Reuters - Brad Pitt and George Clooney star in a madcap comedy by the Coen brothers in which two gym employees get caught up in the cloak-and-dagger world of international espionage, with results both daft and deadly.

AP - Spielberg! Affleck! J.Lo! They were among the Hollywood celebrities attending events in Denver as the Democratic National Convention nominated Barack Obama as the party's presidential candidate.

Reuters - Dropping the blood-curdling fare that made his name paid off for Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who picked up an award at Cannes this year for a family drama that was his first non-horror work in years.

Reuters - Australian actor Guy Pearce first grabbed the spotlight playing a demanding drag queen in the cult classic "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert."

Reuters - The Coen brothers' latest film, the madcap comedy "Burn After Reading," has sharply divided the critics, unlike last year's acclaimed "No Country For Old Men" which won four Oscars including best picture.

Reuters - Eight months after tearfully bowing out of fashion, Valentino returned to the red carpet with a film celebrating the man who dressed some of the world's greatest beauties from Jackie Kennedy to Princess Diana.

AP - Of all the women Valentino has dressed in his 45-year career — from Jacqueline Kennedy to Mariella Agnelli to Gwyneth Paltrow — one red carpet moment stands out: When Julia Roberts wore a vintage black-and-white Valentino gown when she was awarded her best actress Oscar.

AP - It wasn't as easy as it looked. Tilda Swinton's first attempt at making clay impressions of her hands — part of a fundraising effort to help restore Venice's St. Mark's Square — barely left a print.

Reuters - Brad Pitt and George Clooney star in a madcap comedy by the Coen brothers in which two gym employees get caught up in the cloak-and-dagger world of international espionage, with results both daft and deadly.

AP - George Clooney and Brad Pitt: Bachelor and family man.

AP - The Venice Film Festival opened Wednesday night with the premiere of the Coen brothers' dark comedy "Burn After Reading," giving a flash of Hollywood glamour to a festival lineup with a definite art house feel.

E! Online - Another day, another bout of negative publicity for Tom Cruise's beseiged Valkyrie.

E! Online - Brad Pitt thought his luggage felt a little light when he left Italy last summer.

E! Online -   • Apparently over that whole Pacifier interlude, Vin Diesel wants to blow things up again. The 41-year-old thesp is ready to resurrect his ass-kicking sci-fi antihero Riddick, reteaming with writer-director David Twohy for a pair of sequels to 2000's Pitch Black and 2004's The Chronicles of Riddick.