Here’s Kristen Stewart in Cannes at the photo call for her movie, On The Road… And this is about as lively as we normally see her look… But Kristen is leaving her inhibitions in the wind on the big screen… literally… Her free-spirited character reportedly appears topless in the upcoming film, and this super reserved Twilight star was apparently all for it. The actress reportedly told a Cannes press conference that she loves pushing and scaring herself, and always wants to get as close to an experience as she can… Well, as we can see, the 22-year-old does have a hard time living out average day-to-day experiences… The SWATH star says she was able to get into her On the Road character during a four-week actor’s boot camp in Montreal, where she got to live more than she usually does in her life… 

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Kristen Stewart Embraces Topless Scene

Nicole Kidman arrived in Cannes a few days ago , even though her promotional work for The Paperboy didn’t start until today. I guess Nicole just wanted to party and schmooze in the South of France. Maybe she’s hoping to soak up the vibe considering she’s going to be playing Princess Grace of Monaco . The photos of Nicole in the orange-red Antonio Berardi Fall 2012 are from today’s photo call for The Paperboy. Thoughts on Nicole’s dress? I like that she went with a bold color, although I’m not crazy about this particular bold color. The cut and design of the dress is solid, and the tailoring is lovely. My only real complaint is the color, actually. Also in attendance at the photo call: Lee Daniels (the director), Zac Efron, John Cusack, Matthew McConaughey and Macy Gray. A few more things about Nicole. One, her Botox-face is still, as ever, ridiculous. I don’t think her forehead or eyebrows moved a centimeter once during the photo call. And her lips- still ridiculous. But really, let’s talk about Nicole’s boobs. I’ve long claimed that shortly after Nicole gave birth to Sunday Rose, she got some implants . I actually have an eloborate conspiracy theory involving Nicole’s bolt-ons, but we don’t need to get into that right now. Let’s just say that there has been photo evidence in the past that indicates to me that Nicole’s tatas are not all real. I believe she got something done, and while I appreciated that she kept them smaller (they look fine on her frame), I’m now wondering if she went back to the surgeon’s office and got some even bigger implants. We’ve gotten emails about this too, and CB and I spent way too much time last night inspecting Nicole’s rack like boob scientists. To the boob laboratory!!! More photos of Nicole last night in Cannes (her bolt-ons are even more noticeable here). Photos courtesy of WENN.

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Nicole Kidman in orange-red Antonio Berardi in Cannes: Botoxy or beautiful?

Even though I think Howard Stern was rude for saying it publicly, I think he was right: Britney Spears is going to be a “train wreck” and a hot mess as a judge on The X-Factor . There were rumors about the gig for what felt like MONTHS, and then finally Simon Cowell announced it – Britney and Demi Lovato are the new judges for the new season . Considering Britney is still very much under a conservatorship that her father and her fiancé control , there are some concerns as to whether Britney will even be able to do her job on the show, LIVE on air. Us Weekly has a lengthy and heartbreaking story about it in this week’s issue. The basic gist? People close to Britney worry that the stress of The X Factor gig is already sending Britney into breakdown territory. Those closest to Britney worry The X-Factor opportunity will be just another rise before a fall – live, in front of millions of viewers. “Doing X Factor may lead her back into meltdown territory,” says a source. “She gets extremely nervous and anxious. She’s hard on herself and not very confident.” Anything new, even positive developments like her engagement to Jason Trawick can rock the boat. “For her, it’s all input as stress,” explains the source. “This is a lot of change at once for Britney. She’s coming undone.” Sources warn that Britney hasn’t healed 100 percent since her 2007/2008 breakdown. “She really is starting to seem loopy and not right,” admits a source close to Spears. “She is so happy one minute and sad and crying the next.” Adds a second source, “Her emotions are fragile.” “She is very scared and overwhelmed by the thought of it,” a source says about the idea of participation in The X Factor. And her reported $15 million payday seems to be a hindrance, not a help. “Now that she’s gotten financially stable again, she is starting to let loose and let old demons come out,” says a source. At a friend’s crawfish-boil party in LA’s Brentwood neighborhood May 5, Spears showed up sporting cutoffs, a cropped top and no shoes – and proceeded to ignore the other guests while muttering obscenities to herself! Hanging out alone by the food, a source says, “she would sort of say to no one, ‘F–k it, I’m eating whatever I want. I don’t care.’ Everyone was wondering what was up.” Out of the public eye, Britney is an angel, a neighbor insists. “Britney has been keeping very quiet,”says the source, who lives near Spears’ $25,000-a-month, five-bedroom mansion in the private Sherwood Country Club. “She has a very simple life that doesn’t require her to go out very often,” explains another source. “Everyone she needs to see comes to the house. She gets her hair done or spray-tans at home. She is definitely lonely and doesn’t have friends.” Her favorite pastimes? Decorating her new home and working out. “She has a trainer who comes to the house a few days a week… she also has a chef who cooks meals for her and the boys.” [From Us Weekly , print edition] The article goes on to detail how structured and managed Britney’s personal and professional life is, using many of the points I’ve made in the past for why Britney shouldn’t be “engaged” to Jason Trawick – this is a woman whose life is still very much micro-managed by her father and her fiancé. Then the article goes on to detail how The X-Factor will work if Britney has some kind of issue live on air – the details include versions of “well, maybe one of the other judges will just talk over her” and “well, boozehound Christina Aguilera can somehow function on live television, how hard could it be for Britney?” I just get the feeling once again that everybody is using this poor woman. WTF are Jamie Spears and Jason Trawick thinking, allowing Britney to go through with this? Photos courtesy of WENN.

