If you ever wanted six-pack abs on your way to being named the Sexiest Man Alive, or if you crave the toned legs and flat belly of an international pop superstar, a trip to your nearest fast-food establishment may be in order.

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Ryan Reynolds, left, gets his Burger King on during a break from filming in New York this week. Britney Spears grabs KFC to go in Thousand Oaks, Calif., on March 19.

If that doesn't make sense, then neither does Ryan Reynolds walking down the street with Burger King to go, or Britney Spears hauling a bag of KFC across a parking lot. We know stars are supposed to be "just like us," but have you seen us? We don't look like them.

Let's just assume that Reynolds and Spears ate whatever was in those bags. Instead of collapsing into a cheeseburger coma in front of "South Park," it's safe to say these two burned it off. Probably before the bags hit the trash. (In Reynolds' case, the task may have been a little easier. A publicist tied to the actor called Friday to say that's just a turkey burger and unsweetened iced tea!)

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No Coke. Pepsi. Actress Denise Richards at Arby's.

Celebs with six-packs under their shirts and not in their shopping carts get that way thanks to a strict diet-and-exercise routine. And there's a good chance that both of those disciplines are maintained under the watchful eye of well-paid personal chefs and trainers. It also doesn't hurt to go the "kale and dust" route if fitting into a catsuit is in your job description.

So those of you envisioning looking like any of these people because you eat at the same drive-thru, take note. Joy Bauer, nutrition and health expert for TODAY, says "limit fast food outings to once per week, and alternate fattening fare with healthier offerings like grilled chicken salads, turkey burgers, and snack wraps."

If the thought of a snack wrap taking the place of your bacon-double sounds unappetizing, Bauer crunches some numbers for you.

She says to pay penance for a Burger King Whopper (630 calories), large fries (500 calories), and 40-ounce soda (380 calories) -- totaling 1,510 calories -- you would have to:

• run for 2 hours straight, or
• swim for 4 hours, or
• bike for 2 hours, or
• play full-court basketball for 2 hours

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Rihanna hits the drive thru at a fast food joint in her native Barbados.

If you scarf down KFC's Original Recipe chicken-thigh value box (540 calories), a side of mashed potatoes with gravy (120 calories), and 30-ounce sweetened iced tea (260 calories) -- totaling 920 calories -- you'd need to: 

• spin for one hour and 10 minutes, or
• walk for 3 hours, or
• hit the dance floor and boogie down for an hour and a half, or
• do yoga for 5 hours straight!

"Celebs have cravings just like everyone else ... and when they succumb to fast food faves -- just like us mortals -- they must work hard to burn off the calorific splurges," Bauer says.

Maybe you're burning calories right now at the thought of Ryan Reynolds burning calories to work off his meal. Maybe the thought of his wife, Blake Lively, in a swimsuit is enough to motivate him to stay in shape. We know she'd never eat ... aw, forget it!

Who's making a food run?

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DreamWorks

REVIEW -- Two of the principal plot drivers in "The Croods" are an athletic Neanderthal chick with a wild titian mop top and a rockin’ bod packed into a tiger-fur sheath and a brainy boy babe with skater-dude hair, perfect pecs and the waistline of a supermodel, not to mention a pioneering flair for accessories. But the core audience for DreamWorks’ 3D animated prehistoric family adventure is probably less the tweens and teens those adolescent lovebirds would suggest than the younger tykes who flocked to a comedy franchise situated elsewhere on the paleontology chart, "Ice Age."

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The humor and charm in Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco’s film is too uneven to help it approach that series' mammoth market share. But its mostly fast-moving roller coaster of kinetic action and its menagerie of fantastic creatures – from cute to menacing – should keep kids entertained. They’ll also have no trouble grasping the simple message to face your fears and embrace change.

The film evolved out of a project first announced at Cannes in 2005 under the title "Crood Awakening," which was to reteam DreamWorks with artisanal British toon shop Aardman Animation after successes like "Chicken Run." That earlier version was being co-written by DeMicco with John Cleese, who retains a story credit here.

While his neighbors steadily have succumbed to the perils of the Stone Age, Crood brood patriarch Grug (Nicolas Cage) has kept his family safe by sticking to the simple rules mapped out in the cave paintings. His credo is: “Fear keeps us alive. Never not be afraid.” (Grammar obviously isn’t his strong point.) “No one said survival was fun.” Curiosity, for Grug, equals danger.

The hell they have to go through for sustenance is outlined in a dizzying hunting sequence near the start that’s like an over-caffeinated pro football game with a giant bird egg in place of the pigskin. Everyone in the family plays a role on the team, from wife Ugga (Catherine Keener) to plucky teenage daughter Eep (Emma Stone), lunkhead son Thunk (Clark Duke) and leathery Gran (Cloris Leachman), Grug’s barely tolerated mother-in-law. Even the feral infant, Sandy, is deployed on cue with the battle cry, “Release the baby!”

