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Paris Hilton arrives at Narita International Airport on May 30, 2008 in Narita, Japan. Firstly, hats off to Paris who looks great in a safari-esque khaki and navy top paired with a clashy geometric print skirt. Accompanying Paris are some fashionable gals, one of whom (far left) bears a summary similarity to Paris circa 2005-2006 (sans extensions). She is wearing two of Hilton’s favorite colors: aqua and yellow… together! The pocketed hoody is a piece Paris has donned for travel/disguise purposes in the past. I know, everyone and their brother wears a hoody. Yellow and aqua are colors of the moment. But the side-swept buttery, blond razored bob says it all! It’s OK, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

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Despite Manohla Dargis’s unadulterated savagery in The New York Times (really…what did you expect?), I’m prepared to make a rather obscene box office prediction. After asking the shoe gods for help in predicting this maddening opening weekend - when it isn’t fanboys lining up as usual, things become difficult to foretell - I’ve decided to up my weekend prediction for Sex and the City. Or maybe just for opening day. I’m now guessing the Fab Four will do $28 million on Friday alone, and then suffer huge drops. Yes, I know that’s only $2 million less than the opening Friday of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The girls can do it. The advance sales are jaw-dropping in the urban markets. Hopefully I’m not eating my words come Saturday! 

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After a protracted period of Mariah Carey and Madonna chart-hopping, pseudo-indie emo-boy rock and radio-friendly 90s-throwbacks have taken over. The current numero uno on the Billboard 200 is the new effort from 3 Doors Down, which is self-titled. Last week Death Cab for Cutie topped the chart with their new album “Narrow Stairs”. I hope you are weeping while you read this, the gentle vocal strummings of Ben Gibbard filling your headphones with saccharine goodness.

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WTF OMG. Is Lindsay Lohan engaged? She was TOTALLY rocking an expensive-looking ring at the Dolce & Gabbana party at Cannes last weekend. My hear is aflutter.

Unfortunately for gossip-istas, this likely means nothing. The only real prospect she has right now is her rumored girlfriend Samantha Ronson, a realtionship that hasn’t been confirmed or denied by Lilo or her peeps. If this is true, however, I predict a massive catfight between Lilo and Ellen as they race to the altar with their extremely hot girlfriends. This bodes well for my future marriage to Peter Sarsgaard, though he has yet to respond to my invitation.

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Box office analysts are facing quite a pickle with their projections for the Fab Four’s opening weekend. As every part of the industry is completely dominated by male stars, male interests, and male fanboys, no one knows what to make of these crazy movies that come along once in a while that women are actually interested in. In other words, films that do not devote 30+ minutes to the building of metal suits used for flying around like a jackass saving helpless big-breasted damsels.

Of course I’m talking about Sex and the City: The Movie, which could be the biggest female-skewing blockbuster of all time (unless you count The Sound of Music). Opening day ticket sales on Fandango are absolutely through the roof. Though you can’t count on the New York City media market as an accurate gauge of the country as a whole, it’s still telling that almost every single showing of SATC between 5 pm and midnight on Friday in Manhattan is sold out. That’s nuts. Star Wars doesn’t hit those kind of numbers. My guess, woefully uneducated, is that SATC will do AT LEAST $45 million this weekend, and could do much more.

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Despite being the slowest Memorial Day weekend at the box office in over five years, Steven Spielberg’s new franchise blockbuster cleaned up, grossing a commendable $127 million in four days and $152 million since its Thursday debut. That’s fat cash for the ancient franchise, which had its last installment in 1989 with Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The awkwardly titled Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull flushed the competition, with the weekend’s number two film grossing only $30 million. That film, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, has disappointed at the ticket booth, proving far less successful than its predecessor. With Speed Racer’s crash and burn two weeks ago, the marketplace doesn’t have the depth it typically does at Memorial Day. Look for that to change on May 30 when Sex and the City hits theatres and Indy scores a respectable drop in his second outing.

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Students at Cambridge University are studying a song by Amy Winehouse. ” Love Is A Loosing Game” from her album ‘Back to Black’ is being studied as poetry for an English literature class.

The lyrics for the Amy Winehouse song include:

For you I was a flame/Love is a losing game/Five storey fire as you came/Love is a losing game/Why do I wish I never played/Oh, what a mess we made/And now the final frame/Love is a losing game/Played out by the band love is a losing hand.”

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Loose cannon/director Abel Ferrara kisses girlfriend, actress Shanyn Leigh during the Chelsea on the Rocks photocall at the 61st International Cannes Film Festival on May 23, 2008. Ferrara’s new film attempts to capture the rich history and mythology of The Chelsea Hotel, past and present. The quintessential fringe-y New York City filmmaker, there may be no better director to tackle such a project. It was reported recently that Ferrara’s fantastic 1992 film Bad Lieutenant will be remade by Werner Herzog. Harvey Keitel’s role will be played by Nicolas Cage this time around.

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What’s cooler than being an A-list actor or supermodel? I don’t know… maybe being a rock star to boot? A number of famous faces have been releasing records or playing in bands this year. Golden girl, Scarlett Johansson’s tribute to Tom Waits; Anywhere I Lay My Head has been met with mixed reviews and a lot of skepticism. British model Agyness Deyn debuted in Five O’Clock Hero’s music video and is said to have written a handful of songs for her new band Gene Jacket. Actress Zooey Deschanel paired up with M. Ward for their project She & Him . Who knew so many actors and pretty faces had pipes to match?

Juliette Lewis has all but made the switch from thumb-sucked actress to sweaty rock goddess. Though we know actress Minnie Driver from the big screen, she actually started her career as a singer, releasing her second album in 2007. Jada Pinkett Smith played the role of the angry tough girl in Wicked Wisdom, performing at Ozzfest in 2006. The thespian to songstress switch is not a new phenomenon. Jane Birken is easily recognized as a singer though she started in acting. Jared Leto, Keanu Reeves, Paris Hilton, Gwyneth Paltrow, Russell Crow and Val Kilmer have also graced our ears with their musical efforts, though with the exception of Leto and Reeves, this dabbling in music feel more like a casual pastime.

Somehow the transition from musician to actor is accepted with greater ease by the public, except perhaps in the case of Madonna. Mark Wahlberg, Will Smith, Bette Midler and Barbara Streisand have successfully turned the corner. Even Bjork. Lyle Lovett and Deborah Harry have done some respectable dramatic work. What do you think? Are these forays into music genuine expressions of the inner songbird or an extension of an actor/model’s inflated ego?

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