Did my very best to clean up last night to go the annualamFARbenefit at the Moulin de Mougins restaurant.

At least I fill the bill on the last of those!)

Its an SERIOUS scene, equal parts glamour and grotesque with all the money going to AIDS research.

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Heres how it works: Everyone trundles up to this spectacular restaurant in the hills above Cannes.

And then everyone is herded into a huge tent where the stars make a grand entrance.

(Theres George Clooney!

Up for auction this year?

(Okay, I made that last one up.)

(Note to my incredibly handsome and understanding editors: I can expense that tennis lesson, right?)

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One other piece of news from Cannes.