The stars were out for the opening festival at the Cannes film festival, and they sure were gorgeous. The first film to open the 12 day film festival on the Riveria is Blindness. The film by Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles is based on a 1955 novel in which an entire city goes blind after an epidemic. Julianne Moore plays one of the few people who is unaffected and retains her sight. She tries to hide it from the rest of the city as society breaks down from the effects of the change. Blindness also stars Mark Ruffalo, Danny Glover, and Gael García Bernal.

The 9 person jury at Cannes includes Natalie Portman and is headed by Sean Penn. Penn didn’t miss a chance to rip on US President George Bush while talking to the press at the event. It’s likely that he was asked directly about it, and he is quoted by Reuters as saying “When somebody operates without a brain and without a heart, they kill hundreds of thousands of people around the world.” I dislike Bush as much as the next person, but there are much better ways of phrasing that. It’s lame to personally attack someone in such a blunt way when you can state more compelling reasons for disliking the guy. Bush definitely has a heart and a brain, he just choses when to use them. When it involves money, they’re easily switched off and immune to suffering, death and general havok-wrecking. Reuters notes that Penn then smoked a cigarette “in defiance of French anti-smoking laws.” You would think he would be afraid of setting that ridiculous hair on fire.

Shown at the opening ceremony at Cannes are Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman, Eva Longoria (who’s still looking pregnant to me), Rachida Brakni, Aishwarya Rai, Gillian Anderson, Sean Penn (the hair!), Julianne Moore, Gael García Bernal, Mischa Barton, Danny Glover, and Bar Rafaeli.

So the pictures are out from the pre-premiere party of “Marie Antoinette” at Cannes and Kirsten Dunst actually looks good. She covers up a little too much, but her sky blue dress is form-fitting, and dare I say - elegant. Someone clued the girl in, or maybe she got lucky.

It looks like the dress that Hillary Swank wore to the 2005 Oscars, but it’s not quite the same. Kiki’s dress has a horizontal sash built in around the middle and little applique birds on the skirt. Swank’s dress had a criss-cross sash, a different neck, and a more form-fitting skirt.

If only Kirsten would hire her stylist full time.

I have to admit I was waiting for these pictures to come out to see what terrible outfit Kirsten Dunst would wear to Cannes while promoting her film “Marie Antoinette.” She did not dissapoint in plain black pants, a white 3/4 sleeve puffy shirt and ugly black flats. (Dita, this is why celebrities needs stylists.)

It looks like Kirsten is wearing the famous “puffy shirt” from Seinfeld. The original was donated to the Smithsonian, so she must have found this musty copy in one of the vintage shops she frequents.

We won’t be the only ones to come up with the puffy shirt comparison. Like Britney’s 70s porn bodyguard, it’s kind of hard not to notice.

People is reporting that Kirsten told her friend to “chug” a vodka tonic while they were out at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood. She once said in an interview with Jay Leno that she buys cases of champagne from Costco and that’s about the only thing in her fridge. Maybe that would explain her outfit.

Here she is with Sofia Coppola and Jason Schwartzman at Cannes today. We can’t wait to see her outfit for the premiere!

According to the NY Daily News, Paris Hilton played an angry voice message for friends from Lindsay Lohan, in which Lohan had some things to say about the “firecrotch” video featuring Paris and a drunken Brandon Davis.

Maybe Lindsay will realize that the firecrotch video is the best thing to happen to her image since she was rumored to be considering charity work at an unspecified time in the future. She should just suck and up and relish her status as a victim this week.

Paris has been partying in Cannes, and picked up $200,000 just for showing up at a charity event. She couldn’t have even bought her way into a Vanity Fair party, though.

That’s awesome that bird face can’t get into any more Vanity Fair parties. If only she would get banned from an entire country like Snoop Dogg.

Here she is in Cannes at the X-men 3 premiere and out shopping with Caroline D’Amore. Did you notice that we didn’t post any pictures of her for two days? This took a lot of restraint.

Kirsten Dunst has a cute body when she’s not covering it up in layers of ill-fitting vintage clothing. She’s not too thin and her boobs are probably natural. She needs to do something about her teeth, though. I read an interview with Dunst in British In Style in which she said she thinks her teeth give her character and won’t change them, even though her mother has urged her to get them fixed. It’s not invasive like getting plastic surgery and people would say she made a wise move. She can even write it off her taxes. Dunst would have plenty of character left to go around if she got veneers.

I don’t like Kirsten Dunst, but I’m not sure why - apart from her easily mocked appearance. She doesn’t say rude or vain things all the time like Eva Longoria or Jennifer Aniston. She just seems kind of annoying. It’s like she crashed the celebrity party and never bothered to try to act like she deserved the fame and cash that go along with it.

In these pictures of her swimming at Cap d’Antibes in Antibes, about 20 minutes from Cannes, she looks happy like a little kid and I kind of feel sorry for her.

Dunst’s film “Marie Antoinette” opens at Cannes tomorrow.

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“Babel,” directed by “21 Grams” director, Alejandro Gonzalez, stars Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt, and Gael Garcia Bernal and is a multi-layered film about miscommunication in the modern world. It is in the running for the Palme d’Or, the grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival. It is said to be in competition with Sofia Coppola’s film starring Kirsten Dunst, “Marie Antoinette,” and Pedro Almodovar’s “Volver,” starring Penelope Cruz. Pitt could not make it to Cannes due to the impending birth of his first child, but sent his regards.

“Babel” sounds like a rich, thoughtful film and with talent like Blanchett, Pitt and Bernal it’s not surprising that it’s a hit with the critics.

Here is Cate Blanchett with cutie Gael Garcia Bernal at the photocall for “Babel” in Cannes today. Her dress is a bit wild, but I really think it’s lovely and suits her.

We know we’re always saying people look pregnant. That’s half the fun of looking at celebrity pictures so you can’t blame us. Sarah Michelle Gellar wore three different loose empire waist dresses while promoting her film “Southland Tales” at Cannes. In some of the HQ pictures from Cannes, shown in the first row below, it really looks like she’s trying to hide something. She also put her hand over her stomach while on the red carpet - a telltale sign!

Gellar is 29 and has been married to Freddie Prinze Jr., 30, since September, 2002.

She stars in “Southland Tales,” “an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster” with The Rock.

Gellar describes her character:

It sounds pretty interesting. We’ll have to wait and see how the film is, and if Gellar is actually pregnant.

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The Stars of XMen 3 were on hand to promote the film at the Cannes film festival. Halle Berry, Rebecca Romjin, Hugh Jackman, Anna Panquin, and Famke Janssen were among the celebrities at a photocall for the movie today.

Berry has said that she can’t party as much as she’d like in Cannes because she’s busy promoting her film:

Ratner is indeed known to party. He has been linked with Lindsay Lohan and was said to have made the teenager jealous when she found him in bed with a hot model.

Halle Berry asked a BBC radio DJ if he was “having a racist moment” when he inexplicably decided to impersonate a “big, fat, black guy” by his own admission. People are saying that Berry overreacted, but asking if someone is having a racist moment is a mild reaction, and seems justified based on the description of what happened.

Here are the pictures from the photocall. Halle Berry is shown with Brett Rattner in the inset picture.