The Venice Film Festival opened Wednesday night with the premiere of the Coen brothers' dark comedy "Burn After Reading," giving a flash of Hollywood glamour to a festival lineup with a definite art house feel.
Spielberg! Affleck! J.Lo! They were among the Hollywood celebrities attending events in Denver as the Democratic National Convention nominated Barack Obama as the party's presidential candidate.
It wasn't as easy as it looked. Tilda Swinton's first attempt at making clay impressions of her hands _ part of a fundraising effort to help restore Venice's St. Mark's Square _ barely left a print.
