Hailee Steinfeld: The New Face of Miu Miu

She?s making all the right moves for a killer career, and Hailee Steinfeld recently signed a contract with the Miu Miu fashion line.

The 14-year-old actress will be the new face of Prada?s younger line, effectively expanding her resume into the fashion realm.

Hailee has worn Miu Miu several times to high-profile shindigs, including the BAFTA Awards and the SAG Awards.

She also teamed up with Jennifer Lawrence at Miu Miu?s runway show during March?s Paris Fashion Week.

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Cannes 2011: the clapometer, part two

What's getting the thumbs pointing skywards and beachwards at this year's festival

Two in, two out

Boy actors

The young stars of the Dardenne brothers' The Kid With a Bike and Terrence ­Malick's The Tree of Life gave this year's freshest ­performances so far

Elizabeth Olsen

The twins' younger sister got admiring ­reviews for ­Martha Marcy May Marlene, in which she plays a woman fleeing an abusive cult. Bonus loyalty points for modelling clothes by Mary-Kate and Ashley

Eminences grises

Gus van Sant, a former Palme d'Or winner, has ­delivered a dud in Restless. We don't see him ­carrying off another ­trophy this year

Bordellos

Curious that two films, Sleeping Beauty and House of Tolerance, ­feature ­elderly diners being waited on by naked ­prostitutes. We're
so over brothels


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Cannes 2011 diary: Immortal pirates, vampires and a scary Magwitch

Johnny Depp and Jerry Bruckheimer reassure fans by insisting possibilities for Pirates of the Caribbean are 'endless'

? Pirates of the Caribbean fervour briefly ? and bafflingly, given the poor reviews for the fourth instalment ? swept through Cannes at the weekend, with security guards in the Palais des Festivals flinging themselves at crowds rendered hysterical at the presence of Johnny Depp (below) ? "Johnny! Johnny!" they screamed, with the desperation of drowning men.

If some had wished this fine actor to announce his and fellow seadogs' retirement from the high seas, they were disappointed. The possibilities, he said, for Pirates were "endless", while the producer, Jerry Bruckheimer, claimed that there "is much more fun to be to be had. As long as the scripts are good and we're working with film-makers such as Rob Marshall, we're all good".

? Gemma Arterton is certainly having her hour: aside from her forthcoming role in Neil LaBute's adaptation of Agatha Christie's Crooked House, she is also set to lead the cast in a vampire film scripted by Moira Buffini, (who, coincidentally also wrote the script for Tamara Drewe, in which Arterton starred).

The script was developed after producer Stephen Woolley was dragged by his daughter to see friends of hers in Buffini's A Vampire Story, a play for teenagers about mother and daughter vampires. Neil Jordan will direct and, according to Woolley, the film may have something of the tone of The Company of Wolves, the Angela Carter adaptation he directed back in 1984. It will, he added, be more like "Cocteau's La Belle et La Bête or Orphée than a Bram Stoker adaptation," ? or Twilight, we can safely assume.

? Woolley is also producing David Nicholls's adaptation of Great Expectations, for which, intriguingly, Helena Bonham Carter (below) is cast as Miss Havisham and Ralph Fiennes as Magwitch. "I'm worried that we'll send kids cowering when he appears in the graveyard," said Woolley.

Mike Newell is to direct, and shooting starts in September. Woolley pooh-poohed the notion that Great Expectations was a busted flush after David Lean's 1946 classic. "No one says you can't touch Macbeth because Polanksi and Kurosawa have done it," he said.

? Lone Scherfig, who has directed David Nicholls' own adaptation of his novel One Day, and who received great plaudits for her An Education, is to direct yet another adaptation of a British novel: Rose Tremain's period piece Music and Silence. The novel is set in Scherfig's native Denmark, at the court of Christian IV in 1630. BBC Films is co-producing the project; its head Christine Langan called Tremain's novel "symphonic in its range of emotions, sexy, funny and passionate".


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Justin Bieber?s Favorite Show, ? The Hard Times Of RJ Berger,? Wants Him To Guest Star!


The star of ‘The Hard Times of RJ Berger’ told us that they’d love to have their fan, Justin Bieber, show his support by guest starring on their show!

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Kelly Bensimon Wants to Make You Hot


She has a lot of competition, but Kelly Bensimon may have officially penned the most ridiculous, insulting, pompous celebrity memoir book of all-time.

