September 19-23 – Summer's over, the kids are back in school, so Hollywood’s A-listers are all over the place. We’re relieved to see that Sean Penn seems to still have all his skin, at least what we could see of it, after running around in the toxic Gulf Coast waters. The Oscar winner turned up on Monday when uber-producer Mike Medavoy received a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.

Bob Dylan didn’t come to a screening of No Direction Home, Martin Scorsese’s documentary about him, but Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Barkin, Elvis Costello and Diana Krall and director Jim Jarmusch did.

The next day at the same theater, most of the press was uninvited to a screening of another documentary, Peace One Day, because, our sources said, Angelina Jolie had final approval of the media list. We hear Reuters photographers had difficulty obtaining access, because the news agency was deemed “too small and not international enough”. Hmmm…weren’t those Reuters photos of Jolie and Brad Pitt – separately – at Bill Clinton’s World Summit last week, splashed all over New York’s tabloids?

Pitt wasn’t at the Peace One Day screening, but Jolie had a little reunion with her first husband, British actor Johnny Lee Miller.
Wednesday was International Day of Peace, and Michael Douglas celebrated at the U.N., participating in conferences and ringing the Peace Bell.

The nation’s capital saw some megawatt star action this week. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson joined real-life astronauts donning 3-D glasses at the premiere of the documentary, Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D. Hanks said he’d love to fly to the moon, although he figures taxpayers would revolt if they found out he was on a flight.

On Friday, Nicole Kidman, possible James Bond Daniel Craig and Jeremy Northam gathered at the famous Haye-Adams hotel near the White House to announce the start of production on alien sci-fi thriller, The Visiting. Kidman lived in D.C. for three years while her father pursued his studies, but she doesn’t remember much, since she’d just been born. This is her first time back, she said.