On the poster for the 2003 movie Thirteen, Evan Rachel Wood and Nikki Reed are sneering at the camera, their pierced tongues winking against the bright white background. Evan and Nikki play sexually adventurous 13-year-old (natch) who pop pills, do whippits, cut themselves, and experiment with some girl on girl action. The screenplay was co-written by Nikki and based on her early adolescent experiences.

Wood and Reed, "real life friends!" according to IMDb, are having their own real-life Thirteen moment—at least when it comes to sexual precociousness. In the past month, both ladies (now 19 and 18, respectively) have been linked to men almost twice their age: Wood has been photographed looking gothed out on the arm of the king of darkness himself, Marilyn Manson, while darling Nikki has been driving around L.A. with the newly-divorced Ryan Phillippe.

Maybe I'm misreading the situation. Maybe Evan and Nikki aren't rebelling in the most superficial way possible. Maybe Evan Rachel is spending time with Marilyn Manson because she respects the profound lyrical content of his music and Nikki is hanging with Ryan Phillippe because the two are running lines for her next movie. Considering the fact that Nikki's next project is called Pretzels and Pills, she's probably "running lines" with Ryan right this second.&mdashJessica Grose

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