Elizabeth “Lizzie” Olsen, who’s big sisters are Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, covers the October issue of Nylon Magazine. The young actress is promoting her new film, ‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’.

Olsen first read the script for Martha Marcy May Marlene when she was in upstate New York filming Peace, Love, and Misunderstanding with Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Catherine Keener (it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September). “It was a really interesting feeling, where I felt like I knew how to approach this. This doesn’t happen too often with me.” In Martha, directed by 29-year-old Sean Durkin, a member of a Brooklyn-based trio of filmmakers called Borderline Films, Olsen plays Martha, a young girl who ends up in a cult, where she is drugged, raped, and held in a state of servitude with a number of other women who are shared between a group of men on a remote farm in the Catskills. When she escapes to a lake house rented for the summer by her sister Lucy (Sarah Paulson) and her over-worked architect husband Ted (Hugh Dancy), she is haunted by her time on the farm, unable to talk about the experiences, which are gradually revealed in increasingly horrific flashbacks. Olsen’s performance is a tour de force and after the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January (where Durkin won the U.S. Directing Award), word of it spread around Park City with the same fervor that news of Carey Mulligan’s turn as Jenny Mellor in An Education did in 2009. Olsen is in almost every frame and inhabits the role with a quiet fragility that is as unsettling as it is mesmerizing. In its sheer emotional impact it’s a performance that is reminiscent of Jennifer Lawrence’s in last year’s Winter’s Bone and, like Lawrence, Olsen should receive an Oscar nomination, too.

Elizabeth bares her body in the new film, as well. The actress shot a fully nude sex scene which involved several “cult men”. The nudity, she admits, didn’t bother her. “The movie wouldn’t have been as disturbing without it. Taking away someone’s sexuality, making it something you don’t even own anymore–that’s the scariest thing.” You can catch the movie when it releases in limited theaters on October 21.

Last Thursday night, Jennifer Aniston and boyfriend Justin Theroux stepped out at an art auction that benefited Haiti. Apparently – Jen was a big winner that night! Justin Theroux bid on a particular painting – and Jennifer bought it! To the tune of $450,000! I wonder if Justin just couldn’t swing the $450,000 on his own – or if Jen asked him to do the bidding?

He bids, she buys! Jennifer Aniston was the winning buyer at Christie’s glitzy “Artists for Haiti” auction in NYC on Thursday — where beau Justin Theroux did the bidding on her behalf.

Actor-screenwriter Theroux, 40, helped his love, 42, snag American artist Glenn Ligon’s “Stranger #44,” an abstract 2011 work of oil, charcoal and graphite on canvas that seems to match his downtown hipster tastes.

At the auction, “Stranger #44″ (pictured with artist Glenn Ligon and Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem) was estimated at $150,000 to $200,000.

But Aniston helped shatter the record for sales of Ligon’s work, spending a whopping $450,000 on the 72″ by 60″ painting, an Artists for Haiti rep confirms to Us.

Reports Artinfo.com: “Aniston, who was in the room, clapped enthusiastically after [Theroux's] winning bid.”

Benefiting health and education initiatives for Haiti, The “Artists for Haiti” auction — artists donated their works for the cause — was co-organized by Ben Stiller, and raised $13,662,000.

After the auction, Stiller, 40, and his wife Christine Taylor hung out with Theroux and Aniston for a late dinner at Il Cantinori. “They seemed to be having a lot of fun with Ben and his wife, like old friends,” a witness said. “Ben paid for everyone,” the witness adds.

Stiller co-starred in Along Came Polly with Aniston and co-wrote Tropic Thunder with Theroux.

PICS (INF): Jennifer Aniston stopped by ABC Studios in New York City for an appearance on ‘Good Morning America’ to promote the new Lifetime movie, “Five,” an anthology of five short films an anthology of five short films directed by Aniston and other female celebs.

Are you going to watch Jennifer’s short film? I’m half interested. The half of me that wants to see it is the half that likes Jennifer Aniston (just not her movies). The other half of me says “it’s a Lifetime movie … don’t do that to yourself.”

