This weekend marked the third time Pam Anderson wore white as she pledged to stick with the same guy until she drops dead, although it was probably the first time she made that promise with a fake wedding cake.

E! Online's Marc Malkin says the oddly optimistic bombshell's Las Vegas nuptials to Rick Salomon on Saturday night were so last minute that wedding planners at the Mirage Hotel & Casino were forced to make do with a cardboard four-tier confection after an edible one couldn't be located in time.

The macromastic bride, 40, shoehorned herself into a white Valentino minidress (in -- oy -- denim), while the groom, 38, best known for his unparalleled night-vision performance in Paris Hilton's sex tape and his brief stint as Mr. Shannen Doherty, donned a black suit and his most formal black skullcap.

OUR VIEW: Spitzer poll hits the pits

Well, that didn't take long.A new Siena College Research Institute poll of registered voters shows that Gov. Eliot Spitzer's job performance rating is virtually two-to-one negative and, for the first time ever, more voters now view him unfavorably than view him favorably. If the 2010 gubernatorial election were today, only 25 percent of voters are prepared to re-elect Eliot Spitzer, while 49 percent prefer someone else.It was just a year ago that the governor won election with 69 percent of the vote. But that was when Spitzer was perceived at something of a political superhero. As attorney general, he battled the bad guys on Wall Street and helped citizens with their consumer problems. During his honeymoon period the governor's positive rating went as high as 75 percent.The honeymoon is over.The Spitzer administration's involvement in using state police investigators to spy on the state Senate majority leader and his self-characterization as a "steamroller" when addressing the Assembly's top Republican started the governor's downhill slide.

AFI pays tribute to Linney, Deneuve

A number of other high-profile pics, including "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," "Margot at the Wedding," "Mr. Warmth" and "Southland Tales," will receive special presentations at the fest.

A total of seven pics will world preem, and 35 more will receive their North American or U.S. preems. In addition, at least 30 of the features in official selection will be represented by exhibitors at the American Film Market, unfolding concurrently from Oct. 31-Nov. 7.

There are 97 features and 51 shorts in this year's festival representing 37 countries. Fest features several competitions for international fare, a Latin showcase and a dark horizons section devoted to horror and experimental work.

Artistic director Rose Kuo said the event was "given tremendous support to take risks so that we could make bold selections" on experimental work and tackle hot-button political issues without "limiting ourselves to choosing films based on fulfilling preordained categories or achieving premiere 'quotas.'"

Among the world preems: "Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story," featuring John Waters and John Landis; docu "1000 Journals"; and "It's Better If Gabriela Doesn't Die."

"The Art of Negative Thinking," "Elvis Pelvis" and "Never Apologize" will receive their North American bows at the fest.

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Attorneys representing five Republican lawmakers have filed court documents asking the Iowa Supreme Court to overturn a Polk County judge, who struck down a state law banning same-sex marriage in August. The Alliance Defense Fund, an Arizona-based organization that defends religious liberty, filed a friend of the court brief Tuesday for Representatives Dwayne Alons, Carmine Boal and Betty DeBoef and Senators Nancy Boettger and James Hahn. The brief says Judge Robert Hanson abdicated his duty to be fair and neutral in considering a legal challenge to a 1998 state law filed by gay couples. This comes after petitions calling for the impeachme ...

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