Brad Burns Up Venice

Hollywood megastars George Clooney and Brad Pitt helped kick off the 65th Venice film festival, taking to the red carpet along with their directors the Coen brothers in the quirky "Burn After Reading." The film's kaleidoscopic plot revolves around two gym employees who stumble on the memoirs of a retired CIA agent and try to sell the manuscript, one of them desperate to make herself over with cosmetic surgery. "Burn After Reading" opens 9 October.