The cover of Kate Hudson scares me. Mostly because it looks like she's been selected for the "100 Most Plastic People in the World" cover.

Also, maybe God got annoyed with People magazine for their apparent authority over the most beautiful people in the world and decided to smite most of the cover subjects. I like that idea. It makes me smile.

This issue has always struck me as ridiculous because they just choose whoever is particularly popular at the time.

Also, I am pretty damn sure that one issue contained Al Gore.

I say "no" on the curse because none of these people had problems immediately after their covers; Meg Ryan and Tom Cruise had more years of success before becoming laughingstocks. It's not a curse in the way Sports Illustrated was that one year (like Nomar had this big cover and then had a season-ending injury two weeks later), or that one John Madden video game. Yeah, that's how I sound when I try to talk about sports.

Is that Joey Lawrence on the 1994 cover? I was 13 at the time and even then I thought he was a no-talent dork, while all my other idiot friends swooned.

Damn. I had Amy Winehouse in the office pool.

How about the "Most Douchey"?

Any chance at legitimacy was ruined by the inclusion of Rumer Willis (!) on this list.

I don't know, beautiful people, especially famous ones, have a tendency to be vapid, self-centered assholes. So what happened to them isn't so much a curse as it is thinking you can do whatever you want because you're beautiful and famous.

If your right Defamer, it's all about to go south for Kate, Patrick (my guess is divorice) and Halle (destination Splitsville, populatiion you)

Yes, the curse is being hounded by People when you go to the supermarket or nail salon...

Not true

Leonardo DiCaprio - after Titanic, lol whut?

Julia Roberts - when's the last movie she made? if nothing else she has been since knocked from making the most cash ever

here's to Colbert, and him never making it in the front!

I have it from a very reliable source that Miss Hudson has very thin stringy hair and always, always, wears extensions and pieces. Also, she is a bitch.

Shoot your heroes while they're still young and haven't screwed up yet. Or possibly after they've made their 1st million and haven't gone insane yet.

@DorothyZbornak: Ding-Ding! We have a winner.

I agree that it just marks the nadir of the most narcissistic of the populace of Ho'wood; perhaps not exactly the moment they realize their shite stinks, too, but definitely after they start believing in their own myth.

@Truvill: Julia Roberts just did Charlie Wilson's War.

Kate Hudson??

The woman that Pimps are applauding everywhere for they way she turned out Owen Wilson out & drove him to suicide because he couldn't ride the needle like her ex-hubby??

(Whom she is also rumored to have turned out)

Suddenly Maxim's Hot chick list just gained all kinds of credibility...

@secretagentman: And the late Julia Phillips snarked over the greasy hair of Kate's birth mother, Goldie Hawn.

So the hair from that gene pool has definite deficiencies.

Besides, any magazine put out by what used to be called Time/Life carries(carried) a curse with it. The curse my family suffered from was that everytime my mother decided to subscribe to 'Time', my father would come home and tell us we were moving again...

@Priam: And she had to bleach her hair and the box office was distinctly lackluster despite Tom Hanks and Phillip Seymour Hoffman as fellow thesbians on board.

And TC has just gone fuckin' nuts...

@Priam: Which would have been a greatly improved film if, say, Michelle Pfeifer or Joan Allen had played Joanne Herring.

Kate Hudson is beautiful? -- Not! She belongs on the cover of the 50 Most Obnoxious People of the Year. I've seen her on set, where she spit gum out at her crew.

@busyness:

Yeah, what on earth is Potato Head doing on that list? That girl is unfortunate looking.

I assume there is some kind of kickback system--that would make sense. Some kind of favor from Bruce or Demi in return for calling their hideous daughter "beautiful."

I can think of a 100 people right off the top of my head who are prettier than Kate Hudson, and none of them are even famous.

She's not Beautiful, she's more like Blah-tiful.

If she's so beautiful, then why the pancake makeup and airbrushed photo?

I think they bestow this honor based on who will grant them an interview. She is clearly not even close to being one of the most beautiful people in the world - she has her moments which I attribute 99.9% of that to her blonde, curly hair because she looks extremely odd when they make it dark or straight for movies. And the cover shot is terrible.

@layladylan: Remember when Rumsfeld made the "Sexiest Man" issue in 2002? Yiiiiikes.

@whitekidinflatbush: wow...that was way back…when Tom Cruise had an adult haircut.

@layladylan: Actual physical beauty is to the People 100 More Beautiful People Issue as Actual Musical Talent is to the Grammys...

Kate is not a bitch, shes just rich and y'know how the song goes "if you wanna be rich, you gotta be a bitch". . . she is kewl. Check her here as shot by Darren Ankenman

[darrenankenman.com]

@DorothyZbornak: So that means Robert Downey, Jr. is gonna be on it for next year, right?

holy shit i didn't think Her mom had enough money left to live on - let alone buy her daughter the cover of people magazine...

what ever.

she'd be lucky to win best-looking at a eating disorder treatment ward.

@Truvill: they're probably referring to Leo's 2 subsequent Oscar nominations (not counting the one he received before the cover), 2 Golden Globe nominations, 1 Golden Globe win, and the fact that Martin Scorsese cast him as the lead in 3 of his movies, with a 4th on the way. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say his credentials legitimize his career. Plus, you know, his talent.

I hope Kate Hudson isn't cursed by getting this cover. I really don't want to see her making a string of shitty movies and dating tools like Dax Shepherd.