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Masseur-Gate has gotten sad and rather anticlimactic (no pun intended). Thank goodness The National Enquirer is here to give us a belly laugh. No, of course John Travolta isn’t a sad, sweaty pervert who assaults and gropes strange men in hotel rooms across America (and Australia, and Canada, and…). OF COURSE NOT. How could he when his problem is obviously being a closeted cross-dresser? That seems to be The Enquirer’s take – after running so many stories about Travolta boning dark, lithe men in spas, now The Enquirer is all about Travolta loving to cross-dress. He’s been accused of sexually assaulting male masseurs – but today John Travolta was heaped with fresh embarrassment after photos surfaced of him cross-dressing. The Pulp Fiction star appears in full drag – and the pictures, published in this National Enquirer, are allegedly not for a film role. In the snaps, the 58-year-old actor is wearing a white dress, brown belt, fur stole, earrings and a necklace. A bra is even visible beneath the knit frock. He also wears a face full of makeup, including thick black eyeliner and pearly pink lipstick as well as a blonde wig pulled back into a ponytail. The photos were obtained by The National Enquirer from a party in Los Angeles that John attended in 1997, just six years after marrying Kelly Preston. In another bitter twist of fate, the magazine claims that his wife of over twenty years has left him in the wake of his cross-dressing scandal. A ‘friend’ of the actress’ says: ‘Kelly told me their marriage is over and made it clear that she’s no longer living in the family home. She’s put up with John’s double life for decades while his behaviour remained in the shadows. But all this coming out in public has humiliated her. Kelly is absolutely destroyed.’ No doubt his children, Ella, 12, and Benjamin, 18 months, will be affected by this recent scandal. John is certainly no stranger to dressing up in drag. He wore women’s clothing on the big screen as Edna Turnblad in the 2007 silver screen adaptation of Broadway musical Hairspray. Though his tongue-in-cheek role had many laughing, this current photo scandal is certainly no laughing matter in the wake of recent reports that he sexually assaulted male masseurs. [From The Mail ] At some point, does the media’s treatment of Travolta’s alleged (LOL) homosexuality become offensive? What I’m saying is 1) first the media treated John Travolta with kid gloves, even in the wake of now seven (or more) men claiming that Travolta assaulted them. I think the media would be treating Travolta differently if this was a heterosexual scandal, if women were accusing Travolta of assault. 2) Now the tabloid media is throwing outdated stereotypes at Travolta – like, because he’s “gay” he must be a “cross-dresser” too, when there is a lot of psychological data to suggest that many cross-dressing men identify as heterosexual, and many gay men do not cross-dress. Do I need to make a VENN diagram? That being said, would I believe John Travolta is a “secret” cross-dresser? Eh. I believe John has a “secret” life where he does all manner of things that would shock and appall me. I think cross-dressing is pretty much a non-starter, if true. ‘Hairspray’ stills, courtesy of All Movie Photos.

