Friday night in Cannes began slowly. A yacht party for Nu Image’s greatest movie ever BLONDE AMBITION. No Luke Wilson in site on board the yacht, but Jessica Simpson was there wearing a ridiculous ball gown and nearly tripping overherself on the shaky boat as potential foriegn buyers danced poorly and ate shrimp cocktail while sucking on the free Bud Light and Champagne (ridiculous combo I know). Most interesting thing to come out of the party was the new verb that I learned here which is “Croisetting” (meaning to do the strip of beach that adjoins this sea-town back and fro all day and all night)

Marched from the marina towards Palm Beach and ran into beautiful Romanian model Christine and former Miss Germany Alessandra Alores. As we entered Snoop Dogg’s entourage of random people and three humungous bodygaurds cleared the path for Snoop’s entrance. True mayhem begins wherever Snoop goes tonight. Snoop’s entrance led me to old buddy and genius film-maker Ariel Vromen. Other revellers there included Josh Lieberman from CAA, Jason Statham (Transporter 1 & 2 and Lock Stock) here to promote upcoming film THE BANK JOB and perhaps the most beautiful woman on the planet - Israeli model/actress Moran Atias.

Then a group led by Statham marched over to VIP club (the it spot) and it was jam packed at this time. Jumping in through the crowd over to a table held by Dubai club honcho (The Peppermint club) Jean Ramia and model girlfriend Petra and next to him Leonardo DiCaprio (here in Cannes to promote documentary the WB distributed 11TH HOUR sans Israeli model fiancee’ Bar Rafaeli but well behaved with so many eyes on him), Kid Rock (apparently ex-wife Pamela Anderson is in Cannes and she was booed here by the paparazzi but was not anywhere to been seen near the Jack Daniels swigging Rock) and their respective entourage. Then came James Blunt, a group of model groupies surrounding him and Snoop Dogg and a couple of his huge goons making it almost impossible to stand in a 10X10 foot enclosure that was surrounded by gawkers. So there I was at one moment in time pushed by 2 goons in an enclosure that included Snoop Dogg, James Blunt, Kid Rock, Leo DiCaprio and Jason Statham.

At the end of the night there were a few magnums of Cristal left over in the section as the above departed and I think I managed to see the sun rise for the second night in a row in the South of France.

Apparently Saturday night’s the biggest in Cannes, but how can you top a night like last night? We shall find out in a few hours.

Tags: Cannes, Leo DiCaprio, James Blunt, Snoop Dogg, Kid Rock, Jason Statham, Jessica Simpson

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