imperial State of Iran

23. MARY, CROWN
PRINCESS OF DENMARK



Maria Isabel Donaldson is
married to Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark

24. PRINCESS MARTHA
LOUISE OF NORWAY



Martha Louise of Norway is the
only daughter of King Harald V of Norway

25. CAROLINE,
PRINCESS OF HANOVER



The eldest daughter of Prince
Rainier III and Princess Grace of Monaco

26. ZARA PHILLIPS



Granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth
II

27. METTE-MARIT,
CROWN PRINCESS OF NORWAY



Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby is
married to Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway

28. PRINCESS
THEODORA OF GREECE AND DENMARK



Theodora is the second youngest
daughter of the former king of Greece, Constantine II

29. QUEEN NOOR OF
JORDAN



Widow of King Hussein of Jordan,
and mother-in-law of the current king

30. PRINCESS CLAIRE
OF LUXEMBOURG



Claire of Luxembourg, born
Claire Margareta Lademacher, is the wife of Prince Felix of Luxembourg

2017 Kentucky Derby See all the stars who attended! 1





2017 Kentucky Derby -- See all the stars who attended!

1. Katie Couric attends the 143rd Kentucky Derby at
Churchill Downs in Louisville,
2. Giada De Laurentiis attends the 143rd Kentucky Derby at
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3. Jill Goodacre and Harry Connick Jr. attend the 143rd
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4. Justin Hartley attends the 143rd Kentucky Derby at
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5. Courtney Sixx attends the 143rd Kentucky Derby at
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6. Mira Sorvino attends the 143rd Kentucky Derby at
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7. Susan Geston and Jeff Bridges attend the 143rd Kentucky
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8. Guy Fieri attends the 143rd Kentucky Derby at Churchill
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12. Joey Fatone attends the 143rd Kentucky Derby at
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13. Dannielynn Birkhead and Larry Birkhead attend the 143rd
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14. Richie Sambora attends the 143rd Kentucky Derby at
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15. Jerrod Niemann and Morgan Petek attend the 143rd
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16. Rickie Fowler attends the 143rd Kentucky Derby at
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Country singer Loretta Lynn hospitalized after suffering stroke





Country singer Loretta Lynn hospitalized after suffering
stroke
Country music singer Loretta Lynn was hospitalized after a
suffering a stroke at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, her official
website said Friday.
Lynn, 85, was admitted to a Nashville hospital on Thursday
where she is "under medical care and is responsive and expected to make a
full recovery," a statement on LorettaLynn.com said.
The singer's upcoming shows have been postponed on advice of
her doctors while she recovers, the statement added.
Lynn was scheduled to perform at the Carolina Theatre in
Durham, North Carolina on Friday, and had performances lined up across the
United States through November.
Born in Kentucky, Lynn carved a career in the country music
scene with her down-home twangy voice, singing hits such as 1960's "I'm a
Honky Tonk Girl" and "Coal Miner's Daughter," released in 1970.


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Met Gala 2017 Everything you need to know about fashion's biggest night





Met Gala 2017: Everything you need to know about
fashion's biggest night
The Met Gala is more than just the fashion world's version
of the Academy Awards. The annual fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of
Art's Costume Institute brings together the biggest names in entertainment,
fashion and politics for one night of revelry.

Take the world's biggest celebrities, dress them in couture
and stick them in a room together, and sparks are bound to fly. President Trump
proposed to Melania during the event in 2004, and Taylor Swift and Tom
Hiddleston's romance was borne of their Met Gala dance-off in 2016.
Historically, guests are also supposed to dress in the fashions of the event's
honored designer, a tradition that often turns controversial.

Before the stars descend on the Metropolitan Museum of Art in
NYC on Monday night, learn more about the annual event.
What is the Met Gala?

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit
informally called the Met Gala or the Met Ball, is a black-tie fundraiser for
the museum's Costume Institute. The event also celebrates the opening of the
Costume Institute's annual fashion exhibit.

The Costume Institute is housed in the museum's Anna Wintour
Costume Center, named after the Vogue editor-in-chief. Wintour has served as
the Met Gala co-chair nearly every year since 1995.
This year's theme

Opening this month, the Costume Institute's new exhibit
honors the work of Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo. The Costume
Institute's choice of honoree often sets the tone for the Met Gala, with
attendees expected to match the exhibit's theme with their own fashion choices
for the evening.

This year, party-goers are encouraged to honor the bold,
architectural designs of Kawakubo, who is the first living designer to be
honored by the Costume Institute since Yves Saint Laurent in 1983.

The exhibition, which runs from May 4 to September 4, will
feature 100+ of Kawakubo’s Comme des Garçons womenswear designs, dating back to
her first Paris runway show in 1981.

The celebrity hosts

Every year since Anna Wintour's first year as Met Gala chair
in 1995, the event has also featured honorary hosts from the worlds of
entertainment and fashion.

Along with Wintour, this year's co-chairs are Katy Perry,
Pharrell Williams, Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen, with Kawakubo also serving as
honorary chair.

