#this and jonathan vowing to walk into hell with mina if she dies

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Mina Harker né Murray was handed her husband's journal of the darkest, most shameful, most mad period in his life and, rather than even think of opening it, she wrapped it in paper, tied it shut with the ribbon she wore around her neck, and sealed it with wax using her just-received wedding ring as the seal, as proof of her trust in her husband.

Damn.

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Globe, November 30

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Cover: The palace lured Princess Diana into death trap 

Page 2: Up Front & Personal -- Sienna Miller shooting Anatomy of a Scandal, former soap star Wanda De Jesus and longtime partner Jimmy Smits take a walk in Brentwood, Mama June Shannon gambles on plastic surgery 

Page 3: Billy Dee Williams may walk with a cane but he doesn’t let that stop him from taking the wheel in West Hollywood, Joey Fatone at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, Ariel Winter lugs around a massive roll of bubble wrap in L.A. 

Page 4: Courageous Al Roker has battled health problems for years and now his new devastating prostate cancer diagnosis seals his rep as the unluckiest man on TV

* Patrick Duffy and Linda Purl are proof that love can be just as wonderful in your golden years and now pals predict their whirlwind romance will lead them to an elopement -- the former Dallas star was heartbroken after his wife of 43 years died of cancer in 2017 but Happy Days alum Linda brought joy back into his life -- the greying sweethearts plan to spend the holidays with both their families and then go house hunting for their own place

Page 5: Kanye West thinks he’s so smart and wonderful and creative he’s showering bucks on a project to make a posse of his own personal mini-mes and he sees his clones as his gift to the world claiming it’s his duty to keep himself on the planet at all costs long after he’s gone so death doesn’t have to be the end of Kanye -- Kanye’s wife Kim Kardashian has given Kanye permission to double down on himself -- he’s also fascinated by cryogenics and no one would be surprised if he arranges to have himself stored in a chamber when he dies so he can be revived years later 

Page 6: Britney Spears is having another family feud because she wants her dad Jamie Spears suspended immediately from his role as co-conservator of her estate claiming he installed a new business manager to run her $60 million fortune without consulting his daughter in what she brands a blatant attempt to get full functional control of her assets and books and records in the face of Britney’s objections

* Ryan Seacrest is turning into a bloated recluse as career and personal problems have worried pals thinking about an intervention -- he’s so devastated by his breakup with Shayna Taylor and the end of cash cow Keeping Up with the Kardashians that he’s shutting himself away for days on end and ignoring calls from friends and co-workers and only responding to texts and he’s stuffing his face with junk food and sloppy takeout and pizzas and he’s come close to belching on camera a few times 

Page 7: Devastated widow Paulina Porizkova who her bitter husband Ric Ocasek cut out of his will even though she took care of him in his final days suffered a shocking collapse -- she had gone to Costa Rica with her sons for a change of scenery following the death of Ric who was divorcing her -- she says she had a total nervous breakdown in the airport and they had to put her in a wheelchair to take her back to the plane

* Abby Lee Miller is learning to walking again -- the former Dance Moms star had been using a wheelchair after undergoing chemo for Burkitt lymphoma and having life-saving spinal surgery but she’s now cancer-free and recently underwent an elective operation to help regain mobility -- even though Lifetime canned her plan spinoff Abby’s Virtual Dance Off over charges she’s racist she claims to have a scripted show and two reality series in the works 

Page 8: Mike Tyson says he once used a prosthetic penis loaded with his infant son’s pee to pass a drug test during his hard-hitting heyday in the ring and although he swears he never took performance-enhancing drugs he has been blunt about his history of toking weed and snorting cocaine 

* Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond reveals she has a foster son named Jamar -- Ree who has four children explains she couldn’t talk about Jamar until he turned 18 and state agency restrictions no longer applied 

Page 9: Beloved Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek went to his grave harboring a bitter grudge against talk star and game show rival Regis Philbin -- Alex and Regis began their feud in 2000 when Alex slammed Regis’ Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? as a game show for dummies and Regis was deeply hurt by the dig and shot back that face to face if Alex says anything about Millionaire he’d just look him in the eye and say is that your final answer, Alex? 

