The stars were out in full force last night (November 14), attending the Grand Opening Ceremony of The Fontainebleau Hotel on South Beach in Miami, Florida.

Taking over ribbon-cutting duties, Victoria’s Secret supermodel Heidi Klum was all smiles as she mingled amongst a guest list including everyone from Hollywood starlets to All-Star athletes.

Kate Hudson, while “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” star Kim Kardashian kept close to her sister Kourtney and gal pal Kristin Cavallari. Meanwhile, not far away, Kim’s stepbrother Brody Jenner had his hands full with his lovely new girlfriend, Playmate of the Year Jayde Nicole.

Also joining in on the swanky shindig were Victoria’s Secret beauties Alessandra Ambrosio and Molly Sims, heiress-turned-reality-starlet Paris Hilton, as well as NASCAR star Jeff Gordon, rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs and George Clooney’s ex Sarah Larson, among many others.

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Oprah Winfrey has long been Barack Obama’s No. 1 fan, so it’s no surprise she wasted little time in speaking out about the Democrat’s historic victory Tuesday night.

“It feels like hope won,” the TV icon told Britain’s BBC. “It feels like there’s a shift in consciousness. It feels like something really big and bold has happened here, like nothing ever in our lifetimes did we expect this to happen.”

The talk-show host was on hand in Chicago to watch Obama’s victory speech, along with Brad Pitt and Jesse Jackson.

Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, Courteney Cox and hubby David Arquette hosted a Barack Obama victory party Tuesday night at their Beverly Hills home, E! Online reports. Jennifer Aniston, Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher were reportedly among the guests.

• Actor George Clooney: “I congratulate President-elect Obama on his historic victory, and now it’s time to begin unifying the country so we can take on the extraordinary challenges that this generation faces.”

• Singer Usher: “This will go down in history, in black history, for all of the sacrifices that the great Joseph Lowery and Martin Luther King made, this actually pays off for their sacrifice. … I’m speechless. I don’t even know what to say.”

• Music mogul Diddy: “I felt like my vote was the vote that put him into office. … And that may not be true but that’s how much power it felt like I had.”

• Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz to PEOPLE: “My parents met working for %26#91;Obama’s running mate on one of his early campaigns%26#93;. If it weren’t for Joe Biden, I would not exist as a human being. … I am proud to be a part of history in the making.”

• Former Secretary of State Colin Powell: “We’re very, very proud to have a new American President who also happens to be African-American … As I watched %26#91;the news anchors call the election%26#93; - pretty moving moment. Everybody cried … I am overjoyed.”

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• Sandra Bullock, carrying her dog and a pillow for her pooch in one hand after shopping at a pet store in New York City.

• Frankie Delgado, trying to put the moves on Hugh Hefner’s ex-girlfriend Holly Madison during a night out at L.A.’s Crown Bar. “He was on the dancefloor with her and her girlfriends and he was trying so hard to dance with her,” says an observer. “He grabbed Holly’s hand and was spinning her and her girlfriends around but she looked like she would rather spend time with the girls. Holly appeared to always try to find a way back to her girlfriends to rescue her.” When Delgado wasn’t trying to get Madison’s attention, he was hanging out with BFF Brody Jenner.

• Luke Wilson, sipping Dom Perignon at LAX Nightclub in Las Vegas. The actor - who was in town to play in Justin Timberlake’s charity golf tournament - hung out at a VIP table with a group of pals, including pro golfer Dustin Johnson.

• It’s been all about music for Drew Barrymore this week! The actress - who caught Antony and the Johnsons’ show the night before - hung out with pal Cameron Diaz at the sold-out Kings of Leon concert at the Nokia Theater in L.A. “They were really into the show,” says a fellow concertgoer. Also in the house: Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens, who made it a date night.

• George Clooney and Ewan McGregor, taking a break from filming their movie Men Who Stare at Goats in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to have dinner at posh restaurant Aquaviva. “They had a great time,” says a source of the costars.

• Kimora Lee Simmons, watching her daughters Ming Lee and Aoki Lee strut their stuff on the mini-runway of Beverly Hills boutique Play Couture. Their stylist chose two pink Lacoste jersey tennis skirts for the girls, who are learning how to play the sport.

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Paul Newman’s lasting impact in Hollywood was more than evident Saturday, a day after the Oscar winner succumbed to cancer, as stars and pals alike expressed their sadness over his death.

“There is a point where feelings go beyond words,” two-time costar Robert Redford said in a statement. “I have lost a real friend. My life - and this country - is better for his being in it.”

The pair, who shared heartthrob status in their heyday, starred together in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969 and again in The Sting, in 1973. A testament to their easygoing friendship: Redford famously gave Newman a dented, engine-less Porsche as a joke for his birthday one year. Newman repaid the favor by having the car crushed and sent back to the actor.

