As if Page Six’s blind items weren’t problematic enough, NY Post film critic Lou Lumenick last week offered a fun one from Cannes that found our refined hunch-dar betraying us. “Members of the press were lining up at the entrance to the announced venue well more than a hour before [Two Lovers] began,” he wrote. ” ‘I’m not going to wait an hour for f—-ing James Gray,’ one major U.S. film critic declared, before storming off, of the film’s American director, who is much more popular among critics in Europe than he is in his native country.” There’s a pretty short list of “major U.S. film critics” these days anyway, but the anecdote provoked visions of the NY Times‘ Manohla Dargis protesting to the Cannes overlords. However, as Dargis assured us this morning, “storming” is not her style; she indeed waited an hour just like everyone else for fucking James Grey. So it’s back to the blind-item drawing board for us, alas. Was Rex Reed at Cannes? [Defamer]

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