Celebrity Watch: Clooney and Roberts at the Met; Bellows in Beverly Hills

Spidey Left Out

This just in from the Metropolitan Museum: George Clooney and Julia Roberts will be co-chairs (along with the eternal Anna Wintour) of the museum's May 8 gala benefit for its Costume Institute, celebrating the opening of "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy." Shouldn't Toby Maguire aka Spiderman (above) have had a starring role in this? Harold, I think I have a pressing professional need to cover this party! I particularly want to check out the "array of second-skin body suits for extreme sports, as well as luminous, glow-in-the-dark clothing."

Speaking of movie stars, Christie's apparently thinks Hollywood types will be interested in the Bellows "Men of the Docks" being sold from the Maier Museum of Randolph College. Suzanne Muchnic of the LA Times reports that the painting "will be exhibited in a five-day auction preview opening Friday at Christie's Beverly Hills." It is to be the star of Christie's Nov. 29 American paintings auction, unless the 19 plaintiffs who just filed a motion for an injunction to stop the Bellows sale get their way.