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Cannes: Sorry, We Can't Muster Up Excitement Over Cannes This Year

juliana — 2010-05-13T09:10:36-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/cannessameoldsameold.jpg" class="top"> Same old, same old.Every year without fail Hollywood takes a working vacation to France for the Annual Cannes International Film Festival and every year, hotels in Cannes get besieged by the A-list stars, directors, producers, agents and inevitably some reality TV show stars. And every year, we watch the festivities with no real emotion as it's the same old dog and pony show every year. Rinse, lather, pull out any Jon Gosselin-types and then repeat in 12 months. Plus, it's not like we can even afford a hotel room there. And if we did, it would probably have been sold out months ago. So unless something major happens this year, we're going to avoid reporting on the

Cannes: French TV Crew Invades Madonna's Hotel in Cannes

juliana — 2008-05-28T12:22:30-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/madonnacannes.jpg" class="imgborder">We've avoided covering the hotel scene at the <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/city/Cannes">Cannes Film Festival</a> this year largely because the same shizz happens every year, practically on auto-pilot. Expensive hotels get more expensive, movies get booed and applauded, Sharon Stone walks the red carpet over and over and nothing really truly of interest happens.Except when it happens to Madonna. Apparently, Madge was holed up in the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/InterContinental+Carlton+Cannes/local/776">Intercontinental Carlton Hotel</a> in Cannes last week while there to promote her documentary, "I Am Because We Are", about orphans in Malawi. But she got pissed when she saw that a French TV crew had managed to sneak into her suite and film the place, including the special water and gym equipment she had

Cannes: Johnny Drama Finds Love, Loses Hotel Room in Cannes

juliana — 2007-09-04T10:21:06-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/drama_lady.jpg" class="imgborder"> In Sunday night's Entourage season finale the boys head to Cannes (courtesy of Kanye West's private jet) and promptly shack up at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/InterContinental+Carlton+Cannes/local/776">Intercontinental Carlton Cannes Hotel</a>---well, all of them except Johnny Drama. Apparently, the room he reserved months ago and confirmed "at least a dozen times" is nowhere to be found. Considering that his old show "Viking Quest" was a huge hit in France, Drama expects the hotel to rectify the situation immediately and put him in an ocean-facing suite like his brother Vince. Unfortunately, the hotel takes quite a few hours only to show Drama a closet-sized room with a twin bed not facing the ocean. Making matters worse, Drama has met a girl,

Cannes: Movie Set Hotel: The Carlton Cannes in Hitchcock's 'To Catch a Thief'

barbarab — 2007-08-20T13:49:23-05:00

We were in the mood for a Hitchcock movie the other night, and the only one we could nab at the local Blockbuster was To Catch a Thief. We'd forgotten was a prominent role the Carlton Hotel in Cannes played in this 1955 thriller starring Cary Grant as a former jewel thief and Grace Kelly as an American heiress on holiday in the Riviera with her mother.

The Carlton, now an InterContinental hotel, hosted the production crew during 1954. The film was released the following year. During the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, Grace Kelly met Prince Rainier for the first time at the Carlton, at the prince's request. Kelly married Prince Rainier the following year.

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