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Let’s launch our weekly putdown cavalcade with a shot of Jeff Bridges and wife Susan Geston at this week’s premiere of The Giver in New York. Good to see The Dude still abidesERIC THAYER/Reuters

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‘Ziggy played guitar…’ Just kidding, this is really the actor Cameron Monaghan, who appears in ‘The Giver’ERIC THAYER/Reuters

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Here we see The Giver stars Odeya Rush and Brenton Thwaites cracking up at that Ziggy Stardust joke. Hey, these two got it and she’s only 17!Evan Agostini

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Also in The Giver is Katie Holmes, now fully recovered from her marriage to Tom Cruise. She hasn’t looked this Xenu-free since Dawson’s CreekERIC THAYER/Reuters

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Taylor Swift also appears in The Giver but was unable to attend the premiere, so she sent along a cardboard standee used to promote her last albumEvan Agostini

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And here we see the biggest star in The Giver: Meryl Streep – though frankly we expected a three-time Oscar-winner to dress a little sharperERIC THAYER/Reuters

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Now on to Los Angeles, where Wesley Snipes squeezed in the premiere for The Expendables 3 before his usual afternoon round of lawn bowlingPHIL McCARTEN/Reuters

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And hey there, Expendables 3 star Jason Statham. How did a thuggish-looking chap like yourself manage to land Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as a girlfriend? Some say opposites attract, others say hypnotism really worksTodd Williamson

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Mel Gibson showed up stag to the Expendables 3 event and spent most of his time trying to find someone to attend his post-premiere ‘jacuzzi party’PHIL McCARTEN/Reuters

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Hot dog, we have a winner!Todd Williamson

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And here’s that fine Swedish thespian Dolph Lundgren, still boasting that he beat up Sylvester Stallone in Rocky IV and he could do it againPHIL McCARTEN/Reuters

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“Oh, yeah?’ said Sly, ‘Say hello to my little friend! I mean, my brother Frank…’Jordan Strauss

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In other L.A. happenings, former Saved By the Bell mainstay Mark-Paul Gosselaar went all TV-casual at the season-four premiere party for Franklin & Bash (he’s in the show, apparently). Still Zack!John Shearer

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Also dressing down for the occasion was Breckin Meyer (he’s Franklin) who sported a T-shirt emblazoned with Bill Murray’s face from the 1998 Wes Anderson film Rushmore. Obscure? Eclectic? Pointless?John Shearer

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Now to London, where former Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe did his best to make everyone forget he ever played the boy-wizard at the premiere of the romantic comedy The F Word. Step one: Lose bookish eyewear and lightning scar on forehead – checkJoel Ryan

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Step two: Pose dutifully for selfies with screaming Potter fans 0 checkJoel Ryan

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Step three: Always be courteous and sign … WILL YOU STOP WAVING THAT BLOODY BOOK IN MY FACE!Joel Ryan

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Our final stop: Locarno, Switzerland, for the 67th Locarno International Film Festival. As in years past, the annual film-fest drew an amalgam of the almost-famous and just plain weird. In the latter category, here’s Julie Depardieu, daughter of French actor Gerard Depardieu, who still hasn’t got the ‘butterfly grab’ dance move down. Keep working on it, kidUrs Flueeler/The Associated Press

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Also in Locarno: The esteemed Brit actor Jonathan Pryce, so delightful in Terry Gilliam’s 1985 black comedy Brazil, so old and English-looking nowUrs Flueeler/The Associated Press

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And here we see the painfully quirky American actor Jason Schwartzman, who kept the paparazzi in Locarno waiting for hours while he decided which sunglasses to wear on the red carpet...Urs Flueeler/The Associated Press

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In the end, Schwartzman decided not to wear sunglasses at all and opted for his usual dead-eyed expression. That’s so RushmoreUrs Flueeler/The Associated Press

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