Hollywood.com’s First Annual King and Queen of Summer

Birth Name: Sarah Jessica Parker

Ruling Sign: Aries – independent, smart, willful, edgy, ambitious

Why She’s Earned the Crown: Raising the bar from Pat Field ferried fashion icon to “chick-flick” re-inventor, quirk meistress, uber-actress/producer Parker emerges as the clear royal female front-runner. Leaping from TV to the silver screen, SJP parlayed her introspective, lovelorn, audio-blogging “Sex and the City” column beyond Carrie Bradshaw’s wildest (bridezilla) dreams into a blockbuster stratosphere of some $388,501,274–while freezing out marriage tabloid rumors this summer. Go Gurl!

Money Isn’t Everything: With a plethora of awards ranging from Emmys to Golden Globes to SAGs–to wins from the Producers Guild and the National Board of Review–Mz. Parker is quite the golden (statuette) girl. Money can’t buy thesp cred, okaaay!

Did You Know?: Fashion forward Sarah had 81 costume changes in the 2008 Sex and the City movie. The one-time ballerina says her favorite article of clothing from the entire film was a vintage belt that she actually named “Roger.” Did Miranda, Samatha & Charlotte suspect?  

Royal Flub: SJP earing a not-as-complimentary-as-it-could-be, peacock-inspired chartreuse hat fit for an octogenarian Windsor queen to her U.K. Sex in the City premiere. Daring? Yes. Alluring? Not!

Nobel Lineage: It’s not our business to discuss what’s going down behind closed doors, but if profiling Ohio-born ‘80s-movies-princess-turned-media-Queen Sarah, inevitably, you have to give it up for her ‘80s-movies-prince-turned-Broadway-King mate, Matthew Broderick, who ignited the Great White way, breaking records and sweeping awards with co-star Nathan Lane in The Producers. The commerce they’ve brought to NYC, downtowners Sarah, Matthew and son James are a true royal family settled on Manhattan isle.

Best Quote: “I believe in third, fourth and fifth chances! Oh, you must. I just don’t see how being a grown-up allows you to make cut and dry decisions … I tend to be somebody who wants to forgive. I like closing ranks and circling the wagons and not having someone on the outside. I just don’t know how you live without forgiveness–it just doesn’t feel good after a while.”

Birth Name: Robert John Downey, Jr.

Ruling Sign: Aries – fearless, wise, rule-breaker, provocateur, ambitious

Why He’s Earned the Crown: From donning bullet-proof, red n’ gold ‘iron’ threads to controversial “black skin,” former felon, super-talent comeback kid Downey Jr. emerges as our knighted “King of Summer” having rocked the box office twice in very separate but impressive turns as a superhero and a self-absorbed actor; with Iron Man and Tropic Thunder earning a whopping $571,010,641 and $70,385,587 respectively, worldwide. Whoa boy!

Money Isn’t Everything: An Oscar nom; two Golden Globes; BAFTA, SAG and Sundance awards don’t just happen. They’re earned. And, if Robert Downey Jr. isn’t one of our most authentic living actors today, then we’re not Hollywood.com.   

Did You Know?: In 1991, in a symbolic attempt to bury his decadent ‘80s Brat Pack image and begin a new phase of his life and career after filming Chaplin (1992), Downey Jr. (literally) buried the clothes that he wore in 1987’s Less Than Zero in the backyard of his house.

Royal Flub: Yeah, there were many stunts, as addiction can take you there. But, it’s tacky for us to talk about his public benders and significant time in the pokey, so we won’t–he is our royalty after all. Blue blood types are granted pardons.

Nobel Lineage: Greenwich Village born, bohemian-raised Downey Jr. was destined to tread a curious, trail-blazing career path, considering his writer/director father, Robert Downey Sr., ignited his own loyalist, Civil Rights camp, mainly in the black community, with his most noted work, Putney Swope, a satire on the advertising industry that touts major “Down with The Man” philosophy. Can you dig it? Luckily for Jr., given this context, would-be black protesters this summer could, um, look the other way re: his controversial Tropic role in blackface. Thanks dad.

Best Quote: “It’s sort of like at what point do you have enough money? … I’ve never had a ton of money and I kind of haven’t for a while. I don’t really own anything and I feel like I don’t really need anything–so why would I chase that again? There were the times that I had the dough or the big house…[Sighs] it just felt like it was more to manage.”