The Real Housewives of New York City cast member has signed a deal with St. Martin's Press to pen a book tentatively titled "I Want to Make You Hot." The title is self-explanatory, Bensimon said in a statement:

"Spend seven days with me and my expert friends and we'll have fun with exercise, eat better, dress amazing, have more fun and smile through a life that's too short."

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Planning to include over 40 recipes and tips on healthy living, Kelly adds "we can control how we look and feel, so let's get started together." The book will be released some time next year.

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Worried Dad Nick Cannon "Cannot Relax"

New mom Mariah Carey is happy to be back at home with her 2-week-old twins Moroccan and Monroe.

"#dembabies aka Roc+Roe are sleeping peacefully: )," the musical mama Tweeted this weekend. "I just finished singing 2 them(softly!) Feeling so blessed. LYM : )x0x0."

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Nanni Moretti: See no evil

Critics hoped Nanni Moretti's new film would be a fierce attack on the Catholic church ? instead, it's an amiable farce. Has the scourge of the Italian establishment gone soft? Xan Brooks meets him in Cannes

Nanni Moretti's new film takes us behind the scenes at the Vatican, down darkened corridors and beyond closed doors. Look: there's an aged cardinal on his exercise bike, another dosing his water with Rescue Remedy, a third puffing ecstatically on a sly cigarette. At its Cannes screening, where Moretti is in contention for this year's Palme d'Or, I mentally urged the director to take us further, show us more. What I'm really after, I think, is the arrival of an altar boy.

But Moretti moves in mysterious ways. When it was announced that the puckish Italian film-maker was shooting a comedy about the Catholic church, the critics readied themselves for a major scandal, a film that would light a fire at the heart of the Holy See. Instead, the blaze has singed no one but Moretti: the director of Dear Diary and The Caiman now stands accused of selling out and going soft; the one-time scourge of Berlusconi has been recast as establishment lapdog.

We meet on a hotel balcony overlooking the Croisette. At the age of 57, Moretti is trim and dapper, with the darting, watchful eyes of a rodent. "I should tell you what to expect," a Spanish journalist warns me in advance. "Moretti is in a very bad mood. He is very grumpy." And today of all days, he has good cause to be: the response to his Cannes screening has not been good.

Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope) stars 85-year-old Michel Piccoli as the hapless, stricken Melville. Here is a pontiff who fluffs his lines; an actor who freaks out when he is called to take the stage. Moretti co-stars as the atheist psychiatrist called in to help, while Jerzy Stuhr is the Vatican spokesman struggling to avert a crisis. But Melville will not be soothed. He eventually flees the conclave and goes native on the streets of Rome, chasing his long-held dream of playing Chekhov in repertory theatre.

On one level, the film is a good-natured, footloose comedy. It starts out as a Dad's Army-style farce, wanders into King's Speech country, morphs into a Capra-esque fairytale ? and then bows out with a resonant finale above St Peter's square. At no stage, however, does it properly let rip at an institution Moretti presumably has profound problems with; it doesn't even touch on the still-festering issues of child abuse or financial corruption.

Many critics are still struggling to process this. "Fans of Moretti, the political activist and beacon of uncomfortable truths, will wonder where he left the mordant, oft-times savage humour and fierce political satire," wrote the Hollywood Reporter, while Variety dismissed the film as "artistically and doctrinally conservative". Perhaps the most damning comment came from Salvatore Izzi, writing in the Catholic newspaper Avvenire. Habemus Papam, he concluded, was "not as mean as it could have been".

But Moretti says he made the film he wanted to make. Yes, he is fully aware of the scandals surrounding the Catholic church: these have all been covered in books and documentaries and newspaper articles. Why cover the same old ground? "My answer to the critics is that they were watching their movie, not mine. It was the movie they expected and demanded that I make. They wanted to know what they already knew."

What of the charge that Moretti ? arguably Italy's most high-profile leftist ? has produced a conservative film? "That's funny," he says, looking utterly unamused. "They say they want a protest movie. What they really want is a reassuring movie. Protest movies should denounce things you don't know, not prop up existing knowledge." He shrugs. "If I had made a conservative movie, they would all be liking me today."

Moretti says he has no love for the Catholic church. He was raised in the faith, but is not a believer. "Sometimes in life it's a big help to have faith," he admits. "But I think it's a much bigger challenge ? more difficult and more fascinating ? to live and respect other people and follow your principles without the promise of a prize at the end." Perhaps it was unfair to expect him to mount a wholesale assault on the papacy. Past evidence suggests he is more comfortable with a wry, rueful approach to his subject matter.

