“President Obama will meet with the valiant Navy SEALs who took down Osama Bin Laden Friday — but it remains a secret whether the raid’s daredevil dog will be in the room.” [UPDATE: He did!]

Would you like to win a four-night stay for two at the Montpelier Plantation in Nevis? There is a contest giveaway of just that! There are no cellphones and no TVs; but there is a free breakfast that includes homemade yogurts. Um, basically it’s kind of nice, if you like 19-room boutique hotels on 60 acres with dogs roaming around and tropical beaches.

If you are thinking about this coming August’s Conan the Barbarian, the 3D adventure reboot, starring the father of Lisa Bonet’s children, and I know you are, then you are wondering how much nudity and violence there is in it. One of its screenwriters — Sean Hood, of Cube 2: Hypercube fame! — explains it all: “The world of Hyboria, as Robert E. Howard described it, is fleshy and brutal. Bloody beheadings and bare-chested slave girls abound. However, while the movie is unflinching in its depiction of barbarism, slavery and warfare, the violence and nudity emerge from the fabric of the story.” Ooh, there’s fabric too? But worry not! He also promises “Yes, you’ll see blood and boobs.”

by Joe Reid

101. Jason James Richter & Willy — Free Willy
100. Kyra Sedgwick & John Travolta — Phenomenon
99. Priscilla Presley & Leslie Nielsen — The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
98. Will Ferrell & Sacha Baron Cohen — Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
97. Tom Hanks & Helen Hunt — Cast Away
96. Jamie Lee Curtis & Arnold Schwarzenegger — True Lies
95. Jim Carrey & Sophie Okonedo — Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
94. Mia Kirshner & Beverly Polcyn — Not Another Teen Movie
93. Kristen Stewart & Robert Pattinson — The Twilight Saga: New Moon
92. Gwyneth Paltrow & Jude Law — Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
91. Taylor Swift & Taylor Lautner — Valentine’s Day
90. Jon Abrahams & Anna Faris — Scary Movie
89. Kim Basinger & Dana Carvey — Wayne’s World 2
88. Owen Wilson, Carmen Electra & Amy Smart — Starsky & Hutch
87. Jim Carrey & Jennifer Aniston — Bruce Almighty
86. Cameron Diaz & Jude Law — The Holiday
85. Mark Wahlberg & Elizabeth Banks — Invincible
84. Ben Stiller & Cameron Diaz — There’s Something About Mary
83. Ben Affleck & Gwyneth Paltrow — Bounce
82. Vanessa Hudgens & Zac Efron — High School Musical 3: Senior Year
81. Kevin Kline & Tom Selleck — In & Out
80. Winona Ryder & Dermot Mulroney — How to Make an American Quilt
79. Kristen Stewart & Robert Pattinson — Twilight
78. Juliette Lewis & Robert De Niro — Cape Fear
77. Marlon Wayans & Brittany Daniel — Little Man
76. Anna Faris & Chris Marquette — Just Friends
75. Kristen Stewart & Robert Pattinson — The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
74. Adam Sandler & Drew Barrymore — The Wedding Singer
73. Anthony Hopkins & Julianne Moore — Hannibal
72. Jeremy Irons & Dominique Swain — Lolita
71. Katie Holmes & Barry Watson — Teaching Mrs. Tingle
70. Rosario Dawson & Clive Owen — Sin City
69. Gwyneth Paltrow & Joseph Fiennes — Shakespeare in Love
68. Jim Carrey & Lauren Holly — Dumb and Dumber
67. Daniel Radcliffe & Katie Leung — Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
66. Leonardo DiCaprio & Cameron Diaz — Gangs of New York
65. Keanu Reeves & Monica Bellucci — The Matrix Reloaded
64. Elisha Cuthbert & Emile Hirsch — The Girl Next Door
63. Shia LaBeouf & Sarah Roemer — Disturbia
62. Sandra Bullock & Ryan Reynolds — The Proposal
61. Jennifer Garner & Natassia Malthe — Elektra
60. Christine Taylor & Christopher Daniel Barnes — A Very Brady Sequel
59. Columbus Short & Meagan Good — Stomp the Yard
58. Zoe Saldana & Sam Worthington — Avatar
57. Ben Affleck & Jennifer Garner — Daredevil
56. Nick Cannon & Zoe Saldana — Drumline
55. Kristen Stewart & Dakota Fanning — The Runaways
54. Emma Watson & Daniel Radcliffe — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
53. Pauline Brailsford & Tom Hanks — A League of Their Own
52. Mel Gibson & Rene Russo — Lethal Weapon 3
51. Hilary Swank and Chloë Sevigny — Boys Don’t Cry
50. Charlize Theron & Christina Ricci — Monster
49. Freida Pinto & Dev Patel — Slumdog Millionaire
48. Paul Rudd & Thomas Lennon — I Love You, Man
47. Anna Chlumsky & Macaulay Culkin — My Girl
46. Ellen Page & Michael Cera — Juno
45. Shawn Ashmore & Anna Paquin — X2: X-Men United
44. Anjelica Huston & Raúl Juliá — The Addams Family
43. Amy Adams & Patrick Dempsey — Enchanted
42. Keanu Reeves & Aitana Sánchez-Gijón — A Walk in the Clouds
41. Drew Barrymore and Michael Vartan — Never Been Kissed
40. Matt Damon & Minnie Driver — Good Will Hunting
39. Kristen Stewart & Taylor Lautner — The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
38. Natalie Portman & Zach Braff — Garden State
37. Will Smith & Vivica A. Fox — Independence Day
36. Taraji P. Henson & Terrence Howard — Hustle & Flow
35. Angelina Jolie & James McAvoy — Wanted
34. Adam Sandler & Emily Watson — Punch-Drunk Love
33. Natalie Portman & Mila Kunis — Black Swan
32. Julia Stiles & Sean Patrick Thomas — Save the Last Dance
31. Ellen Page & Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Inception
30. Heath Ledger & Shannyn Sossamon — A Knight’s Tale
29. Joey Lauren Adams & Carmen Llywelyn — Chasing Amy
28. Briana Evigan & Robert Hoffman — Step Up 2 the Streets
27. Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt — Mr. & Mrs. Smith
26. Natasha Henstridge and Anthony Guidera — Species
25. Juliette Lewis & Woody Harrelson — Natural Born Killers
24. Jason Biggs & Seann William Scott — American Pie 2
23. Leonardo DiCaprio & Kate Winslet — Titanic
22. Winona Ryder & Gary Oldman — Bram Stoker’s Dracula
21. Sandra Bullock & Keanu Reeves — Speed
20. Patricia Arquette & Christian Slater — True Romance
19. Matt Dillon, Denise Richards & Neve Campbell — Wild Things
18. Renée Zellweger & Colin Firth — Bridget Jones’s Diary
17. Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke — Before Sunrise
16. Nicole Kidman & Ewan McGregor — Moulin Rouge!
15. Gina Gershon & Jennifer Tilly — Bound
14. Winona Ryder & Ethan Hawke — Reality Bites
13. Tobey Maguire & Kirsten Dunst — Spider-Man
12. Woody Harrelson & Rosie Perez — White Men Can’t Jump
11. Sarah Michelle Gellar & Selma Blair — Cruel Intentions
10. Christian Slater & Marisa Tomei — Untamed Heart
9. James Franco & Sean Penn — Milk
8. Demi Moore & Woody Harrelson — Indecent Proposal
7. Michelle Pfeiffer & Michael Keaton — Batman Returns
6. Ryan Gosling & Rachel McAdams — The Notebook
5. Annette Bening & Warren Beatty — Bugsy
4. Heath Ledger & Jake Gyllenhaal — Brokeback Mountain
3. Antonio Banderas & Salma Hayek — Desperado
2. Claire Danes & Leonardo DiCaprio — William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet
1. George Clooney & Jennifer Lopez — Out of Sight

