Julianne Moore, Danny Glover and Gael Garcia Bernal opened the Cannes Film Festival with their film Blindness by Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles.

The paparazzi reflected in Julianne Moore’s glasses

Julianne Moore is always so cool

Gael Garcia Bernal and Julianne Moore

Sean Penn and juror Natalie Portman

Could Natalie Portman be any prettier?

Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie and Jack Black lend their voices to the animated film Kung Fu Panda by directors Mark Osborne and John Stevenson.

Pregnant Angelina Jolie looks fantastic with a little weight on her.

The 61st Cannes Film Festival Jury

The jury on the red carpet

Sean Penn on the red carpet. Penn is President of the 61 Cannes Film Festival Jury.

Here is the official poster for the upcoming Chanel biopic starring French actress Audrey Tautou.

Coco Before Chanel, directed by Anne Fontaine, will focus on Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel before she became the famous couturier.

Audrey Tautou will also have the lead role as the new fragrance model for Chanel No 5. She will appear in television and print ads for the world’s most famous perfume.

Sex and the City opens May 30.

Are you looking forward to the movie?

The 61st annual Cannes Film Festival is May 14-25, 2008.

This year’s Feature Film Jury is:

Sean Penn, President (American actor, director, screenwriter)
Jeanne Balibar (French actress)
Alexandra Maria Lara (German actress)
Natalie Portman (Israeli-American actress)
Marjane Satrapi (Iranian author-director)
Rachid Bouchareb (French director)
Sergio Castellitto (Italian actor, director, screenwriter)
Alfonso Cuaron (Mexican director)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thai director)

Check back in few days for pictures from the event.

There is nothing in the world like hearing Beethoven performed live.

I went to see the Philharmonia Orchestra of London conducted by Christoph von Dohnányi perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5.

I have to share the experience with you. Here is a vintage clip of Beethoven’s Fifth that I found on youtube:

Beethoven himself has described the first four notes as “Fate knocking at the door.”

Buy some Ludwig Van today.

Have you read the book Twilight by Stephenie Meyer?

It’s a love story involving a teenage girl and a vampire, but not in a Buffy way.

The movie version will be released in December. Here’s the teaser trailer:

Here’s are the first few paragraphs of the book to whet your appetite:

I’d never given much thought to how I would die — though I’d had reason enough in the last few months — but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this.

I stared without breathing across the long room, into the dark eyes of the hunter, and he looked pleasantly back at me.

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. Noble, even. That ought to count for something.

Are you looking forward to the film?

This year’s theme for the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute’s Gala was “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy.”

Enjoy the pictures.

Italian designer Giorgio Armani was honorary chairman. Here he is with co-chairs, George Clooney and Julia Roberts.

We all know American Vogue’s editor-in-chief Anna Wintour rules the world. Her silver cyber-dress was by Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel.

Actress Scarlett Johansson wore Dolce & Gabbana along with her diamond engagement ring from actor Ryan Reynolds.

A nearly naked Gisele Bundchen impressed with her Versace dress.

Is Kate Moss wearing Stella McCartney or the other way around?

The inseparable quartet: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes with Victoria and David Beckham.

I know you want a close-up of Katie Holmes hair: