Hillary Swank to Make Film About Champagne Exec

Two Time Academy Award Winning Actress, Hillary Swank, has acquired the film rights to the best-selling book "French Women Don't Get Fat (The Secret of Eating for Pleasure)." The lifestyle book authored by Mireille Guiliano in 2004 has sold over two million copies and will be made into a romantic comedy about the boss of a champagne company. The beautiful Ms. Guiliano was herself the spokesperson for Veuve Clicquot and also held the post of CEO for the US-based Clicquot, Inc.

Criminal Champagne

Art Gallery owner Ruth Vered was taken into police custody on Long Island's East Hampton Saturday night for allegedly serving Veuve Clicquot champagne. According to press accounts, the Vered Gallery was filled without about 200 art connoisseurs who were being offered wine, champagne and cheese as part of the Gallery's opening exhibition of photographs by Steven Klein. Check out the eyewear. Arrrgh

Paris Hilton's Expensive Champagne Gift

Reports are circulating that the actress Paris Hilton is wondering who sent her a $40,000 magnum of Veuve Clicquot on the recent occasion of her 27th birthday. While I am willing to believe that Paris Hilton is a 27 year old actress, I am not prepared to concede that anyone in their right mind is paying $40,000 for a magnum of Veuve Clicquot. Don't get me wrong, Veuve Clicquot is a wonderful Champagne with an excellent sense of style. But the most expensive bottle of Champagne, according to Forbes was a Methuselah of 1990 Louis Roederer Cristal Brut Millenium Cuvée that sold at Sotheby's auction house to an undisclosed rapper for $17,625 and can be purchased in Switzerland (online at Lucullus.ch.) for $33,642.