Reese Witherspoon met her future husband -- fellow actor Ryan Phillippe -- at her twenty-first birthday party. The romantic version of the story? Ryan arrived intent on wooing his lovely fellow thespian. The accurate version? Ryan had not even been invited, but went anyway -- for the free beer!

[Although the couple hit it off immediately, Phillippe had to leave the following day to begin filming I Know What You Did Last Summer. After weeks of exchanging letters and phone calls, Reese visited him in North Carolina. "We corresponded through letters and phone conversations and really got to know each other on a more intellectual level," she recalled. "And I think that really built a really long-lasting bond so that when we finally did see each other, I think it was love at first sight. Or love at second sight."]

[Among the weekly rations for each child in the Norwich children's hospital in 1632? Two gallons of beer!]