The director was born in northern Italy, the son of middle-class academics. He first came to Cannes with his 1978 student comedy Ecce Bombo, while his breakthrough 1993 film Dear Diary ? a freewheeling Italian jaunt that detoured into self-analysis ? saw him hailed as Europe's answer to Woody Allen. Veering into more conventionally dramatic terrain, he scooped the 2001 Palme d'Or award for his family tragedy The Son's Room.

For good measure, he is also the co-owner of Nuovo Sacher ? an independent cinema in the centre of Rome, near the Tiber. The Sacher was conceived of as a venue to offer Italian film-goers a window on the world, screening foreign-language films they might otherwise never get a chance to see. In the late 90s, Moretti produced a lovely short documentary, Opening Night of Close Up, in which he attempted to cajole passers-by into watching a Kiarostami film. But when I ask him what's currently playing at Nuovo Sacher, he responds with a lopsided grimace. "Take a wild guess," he says. The cinema is currently playing Habemus Papam, making the venue, at least temporarily, his own personal exhibition space.

Moretti's career as a film-maker has traditionally gone hand-in-glove with his political activism. On screen, the director has lamented the rise of Silvio Belusconi: in his 1997 film Aprile, and in the unruly 2006 satire The Caiman. Off-screen, he spearheaded a 2002 protest against the Italian prime minister that brought 200,000 people out on to the streets.

'Italy is permanently damaged'

Today, Moretti appears more of an armchair observer ? wearied from the battle and increasingly sceptical about the end result, a man at a personal and professional crossroads. "We have mayoral elections going on in Milan and Naples at the moment," he tells me. "The next national elections will probably be two years from now. And maybe the left could win. But in Italy everything has happened already. The mindset of the country has changed for good.

"And in any case, the people allowed this political adventure of Berlusconi to happen. First of all, they allowed this man to have a monopoly on television, which is something that no other democracy would have permitted ? even if he hadn't been in politics, even if he had just been an industrialist. And then they let him go into politics and be prime minister, which means that it is now normal for 20-year-olds, 30-year-olds to think it's OK for a man to have a stranglehold on the media and politics, because that's all they know, it's become the norm."

He takes a swig of his drink. "And now they walk around saying these stupid things, these stupid slogans. People say: 'Oh, it's good that Berlusconi is so rich because that means he doesn't need to steal from us.' Is that what passes for a valid political programme these days? The man has told so many lies, and kept repeating them so many times, that after a while they become the truth. So I think Italy has changed for ever. It is permanently damaged."

In a fumbled attempt to lift Moretti's mood, I ask him about the previous night's red-carpet screening. The British press got very excited, I tell him, because Cheryl Cole was there. A look of irritation flashes across his face. "Who?" he says. "Who is he? What job does he do?"

On setting out to shoot Habemus Papam, Moretti says he initially identified with the role he plays: that of the psychiatrist brought in to counsel the pontiff, a tourist in a strange land. Later, he realised that he felt more affinity with the pope, burdened by expectation and desperate to run away. "I identify with him a lot. The fact that he feels unfit for the role that people want him to play; the line where he says: 'Can't we pretend that I just disappeared?' It's funny," he says. "When I was young I was much more determined, much more self confident. These days, not so much."


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Brad Pitt's Controversial Joke: "I Beat My Kids Regularly"

Brad Pitt, 47, was pictured above at the Cannes Film Festival today (May 16) promoting his new flick The Tree of Life. The father-of-six said he was initially hesitant about taking the role of a stern, authoritarian father in the film because he was concerned how it would affect his children.

I think of everything I do now that my kids are going to see when they grow up and how are they going to feel," the dad-of-six told reporters. "But they know me as a dad and I hope they'll just think of me as a pretty damn good actor."

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Delta Goodrem: Dating Nick Jonas?


Has Nick Jonas found himself an older woman?

The 18-year old was caught holding hands with Australian singer Delta Goodrem, 26, over the weekend. The possible couple looked mighty cozy as they exited the ArcLight Cinema in Hollywood last night.

Nick Jonas and Delta Goodrem

From Miley Cyrus to Delta Goodrem? Nick Jonas has a type.

Goodrem split from her fiance, singer Brian McFadden, last month. They had been together for seven years.

No word yet from Jonas on the relationship, but if Tweets are telling, the young star is smitten. He wrote yesterday: "I feel so blessed. Had a great weekend."

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