Johnny Depp is America's favorite movie star -- again

Johnny Depp is America's favorite movie star, according to a new poll of 2,237 adults conducted by the polling firm Harris Interactive. It's the second year in a row Depp, who appeared in three movies in 2011, has landed atop the chart.

Depp appeared in "The Rum Diary" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" and loaned his voice to the animated film "Rango." Which is enough to make him the favorite of women; Republicans and independents; Baby Boomers, Gen X-ers and Echo Boomers; Easterners, Midwesterners and Westerners.

Clint Eastwood was tops in the South; George Clooney was a favorite of grandparents and moderates; and Democrats love Denzel Washington.

The rest of the top five are: Clint Eastwood and Denzel Washington tied for No. 2, Tom Hanks and, incredibly, John Wayne. Wayne, who hasn't made a movie or done a talk show or had a messy tabloid breakup since his death in 1979, has been on the Harris list every year since 1994.

And yes, the list was open to both men and women, although only one woman was listed in the Top 10: Sandra Bullock came in at No. 7.

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--Patrick Kevin Day

Photo: Johnny Depp. Credit: Mike Coppola / Getty Images

Betty White voted America's 'most trusted' celebrity

Betty White has been voted America's favorite and most trusted celebrity, a new poll indicates.

White, the former "Golden Girls" funnywoman who is currently starring in TV Land's "Hot in Cleveland," beat out Paris Hilton and Charlie Sheen as the person "whose endorsement of a company would be most likely to drive business," according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll of 2,012 Americans.

And she didn't have to go to the Marine Corps birthday ball to do it.

The 89-year-old animal lover won an Emmy last year for her "Saturday Night Live" hosting gig, has appeared on "Community" and in Snickers commercials and was named Associated Press entertainer of the year last December. Perhaps that trustworthy face of hers could help do some damage this fall on her "Punk'd"-style prank show "Betty White's Off Their Rockers"?

The other most favorable celebrities behind White are Denzel Washington, Sandra Bullock, Clint Eastwood, Tom Hanks, Harrison Ford, Morgan Freeman (who tied for seventh place with Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge), Will Smith and Johnny Depp.

Topping the not-so-hot list are: Paris Hilton, Charlie Sheen, Britney Spears (who ties for third with Kanye West), Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tiger Woods, Kim Kardashian, Mel Gibson, Donald Trump and LeBron James.

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-- Nardine Saad
Twitter.com/NardineSaad

Photo: Betty White in June 2011. Credit: Christopher Polk / Getty Images

'21st Century Girl' Willow Smith wins new-artist NAACP Image Award [Music video]

 

Willow Smith is the kind of chick who knocks you off your feet, or so she says in her "21st Century Girl" music video that dropped Friday. And it's hard to argue with that logic.

On a night when Tyler Perry ruled the roost, the kid won an NAACP Image Award for outstanding new artist (beating Nicky Minaj and Bruno Mars, among others), is set to star in a remake of "Annie" and has a recording career clicking along, all at the tender age of 10.

She was in the company Friday night of fellow winners Usher, Mary J. Blige and John Legend and the Roots, to name a few, though Alicia Keys' "Un-thinkable (I'm Ready)" beat Willow's "Whip My Hair" for outstanding video.

Some more 2011 Image Award film winners of note: Halle Berry won for her "Frankie & Alice" performance, and the movie won for indie film. Denzel Washington was recognized for his turn in "The Book of Eli" -- besting Willow's brother Jaden Smith, who'd been nominated for "The Karate Kid."

Perry's "For Colored Girls" was named best film, and Perry also won the Chairman's Award in honor of his journey from difficult beginnings to a spot on Hollywood's A-list.

In the television group, "Tyler Perry's House of Payne" won for outstanding comedy series, with comedy lead-acting honors going to Vanessa Williams for "Desperate Housewives" and David Mann for "Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns."

Click for more photos of arrivals at the 42nd NAACP Image Awards.

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-- Christie D'Zurilla

Photo: Kimberly Elise and Tyler Perry on the red carpet before the 42nd NAACP Image Awards at the Shrine Auditorium on Friday. Credit: Lucy Nicholson / Reuters

'Unstoppable' premiere: Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson and pals roll into Westwood

Hollywood is full of train wrecks -- but at least a few of them are entertaining for the right reasons.

