_{Doesn't that look like one of those photos that come with the wallet? Or the guy behind door #2 in that old board game "Dream Date"? He's the devil I tells ya!}

The annual amfAR Cinema Against AIDS event  at Hotel Du Cap was held tonight Thursday May 24 in Cap D'Antibes.  All the glitterati from every corner of the globe converged on the luxurious locale for one of the biggest, swankiest, most celebrated parties of the year. The fact that it’s also for a great cause is just icing. (This event has raised more than $70 million since 1993, with nearly $11million from tonight’s event.)

You know what else is icing? The fact that Gerard Butler was still in town to put on another tux (Dolce & Gabbana) and have his picture taken. THAT’S icing baby! (Where he’s been holing up for the past two days, I can only speculate, although check the next paragraph for clues.)

Adrien Brody was there, as were a bevy of super models, (seriously, Butler and Brody are around, there WILL be models! Someone will be drinking someone's milkshake, that's a given) including Eva Herzigova, Karolina Kurkova, Doutzen Kroes, Kate Upton (it’s easy to forget that she’s only 19 until she has to get dressed up for an event like this. She’ll learn), Carolina Parsons, Cara Delevingne, Liya Kebede, Magdalena Frackowiak, Anja Rubik, Natasha Poly, Liu Wen, Ana Beatriz Baros, Lily Donaldson, Madalina Ghenea, Irina Shayk (I’m sure there were more.)

The event began with Fun performing my theme song: "We Are Young." According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Comedy, charity and plenty of champagne were all on the menu” and Janet Jackson, Kylie Minogue and “a spectacular fashion show a la former French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld” entertained between courses.  “They dined on pea veloute with truffles and cod meuniere and sipped the evening's official champagne Moet and Chandon and washed everything down with a Hennessy fine de cognac.”

Other bold-faced names at the event: Hofit Golan, Janet Jackson, Cheyenne Jackson, Kenneth Cole, Jessie J, Milla Jovovich, Tara Reid, Carine Roitfeld, Petra Nemcova, Ewan McGregor, Berenice Bejo, Michel Hazanavicius, Alec Baldwin, Julianna Margulies, Kylie Minogue, Aishwarya Rai Bachan, Rose McGowan, Victoria Silvstedt, Joshua Jackson, Diane Kruger, Michelle Rodgriguez (even in a dress she looks ready for a “girl fight”), Kirsten Dunst, Garrett Hedlund, Karl Lagerfeld, Joely Richardson, Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, Chris Tucker, Sarah Gadon, Nina Dobrev, Marc Jacobs, Antonio Banderas, Heidi Klum, Brett Ratner, etc etc etc  (Names not on the list? Yours and mine. What the hell??)

I’ll be back tomorrow with a post that’s all main course: Gerard Butler. You know how these things go. I’ll keep posting pics for as long as I keep finding them. In the meantime as an amuse bouche, there are some in this batch as well. 

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Cannes just doesn’t seem as exciting now that the Butler Carnival has packed up its tent and moved on, does it? As promised, here’s your treat cats and kittens! Another part of that “boat” interview with Gerard Butler has surfaced. The clip below is part of The Hollywood Reporter’s Video Diary Series and is posted on their website.  There are screen caps posted below as well. 

First of all, I find it utterly charming that he still thinks about Dear Frankie with such fondness. His fans certainly do. If you haven’t seen that little gem of a movie from 2005 (it was actually filmed in 2003-before Phantom of the Opera-, played festivals all over the world for all of 2004 then finally got an extremely limited release in 2005), do it now.

Second, perfect example of how appearances can be deceiving: if you looked at the pics below without having seen the video, would you have any idea what was going on with those chest pics? No, and someone somewhere will probably see them and make up something about his supersized ego or something equally ridiculous. In context, they are funny and even silly. Some of them are just begging for captions. I do find it amusing he would act as if it were a new phenomenon, this lack of buttons in use on his shirt. The fact that he uses as few as he can get away with is actually part of Butler lore; as if he just barely tolerates and can hardly be contained by clothing most days. An odd dichotomy for a man who can wear the hell out of a suit. But I digress…The guy just does not take himself seriously, despite his detractors constant insistence to the contrary. He’s just too damn sexy for his shirt. I don’t think that’s his fault. Do you?

