Jeremy Irons: Seaworthy at Cannes Last Updated: 12:08 AM, May 23, 2012 Posted: 12:05 AM, May 23, 2012 NEW YORK POST

Paul Allen’s Cannes bash is being talked about as one of the most rocking Film Festival parties this year. Guests, including Antonio Banderas and Jeremy Irons, danced until the early hours to the Microsoft co-founder’s band (in which he plays guitar) at Monday’s party. One guest told us, “Paul has a new band, and they are actually really very good — people were dancing until 4 a.m.” Also there were Cyndi Lauper, Ray Liotta, Tom Freston and Sony Pictures Classics’ Michael Barker and Tom Bernard. All braved bad weather to get onboard Allen’s 303-foot yacht Tatoosh, which was moved to a new mooring for the bash because of heavy swells and “to stabilize the boat.”

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Cannes 2012: Jurist Ewan McGregor Drops the F-Bomb During Palme d’Or Press Conference 10:57 AM PDT 5/16/2012 by Scott Roxborough (THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)

Also, the actor's fellow panelist Nanni Moretti complains about all the media attention at Wednesday's event.

CANNES - Ewan McGregor dropping the f-bomb was about as exciting as it got at the Cannes Jury press conference on Wednesday. When asked what he had done to prepare to sit on the jury that will decide this year’s Palme d’Or winner, the Scottish star of Trainspotting and Beginners said he just looked at the program of the official Competition line-up. 
"And I thought, f--king hell, there some good names in that!" McGregor said, before admitting he hadn’t done “any swotting up” by studying the Competition directors or their work.

The other members of the Jury – including French designer Jean Paul Gaultier, Oscar-winning director Alexander Payne and actresses Diane Kruger and Emmanuelle Devos – were less graphic in their statements, pledging only to judge each Competition film by its merits and, in Gaultier’s words “to try and see them like an ordinary cinema-goer.”


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Ewan McGregor, Jean Paul Gaultier tapped for Cannes jury French film fest jury includes actors, filmmakers and cinephile fashion designer CBC News Posted: Apr 26, 2012 11:41 AM ET Last Updated: Apr 26, 2012 11:40 AM ET (CBS NEWS)

Actor Ewan McGregor, filmmaker Alexander Payne and fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier will help pick the winner of the Cannes Film Festival's top prize.

 The trio will join Italian filmmaker and jury chair Nanni Moretti on the feature film jury that will choose the winner of the festival's Palme d'Or from this year's 22 competing entries.

 Both McGregor and Payne are coming off recent film successes: the Scottish actor for his touching performance in the romantic comedy and father-son drama Beginners and the American director for his Oscar-winning family drama The Descendants.


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