We've all known people like Nancy. The title character of Andrew Semans' "Nancy, Please" is a real pill, dark eyes, slumped shoulders, and an eternal pout. There's always drama in Nancy's life, and she's always expressing it physically. She's always impetuous, always difficult, and frequently nasty, as if lashing out not against a single person but the world at large. In spite of it all, her punk sneer and angular sensuality is also sharp like a knife, tight like a fist. And for young potential PhD Paul, she is an out-and-out boogeyman. Working as a graduate student at Yale, Paul has just emerged from the dark tunnel of being Nancy's roommate. We're led to believe they didn't interact much, and when they did, it was slightly more than the standard tension that occurs when two young people with nothing in common share space. The more stringently academic Paul, now headed to the safety of an apartment shared with longtime girlfriend Jen, is counting his blessing he's emerging from...

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“This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen at an auction,” said Harvey Weinstein at Amfar’s annual Cinema Against AIDS benefit Thursday night, just before taking bids for a space voyage on Virgin Galactic alongside fellow passenger Leonardo DiCaprio (billed in the auction program as “Mystery Guest”). PHOTOS: Stars Align for AIDS Research at Cannes... Read more »

Would you pay $1.5 million to go to a few Oscar parties? Or $1.8 million to fly to the moon on Virgin Galactic with Leonardo DiCaprio?  Someone did — and more. That’s what made Harvey Weinstein smile when we spoke after amFAR’s annual Cinema Against AIDS Cannes Film Festival gala got a very special 20th anniversary present Thursday night. Co-hosts Weinstein and Kenneth Cole announced to a roomful of very high rollers that the event, held of the Hotel Du Cap, had raised $25 million, smashing last year’s record total of over $10 million. Before the ultra-high style  party that has been a staple of the Cannes festival for the past two decades, Weinstein had told me if they just made a dollar more than the previous year they would be happy. But these multimillionaires and billionaires obviously came to play this year and really stepped up to the auction that featured numerous stars including jury members Nicole Kidman and Christoph Waltz, along with Jessica Chastain, Jeremy Renner, Rosario Dawson, Heidi Klum, Goldie Hawn, Janet Jackson, Adrien Brody and major fundraiser and auctioneer Sharon Stone.

Weinstein said the event — which he, Elizabeth Taylor and Dr. Mathilda Krim started in 1993 — changed up the rules this year and decided to focus primarily on just 10 major items rather than 20, and the crowd responded. The things being auctioned off included original art by the likes of Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst, a family portrait by Annie Leibovitz (two of those went for $450,000 apiece), a private performance by Duran Duran (who also played at this event) and a weekend at the Oscars , which doesn’t include airfare or actually even going to the Oscars. Still someone paid $1.5 million — the highest single price for any item in the auction — to attend the Weinstein Company’s pre-Oscar party, Saturday’s Spirit Awards, The Elton John and Vanity Fair parties and a two-night stay at a Beverly Hills Hotel in addition to a Chopard watch. Oh, and they threw in Heidi Klum as your date. A second winner paid only $500,000 but didn’t get Klum in the package.

Renner and Kidman auctioned off the “moon trip” with Leo, which also includes three days of training with him in New Mexico. That went for $1.2 million, and a second trip for two fetched $1.8 million. DiCaprio who clearly was in the mood to give, actually got outbid for a week’s stay at Donna Karan’s house on the private island of Parrot Cay in the Turks and Caicos; it went for $200,000, 20 grand more than his bid. Walk-on parts in four Weinstein movies, including Chef with Bradley Cooper and Tim Burton’s Big Eyes, was a relative bargain at $140,000, despite co-star Waltz’s promise to “write a scene for the two of us”. The Hirst painting took in $800,000, an Azure motorcycle got $600,000; a 120-year-old bottle of Moet & Chandon drew $50,000 and a Warhol lithograph of Elizabeth Taylor — one of 300 — grabbed €600,000.

Highlights of the night included Dame Shirley Bassey belting out “Goldfinger“, just as she did at the Oscars, and a lively fashion show with more than 30 looks from the world’s foremost designers. After the show, all the clothes were auctioned off as a single package for a cool €1.2 million. Stone even offered to throw in her own designer gown. “Anyone want my dress? I’ve gone home in a tablecloth before,” she said in order to raise the bid. Brody even took off his own Bulgari watch and managed to sell it for $90,000. Paris Hilton even showed up. When I caught up with her in the Du Cap lobby, I asked what she thought of Sofia Coppola’s Un Certain Regard entry The Bling Ring, which is about a group of teens who break in and steal from the likes of Hilton. “I loved it. She shot in my house,” she said. “I’ve been robbed so many times. I think these girls actually got only two years. If it had been me, they would have locked me up for 10 years.”

Weinstein remembered when they started the amFAR event 20 years ago in a small restaurant and made $300,000 thanks to Johnny Depp and Sean Penn. Before tonight’s haul, the event had grossed $80 million. A special film was shown in remembrance of Taylor, to whom the evening was dedicated. Its message was clear. “Cinema Against AIDS is 20 years old tonight. So for Dame Elizabeth, don’t give up.”

With her own announcement that she's retiring next year, Barbara Walters grilled Jason Sudeikis about reports that he's leaving NBC's "Saturday Night Live" when he appeared on Thursday's "The View."

"Yeah, well, I mean... You never leave the show," Sudeikis, who was promoting his new animated film "Epic," answered when Walters asked him about the reports.

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As we reported earlier this week citing the Financial Times, CORE Media Group is exploring a sale of Elvis Presley Enterprises as well as Muhammad Ali Enterprises. There had been no official comment on the potential sale until now. Deadline has obtained exclusively a statement from the Presley family about the development. “Our family enjoys a strong working relationship with CORE and is supportive of their process,” the statement says. “Lisa [Marie Presley] will maintain her interest in EPE and ownership of Graceland Mansion and looks forward to whatever opportunities enable the best long-term interests of the family.” Lisa Marie Presley owns 15% of EPE, which manages the assets of the Elvis Presley estate, including the 100-acre property in Memphis, Tennessee. CORE’s predecessor, CKX, bought the other 85% in 2005. (The Muhammad Ali family retains 20% ownership in MAE.) The Presley and Ali assets are estimated to fetch more than $200 million but CORE is not dead set to sale and may retain the properties if it is not satisfied with offers.

Paddy Considine and Fares Fares ("Zero Dark Thirty") are in negotiations to join the international ensemble of Summit Entertainment's Soviet-era thriller "Child 44," TheWrap has learned.

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This week's tornado in Oklahoma hit close to home for Carrie Underwood. The Sooner State native has donated $1 million to the American Red Cross to help with relief...

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Snoop Dogg has made several cameo appearances on "One Life to Live," but the musician will make his first as Snoop Lion on Tuesday's episode. The guest spot will coincide with Snoop's debut of the theme song he recorded for the recently revived online soap opera.

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The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and the Association of Independent Commercial Producers have reached a three-year successor deal covering technicians and artists who create commercials. The agreement was reached more than four months before the current pact expires on Sept. 30. In a joint announcement, the producers group and the union said they... Read more »

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Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz of Magical Elves have come on to direct “EDC 2013: You Are the Headliner,” a documentary which covers the 2013 Electric Daisy Carnival. Cutforth and Lipsitz will partner with Insomniac and Haven Entertainment will produce the doc. The film will explore the festival experience through the eyes of the fans... Read more »