Hang Over star Bradley Cooper the Sexiest Man Alive

Bradley Cooper has been voted the 'Sexiest Man Alive' by People magazine this year.


The 36-year-old actor topped the list of 123 'super hot guys' that included George Clooney and Brad Pitt alongside comedy stars like Modern Family's 'Ty Burrell and Family Guy creator, Seth MacFarlane.

'I think it's really cool that a guy who doesn't look like a model can have this,' the Daily Mail quoted Cooper as telling People magazine.

'I think I'm a decent-looking guy. Sometimes I can look great, and other times I look horrifying,' he said.

As Ryan Gosling fans cry foul play in front of People's office, we look at this year's droolworthy hunk's back story and work.

Australian Box Office Results: 'The Hangover II' On Top

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The Hangover II has topped the Australian box office for the second week running.

The comedy sequel, which stars Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms, generated more than $5 million in ticket sales.

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Hangover 3 to be set in Ireland?

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It looks like The Hangover is about to confirm that Ireland is the party capital of the world. Actor Bradley Cooper has let slip a possible plot point for 'The Hanover 3', speaking to The Herald he said Hollywood bosses were considering Dublin as a setting for the next installment in the hit comedy franchise.

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Renee Zellweger Furious With Bradley Cooper

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Renee Zellweger has been left rocked by claims her ex-boyfriend Bradley Cooper has hooked up with actress Olivia Wilde.

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Bradley Cooper says 'Hangover Helped My Career'

Bradley Cooper has 'more doors opened' to him since he appeared in 'The Hangover'.

The 36-year-old actor - who began his career with a small part on 'Sex and the City' opposite Sarah Jessica Parker - is thankful for the 2009 comedy movie, but still has to audition to get parts.

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The Hangover Part II: North American ticket sales expected to exceed $100 Million

There will be no headache for "The Hangover Part II" this holiday weekend, with North American ticket sales expected to exceed $100 million.

And unlike the pain of last Memorial Day, there should be no holiday headache for Hollywood, either, with several strong movies in the marketplace likely to boost this year's total for one of the busiest movie-going periods of the year to well over $200 million.

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'The Hangover Part II' a Funny, Formulaic, Desperately Shocking Carbon Copy

Business and creative people go together as well as fine wine at a burger joint. Riding on the heels of the monumentally profitable “The Hangover,” in “The Hangover Part II” the brass win out over the artists.

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Film Review: The Hangover: Part II

The headache has truly set in for the laboured and self-conscious The Hangover Part II. It's more a remake than a sequel.

We all enjoyed ourselves during that first movie. But now … well, the hangover has begun. And begun so powerfully, so oppressively, that you might almost suspect the success of the original was created specifically to engender this comedown as a piece of conceptual art. 

Each reminder of the original, each repetition, each desperate, hair-of-the-dog attempt to recapture the party feeling: it's exactly like living through a hungover flashback-memory of what had once seemed so great.

In Hollywood, said William Goldman, nobody knows anything. Who knew The Hangover, from fratpack comedy director Todd Phillips, was going to be such a huge hit? Nobody – perhaps not even the people involved. The story of a Vegas bachelor party that goes horribly wrong looked pretty ropey on paper, and yet it was great. Some thought it was sort of a monkey-typing-Hamlet fluke, but it's actually the sort of fluke that only happens to smart people who keep trying.

The Hangover was funny and the structure was daring. Act one: pre-party – then we jump straight to act three, post-party, and the movie is about the bleary, amnesiac guys trying to piece together act two: what the hell happened? This is not definitively revealed until the sequence of digital photos over the final credits. Brilliant! It showed the spirit of movies like The Usual Suspects or Reservoir Dogs.Bradley Cooper had the chops – he had been a forgettable, almost invisible presence in many movies before this, but he blossomed in H1. There were some cracking comedy turns. Zach Galifianakis was great as the weirdo brother-in-law Alan and Ken Jeong was a real find as the abusive comedy gangster Mr Chow. Everything came together.

