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2003: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days: Kate Hudson plays a beautiful reporter for a lightly fictionalized Cosmopolitan called Composure.

2004: 13 Going on 30: Jennifer Garner plays a beautiful editor at a lightly fictionized, let’s say Elle, called Poise.

2006: The Devil Wears Prada: Meryl Streep plays the imperious editor of a lightly fictionalized Vogue called Runway.

2006: Blood Diamond: Jennifer Connelly plays a beautiful, adventurous reporter for Vanity Fair.

2010: Letters to Juliet: Amanda Seyfried plays a beautiful, adventurous fact-checker for the New Yorker.

2011 (forthcoming): Friends With Benefits: Justin Timberlake plays a beautiful art director for GQ.

2011 (f0rthcoming): Our Idiot Brother: Elizabeth Banks plays a beautiful, imperious reporter for Vanity Fair.

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