NOTEBOOK-Paps boo Pam, Polanski boos press in Cannes

CANNES, France (Reuters) - The 60th Cannes Film Festival is underway and the on- and off-screen action is in full swing. Following are some snippets of news and views from along the palm-lined Croisette beachfront.

SNAPPERS SNAP AT PAM

Photographers got their own back on U.S. television star Pamela Anderson, who kept them waiting for more than an hour at a photo opportunity to promote her latest movie "Blonde and Blonder" and then only stayed two minutes to be snapped.

The photographers booed her as she left.

She obviously did not warn starlet Jessica Simpson about the mood of the media along the Croisette. The 26-year-old, in town to promote the yet-to-be-shot "Major Movie Star", was 90 minutes late for an evening event. This time the press was more polite.

POLANSKI PEEVED

Director Roman Polanski walked out of a news conference on Sunday, blaming roughly 200 reporters from around the globe for failing to ask questions that probed deeply the segments of "Chacun son Cinema" ("To Each His Own Cinema").

In the movie, some 35 directors -- most of whom were at the conference -- offered short films about their love of cinema. Polanski, 73, the director of movies including "Rosemary's Baby" and his Oscar winner "The Pianist", made one segment that dealt with sex in the cinema.

Near the end of the roughly one-hour conference, Polanski said reporters failed to provide readers with in-depth analysis of film because they spent too much time behind their computers.