One tough cookie What do George Clooney, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin and James Caan have in common? They count themselves among the actors who have had run-ins with mercurial director David O. Russell. Caan is the most recent member of the club, storming off the set of the political comedy "Nailed" after a heated argument with Russell about a scene involving a cookie. Clooney's issue with Russell dates back to a fistfight on the set of 1999's "Three Kings," and Hoffman and Tomlin were subjected to a profane (and YouTube-documented) tirade on the set of "I Heart Huckabees." No word on who will replace Caan in "Nailed," or who among the cast of Jessica Biel, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tracy Morgan, James Marsden and Catherine Keener might be the next to go.

The final reel More Cannes premieres: Steven Soderbergh's two-part Che Guevara biopic, Woody Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" and the biggie, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull." ... Singer Jim Croce's 1973 hit "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" will become the basis for a movie. Audition notices are going out for actors meaner than a junkyard dog. ... Brian DePalma's 1978 sci-fi thriller "The Fury" is getting a remake. ... Ewan McGregor joins the cast of "Angels & Demons" as a "powerful Vatican insider." ... Ang Lee's next project is "Taking Woodstock," based on a memoir by the man who dreamed up the legendary happening while working at his parents' motel. ... Somehow this fits: The unhinged Crispin Glover has joined the cast of "The Forlorn," a film about "survival and cannablism."

CYNTHIA DICKISON