Ahead of the gala, Perry also appeared on the May cover of
Vogue, honoring Kawakubo in a dedicated Comme des Garçons spread.
The star-studded guest list

Only Hollywood's biggest award shows boast guest lists that
rival that of the invitation-only Met Gala. Wintour has final say over every
attendee, and celebrities from A-list entertainers to political heavyweights
mingle together at the event.

While 2016's Manus x Machina gala hosted stars including
Beyoncé and Jay Z, Taylor Swift, Kanye West and the entire Kardashian clan, a
spokesperson for the museum told The New York Times that the guest list for
this year's event is expected to be slightly smaller.

Who is Rei Kawakubo?

Kawakubo, a 74-year-old Japanese designer who founded Comme
des Garçons in 1969, is only the second living designer honored by the Costume
Institute, along with Saint Laurent.

“Rei Kawakubo is one of the most important and influential
designers of the past 40 years,” said Costume Institute curator in charge
Andrew Bolton in a press release. “By inviting us to rethink fashion as a site
of constant creation, recreation, and hybridity, she has defined the aesthetics
of our time.”



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BAHUBALI 2 THE CONCLUSION BENGALURU HAS NO PROBLEM PAYING DOUBLE THE TIC...





BAHUBALI 2 THE CONCLUSION: BENGALURU HAS NO PROBLEM
PAYING DOUBLE THE TICKET PRICE TO WATCH PAID PREMIERES

If pictures tell the story, then this one is certainly going
to make producers smile. Thursday night, there were lines of patrons outside
the Mantri Mall in Bengaluru trying to catch the 10 pm show of one of the most
awaited films of the year- Bahubali 2: The Conclusion.
And it is no ordinary show. It's a paid preview where each
ticket costs double what they would shell out once the film releases on Friday.
It seems though, that double the price is certainly no dampener.
The Bahubali mania has clearly gripped not just the city but
can be felt across different cities, whether it's Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad or
Chennai.
In the national capital, ticket prices are as high as Rs
2400 per ticket, but the seats are filling up fast. There were 3 km long lines
outside a cinema hall in Hyderabad on Wednesday, with many who returned
disappointed after not getting a ticket.
In Andhra Pradesh, the govt has permitted extra shows. With
as many as 6500 screens, it's going to see one of the biggest openings for an
Indian film globally, with some shows starting as early as 5:30 am.
For all the publicity generated around the film, there is
the obvious curiosity over why Katappa killed Bahubali. The well-kept secret
will finally be revealed after a two-year long wait.
Bahubali: The Beginning made over Rs 600 crore in collections
and even before the release of part 2, many are already asking if the combined
collections will cross the 1000 crore mark. If these lines are any indication,
that target does not seem too distant to touch.



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The Brightest Stars





1 - Higher Intelligence

The archetypal blonde bombshell,
Jayne Mansfield may have been famous for her body, but she also made a mark on
Hollywood with her brains. Here, to celebrate what would have been her 84th
birthday, are 22 stars—starting with Mansfield—reported to have extraordinarily
high IQs

2 - Jayne Mansfield — IQ: 149




The star of "Too Hot to
Handle" lived up to that movie title in 1963 when she appeared in a
Playboy feature so racy that it got editor Hugh Hefner arrested for obscenity.
In fact, she had a genius for publicity—and we mean that literally.









3 - Steve Martin — IQ: 142






Not only is Steve Martin an
accomplished banjo player, the credited inventor of air quotes and one of the
funniest people on the planet—he's also a genius. With an IQ of 142, he
considered becoming a professor while studying at Cal State, but instead opted
for a career that gave him the freedom to wear an arrow through his head. Smart
choice. Literally.



4 - Meryl Streep — IQ: 143






As if being one of the most
acclaimed actresses of any generation wasn't enough, the "Devil Wears
Prada" star has an IQ of 143. Somehow all that intelligence didn't prevent
her from agreeing to take a role in Robert Redford's "Lions for
Lambs." Hey, even geniuses have off days. We still love her.



5 - Hedy Lamarr — IQ: Through the
Roof






The star of Cecile B. DeMille's
1949 blockbuster "Samson and Delilah" was promoted as "the
world's most beautiful woman" during MGM's Golden Age. She was also
brilliant. Born in Vienna, Hedy Lamarr invented (with composer George Antheil)
a "frequency hopping" system originally aimed at preventing Nazis
from jamming radio-controlled torpedoes during World War II. Her invention was
a key to the development of today's cordless phone technology.



6 - Conan O'Brien — IQ: 160






This shouldn't come as a shock.
After all, Conan is a Harvard grad, accomplished comedy writer and all-around
nerdy-looking dude. His IQ is reportedly 160, which is the same as Stephen
Hawking's. But it must be noted that the famous physicist never made millions
off of a m-------ting bear character. So who's the real genius now, Mr.
Hawking?



7 - Geena Davis — IQ: 140






We all know what happens when
you say "Beetlejuice" three times, but apparently saying
"genius" over and over again makes it a reality. Geena Davis is
fluent in Swedish, plays a multitude of instruments and belongs to Mensa, which
only admits members with an IQ at or above the 98th percentile. So do the
math—or let Geena do it.



