Video Of Explosions At Universal Studios In Hollywood:



The 'Back to the Future' set was one of many casualties.

The Ugly Truth About The World's Most Famous Film Festival:

I'm about to go to a party hosted by Boujis nightclub, where, I've been promised, not only Harrison Ford will be holding court, but also Gael Garcia Bernal, Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman.

As I'm sitting watching all these rich, successful, famous, rich (did I already say that?) people waft past, I am thinking: this is probably the most glamorous place in the world to be right now. Scrub that. This is the only place to be.

But what I should have known is that the more lavish the occasion, the more exclusive the invite, the more velvet ropes you have to duck under, the more tall, inscrutable men with walkie-talkies you have to inveigle your way past - the more putrid the reality that lies beneath.

Let me give you an example, courtesy of my movie producer dinner date (who is constantly looking over my shoulder in case someone more interesting hovers into view; a common behavioural tic in Cannes), that illustrates how dissatisfied all this hobnobbing can make you.

'You can't just go to a party on the beach,' he says, drawing on a cigarette (people here don't give much truck to the smoking ban, or to rules about any illegal substances). 'You have to go to a party on a yacht. But it has to be a private party, and it can't be on anything smaller than an 85ft yacht.'

And what happens on these yacht parties at Cannes? Well, according to Liz Jones of the Daily Mail, extremely rich old men do large quantities of drugs, watch porn flicks and take their pick from a herd of 18-year-old models. Producers and other folks looking for funding sources do drugs with the old financiers so that they will trust them. Then they pitch movie ideas that either make these bigwigs feel guilty or turn them on. Everyone is more famous and more wealthy than everyone else and it's a dog eat dog, sleep with dog's carcass kind of world. If you wanted to know what goes down behind the velvet rope, who is sleeping with who and just how ridiculous the glitterati actually is, it's all there in print.

Celebrity Environmentalist Hypocrites Exposed By UK Paper:





Brad and Angelina Jolie join Madonna among other celebs on the list.

Actor Tom Hanks In The Latest Useless Celebrity Endorsement:



At least he mocked the ridiculousness of his celebrity endorsement.

Rosanne May Just Be Buying Into Limbaugh's Operation Chaos:

Just days after conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh came under fire for "dreaming of riots in Denver," another national talk show host issued a call for "trouble" at the Democratic National Convention — this time from the liberal side.

Roseanne Barr, guest host for "American Afternoon" on Air America Radio, told her listeners on Monday to "hop on buses for Denver" and "cause a bunch of trouble."

"We should, a bunch of us, go there and repeat the Democratic Convention from Chicago," Barr said, referring to the 1968 convention that resulted in rioting.

'American Afternoon' is the show that replaced Randi Rhodes on Air America. It doesn't look like much has changed in the time slot. The question is, will the left hyperventilate over Rosanne's remarks like they did when Rush Limbaugh said virtually the same thing?

Screw it, I'll answer for you. No.

Snipes Has Been Sentenced To 3 Years In Tax Fraud Case:

OCALA, Fla. -- Wesley Snipes was sentenced to 36 months in prison, Thursday.

Snipes was convicted of three misdemeanor charges for not filing his taxes. Three years was the maximum sentence allowed.

Snipes’ defense team spent the morning arguing that he should not have to go to prison.

Three years for misdemeanors? The punishment seems a bit hefty in this case. The government clearly wanted to make an example out of Snipes. And Snipes will spend the next 36 months thinking about that example. It all seems a bit steep for a victimless crime, no?

Actor Jason Beghe is the first celebrity Scientologist to sit down and publicly talk about his experiences after leaving the group. Beghe has been on CSI, Everwood, Veronica Mars and several other television shows as well as many major motion pictures.

OK, so I've never heard of Jason Beghe either but it's interesting to see some defectors among the celebrities involved in Scientology.

45 Years After Her Death, Marilyn Is A Star All Over Again:

An illicit copy of the steamy, still-FBI-classified reel - 15 minutes of 16mm film footage in which the original blond bombshell performs oral sex on an unidentified man - was just sold to a New York businessman for $1.5 million, said Keya Morgan, the well-known memorabilia collector who discovered the film and brokered its purchase.

The footage appears to have been shot in the 1950s. When it came to light in the mid-'60s, then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had his agents spend two weeks futilely trying to prove that Monroe's sex partner was either John F. Kennedy or Robert F. Kennedy, according to declassified agency documents and interviews, Morgan said.

The silent black-and-white flick shows Monroe on her knees in front of a man whose face is just out of the shot.

He never moves into the shot, indicating that he knew the camera was there, but Monroe never looks at the lens, said Morgan, who saw the footage.

OK, so the photo above is a bit racy but I think it gets the message across. It's Monday and the last thing I expected to find on the wires was news of a Marilyn Monroe sex tape purchase. Monroe has been dead for 45 years and there have been fakes before but this appears to be legit. You can imagine this will eventually leak on to the Internet and spread faster than One Night in Paris.

Heston Died Saturday Night In Beverly Hills, California:



The voice of the NRA is dead and some Liberals are celebrating.