Greetings hors, and welcome to Monday's Open Post and The Peckerwood Book Club - combined! Can you believe? We can do that, you know. It's allowed.  Meanwhile, take note, in 2026, there are over a dozen active celebrity book clubs and counting, everything from Oprah's long-reigning club to Natalie's Book Club curated by Natalie Portman to TeamTime hosted by Dakota Johnson to Service95 run by DuaLipa . That's a lot of recommendations and a lot of books. Do you take their recommendations seriously? Or are you like Jonathan Franzen, who refused to have his book included as a 2001 Oprah Book Club pick because he found her selections overall to be "schmaltzy" and "one dimensional"? They reconciled a decade later, but the point was made. Book club celebs aren't universally loved, and they aren't always the best pickers. The latter point was made by Oprah (again) when she selected Jeanine Cummins' 2020 novel "American Dirt" as ...

Source: Daniele Venturelli/WireImage Here's Natalie Portman at the Eddington premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this Friday. As the face of Dior, the star was wearing a re-imagined version of the brand's Mexique gown from their Fall 1951 haute couture collection. She paired it with a necklace from Tiffany & Co. What do you think of this lewk, Peckers? I think it suits Portman perfectly and is an elegant, classic design. Here's a photo of the original gown from 1951: Source: Red Carpet Fashion Awards