Joe Reid lives in Manhattan where he tries to write and can be found co-hosting the Extra Hot Great podcast. He also Twitters, because: who doesn’t?

Here is some stunning news: When smokers see images of cigarettes, they find themselves craving nicotine, even if those images tell them not to indulge.

No smoking signs may be driving more people to light up, a psychological study suggests. Scientists say the messages have an ‘ironic effect’ on smokers that increases their craving for tobacco. Without being aware of it, they react to the signs by thinking of and wanting cigarettes.

That is indeed ironic! Good luck with that parks and beaches ban, New York City.

Photo by West McGowan, from Flickr.

And for whatever reason, like we all needed a reason, there’s a profile of Tina Brown! What is a Tina Brown? “’Tina’s a revolutionary leader,’ [Hendrik] Hertzberg says by way of explaining why she left The New Yorker. ‘Revolutionary leaders go wrong when they stay too long. George Washington went back to the farm; Fidel Castro didn’t.’”

Now, I’m no student of American history, mostly because my high school history teacher was so depressed and endrunkened that he committed suicide not long after my American history semester ended, but, basically, George Washington retired twice. (To the “farm,” which… calling that a “farm” is a stretch. I think we would call it a “plantation”! At the end it was 8000 acres and the house had 20 rooms.) Washington retired for the final time, sort of, in 1797, after his second term as President, at which point he began making whiskey and then promptly went back into the army the next year, to start planning a war with France, and then pretty much died. (If only we’d finally finished off France back then!) The first time he retired, after the Revolution, was when, lesse, the battle of Fort Washington (uptown, baby) was in 1776, and then, finally, finally, he got to retire at the end of 1783, just before Christmas, because of the stupid British, who never know when to leave a party. But he “retired”… for fewer than four years, because beginning in May of 1787, he was honchoing the Constitutional Convention. And within that period, he was writing constantly and his diary for 1784, for instance, records his arduous business travel schedule. Hmm, yeah, actually that does sound a lot like Tina Brown! Score one for Mr. Hertzberg. Now is when I would Photoshop a historical hat on a picture of Tina Brown if it wasn’t Friday.

Uh, yeah, you will probably not see a better lead today: “Floridians are going to have to start pulling up their pants and stop having sex with animals soon.” [Via]

David Gilmour’s Son Pleads Guilty To Throwing Garbage Can At Prince Charles’ Car During December’s Student Fees Protests In London

“The fact that I am granting you bail is of no indication whatsoever that you will be dealt with in a non-custodial way. You must understand that your plea of guilty to violent disorder is a serious matter and it may be that the proper course would be one of immediate custody.”
 — Judge Nicholas Price QC tells 21-year-old Cambridge University student Charlie Gilmour to stand still with it.

I’m so pleased to report that yesterday’s story about Mierle Ukeles is, as I suspected, a bit too pat to be true. (It contains “wisps of truths,” she says — and they’re good wisps!) I’m pleased because I loved the story but I disliked the moral. Also? Hillary Clinton was just coughing in the situation room in that already-famous photograph. This is the deal with narrative, am I right?

Good morning! The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and it’s Friday! We WILL make it through the week! In the meantime, have some bears.