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Corporations spend millions every year trying to predict what's cool. We don't understand why they do this when all they have to do is trust one remarkably prescient oracle: Drew Barrymore's lust. It's true. Barrymore might get dismissed as a heartbreaker, but the reality is, her pheromones have surfed the razor's edge of pop culture for years. She was into Corey Feldman when he was Corey Fuckin' Feldman. She got Luke Wilson when Luke Wilson was hot (there actually was a time). Next, she moved to MTV antihero Tom Green until she had the wise sense to ditch him at Minute 16. Anticipating the explosion of a New York guitar-rock scene, she won over Fab Moretti of the Strokes. After that, she rebooted with Justin Long, the star of those Mac vs. PC commercials, and lately she's been spied with Ed Westwick, the brooding young star of couldn't-be-hotter TV show Gossip Girl. That makes Drew's radar six for six in the past — a record that would get her on the board of Berkshire Hathaway (and, perhaps, in Warren Buffett's pants — seven for seven). So the next time you're wondering what's next, don't turn to YouTube or Perez or, hell, some lame "Hot Issue." Look Drew Barrymore straight in the eyes — and then look for whoever is making out with her right now.

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