“oh by the way this is my book that I’m writing in real time. No publisher or publicist will tell me what to put where or how many pages to write. This is not a financial opportunity this is an innate need to be expressive.”

I told you the other day that Kanye West was back on Twitter after nearly a year away. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey even welcomed him back. But things have gone south since then with Kanye spewing “philosophy” and posting at the manic rate right before his 2017 departure. Is he brilliant? (Yes, in a way.) But is he having a manic episode? So far he’s running at 10 Tweets a day, mostly aphoristic one liners.

You do learn a little of how his mind works. Take sampling, a rapper’s main shtick. Kanye writes: too much emphasis is put on originality. Feel free to take ideas and update them at your will all great artist take and update…

And there are several references about being lied to, and the value of truth. truth is my goal. Controversy is my gym. I’ll do a hundred reps of controversy for a 6 pack of truth

When Kanye left Twitter last year, it was just as he’d finished several barrages of narrative, attacks, and observations. Since then we haven’t heard much from him. At one point earlier this year he was rumored to have gone to a retreat in the mountains to work on a new album.

It’s not like there’s no reaction at home. Kim Kardashian, his wife and mother of his children, had this exchange with John Legend’s wife, Chrissie Teigen, also on Twitter:

to be continued…

The Form 990 is in for the Jett Travolta Foundation for 2016. The only donor to the foundation that year was Ellen DeGeneres’s WAD Productions in the amount of $10,000. No one else gave money to the Jett Travolta Foundation including John Travolta. The foundation itself gave away $47,905 to other charities including two involving Scientology.

Jett was the 16 year old autistic son of John Travolta and Kelly Preston. He died after suffering a seizure and hitting his head on New Year’s 2009 at the Travolta’s Grand Bahama Island home.  For his whole life the Travolta’s insisted he suffered from Kawasaki Syndrome. In fact, as Travolta admitted when the police arrived after Jett’s death, was autistic. Scientology doesn’t believe in psychiatry or treatment of mental illness.

Travolta didn’t donate to his the foundation named for his son in 2015, either. That year Jett Travolta Foundation received two contributions: $100,000 from Muhammad Ali’s Celebrity Fight Night, and $50,000 from the LPGA in nearby Florida.

As for Ellen Degeneres’s donation, there’s no particular reason why the talk show host wrote the check other than to honor Jett’s memory. Travolta, Preston and daughter Ella did make a rare appearance together on “Ellen” on April 5, 2016.

The Festival du Cannes is all about movies– and parties.

And while the movies are lining up nicely, the party schedule will suffer this year– especially up at the Hotel du Cap and Eden Roc restaurant.

Obviously gone is Harvey Weinstein, but with him are not only his own company’s parties but a couple of others as well.

Weinstein was the straw that stirred the drink in Cannes social life for the last 20 years. His movie company would host one, two, or sometimes three of the hottest invites. There was always a kind of general party for stars, distributors, and beautiful people at which Harvey would run a showcase of clips of upcoming films.  These gatherings were legendary and often set the tone for the upcoming Oscar season.

Weinstein was also the central guest of honor every year at Charles Finch’s annual “Filmmakers Party” at the Eden Roc, where everyone from Mick Jagger to Edward Norton, famous directors and bevvies of beauties would hob nob all night. But Finch– a PR man who’s the son of the late British actor Peter Finch– has cancelled the soiree this year. There’s no Harvey, and there’s no Jagger since the Rolling Stones will be rehearsing for a short British-European tour of stadiums that begins May 17th in Dublin.

Johnny Pigozzi, heir to the Simca automobile fortune, also gives an afternoon party at his villa next to the Hotel duCap, featuring Jagger. He may have to get someone who moves like Jagger instead.

Weinstein’s absence will also be tied to the annual amFAR dinner at the Eden Roc, which this year should be quite the calamity without its perpetual host and celebrity wrangler, not to mention absent a good deal of its board and chairman, Kenneth Cole. Between controversies over Weinstein and Cole’s handling of a donation last year, not to mention a huge amount of internal squabbling, plus their continued snubbing of Sharon Stone, amFAR in Cannes won’t be the usual pageant of sycophancy as in the past.

Finally, Vanity Fair is skipping its annual gala at the Eden Roc. Graydon Carter is gone, and so are the VF parties. They’ve already gotten rid of their Tribeca Film Festival gathering at the Customs House in downtown New York. Plus the get together after the White House Correspondents Dinner is over with the arrival of Trump. VF had been alternating years for Cannes, and gave a party last year.