How awesome is the sight of George Clooney arriving on a boat? Look at this. Who does it better than this? Who owns the world better than this? (Maybe Brad Pitt, but it would be a bloody battle.) This is George Clooney, all boss, cranking up the handsome, arriving at the Venice Film Festival today for The Ides of March photo call with co-writer Grant Heslov and co-stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei, and Evan Rachel Wood. Full Story

Have received a lot of email the last couple of days about Ashley Judd’s face. She’s out in the open right now because she’s promoting her memoir All That Is Bitter & Sweet. A lot of explosive revelations about childhood abuse and how sh-tty it was growing up in that family. She’ll also be on Who Do You Think You Are on Friday. Full Story

Jessi Cruickshank reported on our etalk red carpet show that Marisa Tomei’s dress was some kind of 1950s gown that is so rare and so precious, they wouldn’t loan it to her so she had to buy it and it was tens of thousands of dollars, probably the only celebrity who had to do so last night. Full Story

Jacek and I flew to Toronto recently and watched Cyrus on the plane. By the end of it all he wanted to talk about was Marisa Tomei. I didn’t mind. She is crazy sexy in that movie. Crazy sexy. There’s something about the way she talks, a hint of a baby girl voice but not grating like SJP, she holds her body like you know there’s a freak underneath, and of course the face, perhaps not the most exquisite face in the business, but beauty doesn’t have to be intimidating, and oftentimes it’s the faces you find comfort in that turn you on the most. Full Story

Enough with the Academy rewarding strippers with a heart of gold. Every year there’s a stripper with a heart of gold nominated for something. Am over it. It’s done. Anyway, Marisa apparently dressed for her character at the BAFTAs – f*ck me hair and a showgirl dress that’s seen better days, like a girl who has seen better days, used hard and dried up… She’s been hanging out with Mickey Rourke too long, I think. Full Story