Sadly, H2 can't even quite claim the credit of being the first Hangover sequel: the road-movie comedy Due Date, directed by Todd Phillips and starring Galifianakis and Robert Downey Jr, attempted to cash in on its success, none too successfully. At least it tried a vaguely different plot. Hangover Part II seeks only to repeat almost every element of the first movie. It's not a sequel, closer to a shot-for-shot remake. This time, the guys go to Thailand for a wedding, in the same shark-jumping way that the Sex and the City girls whooshed off to Abu Dhabi for their profoundly depressing sequel. It feels a bit like a feature-length Christmas special of a well-loved British sitcom.

The original's quirks have now become a formula. The grim daytime shots of Vegas at the beginning are now grim daytime shots of Bangkok; the tiger is now a monkey; there's a different sequence of photos over the final credits. Pretty much everything has its equivalent. Infuriatingly, all the fun has been drained from the movie, simply in repeating almost every trick. The same: but lame, and lame because the same.

Now it's the nerdy dentist Stu (Ed Helms) getting hitched, to a beautiful Thai woman Lauren (Jamie Chung), whose father hates Stu. Slightly insultingly for Justin Barth, his character Doug was the groom-to-be who disappeared in the first movie but he doesn't get a turn at participating in the hi-jinks now.

Stu stays in the story and Barth's nice-but-dull character is sidelined. Stu's goofiness is evidently considered more important to the action, and Phillips perhaps considers that the gang already has a handsome guy in the form of Cooper's Phil. 

Now it's the bride's sweet younger brother Teddy who tags along on the stag night, disappears, and has to be found at all costs, because he is the apple of his father's eye: he is played by 21-year-old Mason Lee, son of the director Ang Lee. Jeong and Galifianakis seem very subdued and under-par compared to their earlier appearances.

Then there's the question of the big non-PC cameo to match Mike Tyson's bizarre performance in the original. Rumours have been rife. We had heard about Mel Gibson (that idea was abandoned), Liam Neeson (reportedly cut) and even Bill Clinton.

Actually, Paul Giamatti makes an appearance as a bad-tempered tough guy, but this isn't the big cameo – that comes in the form of the celebrity booked to sing at Stu's wedding. You may be hoping for Liza Minnelli. Well, no spoilers, but suffice it to say, this too is a bit of a letdown.

Making The Hangover Part II must have been like going up to a great guitarist who'd just pulled off a brilliant improvised solo, and telling him he had to repeat the performance the next night, note-for-note. The result is self-conscious to say the least.

I have to admit that there are one or two nice lines. When the guys gather outside Alan's bedroom, preparing to invite him along, Jeffrey Tambor, playing Alan's father, tells them to "Go in slowly; let him acclimatise." When Stu defiantly claims: "There's a demon in me!", Alan hits him with a zinging comeback in the bad-taste spirit of the first film. Flashes of fun like this are rare. It's a sobering experience.

'The Hangover 2' drunk on formula, not originality

For anyone who has seen "The Hangover" and loved it, it won't come as any big surprise to see that adage at work in "The Hangover Part II."

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The Hangover II: It's never quite as fun the second time

Director Todd Phillips’s modus operandi when crafting the The Hangover Part II was clearly thus: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

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Hollywood Actress Jennifer Aniston in love with Bradley Cooper?

Hollywood Actress Jennifer Aniston from movies such as Just Go With It with costar  Adam Sandler, a long time friends of hers, and the TV show Friends, in her role as Rachel Green, with actress Courteney Cox, has been in the media’s eye over the years, either for being with a new partner, getting a Hollywood divorce, being single, or rumored to be ‘too friendly’ with someone new.

The newest rumors circulating about Jennifer are that she and actor Bradley Cooper from the movie The Hangover with actor Zach Galifianakis, are dating and completing ‘in love’.  Aniston, recently in the news for speaking her mind on being a single woman in Hollywood and loving it, is always being watch to see who she’s hanging out with next!  Is it true that the frequenter of the Actors Studio, known for his drama and the Hollywood actress are dating?

