Today’s PM Crush Links, a daily roundup of the afternoon’s most talked-about celebrity news:

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Nicholas Brendon was tased by cops and subsequently arrested last night for being drunk and disorderly, and trying to punch the arresting officers. [RadarOnline]

• Danica McKellar, Wonder Years actress-turned mathematician-turned author, is pregnant with her first child. [People]

• Judging by new footage from Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott’s reality show, their relationship is on the rocks. [Life & Style]

• Production wrapped early today on Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp’s new movie, The Tourist, due to fans flooding the Venice set with cameras. [TMZ]

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Angelina Jolie

Check out our gallery below for more pictures from the movie set.

(Photos by WENN.com)

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For Saldana, not even taking into account her appearance as a blue alien in the biggest blockbuster movie of all time, Avatar, she has another appearance on her resume that will always endear her to people I surround myself with: She was in Star Trek. It’s a rule: Any actress who appears in a Star Trek or Star Wars film will always be held in high regard (eg Carrie Fisher, Natalie Portman) — at least by the vocal male population that uses the Internet as their sounding board. Is Kim Cattrall a sex symbol because she played Samantha on Sex and the City? No. It’s because she played Valeris in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

What does that say about us as a society, though? Nothing much, except guys who like Star Wars and Star Trek will worship any girl who’s willing to enter that world, paycheck or not. That’s still a more respectable attitude than guys who are drawn toward celebrities whose looks are good for (ahem) private arousal — Olivia Munn, Brooklyn Decker — than any real substance. These are probably the guys to stay away from unless you’re a girl who is attracted to Ian Ziering, then, it’s probably a good fit. The good news is that this particular brand of male is too busy playing flip cup right now, anyway. (Or, as Wikipedia tells me, the game can also just be called “cup.” Which was, I had thought, a fake card game made up by Chandler Bing.)

Speaking of Friends, Jennifer Aniston played Rachel but will always be tied less to her co-stars — Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow — than to a woman she has never shared a screen with, Angelina Jolie. To a guy, Aniston represents not, as she does to females, the jilted former wife of Brad Pitt who we pity. For guys, she represents everything Jolie is not: Attractive yet approachable; ordinary, but in a good way; not attempting, in her own mind, to save the world; and, most notably, not once married to Billy Bob Thornton. These are all things guys will find attractive. She is everywoman for the common man. The laid-back, cool chick. Which is ironic, because at the height of Friends’ popularity, Aniston was perceived as the opposite of all these things. Aniston hasn’t changed. It’s just the male perspective of her has changed when directly compared with the eccentric Jolie. Is this fair? Probably not. But she doesn’t seem to be complaining.

There are certain actresses who carry a sense of just-out-of-reach unattainability to their persona. A persona that opens up the adventurous side of the male personality that could encourage a guy to either (a) sing The Pixies during karaoke or (b) cover Stillwater on tour for Rolling Stone. At one time this was Audrey Hepburn; today this would be Zooey Deschanel. Guys who love Deschanel aren’t in love with her, they’re in love with the idea of her. This is dangerous. These are guys looking for an excuse to chase their wildest dreams. Unfortunately, it never ends with catching their dreams. It usually ends with him sobbing, on the F Train ride home from Brooklyn, asking himself why it didn’t work out and why she wants you to really listen to the lyrics of “Nothing Better” by The Postal Service. (Damn you,  Ben Gibbard!)

Then there’s the confusing cases of Anne Hathaway and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Two enigmas when it comes to this question. Hathaway seems to have found a niche in the gay community but, for some reason, isn’t mentioned much as a straight male’s celebrity fantasy. Which is odd, but not completely surprising. Based on the roles she has played, there’s never been one that — like Deschanel in (500) Days of Summer — sparks the emotional epicenter of the male psyche. Or, maybe, considering her popularity in the gay community, no insecure straight male wants to openly admit to his attraction. Fearing the inevitable “You like the girl from The Devil Wears Prada?” questions which lead directly to “Wait, you’ve seen The Devil Wears Prada?”

Gyllenhaal, for her part, is the unchallenged queen of the love her/hate her debate. No actress is more polarizing for really no reason. Half the people I know claims she made The Dark Knight better, taking over for Katie Holmes; the other half feels she almost ruined it by just being there. How to tell these two camps apart, in my opinion? Her detractors are more likely to be in that flip cup line, renewing their Maxim subscriptions while Gyllenhaal’s defenders are possibly, right now, and even more annoyingly, sitting at their computers, just like me, writing pieces just like this one.

