There's been a lot in the newspapers about Jennifer Aniston's romance with Vince Vaughn. What can you tell me about Vaughn's previous relationships?

The 35-year-old actor is quite the ladies' man in Hollywood, though his romance with Aniston has especially interested the tabloids because of the break-up of her marriage to Brad Pitt. Best known among Vaughn's former girlfriends are Joey Lauren Adams, Cameron Diaz, Anne Heche and Ashley Judd.

Ironically, the actor owes his current stardom to 1996's Swingers, in which he played "a total jerk" who used and abused the women in his life. The role came about when he met another unemployed actor, Jon Favreau, who was working on the screenplay that became Swingers. Though the movie didn't do too well at the box office, Vaughn's performance was noted by director Steven Spielberg, who hired him for 1997's The Lost World, the big-budget sequel to Jurassic Park. Vaughn has never looked back, and public reaction to his performance in this year's comedy hit Wedding Crashers was so extraordinary that his asking price of $3 million a film jumped to $12 million for The Break Up -- the aptly titled 2006 release in which he co-stars with Aniston.

Laurie is the son of a Scottish-born doctor -- "A gentle soul, about as far away from Greg House as you could possibly get," he says -- and at one time thought seriously about taking up medicine as a career. "I decided against it because I had this fascination with acting," Laurie told People magazine.

The actor's friends will tell you that Laurie is himself a "gentle soul," unlike the character that has made him famous. Despite the cane he uses as a prop in his Fox series, he is also quite athletic. He developed a lifelong passion for motorcycles when he was only 10, and later represented England in the World Junior Rowing Championships. Recently, he has taken up boxing. "I'll probably get killed," he says. "But I love it, and have to do something to keep fit." He is also a skilled pianist and the author of a comic novel, The Gun Seller.

Now 46, Laurie has been honing his skills for 20 years, ever since making his movie debut in the 1985 Meryl Streep drama, Plenty. He says he is "thrilled" about the success of his new show -- and not only because it has made him a star. Not certain if House would be a hit, he left his wife of 16 years, former theater executive Jo Green, and their three children in England. Now, with the series firmly established as one of Fox's top-rated shows, he is arranging for his family to move to California.

The role of Kimber Henry in Nip/Tuck was the breakthrough the 29-year-old actress had been waiting for ever since she got her first role, a cameo as a motorcycle gang member in 2001's 3000 Miles to Graceland. "Originally, I was supposed to just be in the pilot of Nip/Tuck," she told OK! Magazine. "But the writers, our producer Ryan Murphy and I developed this wacky character over the last two seasons." In September, she became a member of the regular cast.

Apart from acting, Carlson says that her real passion is horses. "I've been an equestrian since I was 4," she says. "I'm very much a tomboy. I'll even wear jeans with wet hair and no makeup -- something Kimber would never do!" Next up: The Marine, Carlson's first major movie role, in which she plays a military man's kidnapped wife.

According to reports in the New York Post and other papers, Spielberg felt that Cruise's on-air discussions of his beliefs as a Scientologist, which included very public attacks on the prescription drug Ritalin and Brooke Shields' use of antidepressants, were inappropriate when he was meant to be publicizing War of the Worlds, the film he had just completed under Spielberg's direction.

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