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Stars Turning 50 in 2011

Stars Turning 50 in 2011

 From the most powerful person in the world, to Hollywood’s most die-hard bachelor, to the youngest “Brady Bunch” star, several well-known figures will push past the half-century mark in 2011. So get ready to wish the following folks happy 50th.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Movie trailers are liars.
If they’re not using the only two funny scenes in the movie to make you think the entire movie is funny, or creatively splicing scenes together to completely misrepresent the movie, they’re using scenes that don’t even make it into the movie. The New York Times once ran an entire story about how many of the scenes in the National Treasure: Book of Secrets trailer weren’t actually in the movie. (We expect more from you, Nic Cage.)
Why do the suits who market movies create trailers that have little to do with the real films? Because they’ll do anything to convince suckers like us to shell out for a ticket.
Okay, not all trailers are bogus … but these 10 sure are. Read on to find out why. And since this is the Internet, we’re contractually obligated to say this: Spolier alert