Stars are all about the shock factor, but in 2012, a couple of the
boldest-faced names left the world truly open-mouthed and gob-smacked.
Bond saves the queen
In her 60 years on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II has never been mistaken for a Bond girl - until London's Summer Olympics.
During
the opening ceremony, dashing Daniel Craig, dressed as James Bond,
strode into a Buckingham Palace room to find sitting at a desk - the
queen! "Good evening, Mr. Bond," she said, smiling slightly.
The
odd couple boarded a helicopter in the back garden and headed for
Olympic Stadium. As the chopper hovered over the stadium, the "queen" -
actually a double in the same dress - parachuted down. Then the real
queen arrived more, well, regally, to roars of applause.
Clint steals the convention
A Hollywood royal made a
little mischief this summer, too. Clint Eastwood turned up at the
Republican National Convention in Tampa in August to give what was
supposed to be a five-minute speech blessing GOP presidential candidate
Mitt Romney. But no one imagined he could be incoherent. And not funny.
The
Oscar winner delivered a rambling 12-minute monologue directed toward
an empty chair meant to represent President Obama. Instantly, reporters
pronounced the moment the weirdest ever in convention history, and
Twitter lit up. Film critic Roger Ebert tweeted: "Clint, my hero, is
coming across as sad and pathetic."
Obama's team tweeted a picture of the back of a chair with the back of Obama's head above it and the line, "This seat is taken."
Romney
later said he laughed at the performance. Eastwood seemed to brush the
whole thing off, telling USA TODAY: "It was just a private-life deal
that came over me at the last minute."
Anne Hathaway skips the underwear
Taking
quite a departure from her cheery, good-girl image, the Golden
Globe-nominated actress vamped it up on the red carpet at the New York
premiere of Les Misérables in a fitted black Tom Ford gown, which
she wore with a pair of complex, over-the-knee (and over-the-top)
bondage-inspired boots, also by Ford.
But Hathaway's night got
off to an, um, interesting start, when photographers snapped her bare
crotch as she got out of the car. Oops!
USA Today