Once again Jaunted Flickr Pool member Chris Gold has come through with a bunch of great travel snapshots for us to sift through on this lazy Friday before Labor Day. Spotted at the Palais Club Disco in Cannes: a girl dancing barefoot on the bar. Not a very wise idea in our opinion. There could be sharp glass and sticky grenadine and blow on that bar there. But when it's hot in Cannes, it doesn't matter.

The massive club can hold about 2,500 jetsetters. Their dress code is listed as "dressy" and this is not a cheap joint. Prepare to max out your Amex. Or get Gianfranco to foot the bill. But it does have a rooftop from where you can gaze out at the Mediterranean and escape the deeply-tanned Euros smoking cigarettes and waving their sparklers.

Sadly, if you're looking to party at the Palais, you'll have to wait until next summer. The club had its summer closing party last weekend.

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While the summer is at its peak and you're no doubt tired of chugging bottled water under the sun at tourist sites, we're going to hit some of the world's best watering holes and down their famous summer cocktails. Bottoms up!

Tyically, when you tell someone that you are headed to "Le Festival" in Cannes on the French Riviera, they assume you mean the International Film Fest that takes place every May. But Cannes sparkles all throughout the summer, not just in May, and you may head to a different "Le Festival," a restaurant and bar, to toast your good fortune at being in paradise.

Occupying an enviable position right on Le Croisette, Cannes' stretch of beach, the bar Le Festival serves up fresh grilled fish and of course a slew of desserts doused in liqueur. But darling, you'd do well to remember that you're on the French Riviera and so you simply must ask to be seated out on the expansive patio with glasses of the restaurant's signature Festival Champagne. ]]> JetSetCD 2009-07-14T15:44:18-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/5/12/235125/313

Most stars dream of representing their latest film at the Cannes Film Festival and most film fans dream of watching them walk down the red carpet. Cannes is the biggest, flashiest and most decadent festival on the circuit, the place to be and be seen. If you're lucky enough to find yourself at Cannes this year, here's our list of where to stay, where to eat and what to see. ]]> cmb 2009-05-13T16:07:19-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/4/24/23018/2643

Talk about stealing the thunder! The Tribeca and San Francisco film festivals just started, but the Cannes Film Festival just sucked up some of their oxygen by announcing its lineup. France's biggest film party doesn't start until May 13, but we already know whose autograph we're going to get based on the films' lineup. Here's who you can expect to see next month:

Quentin Tarantino will probably win the paparazzi prize since he was smart enough to cast Super World Traveler Brad Pitt in his new World War II remake-slash-homage "Inglourious Basterds," and if he was really smart he put it in his contract that Angelina Jolie has to come too. The tabloids' favorite duo was the highlight of last year's Cannes Festival, largely (as is often the case these days) because of Angelina's belly which was carrying twins.

Aside from Brangelina, "Brokeback Mountain" director Ang Lee will get Liev Schreiber and Emile Hirsch on the bus for his '60s flick "Taking Woodstock." Best Supporting Actress Penelope Cruz will be getting dolled up for her new Spanish-language movie "Broken Embraces," in which she plays -- wait for it -- an actress.]]> egw 2009-04-24T13:25:22-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2008/5/23/101/66154

Being rich and famous doesn't exempt a person from the indignities of travel. Nor does being an international treasure hunter, apparently: Harrison Ford's red-carpet premiere for "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" at the Cannes Film Festival was ruined when someone made off with his digital camera.

Last seen in Ford's pocket, the camera has not yet been recovered and is the only medium in history to prove that, when she turns sideways, the actor's wife Calista Flockhart actually does disappear.

Maybe Shia LaBeouf's sidekick Mutt grabbed it to make his mentor a nice scrapbook!

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When you're lolling on the Med in southern France it's easy to forget the rest of the world continues to have its own problems. (That's always been our excuse, anyway.) So it's pretty cool that actress Zhang Ziyi took time out from promoting her new movie "The Horsemen" (costarring Dennis Quaid) to raise awareness for the earthquake relief efforts in her native country.

Having personally donated a million yuan ($140,000) to help people who lost family members or their homes in the quake, Zhang bore a placard wishing "good fortune" to Sichuan province and encouraged other stars to step up to the plate. (Houston Rockets star Yao Ming just shot several PSAs for the Red Cross in the US and China to spur donations.)

If you would like to give to the relief efforts in China, check out nonprofit watchdog Charity Navigator's list of top-ranked charities, all of which are either working directly in the disaster zone or have well established partner agencies there.

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Woody Allen's new movie "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," shot in Spain last year, got the red-carpet treatment at the Cannes Film Festival over the weekend, with star Penelope Cruz braving the flashbulbs.

But where was American beauty (and recent Allen muse) Scarlett Johansson? Rumor has it the recently engaged actress's demands caused the studio to reject her travel arrangements including an expensive make-up assistant and a posh suite at a particular hotel.

To play devil's advocate, maybe Johansson wanted to spend the week with her new fiance Ryan Reynolds. But why not take him to southern France? We hear it's very romantic! Even without her, though, the movie reportedly got a ten-minute standing ovation at a public screening.

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