2013 Miss America pageant: Meet the competitors

Victoria's Secret hits the catwalk with its annual fashion show ... and some of the themes are weirder than ever. We've got underwear-clad models as circus performers and bra-and-panty-clad women standing in for children's toys (much to Justin Bieber's delight -- it's doubtful he'll ever look at Tinkertoys the same way again). More

Previous Bond girls have run the gamut from tough spies who hardly need any help from Bond, to helpless heroines fainting in Bonds arms, to willing women who basically function as bed warmers, to femme fatales who nearly destroy the super spy. More

Halloween is the time to celebrate the fiendish creatures and horrifying beasts that haunt our nightmares ... but Hollywood doesn't always play along. Sure, you can find plenty of horrible monsters to chill your blood, but you'll also that archetypical fiends have gotten softer as time goes by. First, they're fearsome. Then, they get funny. And finally, they turn into love interests -- even though they should be consuming hearts, not breaking them. More

"Cloud Atlas" is just the latest "unfilmable" book to make it to the movie theater. Next? "Midnight's Children," based on the book by Salman Rushdie, is scheduled to open on November 2. "The Life of Pi" opens November 21. They join a long list of classics, beloved genre titles, literary game-changers, nonfiction tomes and even self-help books that have defied expectations and shown up on the big screen. More