Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf — who has a Jewish mother and Cajun father — has been advised to sleep with as many women as he can by… Steven Spielberg. The pair were giving a TV interview to promote Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull — which Spielberg directs and LaBeouf stars in — when the director told the 21-year-old: “Son, as they said in The Graduate with Dustin Hoffman: ‘Sow some wild oats’.” Spielberg, not previously known as a sex counsellor, went on to question whether LaBeouf was giving his love life sufficient attention, what with a hectic filming schedule and all. He needn’t have worried. “I fit it in, Steven,” LaBeouf assured him, “I fit it in.”
The Crystal Skull was being premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this week, as was Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Sadly, the movie’s star, Scarlett Johansson, didn’t appear on the red carpet with Allen. Rumour has it, she failed to show because the film’s distributors were reluctant to agree to provide her with a £4,000-a-day make-up artist and a suite at a hotel 30 miles away from where the rest of the film’s cast were staying. Woody was, apparently, more than slightly miffed.
Only last week Sarah Jessica Parker was complaining that being snapped by paparazzi made her feel cheap and vulgar. Now news comes that she is to pose for controversial photographer Annie Leibovitz, alongside her on-screen lover Chris Noth from Sex and the City. One of the images will show him filming Parker as she seductively crawls along the floor. In no way, will this be cheap or, indeed, vulgar.
It turns out that Roman Abramovich was the mystery buyer who paid a record-breaking £60 million for two artworks by Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon last week, just as his current squeeze, model Daria Zhukova, is about to open a gallery in Moscow. Roman may not know much about art, but he knows what his girlfriend likes.