After his recent breakup from Hollywood actress Renee Zellweger from movies such as Jerry McGuire with actor Tom Cruise, many speculated as to whether Aniston and Cooper would get back together.  After exchanging text messages and phone calls over the past few months, it appears the two are closer to reuniting.  With Jennifer stating he might be ‘the one’, perhaps we will be hearing wedding bells in their future? Maybe a bit premature!  But maybe they might consider giving it another serious try.  One source reveals the two have discussed working on a new movie together – can you say foreshadowing?

A very active green celebrity, humanitarian actress Jennifer Aniston has helped her fair share of charities throughout her Hollywood career.  A spokeswoman for St. Jude’s Research Hospital, Aniston has also worked with charitable foundations that include Friends of El Faro and GLAAD (The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation).    Friends of El Faro works with children who are living in poverty, helping them get new homes and attend school.   Visit their website here for more information on how you can help a child today.   GLADD works to raise awareness on equal human rights, the movement for gay marriages, and increasing the visibility of the LGBT community in the public eye in terms of advocacy and law changes.

Actor Bradley Cooper has worked extensively with the charity Learning Through Expanded Arts Program (LEAP).  The LEAP works to ensure that the arts are included in classroom curriculum throughout the United States. In current legislature throughout the country, many art programs have been taken out of the public schools.  Want to help their cause? Visit the LEAP website today.

Bradley Cooper in “The Crow” and other bizarre casting news

Hollywood has definitely been up to some odd casting as of late, including yesterday’s news that Bradley Cooper might be cast in a remake of “The Crow.”

With the way things ended for Brandon Lee the first time around, this kind of seems like one of those “cursed” movie projects (a la “Poltergeist”).  It was bad enough that the movie had to be finished with a double the first time around -- it’s hard to imagine how Lee’s fans will feel about this bit of casting news (then again, they might have all grown out of that goth, angsty stage).

In another bit of angsty casting news, “True Grit” star Hailee Steinfeld has been cast as a star-crossed lover in yet another “Romeo and Juliet” movie (hopefully this one doesn’t try to get all modernized like the one starring Leo that tried to be all edgy by including a plus sign in the title).  It’s hard to imagine her getting romantic after her last gritty performance, so it will be very impressive if the 14-year-old can pull it off.  Lily Collins was evidently up for the role, but likely abandoned it in favor of her Snow White project.

Of course Kristen Stewart and Lily Collins both seem like odd Snow White choices, since they would be considered more like “cute girls” than the “fairest in the land,” and it’s going to be hard not to imagine Armie Hammer as a Winklevii opposite Collins as her prince charming. 

Speaking of the Winkleveii, after hiring a lot of big names for “The Dark Knight Rises,” Josh Pence seems like an odd choice for Christopher Nolan -- he was the other Winklevoss twin in “The Social Network,” where Hammer’s face was superimposed over his.  But at least now the juicy role will make him feel better about something so self-esteem crushing (“Sorry, this guy’s a better actor and better looking, so we’re going to go with his image for twins.”)  He’ll be playing a young Ra's Al Ghul -- Liam Neeson played the older version of the villain in “Batman Begins.”

And speaking of Liam Neeson, it’s extremely odd that his part in "The Hangover Part II" was cut and re-filmed with director Nick Cassavetes.  Since the tattoo artist role was first going to go to Mel Gibson, it seemed like it was supposed to be this funny, cool cameo, but now few filmgoers will even recognize the pivotal character.  It kind of seems like director Todd Phillips might be cracking under the pressure to make this one as good as the first and freaking out a little bit, so hopefully the movie (which looked exactly like the first one based on the trailer that got pulled) doesn’t turn out to be a disaster.  

In other bizarre casting news involving Nick Cassavetes, Lindsay Lohan is trying to push her way into his Gotti biopic, attending a press conference for the movie despite just being “in talks” for the part.  With her legal drama, it’s surprising she’s being considered at all.

So are casting directors on drugs?  Next thing you know Charlie Sheen will be cast as Gandhi and Britney Spears as Mother Theresa in a “winning” casting combo.