I owe Diddy an apology. I've been giving him some flack over the past couple of days that he is only at Sundance to promote his vodka, though he is in fact in town to premiere a pretty big film at the festival, the newest version of A Raisin in the Sun, alongside Phylicia Rashad, John Stamos, and Audra McDonald. To be fair, he did spend a good amount of time with that vodka of his. Heh. While at the festival, he talked about being involved in such an important project. He said:

• On his first lead movie role: "This a historical moment for me, my first starring role in a movie...Some of the audience is going to want to see did I do good or did I fall flat on my face?"
• On the film: "Sometimes people come to a place and don't expect to get the message...This generation, they come for entertainment ... then they realize, 'oh man, this movie is really touching. It's making me really appreciate my family."'
• On moving from Broadway to film:"Broadway truly prepared me. It made me really go for it...I was like, I came here to get with it and tell a story. I have a long way to go ... but I'm swimming, baby."

Luckily for us, their Raisin in the Sun will also premiere February 25 on ABC, so we'll all get to see Diddy's acting chops. Until then, I'm sure he shared a few of his party pointers with his costars to celebrate their film.

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After their tropical family vacation in Hawaii, Liv Tyler headed to LAX yesterday with Milo. Her mini-me turned 3 last month but he's looking like such a big boy — almost too big to be toted around by mom. Luckily these two had help with their luggage because Liv already had her arms full with Milo and her fab red bag. Love that Liv coordinated her bag with Milo's jacket.

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Courteney Cox got a little sassy with her sheer shirt and leather jacket out to dinner at Mr. Chow in LA on Tuesday night. While we've been having fun seeing Courteney enjoy her between-seasons downtime from Dirt, I'm also really excited for her on-screen power woman alter ego to come back. Dirt returns March 2nd so there's not too much time left to wait, but unfortunately it's going to be a shortened season because of the (hopefully almost over) writers' strike. Boo. Well, I'll take whatever Lucy Spiller I can get. Meanwhile, David Arquette got some great news this week when his Sundance movie, Hamlet 2, was bought for $10 million making it one of the biggest deals at the festival ever! Congrats!

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After she caught the Spice Girls concert and hung out with her friend Posh, it was back to business for Eva Longoria in the UK today. She posed pretty in one of our favorite colors for a photocall for Over Her Dead Body. There was no sign of her co-stars, so Eva got to have the spotlight all to herself. Too bad, because we wouldn't mind seeing Paul Rudd helping her to promote their film, but maybe he's a bit embarrassed. Have you seen the trailer yet?

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