But despite their tight synergy, the Croods’ world literally is crumbling around them. Eep’s growing rebellion against the physical and mental darkness of cave life also is causing friction with Dad. When she follows the light one night and meets Guy (Ryan Reynolds), with his mysterious invention of fire and his warnings of the destruction to come, Eep propels the family onto a quest toward the higher ground of tomorrow. Once she’s seen fire and she’s seen rain, there’s no looking back.

Aside from the earth opening up beneath them, the boulders flying and the predators at every turn, the chief conflict is between brawny Grug’s belief in his strength and Guy’s revolutionary reliance on ideas. The protective father’s anxiety over his daughter’s first crush adds to this still-somewhat-undernourished friction. Guy has a de rigueur animal sidekick in a sloth named Belt (“voiced” by co-director Sanders), who serves to hold up his pants as well as bring a cheeky sense of the dramatic.

Sanders and DeMicco’s script doesn’t have the robust plotting, consistent wit or flavorful character development of the best family animation. And some of the voice actors have too little to work with. Keener’s Ugga, for instance, is a strictly standard-issue caring Mom, while much of the humor built around Thunk’s obtuseness is soft. And like Betty White’s raunchy oldsters, Leachman’s ornery crones are starting to get as tired as those funky rapping grannies from ‘90s New Line comedies.

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With his weary rasp, however, Cage makes Grug a touching figure -- a knuckle-dragger at first and then steadily more resourceful as he sees the light. Stone’s smoky-voiced sweetness is nicely paired with the character’s butt-kicking physicality (it’s refreshing to see an animated teen girl more strapping than the cookie-cutter slender-princess model), and Reynolds brings the right note of earnestness to his forward-thinker.

Basically a journey tale with its erratic momentum pumped up by Alan Silvestri’s hard-working score, "The Croods" has its share of rambunctious episodes and frantic narrow escapes. Notable among them is the threat of a tornado-like flock of vicious Piranhakeets, razor-toothed birds that can strip a beast to its bones in seconds. “Stay inside the family kill circle!” warns Grug as they descend.

There’s a large assortment of fantasy animals to keep the merchandise division busy, among them parrot-hued giant felines, dogs with crocodile jaws, land-dwelling whales, monkeys with killer right hooks and owl-headed bears that owe a debt to Maurice Sendak. These critters give the film more in common with the slapsticky Looney Tunes era than with animation of recent vintage.

"The Croods" mercifully refrains from leaning too hard on anachronistic dialogue for laughs, settling for the occasional “awesome” or “sucky.” And it’s light on pop cultural cross-referencing, which also is a blessing. But especially after so many animated movies have raised the bar, the shortage of sophisticated humor likely will narrow the appeal here chiefly to the 4-to-10 age range.

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There are some decent gags built around inventions and accidental discoveries, such as snapshots, shoes (“Aaahhh!!! I love them,” squeals Eep in her prototype Uggs) and popcorn, in a crowd-baiting wink to the multiplex populace. Other touches, like the birth of the hug (rhymes with Grug), tap into an innocuous vein of schmaltz. But another polish or two to punch up the script wouldn’t have hurt.

Aside from teen dreamboat Guy, the character animation is not the prettiest; even Eep is slapped with rough-hewn features on an ultra-wide face. But there’s considerable imagination in the rendering of the landscapes, ranging from barren rock to lush jungle vegetation full of vibrantly exotic flora. Cinematography luminary Roger Deakins is credited as visual consultant, his influence perhaps discernible in the glow of stars, sun and fire, which is fitting given the thematic centrality of stepping into the light after hiding in darkness.

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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds should really consider a second career as international agents of mystery. While the duo's whirlwind courtship seemingly culminated in an intimate vow swap in South Carolina on Sept. 9, public records show that it wasn't until a few days later that they obtained a marriage license and tied the knot, E! News exclusively confirms.

According to Charleston County Probate Court, Blake Ellender Lively and Ryan Rodney Reynolds applied for their license Sept. 13 and their marriage date is listed as Sept. 14.

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So, it would appear that the I-dos witnessed by their nearest and dearest were just the dress rehearsal for the real thing!

Reps for the supremely-secretive couple have not yet returned requests for comment. But, of course, even if it took a few extra days, the Green Lantern costars are certainly married now.

Meanwhile, the Lorraine Schwartz diamond-rocking Lively is already back at work following all the excitement kicked up by her dash to the altar.

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The 25-year-old fashion plate was back on the New York City set of "Gossip Girl" Monday following a weekend tucked away with her hubby at Virginia's Inn at Little Washington.

According to People, the newlyweds spent Saturday night at the exclusive 18-room establishment in northern Virginia.

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Blake Lively's got babies on the brain! Just weeks before the actress said "I do" to Ryan Reynolds, she opened up to Allure about her desire to have kids -- lots of 'em.

"I've always wanted a big family," she said. "Oh, I'd love 30 [children] if I could."

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In the meantime, though, she's perfectly content. "Right now, I'm so peaceful," she explained. "I've never been happier in my life."

And while Blake, 25, and Ryan, 35, recently bought a house in Bedford, N.Y., they won't necessarily stay in one place forever. "I think I'll always flutter all over," the Gossip Girl star said. "I'd like to live in different parts of the world -- I'd love to live in Tuscany for a few months."