Mike Ryan is an entertainment writer who contributes to New York magazine, Vanity Fair, AOL’s Moviefone and Yahoo News, among other outlets. He lives in New York.

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The pair, who are currently promoting The Bounty Hunter, are featured in a 13-page photo essay in W’s April issue, on newsstands next week. And it’s shot by photographer Steven Klein, who also did the Brad and Angie shoot back in 2005. What’s more, you can shop Jen’s looks, or purchase the clothes and accessories she’s wearing, directly from the W site. Pretty cool.

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10. Michael Moore Goes Nuclear On W.

Michael Moore took the stage in 2003 to accept an Oscar for his documentary Bowling From Columbine, and brought with him all his fellow nominees “in solidarity” — but not because they were all deserving. Rather, they were in solidarity with Moore’s anti-war, anti-Bush statement that shocked the Academy, earned him boos and got him played off stage as fast as the orchestra conductor could pick his jaw up off the ground.

9. Bjork Lays An Egg

In 2001, Icelandic singer Bjork famously walked the carpet in a dress shaped like a swan — complete with the head and beak — and promptly laid a literal egg on the red carpet. When she sang her Oscar-nominated song “I’ve Seen It All”, the cameras did all they
could to camouflage the fact that she was swaddled in a swan dress, but no matter — it dwarfs even the memory of Julia Roberts’ vintage Valentino dress that remains a critical favorite today.

8. The Start Of The Letterman-Oprah Feud
When David Letterman hosted the Oscars in 1995, Oprah Winfrey was the Queen of Daytime, Uma Thurman had just gained international prominence for her role in Pulp Fiction and David Letterman was a critical late-night darling after his 1993 move to CBS. He then spent much of the Oscars presentation repeating “Uma, Oprah. Oprah, Uma” to the increasing boredom of the audience and the apparently annoyance of Oprah. After his turn at the Oscars helm, Oprah reportedly refused to appear on Letterman’s The Late Show for more than 16 years, breaking her boycott in 2005 by presenting Letterman with a framed photograph of herself and Uma Thurman and burying the long-held hatchet. No one messes with Oprah, and the feud is only over when she says it’s over.

7. Matt Stone And Trey Parker Go Camp

Few actors or politicians who achieve any prominence escape Stone and Parker’s poison crayons on South Park or in their movies, and the duo decided not to let their big night at the Oscars in 2000 be any different. Their song with musician Matt Shaiman, “Blame Canada,” was nominated and was performed by Robin Williams at his frenetic finest, but it was the frippery of Stone, Parker and Shaiman who made the big news. Stone showed up in a parody of Gwyneth Paltrow’s 1999 Oscar ensemble, which was pilloried by fashion critics for being insufficiently supportive; Parker reveled in his parody of Jennifer Lopez’s 2000 Grammy dress; and Shaiman escorted the two dressed like a foppish pimp. They didn’t win anything that night but America’s imaginations.

6. Cameron Loses It Over Jessica And Justin

At the 2007 Oscars, a recently-single (and recently brunette) Cameron Diaz arrived without ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake in tow, and so did his reported new love interest, Jessica Biel. Although their joint statement shortly before the Oscars indicated their break-up was amicable, Diaz’s off-camera behavior when she saw Timberlake making eyes at Biel made the papers, and the
Diaz-Timberlake relationship remained frosty until at least earlier this year.

5. Roman’s Rape Case Rears Its Ugly Head

Roman Polanski, who is currently under house arrest in Switzerland after nearly 30 years on the lam, is a convicted rapist who fled his sentencing and had lived abroad ever since. While interest in his case was renewed by his arrest in 2009, the original case files hit the Internet in 2003 just as Polanski’s film The Pianist – and Polanski himself — were up for a series of Academy
Awards in 2003. Polanski was nonetheless awarded the Best Director Oscar, but due to his ever-present desire to avoid his rather light criminal sentence in the rape of a 13-year-old girl, he declined to attend the ceremony. His win earned him a standing ovation from some in the crowd, including Martin Scorsese (who, in 2009, called for Polanski’s release), while others, including Jack Nicholson — in whose home Polanski raped his victim — remained seated.

4. Jennifer Aniston, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Appear In The Same Auditorium

Given the gossip that has surrounded Aniston, Pitt and Jolie since the former two ended their marriage and the latter two started their relationship, it was inevitable that the first time they were in the same building together with a bunch of photographers would make waves. And yet, Aniston’s turn as an Oscar presenter in the year that Pitt was nominated for his work in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Jolie was nominated for her work in Changeling was more notable for how newsworthy it wasn’t than anything that actually happened. Apparently, three people who work in the same industry can actually behave like adults at a work event! Who knew?