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Jim Parsons is gay. You heard it here first. Sort of. Back in 2010, we covered a story from The National Enquirer about Jim Parsons and his live-in boyfriend named Todd Spiewak and how Jim had proposed to Todd. Last year, The Enquirer also claimed that the engagement was “off” because Jim found out that Todd wanted kids, and Jim was all “Meh.” Anyway, Jim never really confirmed or denied his sexuality in interviews, and I think most people kind of just thought, “Eh. So what if he’s gay? He’s pretty funny.” Well… Jim just came out of the closet. And he did it in such an old-school way! During the course of a New York Times interview, the Times casually outs him. It’s so quaint and old-media! You can read the full NYT piece here (Jim is promoting his lead role in a Broadway production of Harvey ) and here’s the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it reference to his sexuality: By the winter of 2011 Mr. Parsons had won his first Emmy for “Big Bang” and was midway through Season 4 when he felt he was “spinning my wheels” as an actor, and began looking to do a play again. He landed the role of Tommy Boatwright, a young gay activist in “The Normal Heart” who bucks up the main characters in their fight against AIDS. The humanity and intensity of the play appealed to him, he said, just as Beckett and Büchner once did; in graduate school, too, his thesis project was a 15-minute performance piece about a mentally disabled death-row inmate, a psychiatrist and a murder victim’s father — all played by Mr. Parsons. “The Normal Heart” resonated with him on a few levels: Mr. Parsons is gay and in a 10-year relationship, and working with an ensemble again onstage was like nourishment, he said. As the production was ending last summer, he heard that the Roundabout Theater Company was considering a revival of “Harvey” — initially with John C. Reilly under consideration for Elwood — and last November the play’s director, Scott Ellis, asked him and Ms. Hecht to do a private reading of the work in Los Angeles. [From The New York Times ] Now, Parsons isn’t the one saying “I’m gay and I’ve been in a relationship with a man for ten years.” The NYT says it for him. If this was People Magazine , I would say that Parsons definitely approved that line and his publicist cosigned it. But this is the New York Times – did they just casually “out” an actor without his consent? Without directly quoting him? Weird. I’m pretty sure the other dude in these photos is Todd Spiewak, Jim’s boyfriend/fiancé of 10 years. Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.

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These are some assorted photos from the Cannes Film Festival from the past… let’s say, 48 hours. There were a few big premieres, although… I don’t think some of these films are actually in competition. Like, Madagascar 3 isn’t in competition. Lawless is, although the star of Lawless , Ryan Gosling, didn’t show up to Cannes. Hm…anyway. These photos aren’t all-inclusive or anything, these are just the dudes and ladies and dresses I wanted to talk about. Go ahead and yell at me. First up! Salma Hayek (with Francois-Henri Pinault) in Gucci at the Madagascar 3 premiere. It’s very… eh. I prefer when Salma goes for cleaner, simpler styles. This whole look seems very showgirl and drag queen to me. Gerard Butler was at Friday night’s Haiti Benefit. He’s done a lot of work with charities related to Haiti. I’m surprised he looks so clean and sober, aren’t you? We need to have a conversation about Tom Hardy’s giant, furry beard. The conversation: I want that beard to be tickling my thighs. End of conversation. (PS… Shia LaBeouf looks gross.). Guy Pearce!!! He was at the photo call for Lawless. I love him so much. I dig his flannel too, for some strange reason. He looks hot. Jada Pinkett Smith in Alberta Ferretti. This was my favorite look from Jada for all of her Cannes appearances – and this is just what she wore to the Madagascar 3 photo call! It’s a great color for her. Jada’s worst look? This Atelier Versace in orange and gold that she wore the M3 premiere. God, that’s just awful. Jessica Chastain in white. AGAIN. This one is Armani – it’s a beautiful dress, and it would have made a gorgeous wedding dress. Try a different color, Jessica. And here’s Jessica in gold Gucci. Eh. I don’t hate it, but I don’t love it either. Charlotte Casiraghi in Gucci, walking the carpet for Once Upon A Time In America. Doesn’t she look so much like her mother? She’s gorgeous. But! She’s a terrible sloucher. I know it’s all “I’m sort of French, I’m royal, I’m beautiful, I don’t have to stand up straight or wear clothes that are tailored.” But still. Stand up straight. Photos courtesy of WENN.

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Cannes: Salma Hayek & Jada Pinkett bring out their inner drag queens & more

