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Writer Don DeLillo attends the 2012 Carl Sandburg Literary Awards dinner at University of Illinois at Chicago Forum on Oct.

We want to like this movie, "Cosmopolis." David Cronenberg fills his movies with concepts and ideas, then turns them into something stupendous and horrible.

About halfway through David Cronenberg's icy if nonetheless mesmerizing film "Cosmopolis," based on Don DeLillo's novel, a character who deals in money theory tells her boss, a 28-year-old billionaire played impeccably by Robert Pattinson, that "all wealth has become wealth for its own sake." What a fascinating, disturbing yet wildly funny line.

The father-of-four secured the top spot after he was seen in a series of semi-naked Armani and H&M advertising campaigns.

Based on the 2001 novella "The Body Artist" by Don DeLillo , the story follows a woman who, grieving after her husband's suicide, discovers that a stranger is living in her upstairs room - a man who may or may not be real.