3. Adrien Brody and Halle Berry Lock Lips

When Adrien Brody won the Oscar for his work in The Pianist, he strode onto the stage, took actress Halle Berry — who, by all accounts, he was not close to — into his arms, and planted a long, romantic-movie style kiss on her. The audience, gasped, Halle laughed and everyone and their mother speculated whether there was anything going on between the two of them — or whether, after a kiss like that, there would be.

2. Beyonce Pulls A Janet

In last year’s Hugh Jackman-hosted Oscars extravaganza, he and Beyoncé Knowles performed a musical homage to the cinematic musical number, appearing with the stars of Mamma Mia and High School Musical. Also making an appearance: Beyoncé’s left nipple, as Jackman dipped her on stage.

1. Jolie Swaps Spit With Her Brother

Long before Angelina Jolie was the sexiest mother-of-four in Hollywood, she was that weird chick married to Billy Bob Thornton with a bunch of strange roles to her name. That changed when she took home an Oscar in 2000 for her role in Girl, Interrupted — and yet, also, it didn’t change at all. When her name was announced, Jolie, who had taken her brother James Haven to the ceremony, stood up and kissed him in a way that most people in America don’t kiss immediate family members: full on the lips, and with a great deal of warmth. Speculation ensued — and continues to this day — that the siblings had more than a strictly fraternal bond, something they
both deny. But when it comes to Angelina Jolie, there’s no rumor too small or too wild that it won’t have legs in the tabloid press.

–By Megan Carpentier

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1. She’s a child. Do we really need to elaborate on this point?

2. It’s creepy. Obsessing about the wardrobe of a small child you are in no way related to or acquainted with is disturbing.

3. Her hair looks cute. And it’s not like she’s the first toddler to get a short haircut.

4. She can wear whatever she wants. A 3-year-old doesn’t have an identity yet. She’s figuring out what she likes and what she wants to wear. And frankly, the gendered notion that good little girls should only wear dresses is offensive.

5. Did we mention she’s 3 years old?

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Check out our gallery below for more Jolie-Pitt family pics.

(Photos by WENN.com)

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• Ramona Singer gave us an exclusive preview of the next season of The Real Housewives of New York, and we also snagged interviews with the two newest NYC housewives.

• Breaking up with a best friend is so much harder than breaking up with a guy.

• Celeb publicist Howard Bragman agreed with us that the recent Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie photos are totally staged.

• Here are a couple of our daily controversies, including sneaky American celebs in Vancouver who are showing support for Canada at the Olympics (traitors!) and the curious case of Taylor Lautner’s Photoshopped abs.

• Jennifer Wright shared some of her experiences as a professional wingwoman.

• Crushable editor Erin Carlson recreated Mena Suvari’s wacky Fashion Week hairstyles. The results: hilarious and amazing. Hi-mazing.

• American Idol alum Lisa Tucker weighed in on this season’s male semifinalists.

• We caught up with Piper Perabo, Jeff Goldblum, Dule Hill, and more on the USA network’s red carpet and got them to answer one of our burning questions: What’s your thing?

• The latest installment of Textual Healing contains valuable advice: When to say no to textual advances.

• Jennifer Lopez was dropped from her label this week — though she’s hosting Saturday Night Live tomorrow. Therapist Dr. Gilda Carle has advice on how J.Lo can recover.

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Jon Voight says his reconciliation with Angelina Jolie this week was “wonderful.” and that they had “spent quality time together.” (ShowbizSpy)

Madonna boy toy Jesus Luz was deejaying at a party in Rio when a guest came up and threw beer in his face — Luz then “went to a corner and started to cry.” (Page Six)

Charlie Sheen’s wife Brooke Mueller has reportedly been in rehab more than five times and has been hiding her addiction to crack and heralcoholism from people close to her for months. (RadarOnline)

Scarlett Johansson was seen recently playing ping pong with former Guns
N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose. (Page Six)

Courtney Love tweeted that she’d be interested in “hate fucking” John Mayer “just to put him in his place, hes a better guitarist than me but not better in bed!” (Huffington Post)

Following last year’s success of The Hangover, Anna Faris and Jennifer Garner are rumored to be starring in a new comedy about a bachelorette party. (Perez Hilton)

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