Page 10: Inside the modern Mafia -- blogs and blunders and killer cops

Page 12: Celebrity Buzz -- Adam Brody shows off his bod in Malibu (picture), Lamar Odom was seemingly back on a marriage track to wed fitness instructor Sabrina Parr next year but Lamar’s engagement was abruptly called off amid ominous sparks of ongoing trouble for the athlete and Sabrina sad she’s no longer able to be by Lamar’s side while he seeks the help he so desperately needs, Mina Starsiak of Good Bones wants a postpartum tummy tuck pronto, things got bristlier than an old broom for Anne Hathaway groveling her way out of massive fan backlash for her appearance on The Witches remake for the insensitive way she portrayed a three-fingered witch with split hands, behind the scenes at The Tonight Show where Jimmy Fallon recently extended his lucrative contract to host the struggling late-night talk show past 2021 but his head writer Rebecca Drysdale lasted six months of butting heads with Jimmy and his cronies before getting dumped 

Page 13: Katie Holmes and boyfriend Emilio Vitolo Jr. (picture), Sean Stewart in a leg cast in Beverly Hills (picture), Busy Philipps puts on lip gloss on the NYC set of Girls5Eva (picture)

Page 14: Dave Grohl got scared stiff recording an upcoming album in an eerie L.A. home reportedly rocking with paranormal activity and when he got nosy about the place’s past he apparently got answers from the landlord along with an NDA form meant to keep him from spilling secrets, RHOBH star Kyle Richards’ half-sister Kathy Hilton is joining the show; socialite Kathy cold-shouldered Kyle and her husband Mauricio Umansky when he left her husband Rick Hilton’s real estate company to launch a rival biz 

* Fashion Verdict -- Jana Kramer 7/10, Michelle Dockery 4/10, Gretta Monahan 3/10, Charlize Theron 2/10

Page 16: Ailing pop star Phil Collins is being so publicly humiliated by his two-timing ex-wife Orianne Cevey who dashed his dreams of a permanent reunion by secretly marrying another guy pals now fear for his life -- Phil is currently battling Orianne in court over his $38.6 million waterside Miami mansion which she and new husband Thomas Bates have now agreed to vacate but Orianne is demanding half of the home insisting Phil promised her a 50 percent share when they moved into it in 2016 -- Orianne also claims that Phil became a hopeless addict in 2017 hooked on booze and pain pills and after two years of drug hell he was incapable of having sex and he stopped showering and brushing his teeth and had become a hermit 

Page 17: Troubled Jonathan Rhys Meyers crashed his car in Malibu and failed a field sobriety test and was slapped with a misdemeanor DUI 

* Teresa Giudice has found new love with business man Louie Ruelas just two months after divorcing deported jailbird Joe Giudice -- the Real Housewives of New Jersey star who has four girls with Joe hooked up with the dad of two and digital marketing whiz and both are very happy 

Page 19: 10 Things You Don’t Know About David Giuntoli 

* Sophia Loren says early in her career she told a director to buzz off when he suggested she surgically alter her nose -- she recalls telling the meddling moviemakers her nose is going to stay there forever and it has a lot of personality 

* Parkinson’s patient Michael J. Fox admits he may be forced to say goodbye to Hollywood because his short-term memory is shot and acting is getting tougher to do 

Page 20: True Crime 

Page 21: Desperate to salvage his tarnished reputation and career Johnny Depp is hoping to hook up with another Hollywood outcast in former co-star Angelina Jolie -- Johnny and Angie first flirted while filming The Tourist in 2010 but at the time Johnny was with Vanessa Paradis and Angie was with Brad Pitt -- Johnny recently reached out to Angie to jumpstart their friendship and he’s been sending her poems written with her in mind and suggestions for book to read and music to listen to and they’ve exchanged a series of emails and texts and talk on the phone quite a bit so Johnny has hope to win her heart and they’re making plans to meet in L.A. very soon but the ball is in Angie’s court and she’s open to having a little fun but don’t count on anything getting too serious 

* Johnny Depp’s career has taken another hit as he’s been axed from the Fantastic Beasts film franchise after a British court determined he beat ex-wife Amber Heard at least a dozen times

Page 24: Cover Story -- Princess Diana was lured to her death by a twisted dirty tricks campaign orchestrated by the palace -- acting at the direction of Queen Elizabeth’s hard-case husband Prince Philip British intelligence officers mounted a clever operation to drive Prince Charles’ emotionally fragile wife to the breaking point and they knew she was frantic and suicidal and vulnerable and played on her worst fears -- Diana’s own brother Charles Spencer has also broken a 25-year silence to expose a plot against the People’s Princess and he reveals forged documents and a whisper campaign hinting at treacherous betrayals fueled her paranoia and desperation and despair and pushed her into a decision that ultimately cost her life 

