The Venice Film Festival heated up on September 3 with the arrival of two of Hollywood's hottest stars, George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones. The sounds of screaming fans and thousands of camera shutters clicking showed the hysteria of the night. They're at the Lido to promote the film Intolerable Cruelty, directed by the Oscar-winning Coen brothers.

The two celebrities pulled up in a chic motorboat to promote the comedy about a Beverly Hills battle of the sexes.

Clooney, a massive star in Italy where he lives for several months of the year, stopped to sign several autographs, but Zeta Jones seemed a bit more intent upon getting up to the press conference.

Both stars are the long-awaited cherry on the cake of festival director Moritz de Hadelen's star-studded 60th anniversary edition of the Venice Film Festival.

In the flick, George Clooney plays a sleazy Beverly Hills divorce attorney, who frames the wife of one of his clients, played by Catherine Zeta-Jones, so the man can be released from the marriage and free from paying any settlement. The woman seeks revenge by plotting to marry the attorney and then taking him to the cleaners in their own divorce. But what she doesn't count on is falling in love with him.

(CCTV.com September 6, 2003)