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If you’re the type of person who can’t fathom how anyone could ever think that Robert Downey Jr. is 5 feet 8 inches tall when he’s so obviously a good quarter-inch shorter than that, and you frequently wonder why no one ever seems to mention how short Johnny Depp really is, then you’re likely already intimately familiar with CelebHeights. Launched in 2004 as a website dedicated to crowd-sourcing the stature of famous people, CelebHeights has also emerged as a dumping ground for passionately argued conspiracy theories about celebrities who may be disguising their true heights, and online smackdowns ...

On any credible Venn diagram of high-school social groups, the circles labeled “jocks” and “theater geeks” overlap even less frequently than the ones tagged “girls” and “that creepy kid with the samurai sword.” But in Hollywood, professional athletes routinely cross over into the acting realm, and sometimes even dominate it, as anyone familiar with the ouevre of former Oakland Raiders linebacker Carl Weathers could tell you. Sadly, the door doesn’t usually swing both ways. As uplifting as it would be to watch Adam Sandler use a putter shaped like a hockey stick to ...