Page 26: Health Report

Page 30: Rock legend Jerry Lee Lewis vowed to keep wailing ‘til the end but the 85-year-old stroke victim now spends his days listening to his old hits and staring out the window and his health has taken a tragic turn for the worse since he was clobbered by the stroke last year -- he’s hunched over and seems confused and he’s forgetful and can’t remember some of the lyrics to his oldest hits; he tries to play the piano and just can’t because his hands are so stiff and don’t move the way he wants them to 

* Mel B claims she’ll go bankrupt if a judge doesn’t lower the $500,000 she’s been ordered to pay her ex-husband and if the sum isn’t modified she will in all likelihood have to file for bankruptcy -- Mel and ex Stephen Belafonte divorced three years ago and have been slugging it out in court ever since

Page 44: Straight Talk -- lifestyle queen bees Martha Stewart and Gwyneth Paltrow are at each other’s throats but their furious feud is hard to understand because they’re not really in the same business -- Martha is the ultimate homemaker peddling recipes and furnishings and decorating tips while Gwyneth’s New Age-style Goop website is a sleazy sex shop with items normally found in tacky joints along West Hollywood’s sleazy Santa Monica Boulevard 

Page 45: Sinead O’Connor is taking a break to enter a one-year trauma and addiction treatment program after losing a loved one and she admits she’s been addicted to weed for 34 years but became briefly addicted to another drug following her loss

* Sean Connery’s wealthy widow Micheline Roquebrune could end up behind bars and fined a whopping $28 million if convicted of stiffing the Spanish taxman -- the tax-cheat case spans back to 1999 when Sean sold their Marbella mansion on the glitzy Costa del Sol; Connery’s lawyer and the mayor of Marbella and six other elected officials were jailed over a tax-cheat scam involving the property but in 2014 Sean was told he wouldn’t be prosecuted but now Spanish bigwigs say the case has not gone away and want to indict his widow for tax fraud

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Cinematic Comic Characters Ranked! (Year 2003) Part III

Seven comic book movies made their mark during the 2003 year. A big year for sequels as we got X2: X-Men United, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life. Making their debut to the big screen is Daredevil and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. And a first on our list, we got TWO sequels from one series: The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. With two previous champions (Wolverine in 2000 and Lara Croft in 2001) going up against a whole new group of contenders, this list was one of the more exciting ones to make! Here’s #39 through #21!

*SPOILERS AHEAD FOR ALL THE MOVIES HIGHLIGHTED ABOVE*

39. Sati (The Matrix Revolutions)

"I did it for Neo."

Thanks to her amazing father, Sati is able to avoid deletion and live with the Oracle. She sweetly pops in and out of Revoltions, easily bonding with everyone she meets. Except Agent Smith. She knows bad when she sees it and tells him just that right before he hijacks her into becoming him. When Neo saves the Matrix she returns to normal and reunites with Seraph and The Oracle, creating a beautiful sunrise for Neo.

38. Kosa (Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life)

"Do you ever do things the easy way?"

When Lara's quest to stop Reiss from getting Pandora's box takes her to Africa, she reconnects with her friend, Kosa, who serves as her guide amongst the villagers. He's highly knowledgeable in the legends of Pandora's box and is quick thinking on his feet when Reiss and his security come through. He tricks them into going through a dangerous trail that gets all of Reiss's men killed by these giant nature monsters. After Lara saves the day he gladly escorts the crew home.

37. Councillor Hamann (The Matrix Reloaded & Revolutions)

"Old men like me don't bother with making points."

Maybe it's because of my country's current mess known as the government it was very hard to trust Hamann when he was first introduced. When he proved to really be a good guy with the best intentions for Neo and for Zion I was good. It's thanks to his strong belief in Neo that Lock constantly doesn't get his way. Not that his was is evil or anything, but it's wrong and had they listened to him, they would've all been dead.

36. Captain Nemo (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)

"I walk a different path."

Captain Nemo is a pirate that owns an incredible ship, is great with a sword, and worships the Goddess of Death in his spare time. Despite being a pirate he seems to have an honor code and helps out his fellow League members anyway he can. After they save the day, He decides to explore the world on his ship, inviting the rest of the League members.

35. Professor Charles Xavier (X2: X-Men United)

"Mr. President we're here to stay. The next move is yours."

Trying to calm down tensions between mutants and humans Professor X accidentally falls into Stryker's trap and gets kidnapped so Stryker can get him to work his own Cerebro. With the help of his weaponized son, Jason, Stryker fools Professor X into almost killing every mutant on the planet and when Magneto shows up, he almost ends up killing every human on the planet. It isn't until Storm and Nightcrawler show up that Professor snaps out of his killing machine mindset and leaves with his students to safety. After Jean dies, Professor X leads the X-Men to confront the U.S. President and works out a sort of peace to finally ease the tension between the two human species.