8 - Goldie Hawn — IQ: 140-plus






Don't let the bubble-headed
blonde act you remember from "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" fool
you. Goldie Hawn is another card-carrying member of Mensa.



9 - Sylvester Stallone — IQ: 160






He usually plays characters
known for brawn rather than brains, but the Oscar-winning actor and
screenwriter ranks among the smartest guys in Hollywood, with a reported IQ of
160. Yo, Adrian! Writing dialogue that pithy is harder than it looks.



10 - Cindy Crawford — IQ: 154






She was a top supermodel of the
'80s and '90s, but Cindy Crawford is hardly superficial. With an IQ of 154, she
was the valedictorian of her high school class and briefly studied chemical
engineering at Northwestern before opting for a full-time modeling career.
Still stunning at 51, Crawford last year became a spokesman for the Italian
beverage company Acqua Minerale San Benedetto.



11 - Reggie Jackson — IQ: 160






He was inducted into the
Baseball Hall of Fame in 1993 because of his five world championships, 14
All-Star appearances, 563 home runs and .357 batting average in the month of
October (hence his nickname, Mr. October). But these stats don't tell the whole
story. With a reported IQ of 160, Reggie Jackson may be the smartest athlete
ever to swing a bat.



12 - Sharon Stone — IQ: 148






For many years Sharon Stone
maintained that, thanks to her genius-level IQ, she belonged to Mensa. Then, in
2002, the Oscar-winning actress admitted that the latter was not true. Still,
the fact that she started college at the age of 15 is certainly impressive.
Unless she made up that story, too.



13 - David Duchovny — IQ: 147






Princeton and Yale graduate
David Duchovny is one of the brightest actors of the last few decades. But
ducking out from "The X-Files" after Season 7 proved to be a dumb
move—his career tanked shortly thereafter. Luckily for Duchovny (and the rest
of us), special agent Fox Mulder returned to glory last year in an
"X-Files" reboot. Believe.



14 - Lisa Kudrow — IQ: 154






What did it take to land the
role of dim-witted and incredibly naive Phoebe Buffay on the wildly popular
television series "Friends"? An IQ of 154 coupled with a degree in
psychobiology from Vassar College. Turns out you've got to be pretty damn smart
to play dumb.



15 - Quentin Tarantino — IQ: 160






A high school dropout, Quentin
Tarantino has a reported IQ of 160, and his groundbreaking movie "Pulp
Fiction" reflects that. But no one would call him an intellectual snob.
"I don't believe in elitism," Tarantino once said. "I don't
think the audience is this dumb person, lower than me. I am the audience."



16 - Alicia Keyes — IQ: 154






Grammy winner Alicia Keyes was
her high school valedictorian (at age 16!) and briefly attended Columbia
University before dropping out to pursue music full-time. Her IQ is supposedly
154, but given her accomplishments to date, we think it might be even higher.



17 - Dolph Lundgren — IQ: 160






You probably never thought of
the ginormous Swede from "Rocky IV" as the smartest guy in the room.
But in most rooms, that would be the case. Dolph Lundgren has a master's degree
in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney and won a Fulbright
scholarship to MIT. Not only will he break you, he'll break down your chemical
elements and tell you exactly what you're made of.



18 - Jodie Foster — IQ: 132






The actress who played a
12-year-old prostitute in "Taxi Driver" was always precocious. She
was was talking at nine months and taught herself to read by the age of three.
After becoming bilingual at the Lycée Francais, she took a break from Hollywood
to study literature at Yale, where she graduated magna cum laude.



19 - Matt Damon — IQ: 160






He's the kid from Boston who
co-wrote and starred in "Good Will Hunting," about an undiscovered
math prodigy who cleans up around an Ivy League school. Well, maybe that role
wasn't such a stretch for Matt Damon, a genius with an IQ of 160 who dropped
out of Harvard to become one of the most bankable actors in show business
today.



20 - Nicole Kidman — IQ: 132






Poise, charm and eloquence are
often associated with brainy and highly evolved people, so it's no surprise
that Nicole Kidman's IQ rings in at 132. Further proof of her intelligence:
When she divorced Tom Cruise, she told the court she didn't want her children
raised in the Church of Scientology.



21 - Tommy Lee Jones — IQ: 135






With an IQ hovering around 135,
Tommy Lee Jones is no slouch. And his roommate at Harvard was Al Gore, who,
although he did not "invent the Internet," did win a Nobel Prize for
raising awareness of global climate change. Is it too late for the Gore-Jones
ticket to emerge? We might actually vote.



22 - Madonna — IQ: 140






It's safe to say that Madonna
is some kind of artistic genius who helped reshape pop culture throughout the
'80s, '90s and into the new millennium. And her IQ has been reported to land
around the 140 mark. Still, when people ask "What's her number?"
that's not usually what they're referring to.



23 - James Woods — IQ: 184






We were amazed to hear that
James Woods' IQ is a staggering 184. Wanna know who told us this? James Woods.
Hmmm. Well, he was accepted by MIT.



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