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All hell broke loose at the Hollywood premiere of "Horton Hears a Who!" today when a group of pro-lifers infiltrated the screening, then chanted anti-abortion slogans after the flick.

The theme of the movie is based on the motto: "After all, a person is a person, no matter how small." So the pro-lifers thought it was a good idea to use this theme to their advantage -- even though their complicated message was falling mostly on the ears of children.

The stars in attendance included Victoria Beckham and her three kids, Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy, Steve Carell and all 12 contestants from "American Idol."

After the chanting ended, the group put red tape over their mouths that said "Life" on them, and paraded around the event.

Oscar bitch Marion Cotillard must think Americans don't know French so she can pretend she didn't say what she said. Well, she said it.

Her Paris-based lawyer, Vincent Toledano, tried spinning his client's comment about 9/11, claiming she was taken out of context.

But we've looked at the original transcript and she did indeed say that Americans destroyed the Twin Towers themselves because they wanted it rebuilt and blowing it up was cheaper than renovation.

Marion -- foie gras you.

As if L.A. wasn't crazy enough, here comes Diddy -- and he's ready to act full-time. Seriously.

He tells All Hip Hop.com, "I'm out here [in Hollywood] looking for houses now. I'm going to officially be bicoastal. I feel like in order to make movies, you gotta be where they are being made." Take that, take that!

Diddy goes on to say, "I could bring people to the box office and put people in seats as I make this transition." But the real question is: what director is going to have to get his cheesecake?

A few weeks back we shot Caan coming out of a restaurant when a fan handed him a "Godfather" photo. Caan wanted to know who's signature was in the photo and the fan responded, "It's Francis Ford Coppola," to which Caan responded, "What a pig."

Caan's rep says the actor was looking at his own image when he said that. An angry Jimmy told us over the weekend he loved Francis and couldn't believe we said what we said. So which story you buyin'?

So why did the Academy snub Brad Renfro by not including him in the memoriam? The Academy is pretty much tight as a drum.

A flack tells us a small group of people make extremely difficult choices but refused to say what criteria are used to make those decisions. She added we shouldn't waste our time cause no one would discuss it further.

Could it have something to do with the circumstances surrounding Renfro's death? It's uncomfortable to applaud when an actor dies from an overdose. Of course, exceptions must be made for huge stars who OD. Heath Ledger made the cut.

So in case you missed it, Brad Renfro was ignored during the "in memoriam" montage on the Oscars last night. You're not gonna believe the statement the Academy gave TMZ.

The tape featured 50 movie types who died in the last year. They included actors, studio execs, makeup artists, agents, and on and on. Renfro was nowhere to be seen. We asked the Academy why and they gave us the following statement: "It is simply not possible to include everyone in that segment."

Interesting. Renfro, whose credits include "The Client," "Apt Pupil" and "Sleepers," seems like a bigger player than Margaret Gardner, the head of the international division of a P.R. firm.

Someone in Renfro's world called the slap in the face "unbelievable and disgusting." We couldn't have said it better ourselves.

Ken was leaving Opera last night when he asked our man, "If Clooney walks by, you gonna run?"

He'd better!

The entire gory scene occurred Thursday on the New Jersey set of Rourke's latest film. Parental guidance suggested.

While the 63-year-old beauty was swarmed by autograph hounds outside the eatery, the only question our camera guy could muster up was, "Is this your favorite restaurant?" Kids today!

Paul Sorvino is pissing off people who invested in his upcoming movie -- a whole county full of 'em. Why? Because there's no movie!

Lackawanna County, Penna. somehow invested $500,000 in Sorvino's new movie, "The Trouble with Cali," which the "Goodfellas" star was directing in Pennsylvania. Scenes were shot in Scranton in 2006, but the movie has yet to hit theaters, and now Lackawanna County is asking WTF?