34. Kid (The Matrix Reloaded & Revolutions)

"The machines don't care how old I am. They'll kill me just the same."

It's hilarious that we never learn the name of one of the handful of people who were key components to Zion's survival during the first wave of attack from the sentinels. "Kid" was rescued by Neo himself from the Matrix and now looks up to the Chosen One. He also wants to do anything he can to help out in the war and gets taken under Mifune's wing when they prepare for the sentinel's attack. When all the chips seem down it's the Kid who ends up saving the day by opening the gate's for Niobe's ship to wreck havoc on the sentinels. When Neo ends the war, the Kid gladly decides to become the messenger and spreads the news throughout Zion.

33. Kate Brewster (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)

"I hate machines."

In the present she's a regular veterinarian that gets her world rocked when she runs into a druggie, a female robot trying to kill her, and a male robot trying to save her. She get's even more shook when she finds out she's marrying said druggie and will become an important figure in the resistance against Skynet and it's machines. The whole movie she fights with this knowledge until about when she realizes her dad is in danger. Even though she's going to be important in the future, she's not really capable of doing anything now and is always in constant need of protection from Terminator.

32. Agent Smith (The Matrix Reloaded & Revolutions)

"We're here to take from you what you took from us. Purpose."

Honestly I was a little over the fact that Agent Smith ended up being the main villain. Yeah he now had this cool virus-like power to turn everyone in the matrix into himself, including Seraph and the all knowing Oracle, but he must've fought Neo like fifteen times in the trilogy so pardon me that I wasn't pumped to see them go at it again. I think it was also a bit anticlimactic because we've seen him get his ass handed to him every single time prior so I didn't really think we were going to get a different outcome. And we didn't. Neo saves the day and Agent Smith complains about life being unfair before he blows up, even though he was the one practically cheating the whole time.

31. Wilson Fisk/The Kingpin (Daredevil)

"I was raised in the Bronx, Wesley. This is something you wouldn't understand."

The man running the underground of Hell's Kitchen. Wilson Fisk becomes The Kingpin of the city, taking out anyone who stands in his way and leaving their corpses with a single rose when authorities find them. He crosses Daredevil's path when he orders his hitman, Bullseye, to kill Nikolaus Natchios and his daughter, Elektra. Currently dating Elektra, Matt tries to stop the hit but fails. When he also finds out Fisk killed his father years ago, he finally goes to put a stop to the man. Fisk shows off his incredible strength by whooping Daredevil's ass up and down his entire office until Matt finally gets the advantage and defeats him. Taken straight to prison, Fisk vows that it won't be long before he's out on the streets again.

30. Jonathan Reiss (Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life)

"Tell me you haven't walked around and thought the world could do without some people?"

Even though I have thought this, it's mainly with people who are serial killers or racists or things like that. This guy literally wants to kill most of the world's population, except for those willing to pay for his antidote. He's definitely not all there in the head but with all the resources money can buy it's hard to stop Reiss from getting his hands on Pandora's box. However, Lara does manage to take him down in the end, throwing him in a pool of acid and plague. What makes him more twisted is that he still tries to go for the box even though he skin is literally melting off his body.

29. Ororo Munroe/Storm (X2: X-Men United)

"Sometimes anger can help you survive."

It seems, once again, that Storm takes a role of compassion in this X-Men sequel. It's understandable, she's Xavier's oldest student turned teacher and serves as a role model to the younger generation. But the Storm I knew in the comics is all that and can still kick serious ass. Sometimes I found myself wondering if Storm even knew how to properly use her powers? Like why would she create a bunch of tornadoes to get rid of the military jets after her when she could've just zapped them away? She wasn't afraid of killing them because she used lightning on Nightcrawler a few scenes earlier, so it's safe to say she can control it's intensity. Her moment to save the day did come up though when she uses her freezing winds to snap Professor X out of Jason Stryker's mind controlling illusions.

28. Zee (The Matrix Reloaded & Revolutions)

"If I were out there and he were here, he'd be doing the same thing!"

Zee's been through a lot. She just lost her two brothers to the war and now her husband, Link, has taken their place on Morpheus's ship. She's terrified that she might not ever be reunited with him but instead of letting that fear immobilize her, she has it fuel her to make sure that fear never happens. She joins Captain Lock's forces as a volunteer and works together with Charra to help hold back the sentinel forces. When it's just down to her and the Kid they prove themselves by taking on the remaining sentinels blocking the gate, allowing Niobe and Morpheus's crew to come in a save the day. When the wars over, she's finally reunited with Link.