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Halle Berry broke her foot recently during the filming of her new movie ‘Cloud Atlas’. The Oscar winner flew off for treatment and is now back in Mallorca with a walking cast.

Halle and Nahla had lunch with friends and afterwards, Berry treated her daughter to a large ice cream cone. Halle may have been in considerable pain while walking around, but she put on a brave face. And she’s going to have to! Production for the film hasn’t stopped so Halle will continue working despite the pain.

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Jennifer Garner opens up in a new interview with Ellen Degeneres about expecting her third child with husband Ben Affleck.

The actress opens up about being pregnant a third time. “The first trimester is just yuck,” the Arthur actress, 39, tells Ellen DeGeneres. “Kind of an all day sickness.”

“But after that, [this pregnancy] is not a big thing except there is one big thing,” Garner says, “And that is, my bottom.”

“You know how once you have kids you never ever pee by yourself again? At least one of them is always in there with you at all times. So the other day… [Violet] is in there with me and all of the sudden she went, Oh Mom, we have to have a talk…She said, ‘Mom, your bottom has gotten so big that your panties don’t even begin to cover it. I said, ‘It’s called a thong, you wear it when you’re a grown up. She was like, ‘Uh, that is so gross!”

Jennifer has been married to Affleck, 39, for five years. They have two daughters, Violet 4, and Seraphina, 2. They confirmed they were pregnant again in late August.

So is she having a boy – or a girl? She’s not saying. Violet and Seraphina “don’t really care about the gender as much as long as we name it what they it to be named.” They’ve come up with some interesting suggestions. “Ralphie, Frankie, Minnie Mouse, Daisy Duck. Rosemarie.. Daisy Duck Affleck. I can see us going that way,” Garner cracked, laughing.

As for the Hollywood couple’s own hopes for their baby-to-be’s gender, “Obviously we’d be happy either way,” Garner says. “It would be so weird to have a boy and cool and different. And I’m sure it would be fun for Ben he likes baseball and all that stuff. But a third girl, three girls is a great way to grow up.” (Garner herself grew up with two sisters.)

For now, Affleck is content playing not baseball but “baby doll” with his little girls. “My husband plays a lot of baby doll. He is really cute,” Garner gushes. “I will walk in and he will be sitting on a little chair. He’s so tall! And he’ll have a baby doll and I’ll say, ‘What are you doing?’ ‘I’m watching Frankie (the baby doll) here.”

I love Ben and Jen together. There are all kinds of rumors that the two are unhappy, and Ben is a major gambling addict. I hope they’re all just rumors – and the pair are happy as ever! They sure make cute kids!

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You’ve been saying it for ages, and now an official poll has been conducted and you are right, Kim Kardashian IS the most annoying celebrity. We’ve all known it for some time, but now, there is an official poll saying that Kim Kardashian is the most annoying celebrity.

More annoying than Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan! That’s quite an accomplishment! What cracks me up is ‘Bachelor’ “star” Brad Womack made the list.

Everywhere you look, there seems to be a Kardashian. Famous for being famous, Kim, in particular, has been inescapable, with her recent wedding and honeymoon reported just about everywhere. Perhaps all that exposure is why she earned the title of Most Annoying Celebrity in Parade’s poll, with 29% of the vote.

1. Kim Kardashian 29%
2. Charlie Sheen 27%
3. Snooki 21%
4. Lindsay Lohan 16%
5. Donald Trump 5%
6. Brad Womack 1%

PICS (Fame): Kim Kardashian promotes her Belle Noel Jewelry Collection at Bloomingdale’s in New York.

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Scarlett Johansson made an appearance in Milan yesterday – her first appearance since her nude photos were leaked.

Scarlett sat front row at the Dolce&Gabbana Women’s Spring/Summer 2012 runway show at Metropol in Italy, where she wore a blush lace sheath dress, gold heels, a mini Miss Sicily handbag and black onyx earrings all from the designer.

ScarJo has been the face of Dolce&Gabbana since 2009.

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