Update by CB : Mark posted this photo on Facebook of his wedding, which you can see after you subscribe to him . I didn’t even know Mark Zuckerberg was engaged, did you? Well, the shocking news this morning: Mark Zuckerberg married his long-time girlfriend Priscilla Chan last night in Palo Alto, CA. When that movie, The Social Network , was a thing about a year and a half ago, there were suddenly lots of photos of Zuck and Priscilla out and about – like, they became paparazzi targets. It was interesting because the film painted Zuck as somewhat of a confused misogynist, when in reality, Zuck and Priscilla have been together for years and years, and you never really hear stories about him mistreating ladies or anything. Mark and Priscilla have been living together too, and their wedding took place in their backyard. Nice. You can see a wedding photo here – her wedding gown isn’t super-amazing, but she looks really pretty in the photo. And Zuck didn’t wear a tuxedo hoodie! Yay. A day after Mark Zuckerberg took his company, Facebook, public, the CEO updated his relationship status to “married.” Zuckerberg, 28, and his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan exchanged vows at a small ceremony in their backyard attended by less than 100 guests in Palo Alto, Calif., on Saturday. Guests thought they were coming over for a surprise party to celebrate Chan’s graduation from UCSF medical school, where on May 14 she received her degree in pediatrics. However, Zuckerberg and Chan had been planning the wedding for more than four months, according to a source authorized by the couple. Zuckerberg designed Chan’s wedding ring, a simple ruby sparkler, himself. Guests dined family-style on food from the couple’s favorite restaurants, Palo Alto Sol and Fuki Sushi. For dessert, they had Burdick Chocolate “mice” – whimsical chocolate treats made in the shape of mice – which the couple had on their first date. The couple, who met while attending Harvard before Zuckerberg – who is now worth more than $19 billion – started Facebook, have been dating for nine years. Zuckerberg, the subject of the movie The Social Network, had been in the news all week for the highly-anticipated stock offering of his company. [From People ] I’ve heard that Priscilla is just as much of a genius as Mark, and it’s really cool that she just graduated from medical school, and I can imagine her life is going to be overtaken by her residency and all of that for the next few years. I like that Mark went with a smart woman who is doing her own thing. Hopefully, she will be to him what Melinda Gates is to Bill Gates – an incredibly intelligent woman who inspires her husband to be a better human being. Melinda Gates is given a lot of credit for how she and Bill Gates give their money away (making The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation the gold standard of “how to run a charity/foundation like an efficient business” ). Zuckerberg has already pledged a great deal of his fortune to charity – but that was a year and a half ago. He just took his company public, and now he’s even richer. Maybe The Mark & Priscilla Zuckerberg Foundation is next? Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

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Maybe I’ve been doing this job for too long, but I don’t understand why this story is such a big deal. It’s the “top story” on several different sites, and on several different media outlets. The headline? “Will Smith slaps reporter after reporter tries to kiss him.” Eh? The backstory: Will was at the Moscow premiere of Men In Black III , walking the red carpet and stopping to talk to nearly every media outlet (or flat-out every media outlet). Celebrities like Will (and like Tom Cruise) are old-school: when they’re promoting something, they will work a red carpet. HARD. They will make sure everybody gets a quote and some face-time. So, Will stops at one outlet, does a little interview, and then moves on to the next outlet, where a Ukrainian reporter is waiting for his moment to shine. The reporter shakes Will’s hand, kisses one of Will’s cheeks, twists around and kisses the other cheek, then moves in for a mouth-to-mouth kiss. Will shoves the guy away, and starts to walk to the next outlet, then reaches back and – using the back of his hand – slaps the reporter on his cheek. Will says to the next outlet, “He’s lucky I didn’t sucker punch him.” Then Will continued down the line, giving interviews and autographs. This incident all went down in a matter of seconds, and there’s plenty of video: Now, should Will have back-handed the guy? No. I think the shove was sufficient enough to say “Seriously, NOT COOL.” Playing devil’s advocate, would you feel differently if it was a female celebrity who was being man-handled on the press line? TMZ says this Ukrainian reporter is “known” for being really kissy with celebrities. Er…? He should stop. TMZ also notes pointedly that Will just came out in support of gay marriage, which I think is an unfair aside. Gay or straight, man or woman, everybody has the right to NOT be manhandled by strangers. I want to believe – and I really do hope – that this was some knee-jerk “OMG, I was kissed by a man!” homophobic reaction from Will. What I mean is that I don’t think it’s a reflection on his sexuality, whatever that may be. I think it’s simply a reflection of Will not wanting to have some stranger’s lips all over his face. Photos of Will promoting ‘MIB III’ in London last week, courtesy of WENN.