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Tip o’ the pin to my friends at GALS for the heads up and the pics!

_{"C'mon shake yer body baby, do the Conga-you know you can't control yourself any longer…"}

Okay, so as promised, I'm back with your Gerard Butler Cannes Junket Wrap-Up. We've got some video and we've got a ton of pics from the various events that we haven't posted before. Of course my favorites are the bromantic ones with Adrien Brody but there are also pics with Ewan McGregor (Oh if only I could have heard their conversation! I'll bet their brogues got heavier the more they talked with each other.) and Robert DeNiro. Gah! Movies with Gary Oldman, pics with Robert DeNiro, manhandled by Sean Penn…what's next? Brunch with Tom Cruise? 

From the Haiti Carnival event on Fri. 5/18. G comes in at about 1:11 -

Here's a video bit from the interviews he was giving when he was "messing around on boats". Funny that it's from AP, the same source from which that quote came.

This video is from the Millennium bash for White House Taken (which by the way, imdb still lists as Olympus Has Fallen and G claims is "untitled". G is also listed as a producer. He who shall not be named lest the 3 Billy Goats Gruff come after me, is not.):

I hope you've enjoyed this virtual vicarious tour of Butler's Cannes adventure. If by some chance he's still in the south of France (and not in Manchester training) and more pics surface, you can be sure I'll bring them to you.

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Holy Schnikey I’m three events behind on Cannes Gerard Butler Party Watch!

Let’s start with last night, Sunday May 20. First there was the Art of Elysium’s Paradis Party at the Chateau de La Napoule. The Art of Elysium is a charitable organization that encourages working actors, artists and musicians to dedicate their time and talent to children who are battling serious medical conditions. G’s been a supporter for a long time.

Following that event, it was on to the  CAA Cannes Party in association with Ciroc Ultra Premium Vodka at Le Baron  (Both of those events are blue suit/blue tie.) G is of course represented by CAA. Had to make nice.

And finally, tonight, Monday May 21 was the IWC and Finch's Quarterly Review Annual Filmmakers Dinner at Hotel Du Cap-Eden Roc.  The after party with music by Aloe Blacc, reportedly went to the “wee hours”. Not sure what that means since it’s about 2:30am in Cannes as I type this.  The attire for this evening was another killer grey suit and grey tie. (I want to know who made that suit. Perfection!) This is a very prestigious event. All the mucky-mucks were there.

Among others, G is pictured with Brett Ratner (he of the 2012 Oscar debacle) who directed G in his segment of Red Band (formerly known as Movie 43). Who knows we may even get to see it someday. Also the actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Killer Elite) as well as Karolina Kurkova and her fiance, actor/producer Archie Drury. (Archie and G are old friends.)

I’ll be back tomorrow with Gerard Butler Cannes wrap-up with all of the random pics that I’ve stumbled upon.

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_{Mr. Pinky's in there hovering just inside cave. He looks like he wants to come out and play, but G's not in the mood}. 

Good morning my fellow obsessives! It’s Monday and if you’re anything like me, you need a little sumthin’ sumthin’ to get the old blood pumping. I know my Starbucks could use a kicker on a Monday… How about some more pics of Gerard Butler? Who loves ya? These are from Saturday out and about in Cannes. Looks like he’s grabbing a bite al fresco at the Hotel Martinez either before, after or inbetween one of the events at which his presence was required.  (Reading between the imaginary lines – ok I’m projecting – but it looks to me like he might be having a heated discussion with the troll. No matter. He looks good and that’s all that counts.)

That’s it for now. The hourly Cannes Butler Watch will be back with more as soon as we get it. Enjoy and Happy Monday!

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I told you I’d be back! (I’m like MacArthur…or the Terminator).  There was yet another party for yet another previously announced, yet not yet produced, film starring Gerard Butler.  This one in celebration of the revenge thriller, Motor City. (He was lookin' far too sexy for that crowd and definitely for that shirt.)

