Drunken Paris, Awarded Lynch, and Movie Downloads

Yesterday at the Venice Film Festival, where David Lynch received the lifetime achievement award, the newly DV-infactuated director plugged his new film, Inland Empire, as "supposed to make perfect sense," though Laura Dern, one of the stars, notes, "The truth is I didn't know who I was playing - and I still don't know. I'm looking forward to seeing the film tonight to learn more." (IMDB)

The latest "celebrity" to be arrested is Paris Hilton for driving "erratically" and what appears to be drunkenly at 12ish a.m. in Hollywood Thursday. What with Mel Gibson and all of Lost's cast and the industry, can't so-called stars become a little bit more creative? (Daily News)

Amazon launches its movie-and-TV program-download service, Unbox. Apple is expected to make an announcement of a similar product on Tuesday, though will it offer a feature that Amazon's doesn't: DVD-burning capability? Oh yeah...you have all weekend to get giddy... (USA Today)

Radar on Sex, Kates, and Babies

Who needs Katie Couric announcing the Suri (aka so-called spawn of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes) pics on the evening news? Bloggers (à la Celebrity Baby Blog) are still around, scooping the former NBC pixie on the Vanity Fair cover. Ah, make Walter Cronkite proud.

Radar’s back, and it’s online! As for better than ever—well, how long is ever? Resurrected printed version to come in 2007.

The NYT reports on how the scientific community is still baffled by sexual cannibalism of the praying mantises and other insects. While some spiders benefit from being eaten by increasing their chances of fertilizing the female from being on the female twice as long or putting in a “sperm plug” to prevent other male’s mixing of goods, scientists have found that mantises seem to show their unwillingness to be eaten in exchange for sex either by running away from the females or being hesitant around the “hungry” ones. What, gray areas don’t exist for sexual cannibalism? Can’t each insect species do its own thing?

Kate Moss plays "Miss X" in four sexy shorts for Agent Provocateur, who spaces out the "release" of each ad, which is, wow, just too cool.

Fergie Messes Up...

calling Little Miss Sunshine's Abigail Breslin "Abigail Bresin" on the VMA's last night but at least manages to keep it together and not pee in her pants this time. Jump over to the video to view the pint-sized darling's jump from giddy excitement to her flash of discomfort at the Pea's blunder.