AP - John Phillip Law, the strikingly handsome 1960s movie actor who portrayed an angel in the futuristic "Barbarella" and a lovesick Russian seaman in "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming," has died. He was 70.

E! Online - For something meant to be a comedy, Mike Myers' latest big-screen offering is certainly stirring up a lot of drama.

Reuters - Do you suppose an apocalyptic fable would ever possess any lightness or even rogue humor? No, social disintegration and degradation are the order of the day, and Fernando Meirelles' "Blindness" -- which screened in competition as the opening movie at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday -- is no exception.

E! Online - Cannes is ready for its close-up. The 61st International Film Festival kicks off today and the celebs are pouring in to the French town for all the film-biz fabulousness—including jury member Natalie Portman, who looks like a kid arriving at camp. (The 26-year-old could make a killing endorsing antiaging products, um, if she wasn't so successful at this acting thing.)

E! Online - Something's not adding up on Maxim's "ultimate list of the world's most beautiful women."

E! Online - Colin Farrell is losin' it—literally!

E! Online - Michael Moore's got the mercury rising.

E! Online - Daniel Day-Lewis tends to bide his time between projects, sometimes waiting as long as five years between Oscar nominations, er, film roles. But Nine could be the magic number this time around.

E! Online - You never forget your first melting face.

Reuters - Haylie Duff, the elder sister of pop star Hilary Duff, is in negotiations to play a psycho ex-girlfriend in the indie film "Tug."

Reuters - Oscar-nominated "Juno" director Jason Reitman is turning the corporate satire "Up in the Air" into a movie.

Reuters - Tommy Lee Jones is taking on the work of Ernest Hemingway, signing on to adapt, direct, produce and star in the writer's posthumously published novel "Islands in the Stream."

Reuters - German actress Johanna Wokalek ("Barefoot") will replace Franke Potente as the 9th-century female pontiff in "Pope Joan."