27. Dorian Gray (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)

"If that had been permanent, I'd have been very upset!"

The Immortal. Dorian seems to be upset that he's cursed from ever dying as long as a portrait of himself remains out of his sight. It's all fake as he was only pretending to want to help the League so he could do M's bidding, who's in possession of his painting. He especially fools Mina, but karma comes back around to bite him when the vampiress shows up to take him down. He gains the advantage at first but when he lets his guard down Mina defeats him and shows him his portrait. All those years he's avoided death catch up to him and he turns into ash and bones within seconds.

26. Mifune (The Matrix Reloaded & Revolutions)

"If we have to give these bastards our lives, we give'em hell before we do!"

We don't see much of Mifune until he's getting ready for the sentinel invasion on Zion. He obviously sees himself in the Kid and takes him under his wing as they prepare for the battle of their lives. After one hell of a speech, he proves to lead by example as he starts raining bullets on all the sentinels that are unfortunate to cross his path. Eventually he's the last man standing and it takes literally hundreds of sentinels to bring the guy down. Right before he dies he's able to pass the torch and the mission on to the Kid who, along with Zee, is successful.

25. Elektra Natchios (Daredevil)

"I want to look into the eyes of my father's killer as he dies!"

One thing I always ask for movies if they want me to believe a couple romantically fall in love after first meeting at the beginning of the film is to have some time go by to make it realistic. This isn't what happens when Matt and Elektra first meet. With no time frame established it seems that they fall in love with each other within a matter of days and that's just something I couldn't buy. However I really did like their rain scene, I thought it was really cute. When her father is killed she believes Daredevil is the one who committed the act and quickly tries to avenge him. It isn't until after she wounds him severely with her signature sai that she finds out that Daredevil is actually Matt and that he didn't actually kill her father but was trying to save him. She then goes against her father's real killer, Bullseye, and--for reasons I will never understand--easily loses and dies in Matt's arms after Bullseye stabs her with her own weapon. At the end of the film there's a tiny hint at Elektra's survival so expect to see her on another list.

24. Seraph (The Matrix Reloaded & Revolutions)

"You do not truly know someone until you fight them."

It's fitting that the first time we see Seraph he tries to kick Neo's ass. He's the Oracle's bodyguard and takes his job very seriously. When he's not protecting Oracle he's helping Morpheus and Trinity deal with Merovingian or taking care of little Sati. I really thought they were going to get away when Agent Smith appeared but at least they were brought back to life by the end of the movie.

23. Terry Sheridan (Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life)

"I do think we're a pair. Opposite sides of the same coin."

Terry used to be Lara's partner/lover until he betrayed his country and was arrested for his crimes. When Lara needs his help to stop Reiss years later a game of flirtation, doubt and trust begins with the pair. In truth, Terry is very much the yin to Lara's yang. The only difference is that Lara truly does want to learn about the mysteries of the world while Terry is just looking to profit. This often leaves them at odds with Lara eventually abandoning him after a heavy make out session and some nipple play. He shows up at the after Lara saves the day but betrays her when he tries to take Pandora's Box for himself and sell it, despite it's potential to kill millions. Lara tries to persuade him otherwise but kills him after it's obvious he isn't changing his mind.

22. John Connor (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)

"The battle has just begun."

John Connor must be really fucking important if he's constantly in danger of getting killed by man-hunting robots sent from the future. He's a bit whiny in the beginning because he really hates that he's being molded into this future self, which I totally get but I also got that Terminator definitely needed to choke some sense into that boy. He's also somewhat dependent on the Terminator as more of a father instead of a really good bodyguard. We find out that this is what gets him killed in the future but hey he also finds out he's going to have a family of his own too! In the end, after Skynet launches its global attack, John stops fighting his responsibilities and starts becoming the leader he's meant to be.

21. Rodney Skinner (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)

"And need I remind you I'm naked in the snow!"

Skinner, also known as the Invisible Man, is the only one who doesn't take things too seriously in the League. He's also the one that happens to always be naked minus the hat and trench coat. He stays in hiding when it appears he's working for M but shows no hard feelings to the group when they realize he's wrong. He even saves Sawyer from getting attacked and gets his naked flesh burned in the process. His wounds heal and he ends up joining the others on Nemo's ship to travel the world.