Two eyebrow-raising Hollywood scandals popped up this week, one including an actual eyebrow! Must we make Tinseltown worry about anything other than budgets and insuring Lindsay Lohan?

First up, the battle between Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment and paparazzo Ronnie Adams, who snapped a photo of Robert Downey Jr. on the set of big-budet action flick Iron Man while the movie was still filming.

As producers for the big and small screen continually battle back against potential spoilers, the studio demanded Adams remove the photo from his website, where he had posted it. He refused, but they eventually got to his web host, who yanked his account.

And then … his photo resurfaced. In Iron Man.

That's according to Adams' lawsuit, which claims that after all its complaining, Marvel used the copyrighted photo – after removing Adams' watermark – in a scene in the movie, showing a newspaper article headlined "Who is this Ironman." Fiscally savvy Adams, filing suit against the studios, now wants to get remunerated for his unsolicited efforts in contributing to this "pivotal scene."

So that's one photo scandal. This next one features Tom Cruise and Nazis! And an eyebrow!

And goes a little something like this: Cruise's oft-delayed Nazi movie Valkyrie, which has trampled over its $100 million budget, is a running joke among critics about how terrible the final product is going to be. So how to drum up support for the bloated film that could very well break Cruise's United Artists agency if it underperforms?

By releasing a photo (pictured, at left) of failed Hitler assassin Claus von Stauffenberg — which looked an awful lot like Tom Cruise (right).

Perhaps too much like Cruise?

It was, argued critics, all part of a falsified marketing effort to get Germans on board with Cruise, who they view with disdain for his Scientology roots and his insistence on playing a, um, German hero. The photo released by United Artists was immediately scrutinized, and naysayers believed the studio had edited Stauffenberg's features to look closer to Cruise's, bringing some sense of authenticity to his role, and easing the Germans' fears.

So Hollywood diarist Kim Masters sent the photo on over to Slate's photo experts, who came up with this overlay of the an Associated Press photo of Stauffenberg and the one that United Artists released, along with a shot of Cruise in character. So sayeth the all knowing ones: "Look @ the nose, mouth, and chin. Definite (but slight) altering. Also, the head's width is squeezed slightly. [...] the nose looks different and definitely the eyebrows. Cheekbones and angle of the chin, too."

Ah hah! So Cruise is a crazy and a liar!

[Photo: Variety]