Walter Salles carefully raises the fingers of his right hand and gently strokes the back of his left.

MEN IN BLACK 3

CANNES, France Charles MacLean is out of his element in Cannes, a town consumed by cinema and celebrity. His element is Scotch whisky - "uisge beatha," he says, giving it its Gaelic name. The water of life.

ORLANDO, Fla. - Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, co-writers and directors of "The Intouchables," had to be feeling pretty good about themselves and their movie. A blockbuster in France, a hit throughout Europe, winners of Cesar (the French Oscars) and David di Donatello (Italian Oscars) awards, picked up for distribution in the United States by The Weinstein Co., "Intouchables" was riding high.

CANNES, France Holy cow. The most rapturous audience reception at the Cannes Film Festival has gone to "Holy Motors," a disorienting, whirling dream of a movie by French director Leos Carax.

Ratings by the Motion Picture Association of America are: (G) for general audiences; (PG) parental guidance urged because of material possibly unsuitable for children; (PG-13) parents are strongly cautioned to give guidance for attendance of children younger than 13; (R) restricted, younger than 17 admitted only with parent or adult guardian; (NC-17) no one younger than 17 admitted.

CANNES, France Fifty-five years after its publication, Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" is finally burning on the big screen.

Consider Heath Ledger's Joker. If you conduct a Twitter hash tag search using the phrase #reallytoughacttofollow, by rights Ledger's performance in "The Dark Knight" should come up first.

Ratings by the Motion Picture Association of America are: (G) for general audiences; (PG) parental guidance urged because of material possibly unsuitable for children; (PG-13) parents are strongly cautioned to give guidance for attendance of children younger than 13; (R) restricted, younger than 17 admitted only with parent or adult guardian; (NC-17) no one younger than 17 admitted.

There's a moment early on in "Men in Black 3" when Will Smith's Agent J sits down next to his longtime partner, Tommy Lee Jones' Agent K, and bemoans the fact that he's too old for this sort of thing - for running around New York in matching dark suits, chasing down aliens and zapping them with their shiny metal weapony doo-hickeys.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Johnny Depp has been made an honorary member of the Comanche tribe.

Cannes, France British director Ken Loach's new movie "The Angels' Share" is set in Scotland - the perfect excuse to bring out the kilts in Cannes.

Cannes, France British director Ken Loach's new movie "The Angel's Share" is set in Scotland - the perfect excuse to bring out the kilts in Cannes.

LONDON The stars of the romantic comedy "What to Expect When You're Expecting" had plenty of praise for each other - and a warning about making out on the hood of a car - during the film's British premiere in London on Tuesday.

Increasingly reliant on global audiences for box office success, many Hollywood studios are muting elements that might be considered too American. But prestige filmmakers working outside the studio system - including several from other countries - are doubling down on the red, white and blue. They are churning out movies that are not only set in America but that traffic distinctly in Americana.

CANNES, France Paul Brannigan, the untrained actor who stars in Ken Loach's latest movie, has gone from being unemployed in a rough Glasgow neighborhood to nude scenes with Scarlett Johansson.

Richard John has one of the most interesting closets in America.

It was billed as a "shocking tell-all" and a "world exclusive," but the National Enquirer's March 26 cover story landed with a thud. TMZ, Page Six and other major players in celebrity gossip ignored the article in which a masseur claimed John Travolta offered money for sex.

CANNES, France The Cannes Film Festival got its biggest shot of celebrity adrenaline yet on Tuesday, even if it was only half the dose some were expecting.

CANNES, France The first half of the 65th annual Cannes Film Festival has completed a life cycle in films that range from the motivating spark of child birth to the despair of slow death in old age.