Martin Scorsese, who directed Newman in The Color of Money - for which he won the Best Actor Oscar in 1987 - paid tribute to Newman’s big screen legacy. “It’s a great loss, in so many ways,” said Scorcese in a statement. “The history of movies without Paul Newman? It’s unthinkable. His presence, his beauty, his physical eloquence, the emotional complexity he could conjure up and transmit through his acting in so many movies - where would we be without him?”

The director called Newman’s characters “lasting and durable” and praised his effortless talent. “His powerful eloquence, his consummate sense of craft, so consummate that you didn’t see any sense of effort up there on the screen, set a new standard.”

George Clooney, a fellow humanitarian (and heartthrob), never worked with Newman onscreen, but saluted the actor’s impact on the world: “He set the bar too high for the rest of us - not just actors, but all of us. He will be greatly missed.”

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Holland Taylor may only play Charlie Sheen’s mother on Two and a Half Men, but she sounds awfully maternal when it comes to his real-life situation - Sheen and wife Brooke are expecting a baby.

“I’m very proud of him,” the actress - who, like her costars Sheen and Jon Cryer, is up for an Emmy for her role on the CBS sitcom - told PEOPLE at Friday’s Academy of Television %26 Sciences party for the nominees.

“I think he’s really enjoying fatherhood,” says Taylor, “and it’s really deepened his life and his commitment to life.”

Asked how she thinks Sheen would fare with a baby boy, Holland says, “That would be a trip! I mean, I think he’s a wonderful daddy to his girls - he just adores them, he’s very sweet with them. %26#91;But%26#93; it will be very interesting to see Charlie with a boy. It’ll bring out a whole other side of him, I’m sure.”

George Clooney’s an Old Pal

As for Taylor’s longtime friend George Clooney, when it’s suggested she might help find him a woman to settle down with, Taylor replies, “I think he can have any girl he wants, no problems there.”

And she has nothing but compliments to bestow upon George, with whom she appeared briefly but memorably (as Michelle Pfeiffer’s urbane mother) in the 1996 romantic comedy, One Fine Day.

“I have known Clooney from a long time ago,” says Taylor. “He’s a very loyal friend. He never forgets anybody - we might have worked together yesterday, if we considered his tone %26#91;with me%26#93;. He’s just a very friendly, sweet guy.”

He is voice of the car Kitt in the new Knight Rider series, but could Val Kilmer’s next role be the voice of New Mexico?

Former presidential candidate and current New Mexico governor Bill Richardson has been fueling speculation that the Batman Forever star may replace him as governor of the 47th state in 2010.

“I like the idea,” Richardson told reporters on Thursday. “Val Kilmer is a New Mexican, he was Batman. You know there have been successful actors going into politics.”

Earlier this year, Kilmer got the rumor mill turning when he hinted that he’d consider a run for office.

A native of Los Angeles, Kilmer has for many years lived on a sprawling ranch outside of Pecos, where he raises bison. He is actively involved in The Wildlife Center of New Mexico.

While George Clooney is known for his political causes, if Kilmer were elected, he would be the first Batman to achieve elected office - at least in the real world.

On TV’s animated Family Guy series, Adam West, who played the Caped Crusader on the popular TV show, has been the animated mayor of the fictional Rhode Island hamlet of Quahog.

Burning question No. 1 at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, which kicks off Thursday: Will exes Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston cross paths?

They arrive on different days, but in the movie biz, anything is possible. Pitt is due in Canada, sans Angelina Jolie, to hype Burn After Reading, his new Coen Brothers comedy with George Clooney. Aniston, meanwhile, will be talking up Management, a romantic comedy in which she’s wooed by Steve Zahn and Woody Harrelson.

But those are just two of the 249 feature films set to screen and a few of the stars - cue Dakota Fanning, Ricky Gervais and Charlize Theron - set to shine over the 10-day festival, which has come to serve Hollywood as the annual unofficial launch of the Oscar race.

• After scoring big at last year’s festival with Juno, Superbad’s Michael Cera returns with Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. He plays a music-obsessed youth who finds love when he least expects it during a visit to New York City. The movie opens Oct. 3.

• In Rachel Getting Married, Anne Hathaway stars as a woman who, following a stint in rehab, returns to her idyllic Connecticut hometown for the wedding of her older sister Rachel. Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs) directed the comedic family drama, which opens in limited markets Oct. 3.

• Keira Knightley again dons sumptuous period petticoats and gowns for her title role in The Duchess, a biopic about Georgiana Spencer, a scandalous 18th century English aristocrat. Her costars include Ralph Fiennes and Charlotte Rampling. It opens Sept. 19.

