Drew Barrymore
The Site:
Design: Barrymore’s flashy homepage looks a lot like an 🐷iTunes coverflow, if all the r✨ecords you owned were made by Drew Barrymore. 3/5
Content: The first two sections are headed ‘Fashion’ and ‘Philanth𝓰ropy’. We didn’t stay long enough to check out the rest. 🗹2/5
Star Input: The occౠasional message from Drew, which seem to have all but dried up. 2/5
ET Sightings: We couldn’t see a single picture. 0/5
Jim Carrey
The Site:
Design: A surrealist swirl of Terry Gi꧅lliam-style landscape and pictures of Jim Carrey’s grinning, gurning face. The viewer is yanked joltingly from one section to another. Unusual, just about functional. 4/5
Content: Considering all th𒅌e fancy presentation, i🍸t better have good, deep content – and it does. Mostly archive material rather than news, but there’s a wealth of back-catalogue info and clips. 4/5
Star Input: Carrey’s face is all over, but the actor himself seems t🦄o have paid professional webmen to upkeep the site🦹. 2/5
Sense That A Giant Foot Will Crush Everything Suddenly: Very high. 4/5
Emma Watson
The Site:
Design: A pic-heavy fashion mag feel props♕ up the official web home of Harry Potter starlet Watson. 4/5
Content: The latest on Emma’s career, some fashion photography𓄧, links to movies. It’s like a regular teenage girl’s blog, except this one is a Hollywood actress, and the pictures are taken by world-famous photographers. 3/5
Star Input: The ‘off🔯icial’ vibe is strong thanks to regular messages from Watson, inluding a recent one putting down rumours she was bullied at uniꦛversity. 3/5
Varity of hairstyles: Enormous, ranging from short to medium and long. 4/5
Tom Cruise
The Site:
Design: A strong black back✱ground filled with excellent photography. It’s like the star himself – sleek and Hollywood polished.ꦚ 4/5
Content: A decent archive of career mat🍷erial – timeline, movie summaries – and an up-to-date blog. Solid effort. 3/5
Star Input: Aside from an introductory letter a📖nd the official moniker, little that we could see. 1/5
Musicality: Excellent. Instrumental versions of scores to Tom’s films play while browsing, including Tangerine Dream’s amazing Love On A Real Train from Risky Business. 4/5
Kevin Smith
The Site:
Design: The home of Kevin Smith’s fictional New Jersey universe has a busy, fanboy-friendly feel – cluttered but navigable, and stuffed with links. 3꧅/5
Content: Oh, loads. The site’s been up for years and hꦜas a mountain of archived material on Smith’s movies, plus a very active new feed about the director’s frequent appearances and shows, galleries, mag clippings and loads more. 5/5
Star Input: Smith has always been a big presence on the site, and features in t🍌he weekly podcast and frequently uploaded video clips. 4/5
Self-promotion count: Real high. There were ads for three difference Kevin Smith roadshows when we visited. 4/5
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
The Site:
Design: A hipsterish tumblr thr🌱own together by the Inception star to support his hitrecord community arts project. Simple and stylish, as per usual with tumblr. 3/5
Content: Scattershot, but the mix of hitrec🌃ord project updates (about which the actor is clearly♛ very serious) and reblogged items from filmmaking friends makes for a compellingly private insight. 3/5
Star Input: It’s all Joe, people. 5/5
Famous friend count: Zooey Deschanel, Rian Johson, loads of others. 4/5
Gwyneth Paltrow
The Site:
Design: Flouncy, flowery, middle-class m꧂um pastel patterns. Like Charlie and Lola in html form. Looks nice, but a bit of a pain to navigate. 3/5
Content: Very full, though fans of Gwyneth’s big-screen work might be a little lost. It concentrates on her cooking, sightseeing and general pottering. 3/💫5
Star Input: Points for the fact it seems to be written by Gwyneth herself, but 💙then all taken away again because she’s pretty smug 𓃲and talks endlessly about travelling and charity . 4/5
Faux-British Pretentiousness: Off. The. Charts. 4/5
Simon Pegg
The Site:
Design: The net home of everyone’s favourite homem🍎ade Hollywood funnyman is yellow. Really yellow. It’s also well pres༒ented and easy to read, in scrolling news form. 3/5
Content: Aside from the u𓆉p to date news stream there’s a toꦚn of photos from Pegg’s various projects, and a reasonably busy forum. 3/5
Star Input: Yes! Simon has his very own blog. Although it hasn’t been updated since 🔥2009. Shall we blame Paul? Yes, let’s. 2/5
Abandoned child feel: Pretty high, though the site’s soldiering on, sans Pegg. 4/5
Charlie Sheen
The Site:
Design: Sheen’s Korner – what seems to be the hastily-constructed vehicle💙 for the victorious animal-hybrid during his post-meltdown tour. Basic, but with a picture of Charlie as a superhero with his hands on fire. 2/5
Content: The flow of material seems to have stopped a few weeks ago, just as everyone realised maybe the whole breakdown thing wasn’t co꧑ol. Still – the aftershow tour updates are compelling. 2/5
Star Input: Mr Sheen🙈 appears in several exclusive videos on the site, but it’s clearly being run by an assistant. 2/5
Winning?: Not so much. 2/5
Adam Sandler
The Site:
Design: Appropriately enough the comic star’s page looks like a🎀 gaudy Hawaiian shirt, with a horrible flower motif and a wavy content b🐷ar design. 2/5
Content: Better than the layout would have you believe. There are clips from Sandler’s films, links to his other work, and a whole section devo༒ted to his dogs. 4/5
Star Input: Sandler records short straig🌄ht-to-camera updates every few weeks. 3/5
Playfulness: High, thanks to a whole series of flash mini-games based on Sandler’s films. 4/5
