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Drew Barrymore
The Site: DrewBarrymore.com
Design: Barrymore’s flashy homepage looks a lot like an iTunes coverflow, if all the records you owned were made by Drew Barrymore. 3/5
Content: The first two sections are headed ‘Fashion’ and ‘Philanthropy’. We didn’t stay long enough to check out the rest. 2/5
Star Input: The occasional message from Drew, which seem to have all but dried up. 2/5
ET Sightings: We couldn’t see a single picture. 0/5
Jim Carrey
The Site: JimCarrey.com
Design: A surrealist swirl of Terry Gilliam-style landscape and pictures of Jim Carrey’s grinning, gurning face. The viewer is yanked joltingly from one section to another. Unusual, just about functional. 4/5
Content: Considering all the fancy presentation, it better have good, deep content – and it does. Mostly archive material rather than news, but there’s a wealth of back-catalogue info and clips. 4/5
Star Input: Carrey’s face is all over, but the actor himself seems to have paid professional webmen to upkeep the site. 2/5
Sense That A Giant Foot Will Crush Everything Suddenly: Very high. 4/5
Emma Watson
The Site: EmmaWatson.com
Design: A pic-heavy fashion mag feel props up the official web home of Harry Potter starlet Watson. 4/5
Content: The latest on Emma’s career, some fashion photography, links to movies. It’s like a regular teenage girl’s blog, except this one is a Hollywood actress, and the pictures are taken by world-famous photographers. 3/5
Star Input: The ‘official’ vibe is strong thanks to regular messages from Watson, inluding a recent one putting down rumours she was bullied at university. 3/5
Varity of hairstyles: Enormous, ranging from short to medium and long. 4/5
Tom Cruise
The Site: TomCruise.com
Design: A strong black background filled with excellent photography. It’s like the star himself – sleek and Hollywood polished. 4/5
Content: A decent archive of career material – timeline, movie summaries – and an up-to-date blog. Solid effort. 3/5
Star Input: Aside from an introductory letter and the official moniker, little that we could see. 1/5
Musicality: Excellent. Instrumental versions of scores to Tom’s films play while browsing, including Tangerine Dream’s amazing Love On A Real Train from Risky Business. 4/5
Kevin Smith
The Site: ViewAskew.com
Design: The home of Kevin Smith’s fictional New Jersey universe has a busy, fanboy-friendly feel – cluttered but navigable, and stuffed with links. 3/5
Content: Oh, loads. The site’s been up for years and has a mountain of archived material on Smith’s movies, plus a very active new feed about the director’s frequent appearances and shows, galleries, mag clippings and loads more. 5/5
Star Input: Smith has always been a big presence on the site, and features in the weekly podcast and frequently uploaded video clips. 4/5
Self-promotion count: Real high. There were ads for three difference Kevin Smith roadshows when we visited. 4/5
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
The Site: hitrecordjoe.tumblr.com
Design: A hipsterish tumblr thrown together by the Inception star to support his hitrecord community arts project. Simple and stylish, as per usual with tumblr. 3/5
Content: Scattershot, but the mix of hitrecord project updates (about which the actor is clearly very serious) and reblogged items from filmmaking friends makes for a compellingly private insight. 3/5
Star Input: It’s all Joe, people. 5/5
Famous friend count: Zooey Deschanel, Rian Johson, loads of others. 4/5
Gwyneth Paltrow
The Site: Goop.com
Design: Flouncy, flowery, middle-class mum pastel patterns. Like Charlie and Lola in html form. Looks nice, but a bit of a pain to navigate. 3/5
Content: Very full, though fans of Gwyneth’s big-screen work might be a little lost. It concentrates on her cooking, sightseeing and general pottering. 3/5
Star Input: Points for the fact it seems to be written by Gwyneth herself, but then all taken away again because she’s pretty smug and talks endlessly about travelling and charity . 4/5
Faux-British Pretentiousness: Off. The. Charts. 4/5
Simon Pegg
The Site: Peggster.net
Design: The net home of everyone’s favourite homemade Hollywood funnyman is yellow. Really yellow. It’s also well presented and easy to read, in scrolling news form. 3/5
Content: Aside from the up to date news stream there’s a ton of photos from Pegg’s various projects, and a reasonably busy forum. 3/5
Star Input: Yes! Simon has his very own blog. Although it hasn’t been updated since 2009. Shall we blame Paul? Yes, let’s. 2/5
Abandoned child feel: Pretty high, though the site’s soldiering on, sans Pegg. 4/5
Charlie Sheen
The Site: CharlieSheen.com
Design: Sheen’s Korner – what seems to be the hastily-constructed vehicle for the victorious animal-hybrid during his post-meltdown tour. Basic, but with a picture of Charlie as a superhero with his hands on fire. 2/5
Content: The flow of material seems to have stopped a few weeks ago, just as everyone realised maybe the whole breakdown thing wasn’t cool. Still – the aftershow tour updates are compelling. 2/5
Star Input: Mr Sheen appears in several exclusive videos on the site, but it’s clearly being run by an assistant. 2/5
Winning?: Not so much. 2/5
Adam Sandler
The Site: Adam.Sandler.com
Design: Appropriately enough the comic star’s page looks like a gaudy Hawaiian shirt, with a horrible flower motif and a wavy content bar design. 2/5
Content: Better than the layout would have you believe. There are clips from Sandler’s films, links to his other work, and a whole section devoted to his dogs. 4/5
Star Input: Sandler records short straight-to-camera updates every few weeks. 3/5
Playfulness: High, thanks to a whole series of flash mini-games based on Sandler’s films. 4/5
