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Can an actress be a sex symbol and be taken seriously? It's a grievance Scarlett Johansson has mused about recently, and she has a point. With two films out right now ("Captain America: Winter Soldier" and "Under Her Skin"), Johansson has made the press rounds, serving as the subject of four in-depth profiles - in Vanity Fair, Glamour, the New Yorker, and the Wall Street Journal - within the past month. The profiles tend to have something in common: the requisite mention of Johansson's sex appeal, radiance, or voluptuous body… before her body of work. Clearly, it's something the actress is tired of. "Actresses get stupid questions asked of them all the time, like, 'How do you stay sexy?' or 'What's your sexiest quality?' All these ridiculous things you would never ask a man," she says in the May issue of Glamour. If you think Johansson may be over-exaggerating that there is an outsized emphasis on her looks, just read a few of the articles out there about her right now.

Emma Watson graduates! She of Harry Potter and Noah fame graduated today with a degree from Brown University and proudly posted this photo of herself in cap and gown on Twitter. Watson famously said that pursuing her undergraduate degree at Brown was a form of rebellion: Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.