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I’m sorry we’re so late in covering these photos! They’re from Friday, during the day, but we only got access to them late on Friday night. Considering everybody is running with the same photos, I’m thinking these were taken by the official royal event photographer, and then circulated to the photo agencies. The event? The Queen hosted a special all-royal lunch in honor of her Diamond Jubilee . And when I say “all royal” I mean “every royal head of state in the world.” Even the Emperor of Japan showed up! In total, there were “24 Kings and Queens, one Emperor, a Grand Duke and a Sultan.” The Sultan of Brunei, of course. Also included? “Eight princesses, an Emir and a lone Empress.” Prince Albert and Princess Charlene of Monaco were there too! So for the special lunch (in which all of these royals just stood around, clutching champagne or water and quietly muttering bitchy things), the Queen made sure that Prince William and Duchess Kate were in attendance. For the (day) occasion, Kate kept her hair down and her curls magnificently sausage-y and bouncy. I guess it’s fine for a day event, although I really did hope that we had turned on a corner as far pulling her hair up. Sigh. Kate also wore a $1800-2000 coatdress from Emilia Wickstead . She accessorized with an ornate brooch and big earrings, all of which you can barely see because of her enormous hair. I do kind of like her in pink, though. It’s not my taste, but she looks cute. I’m also including photos of Princess Charlene, with her new short ‘do all twerked up. I love that shade of blue on her, but seeing Charlene and Kate stand next to each other, talking to each other… it’s disconcerting. Charlene looks less plastic when she’s next to Kate, and Kate looks MORE plastic. Weird, right? I swear, Kate’s face looks “tight” while Charlene looks more energetic than we’ve seen in previous months. Also: I would LOVE to know what Kate and Queen Rania had to say to each other. Scratch that – I would LOVE to know what Queen Rania really thinks of Kate. PS… Yes, Kate sipped white wine. She’s not pregnant. Photos courtesy of WENN.

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Duchess Kate in a $1800 pink coatdress in London: gorgeous & appropriate?

In case you didn’t notice last week, I was kind of recovering from a Cracken Bender. Like, most of the time, I kind of enjoy making fun of Lindsay Lohan just because A) she deserves it because she’s the least sympathetic person ever (aside from actual war criminals) and B) in her crack-addled mind, she KNOWS she’s incredibly awesome, so what does it even matter? So… I needed a little break, and CB covered LL’s appearance on Glee – which, from what I gather, was barely two minutes of cracked-out timing and dumb jokes. So, considering that LL’s “comeback” is in full swing and that Lifetime “Liz & Dick” monstrosity is due to begin filming in two weeks or so, how is Lindsay spending her time? Why, she’s sitting at home, soberly reading her Bible. Just kidding, she’s partying until 7 am with Paris Hilton, and the party only ends when the cops come. They both have long-standing reputations as Hollywood wild ones. And Paris Hilton, 31, and Lindsay Lohan, 25, didn’t do themselves any favours after attending a raucous party at a LA home until the early hours of Saturday morning. Police were called to the Hollywood Hills residence after neighbours filed a noise complaint, according to onlookers. Paris was spotted leaving the property wearing dark sunglasses and a cap along with her friend, oil heir Brandon Davis. Lindsay is understood to have made an undercover exit, hiding under a towel in the back seat of a friend’s car. Lindsay and Paris are clearly on good terms again after a spectacular feud dating back to 2006, when the hotel heiress and Brandon crudely nicknamed her Firecrocth. The Mean Girls actress has been attempting to resuscitate her flagging career and recently made a guest appearance on Glee. But she reported to be a ‘total nightmare’ on the set of the hit show – which stars Lea Michele, Corey Monteith and Matthew Morrison – because she turned up late and did not know her lines. Meanwhile Paris, who is dating DJ Afrojack, has been inspired to try a career change by her new beau. She will debut her DJ set in Sao Paulo, Brazil on June 23 in front 30,000 people. She will be following a performance by Kelly Clarkson and Jennifer Lopez. [From The Mail ] Wait, what? “She will be following a performance by Kelly Clarkson and Jennifer Lopez.” As in, Jennifer Lopez and Kelly Clarkson are opening for… Paris Hilton? That can’t be right. As for the partying and such… of course. Why do Paris and Lindsay keep circling each other like the last crackies eyeing up the last crack rock? I get that they have “similar interests” and probably the same number of brain cells. But for God’s sake… I feel like this is 2006 all over again. By the way, remember photographer Tyler Shields, the dude who took all of those crazy photos of The Cracken playing with a gun? Well, he did a new photo shoot with Lindsay for Vault Magazine – the photos haven’t been released yet, but part of Tyler’s interview has been excerpted . Isn’t that funny? Lindsay isn’t interviewed – Tyler Shields is. Oh, and Shields is a douche. He tells Vault, “People said she (Lindsay) was unstable, so I decided to show them what they were already believing, what they already chose to see.” He also says, “I’m not a label. I’m not a fashion. I’m not a celebrity…I’ll buy a Ferrari and blow it up. I come across so many people who are afraid to live. I want to give them a window to another world. I don’t believe in fear.” For goodness sake. You know who was a truly fearless photographer? The late Tim Hetherington . Tyler Shields is just a hack regurgitating pop culture clichés, and he thinks that’s somehow groundbreaking. It’s not. Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

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Lindsay Lohan & Paris Hilton partied together until 7 a.m., when the cops came