By the way, can we talk? The Associated Press – AP – has put out a press release that Gerard Butler is at the Cannes Film Festival and “messing about on boats”. This is their headline and every so-called “news” outlet on the planet, from Yahoo to the Washington Post and beyond, has picked it up and is repeating it verbatim.

The story is ostensibly about the fact that he was sitting on a yacht in the harbor in order to talk about his film projects, but they’re all putting the focus on the fact that he's “avoiding the famous red-carpeted stairs” and won’t be “seeing any of the movies premiering at Cannes “because he doesn’t want to upstage the other actors.”

The article goes on to claim that Butler says: "You can't really go down other people's press lines. You have to make sure you're politically correct. It's a bit of a bummer." Now, I can well imagine Butler said such a thing. I can also well imagine he was kidding.  He is certainly capable of seeing a movie without walking the red carpet and if he did choose to walk the red carpet, I don’t really think he believes he would “upstage” the stars of the film. (If he did, that would be the fault of the press covering the event anyway.) I think a better reason is that he's there working and then he's off to London to train for SoccerAid on the 27th.

This stuff drives me crazy. I become irrationally incensed when I see one article or even a statement around which an article is built, boomerang around the web like this with absolutely no thought involved as to whether the content is true or relevant. Whatever it is, it becomes true by repetition. I’ve said it before I’ll say it again. We have a free internet and with great freedom also comes great responsibility, not only for the purveyors of news but for the rest of us who are mere consumers of the news. It becomes more and more important that we don’t believe everything we read and are able to glean the bits of truth out of what we do. Rant over…for now.

(I’m using the above only as an example. I don’t for a minute believe it’s as important in the grand scheme of things as being able to decide for ourselves what is true and what is innuendo about say, the news that comes out of Washington.)

Shooting starts on Motor City in September and will be directed by Albert Hughes. The best news is that it co-stars Gary Oldman. It’s set in Detroit, but there is a rumor it will be filmed in Europe because it’s cheaper. But don’t quote me on that. Enjoy the pics. (The above is from a photocall for the press release. The pics below are from the party. G with a lot of producers. Sorry about the troll) The Art of Elysium event is tonight (another charity G supports) so expect more pics!

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After Gerard Butler did his bit for his new movie (which hasn’t been made yet) at the Millennium Films party, he headed down the road to the Hotel du Cap in Antibes to yet another A-list affair, the Gucci/Vanity Fair bash.  It was there that Mrs. Francois-Henri Pinault, the wife of the billionaire CEO of PPR (which owns Gucci) and otherwise known as Salma Hayak, came under the spell of our boy. There can be no other explanation for this photograph. And look at Francois-Henri smiling and trying to pretend it’s not happening. (Poor Mrs. Pinault deserves a freebie after the week she’s had.)  G looks a little like he wishes it weren't. He can't help it if he has that effect on women. It is his curse.

I’m sure we’ll have more by the end of the day as the Cannes party watch continues. Enjoy the pics!

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Okay, who wants more Gerard Butler? C’mon, I can’t be the only one with my hand in the air! (Cannes goes on for another week people, get used to it.)

Looking a little tired after last night’s merriment, which went on til the wee hours (and who knows how long Butler’s own after-party went on *wink wink nudge nudge*), G had to put on a suit and make nice with the other suits as he attended a party on Baoli Beach hosted by Millennium Films and its chairman Avi Lerner. (Avi's the one with the shock of white hair. You may have seen him courtside at a Lakers Game with G recently.) You can tell G's working and not socializing since his manager &/or publicist are in nearly every shot. The party was to announce a new three-year, $100-million co-financing and co-production partnership with West Coast Film Partners. The deal calls for the two companies to collaborate on two or three films per year beginning with the Antoine Fuqua-directed White House Taken (formerly known as Olympus Has Fallen) which features Butler as a disgraced Secret Service agent who fights back when North Koreans take over the White House.

Millennium will next release The Expendables 2, The Paperboy, which is in competition at the festival, and Playing The Field, which also stars Gerard Butler.

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