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All About Eve: She has no trouble playing the temptress — but Alice Eve has headier challenges in mind.

Love & War: From "Shock and Awe" in Iraq to tabloid sex scandals in the U.S., CBS News's Lara Logan remains unbowed, unafraid, and ready to return to the front lines.

Blonde Ambition: Rachael Taylor, star of the new film Bottle Shock, sits pretty — and gets noticed.

Net Worth: After a woeful World Cup, U.S. goalie Hope Solo is looking to settle some scores in Beijing.

Marc Baptiste: Marc Baptiste Nudes, is inspired by innocence, and captures achingly beautiful moments with women who might live up to the theme if they didn't seem so at ease with their allure. Here Baptiste talks to Men's Vogue about the way to earn a woman's trust, why eyes say more than flesh, and the irresistible mix of softness and strength.

A Singular Focus: A solo show highlights fashion photographer Paolo Roversi's work with his friend, model, and muse Guinevere van Seenus. The photos, taken over a period of 12 years, highlight the myriad forms of beauty Roversi captured from a single subject.

Fine Form: Zooey Deschanel takes an unlikely leap into the world of M. Night Shyamalan.

Role Player: Selma Blair has shone in dozens of films, inhabiting a gamut of characters from the frothy to the seedy. Now she's not only a leading lady — she's got her own action figure.

Playing Doctor: Olivia Wilde lived her own fantasy by marrying a prince at age 18. Now, as TV's new resident on House, Fox's hit medical mystery, she's making male viewers' dreams come true.

Lady Luck: As a blackjack ace in her new film, 21, Kate Bosworth plays the odds — and wins.

Water Baby: Natalie Coughlin currently holds five world records and may be the most versatile female American swimmer in history. Can she top herself in Beijing?

The Long View: With a name that translates as the "queen of love" and directors hiring her before they even meet her, is it any wonder Radha Mitchell is blissed-out?

Hot for Teacher: In her latest movie, Leslie Mann once again puts rude boys in their place.

Deep Focus: A Beijing-born cinematographer with camera-ready looks brings her uncompromising vision to the big screen.

Pirelli Calendar Girls: Since 1964, the luxurious Pirelli Calendar, sent out only to an exclusive group of VIPs, has celebrated beauty while pushing the boundaries of photography. A selection of some of the 800 images from The Complete Pirelli Calendars , out in March.

Addicted to Love: When it comes to risky roles, Melissa George of HBO's In Treatment can't get enough.

Mona Kuhn: Evidence: "In her effort to both capture and add another layer to what it really means to be human, Kuhn focuses on the naked human body. Evidence, a chronicle of a dozen years photographing friends at a nudist colony in southern France, is Kuhn's quiet, chiaroscuro manifesto, in which the male and female forms assume a near-totemic quality. Subtle references to revered works of Western art firmly ground Kuhn's work in the canon ('Familiar,' at right, pays tribute to Ingres, among others), while her palette of glowing skin and deep, suggestive shadows echoes Old Masters like Rembrandt and Vermeer."

Liz Cohen's Bodyworks: Liz Cohen turned herself into the ultimate mechanic—in a bikini—for art's sake. These photos are part of Liz Cohen's mixed-media piece titled Bodyworks.

Unseen: Guy Bourdin: Guy Bourdin could be wicked with his jeering placement of body parts or kinky aestheticizing of violence, but his humor and supersaturated color suck the viewer in.

Voice Lesson: Marion Cotillard went beyond beauty to conjure the mythic Edith Piaf — and it landed her an Oscar.

Women Studies: Stunning actresses and models seen through the lens of photographer Marc Hom.

Seductive Reasoning: Rachel Weisz, the Oscar-winner and thinking man's knockout, returns to her career with abandon. The white-hot flame has built a career not on her beauty but on intelligent, earthy, and sublimely natural performances, most notably her Oscar-winning turn in The Constant Gardener.

Worldly Talents: Try to imagine a woman being considered too pretty for the movies. That's what many Hollywood casting agents thought of Diane Kruger. But the German-born, London-trained, Paris-living beauty has made the model-to-actress turn.

Learning Curves: Michelle Monaghan has mastered surfing, marriage, and, with two marquee roles this fall, the Hollywood road map. Two things become clear after only a few minutes of the all-American Monaghan. First, the viewing public no longer leaves the 31-year-old in peace. The second: Her charm is as genuine as those bombshell looks.

Roman Goddess: Giovanna Mezzorgiorno began as a ballerina, but on the set of her movie Love in the Time of Cholera she really has to keep on her toes.

Ave Marina: In The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Marina Hands appears only as one man's memory — but it's obvious why she can't be forgotten.

Golden Girl: The Outback's latest export, Abbie Cornish, can milk a cow, rock a mic, and steal a scene. Cornish's self-sufficiency makes her a pure product of the arid tracts of Oz, and it can't have hurt her on-screen chemistry with countrymen Russell Crowe (A Good Year, her Hollywood debut) and the late Heath Ledger (Candy, a tale of married junkies that wails like an Edward Albee drama).

Nine Lives: Eluding her demons, Chan Marshall — aka Cat Power — purrs her way to a career high.

Pale Fire: Cate Blanchett is brainy. She's Australian. She's won just about everything. And she glows like a Vermeer brought to life.

Amber Valleta: A portfolio of Steven Meisel photos from the pages of Vogue.

Good Sport: From the back nine to the set of Spider-Man 3, Elizabeth Banks is in full swing. The Scrubs star lets her hair down beside the sea.

Lovely Threat: With three movies set for release, Amber Valletta is about to have her biggest year yet. But the supermodel, wife, and mother has a desire to get even more physical.

Eva Galore: Suspended in a cage on the set of Casino Royale, Eva Green began to wonder how a nice French girl got into such a bind. Meet the mademoiselle who whipped 007.

Brooklyn Proper: Jennifer Connelly puts her body in harm's way and risks her sanity playing dark roles. But the one thing the Blood Diamond star won't do is make a scene.