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

Most Memorable Role: The Barmitzvah-crashing, ditzy ‘younger woman’ that shoves a wedge into Bette Midler’s (Brenda’s) rocky marriage with her two-timing husband, SJP plays the blasé, social climbing hottie Shelly in the First Wives Club. Also, her ‘80s Square Pegs nerd, Patty Green, deserves a shout out. 

Best Chemistry  With:  One word: Big…played by Christopher Noth. We have yet to see Parker electrify the big screen, small screen or tabloid screen with anything more exciting than seeing her play confident/coy in the “Big” leagues. Need proof? Check out their infamous hot spread in June’s Vogue.

Sexiest Character:  Bubbly, single relationship columnist, fashion it girl, Carrie Bradshaw–particularly so, in the Sex and the City TV series, where the scripts, and her quippy v.o., were as air-tight as a cosmo hang with her fly lady trio.

Aristocratic Cross-pollination: SJP’s popularity markedly rose following her widely publicized break-up with Downey Jr.–due to issues related to drug addiction. Followed-up by a rumored on-location romance with co-star Nicolas Cage during their Honeymoon in Vegas shoot, her star even further ignited. 

Future Conquests: We’re mainly looking forward to Sara Jessica’s upcoming turn in The Ivy Chronicles as a former high-flying Wall Streeter, who, after losing her job, finds her husband in bed with the wife of her replacement, and is forced to press the re-start button–harrrrd. If there’s one woman who can pivot on power-heels, SJP can.

Runners-up: Liv Tyler (The Hulk; The Strangers); Angelina Jolie (Wanted; Kung Fu Panda)–birthing twin babies and two box office rockers, she could’ve been No. 1, but let’s give someone else a chance to shine her well-deserved crown.

Most Memorable Role: In Chaplin, where he plays the title role as the truly strange, alluring icon with a wild side that only award-winner Robert Downey Jr. could’ve inhabited with such sublime grace, goofiness and fiery ambition. For this tour de force interpretation of the “Little Tramp” he gets an Oscar nom.

Best Chemistry  With:  His new Nubian skin in Tropic Thunder? Gotcha! Actually it’s with Rosario Dawson, in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints. As distanced, ex-lovers, they’re subtly riveting in an understated way–making you yearn their unlikely reunion.

Sexiest Character: Half-tortured hero, half-heavy metal hottie, the billionaire industrialist and genius inventor playboy Tony Stark, who has a decidedly super-steely “Side B.”

Aristocratic Cross-pollination: Interest in Robert Downey Jr.’s unpredictable off-screen ‘antics’ due to substance abuse was fueled at the end of his seven-year relationship with Sarah Jessica Parker in 1991.

Future Conquests: Co-starring with Jamie Foxx in the upcoming fall release, The Soloist, the Downster tackles the role of a homeless musician with schizophrenia; we know he can play imbalance! And with an upcoming, Guy Ritchie helmed Sherlock Holmes and Downey Jr. headlining, we’re ready for some brooding pipe-inhaling in fall 2009.

Runners-up: Christian Bale (Batman); Jack Black (Kung Fu Panda, Tropic Thunder) … Why not Heath you ask? Quietly kept, we know in spades the Joker trumps the King. But shhh, don’t say a word!