• Irishman Colin Farrell works on his New Yawk accent in Pride and Glory, a crime drama in which he and Edward Norton star as brothers who are NYPD cops. Family bonds are tested as they uncover something rotten in the Big Apple. The film, which was scheduled to open earlier this year, is now set for release Oct. 24.

• Wedding Crashers star Rachel McAdams teams up with Tim Robbins and Michael Pe%26#241;a in The Lucky Ones, a drama about three soldiers returning home to the U.S. after serving in Iraq. The film, due to open Sept. 26, has been sitting on the shelf for months after Hollywood became hesitant following the box office failure of several war-themed movies - Rendition, Lions for Lambs, Stop-Loss - in late 2007 and early 2008.

• Rising British heartthrob Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe and 21) portrays a young Irishman in Belfast in the 1980s who finds himself unintentionally caught between the British Army and the IRA in Fifty Dead Men Walking. Ben Kingsley and Rose McGowan costar. The film does not yet have a U.S. release date.

Fresh from the Venice Film Festival, George Clooney will appear Tuesday evening at a Barack Obama fundraiser in Geneva.

According to reports from Swiss news agency ATS, the Burn After Reading star and longtime Obama supporter hopes to increase Democratic coffers by nearly $1 million at the event, held for U.S. citizens living overseas.

According to planners, Clooney will address a cocktail reception - speaking and answering questions - of 170 U.S. citizens, who are each paying $1,000.

Hoping to score tickets? The twin events are already sold out, Adams, who also serves on Obama’s National Finance Committee, told journalists.

Clooney has known Obama personally since 2004 and campaigned for him during his Ilinois Senate run. But the actor had previously begged off campaigning for Obama during his Presidential bid, explaining to reporters that he wouldn’t want to “damage” him.

The fundraiser will be Clooney’s only active personal participation in the campaign, Adams told Geneve newspaper Le Temps. Said Adams, “I personally assured George Clooney that Geneva is a city where restraint is the norm and that he wouldn’t be assaulted by fans trying to tear the shirt off him.”

The actor will be bringing “three or four people” with him to the fundraiser, Adams said.

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• A solo Rihanna, checking out the wares at Fred Segal in Los Angeles. Later she hit popular nightspot Coco de Ville -also sans beau Chris Brown - where she snacked on cotton candy and shared

sweet conversation with friends. But the two got in some couple time the day before: The

singer and Brown were spotted at a Beverly Hills Ferrari dealership together.

• Also at Coco de Ville: Leonardo DiCaprio -but he and the pop star did not cross paths. Instead, the actor shied away

from attention, focusing instead on his small group of friends - and

relaxing. He left the lounge after just an hour.

• Continuing his winning night in Venice - after collecting an award from

last year - Brad Pitt enjoyed a poolside

dinner at the Hotel Cipriani %26 Palazzo Vendramin with his Burn After Reading cast. With no signs of partner-in-crime (and costar)

George Clooney, Pitt chatted with the film’s director

Joel Coen and left before midnight, carrying a drink, sporting an

undone bowtie - and surrounded by an entourage of five.

• In Denver for the Democratic National Convention, new parents Jessica Alba and husband Cash Warren ventured out to a Vote Latino event

at Vinyl. At the reception, the actress, in a black Juicy dress, mixed

politics with girl talk, chatting up Jennifer Lopez and

Rosario Dawson. Meanwhile, Dawson left her boyfriend

Mathieu Schreyer behind in Los Angeles while she got to work to get

out the vote. Not that Dawson - who told us she supports Barack Obama - is telling people how to vote. Nope, next she (and

Vote Latino) will visit Minneapolis, where the group will set up shop at the

Republican National Convention. (Read more about what all the stars are up to in Denver!)

• High School Musical star KayCee Stroh,

registering for her January wedding at Pottery Barn at the Westfield Fashion Square, a mall in

Sherman Oaks, Calif. On her list: some furniture and hurricane candles.

• A single Justin Long, dining at Las Vegas’s new Yellowtail

Sushi Restaurant %26 Bar overlooking the Bellagio’s iconic lake. Content with

his guy friends as dining companions, the actor dined on tuna pizza, lobster

carpaccio and crab rolls.

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A stunned Brad Pitt picked up his best actor trophy that he was awarded for last year’s The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

“I guess you forgot something here years ago,” said the mistress of ceremonies Wednesday at the Venice International Film Festival. Holding up the gold cup to honor Pitt’s performance in the film, she said, “Brad, this is yours.”

Pitt - attending the Venice film festival opening ceremony to premiere Burn After Reading - looked surprised as he walked up onstage.

“Congratulations for your twins,” she also told Pitt as she handed him the trophy.

The mistress of ceremonies then held up a yellow flower. “This is for your friend George,” she told Pitt referring to George Clooney, his Burn After Reading costar.

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