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For more of the newlywed's interview, check the October issue of Allure, on stands Sept. 25.

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Actor Ryan Reynolds and actress Blake Lively tied the knot on Sunday in a private ceremony at Boone Hall Plantation in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., just outside of Charleston, E! News confirmed.

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Actors Blake Lively, right, and Ryan Reynolds during a "Green Lantern" panel discussion at Comic-Con in San Diego on July 24, 2010.

The two have been dating for a year after meeting while filming 2011's "The Green Lantern."

People magazine reports that the reception took place in a white tent at the plantation on Sunday evening. Florence Welch (of Florence and the Machine), a good friend of the "Gossip Girl" star, performed three songs live, as did singer Bette Midler.

E! News says that news of the wedding was first tipped by local radio station 95.1 FM, which tweeted, "Hold up, there's another story that it's Ryan Reynolds and he married Blake Lively at the Cotton Docks today!"

The station's Kelly Gukanovich told E! News, "A few days ago, I heard Ryan was back in town. Then today, lots of signs went up at Boone Hall Plantation stating that it was holding a private event, so no one could get into the area. I also started hearing rumors that a celebrity wedding was taking place.

"I am being told there were around 60 people at the event and that a local restaurant may have catered it. Ryan has always loved it here and when he got together with Blake, he started to bring her here, too."

Us Weekly reports this would be the first marriage for Lively, 25, who previously dated "Gossip Girl" costar Penn Badgley and Leonardo DiCaprio, and the second for Reynolds, 35, who was engaged to Alanis Morissette from 2004-2007 (they never made it down the aisle) and whose divorce from Scarlett Johansson was finalized in July 2011.

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Love takes time to heal -- just ask Scarlett Johansson. Although the "Avengers" actress, 27, has dated other men after her late 2010 divorce from Ryan Reynolds -- including Sean Penn and, currently, NYC ad exec Nate Naylor -- the stunning star tells the May issue of Vogue that she's still hurting from the end of her two-year marriage.

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Johansson calls the breakup "comically amicable," but clarifies that it was still "horrible . . . Of course it's horrible. It was devastating. It really throws you. You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out."

She muses that divorce is "like the loneliest thing you'll ever do, in some way."

And while Johansson says she now feels "relative peace," she confides to Vogue that the split from "Safe House" star Reynolds, 35, who has rebounded with Blake Lively, still gives her grief. "I don't feel on the other side of it completely, but it gets better," she says. "It's still there. More than anything, it's just that not having your buddy around all the time is weird. There's no rule book. I think it's just time."

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The "We Bought a Zoo" actress is less descriptive when talking about her rebound romance with Penn, 51, with whom she was involved for five months last year.

"We spent time together, yeah," she admits. "I never put a title on it, really, but we were seeing each other."

Regardless, she and the Oscar winner/humanitarian are on excellent terms. "He's a remarkable person . . . He really is."

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Her romance with Naylor, 37, was much more low-key; the couple kept their relationship under wraps for five months until going public in late January.

"It must be very strange for him," she says of her non-celebrity beau. "It's totally bizarre. It's an adjustment — I mean, it's got to be an adjustment for him way more than it was for me at 19," she observes of her first days as a movie star. "But he's really remarkably good about it."

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REVIEW: In "Safe House," Denzel Washington plays a rogue ex-CIA agent who literally wrote the book on interrogation techniques. So when he's taken into custody after years on the lam, he actually gives the interrogators advice on how to waterboard him correctly (they're using the wrong towels). His delivery is confident and smooth, with no hint that he's bothered by the fact he's about to be nearly drowned over and over again.

Washington's Tobin Frost is a great character, with the cool of a bad-guy James Bond, and Washington is the perfect choice to play him. When he's brought into the South African safe house run by inexperienced agent Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds), Weston at first appears to have no idea how to handle him -- he's in awe and out of his depth.

But then the safe house is attacked and Weston has to flee, dragging his houseguest behind him, and now it's a matter of Weston growing up on the job and Frost bringing out all his accumulated savvy to get away from the rookie agent. It's every movie where the smart guy's being held prisoner by the muscle. Although the big guy has the gun, the smart guy just keeps talking, and talking, and pretty soon he's got his guard doubting every move he makes.

You've seen this balance of power before, but Washington makes it something special as he smoothly plays both father figure and wise mentor to Reynolds' nervous young agent. You could watch Frost break down Weston's confidence forever -- unfortunately, the film has too little of that in its hurry to get to some slam-bam, sometimes confusing action scenes.

The plot doesn't always hold together -- there's a betrayal that's telegraphed way too early, a romance we don't care about, and the typical scenes where a machine gun fired at close range doesn't even nick our heroes. But in addition to the compelling scenes where Frost slips inside Weston's head, there's a great sequence between Reynolds and Joel Kinnaman as the keeper of a rural safe house. (Maybe this should be a TV series -- CIA safe houses around the world.)

The ending's a mix of satisfaction and cliche, but by then, Washington's left enough magic behind to make an evening in the "House" worth your while.

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