Looking Back
HOT GALLERY: 10 Stars Who Fell Victim to the Oscar Curse
Winning an Oscar is the dream of almost every actor, actress, and precious stage dog—we love you, Uggie!—this side of Hollywood and Vine. What aspiring thespian hasn’t clutched a hairbrush while standing in the mirror, tearfully thanking her agent, parents, and Pilates instructor who knew the name of that discreet plastic surgeon? But what they don’t tell you when you step off the bus from Iowa—because that still happens, right?—is that winning an Academy Award can also be a curse. Or you just have a really bad knack for picking scripts. (We’ll go with cursed.) By Katherine Butler
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Gwyneth Paltrow—Today
Sure, it’s hard to argue that Paltrow has been “cursed” since Oscar, as the actress seems to live a charmed life with two healthy children, a solid marriage to Coldplay’s Chris Martin, and a thriving business of shilling overpriced lifestyle tidbits as the Queen of Goop.com. But has she done a decent film since? With the exception of The Royal Tenenbaums—where, admittedly, Empress Goop shined—we have Shallow Hal, View from the Top, and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Paltrow has appeared as a backup player in Iron Man and a Typhoid Mary type in Contagion. Where she died and had her skullcap sawed off. At least we know she has a sense of humor about her career.
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