Take, for example, the movie "Unstoppable," which premiered Tuesday night in Westwood and stars Denzel Washington and Chris Pine as two guys try to stop a runaway train from wrecking and spilling toxic waste onto an entire town.

(Feel free to insert inappropriate Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan jokes here.)

Pine and Washington, with wife Pauletta Pearson at his side, were joined on the red carpet outside the Regency Village Theater by costars Rosario Dawson and Ethan Suplee, late of "My Name Is Earl," as well as cast members including Meagan Tandy, Jessy Schram, Elizabeth Mathis, Carly Steel, David Warshofsky, Kevin Dunn and Lew Temple. Producer Mimi Rogers and director Tony Scott made the scene too -- click the pic of Tandy at right to launch a photo gallery from the premiere, which was followed by an after-party at Westwood's Napa Valley Grille.

Also spotted: Jonathan Lipnicki, looking none the worse for wear after that "Family Guy" thing; Katelyn Pippy of "Army Wives," Cloris Leachman, Pussycat Doll Ashley Roberts and Nathan Kress and Ryan Ochoa of "iCarly."

"Unstoppable" opens in U.S. theaters Nov. 12.

-- Christie D'Zurilla

Top photo: Denzel Washington and his wife Pauletta Pearson attend the "Unstoppable" premiere on Tuesday in Westwood. Credit: Kevin Winter / Getty Images

Left photo: Chris Pine. Credit: Kevin Winter / Getty Images

Right photo: Meagan Tandy. Credit: Frazer Harrison / Getty Images

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Is Jay Pharoah 'SNL's' new Obama? Or Denzel Washington? Or Will Smith? Or all of the above?

 

"Saturday Night Live" announced four new cast members Tuesday, including one Jay Pharoah, a comedian and impressionist the Washington Post is floating as a likely replacement for Fred Armisen as the show's President Barack Obama.

Check out Pharoah's Obama impersonation above, and his Denzel Washington and Will Smith, below, and weigh in with your comments -- could Pharoah keep up, comedically, with the likes of Will Ferrell's President George W. Bush?

By the way, the other three new faces belong to Vanessa Bayer, Paul Brittain and Taran Killam, and the season opener will be hosted by alum and new mom Amy Poehler. Gone are Will Forte and Jenny Slate.

For the record, Pharoah wouldn't tip off the Post about any presidential hopes, so you'll have to decide for yourself.

 -- Christie D'Zurilla

 The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Carlos Santana proposes, Martin Lawrence gets married

There was so much love in the air over the weekend, we're having to bundle it up in bulk.

Four songs into his set at a concert Friday in Illinois, guitarist Carlos Santana proposed to girlfriend Cindy Blackman -- right after she finished her drum solo. She said yes, they kissed and the crowd went wild. It'll be the second marriage for Santana. 

Then on Saturday, actor Martin Lawrence and longtime girlfriend Shamicka Gibbs were married in the backyard of their home in Beverly Hills, with the likes of Denzel Washington and Eddie Murphy among the 120 guests. 

Their daughters Ameria, 7, and Lyana, 9, and his daughter Jasmine, 14, served as flower girls.

-- Christie D'Zurilla

Photo: Carlos Santana arrives at the Grammy Awards on Jan 31, 2010, in Los Angeles. Credit: Chris Pizzello / Associated Press

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Denzel Washington shooting for the 'Fences' on Broadway

Like so many of his Hollywood counterparts recently, Denzel Washington is headed for Broadway. He'll star in a revival of August Wilson's "Fences," Culture Monster reports.

The show opens in April and will run only through July.

We're excited!

With the likes of Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Craig, Hugh Jackman, Abigail Breslin and Jude Law hanging out in New York, Broadway can make some of those ads like Macy's runs, where all the famous people show up in the department store after hours and have dinner together and act as if they're great friends.

Except it would be in a theater. And they'd all probably still be in way-heavy stage makeup. And some people might just send their understudies because, really, who wants to keep hanging out in the theater that late at night, especially after leaving it all onstage?

Maybe it would be a better idea if we were talking about the Broadway.

Alas, we date ourselves.

-- Christie D'Zurilla 

Photo: We hope Denzel Washington isn't hoping for a little alone time when he heads to Broadway. Seems like half of Hollywood is making it a home away from home. Credit: Lucy Nicholson / AFP / Getty Images.

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