“It’s before the Scarecrow and the Tin Man and Dorothy and all that,” Abigail Spencer, who plays the Wizard’s assistant May, told me at the recent L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center benefit for homeless youth services at the Sunset Tower hotel. “It really goes deeper into how that story came to be.

“It really is what the books are based on,” she added. “This is the real story and I think this is actually what the writer [L. Frank Baum] intended when he wrote them.”

After her 2010 make-out with Natalie Portman in Black Swan, last year’s Top 99 runner-up defied all logic by kicking things up a notch in 2011. Mila Kunis extolled the virtues of casual sex (albeit with Justin Timberlake), dressed down a confrontational reporter in fluent Russian and made one lucky Marine’s year. Proving she has the personality to match her looks, the down-to-earth actress even more after accepted a YouTube invitation to a Marine Corps Ball. Forget friends with benefits — that’s marriage material right there.

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TeenSpot recently had the chance to sit down with child actress Joey King, who plays ChinaGirl in the prequel, and she says that much like Victor Fleming’s 1939 film, Oz: The Great and Powerful will begin in black-and-white and move into color when the characters inhabit the world of Oz. She also opened up a bit about her character, saying that, also like Fleming’s movie, she will be playing two roles. “I play Wheelchair Girl and China Girl,” King said. “Wheelchair Girl is in Kansas and China Girl is my main character, she’s in most of the movie. She’s really fun – she’s sassy. She lost her family when the Wicked Witches came in. Now, Oz sort of becomes her adopted father.” The character is called China Girl because she is entirely made of porcelain, making her very fragile.

Everything I hear about this film makes it sound better and better. It has an amazing cast, including James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz, Mila Kunis, Zach Braff and Abigail Spencer, and it’s always great to see Raimi back behind the camera. Shame we won’t be seeing it until March 8, 2013.

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“I am absolutely thrilled to be working with Dior,” the 28-year-old said in a statement today. “The brand is iconic in so many ways. It defines fashion, elegance and sophistication.”

I have just added 5 photos of Mila Kunis from the ad campaign and on the set of the photo shoot into our photo gallery!

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» Mila Kunis Online > Professional Images > Modeling > Dior – On Set

Following her success in last years’s smash “Black Swan,” Kunis scored a hit starring in “Friends with Benefits” with Justin Timberlake – and a date with a very lucky U.S. Marine.

“JT and I had this all planned from the start,” Sgt. Scott Moore of the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, told Fox411. “He’s been a great wingman. It’s nice to know he can get over the jealously to help a brother out (just kidding). Justin Timberlake’s encouragement definitely helped, I owe him one.”

Moore posted a 19-second video on YouTube back in June, asking Kunis to be his date to the annual Marine Corps Ball. “One of the Marines bet that I wouldn’t make the video and post it,” explained Moore. “Of course, a bet between Marines must be honored, so I took the chance.”

After Moore posted the video on YouTube, FOX411.com asked Kunis during a press junket for “Friends With Benefits” if she had seen Moore’s plea. “You need to do it for your country,” a giddy Timberlake insisted to Kunis, before directing his message to Sgt. Moore, “I’m going to work on this, man. This needs to go down.”

Kunis quickly agreed, “I’ll do it.”

Timberlake also snagged his own date to the Marine Corps ball, escorting combat instructor Kelsey De Santis. “It’s like a dating web site now, YouTube,” Kunis laughed in an interview with USA Today.

The brunette beauty also noted Moore’s bravery. “(He) was really ballsy for asking me out on a date on YouTube,” said Kunis. “I have never been to a ball. I get to wear a poufy gown, so why not? It’s fun!”

That same easy-going attitude won Kunis the honor of being GQ’s Knockout of the Year. The August issue featuring Kunis seductively sipping an iced drink was their best-selling issue of the year, with 205,000 readers snapping up the magazine.

Kunis also helped move the fashion magazine W, with the March issue enjoying a 15 percent increase in sales. The February issue of Cosmopolitan, which also featured Kunis, and sold an eye-popping 1.7 million copies.

Currently in Detroit filming “Oz: The Great and Powerful,” Kunis also keeps busy voicing Meg on the animated hit series “Family Guy.”

“(My grandparents) barely speak English, but they’ve seen every episode of ‘Family Guy,’” Kunis recently shared on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.” “They know my voice and they’re like, “Oh, there she is, OK,” and they just kind of watch it, but they have no clue as to what I’m saying.”

Despite her success, Kunis, unlike many of her Hollywood counterparts, hasn’t let it all go to her head.

“I love what I do, but my theory is that it’s people who doubt what they do and want to prove it to you, they’re like ‘It’s art. I create art. It’s art, art, art,’” she said in the December issue of GQ. “I’m like, Holy s**t, are you f**king kidding me? I run around and pretend I’m someone else for 12 hours; I record ‘Family Guy’. Then I get to go home and watch ‘Jersey Shore’.”

Smart, sexy, funny, patriotic, down to earth: what’s not to love?

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