The return Friday of Michael Phelps to the pool, after serving a suspension for suspicion of drug use – although in truth, it all seems so deliberately vague I still cannot comprehend what, if anything, he was punished for – was a memorable one, if only for the mammoth media coverage Phelps drew. In terms of the meet – the Charlotte UltraSwim – Phelps won both the 100 meter butterfly and 200 meter free-style, breaking his own records in each event. Of special note, when Phelps bent over, there was a visible hole in his swimsuit.
Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock screened at the Cannes Film Festival, to good notices, stars Imelda Staunton, Demetri Martin, and Emile Hirsch on hand.
Also on hand at Cannes, Abbie Cornish and her Bright Star co-star, the terribly beautiful Ben Whishaw, but none more important as Abbie’s “boyfriend,” Ryan Phillippe, scowling and squinting, all the while remaining so sexy.
If it is Saturday it is Kabbalah day for Madonna and family, and while she and her children made their way to the Manhattan Kabbalah center, a spokesperson for Ms. Ciccone denying reports that she, Madonna, was playing to marry mattress du jour Jesus Lutz., but added the couple is “happy.”
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