Sideshow | Oprah's dad writing a tell-all

Seems even the most prescient of all media queens can be blindsided now and then. Queen of daytime TV and doyenne of the book-club-to-end-all-book-clubs,

Oprah

says she was "shocked" and "disappointed" to hear from the New York Daily News (and not the horse's mouth) that her father,

Vernon Winfrey

, is writing

Things Unspoken

, a tell-all book about her life. Oprah, 53, was at first amused - until Vernon told her he'd been compiling material for some time.

"I was upset," Oprah said to the News. "I won't say 'devastated,' but I was stunned."

Oprah, who says she's always been close to her father, left her mom's house in Milwaukee to live with him in Nashville when she became pregnant at 14. While she credits Vernon with teaching her discipline, he said his girl was "out of hand and an unruly child." (My, oh, my.)

The infamous celeb deconstruction machine Kitty Kelley is also angling for an Oprah tell-all.

. . . madness this week:

Angelina Jolie

was applauded in Cannes for her turn in

A Mighty Heart,

the

Brad Pitt

-produced film about the tragic death of Wall Street Journal reporter

Daniel Pearl

, who was murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in '02. Jolie, who played Pearl's wife,

Mariane

, was "haunted" by the role.

Jolie bore a great burden: "It was my responsibility to not just show the world" the very essence of the truly brave reporter and his family, "but also show" Daniel's son, Adam D. Pearl, "how much his mother loved his father and how much they loved each other."

At one point during the

Brangelina at Cannes Circus

, Brad chimed in about Brangelina's burdens and responsibilities: "It was our goal . . . to fight hatred."

Angelina told another group of reporters that the Pearl film, which was shot in India and Pakistan, has convinced her "to go to those areas and spend time with those people and look for great relationships across the world and look for different truths and try to understand deeper."

Jolie, 31, also went a few rounds with

Ann Curry

, telling the NBC on-air personality that she doesn't care if people mock her for being so outspoken.

"I'm gonna be dead one day," she said existentialistically, "and what people say about me is gonna be what I accomplished and what I did in my life," and not gossip, she said in the interview set to air today on both the Today show and Dateline NBC. Jolie said she's taking a break from movies to spend time with her kids and her charitable work. "I have a lot I want to do in this world," she said.

Like fighting hatred.

July Lyma

, the 63-year-old woman who changed her name to

Julie Sinatra

in 2000 because of her claim she is the love child of

Frank Sinatra

and

Dorothy Bonucelli

, repeats her claims - and shares her feelings - about being the Chairman's (alleged) illegitimate child with newsmagazine

The Insider

for an episode to air tonight. Julie's claims have not been accepted by Frank's estate.

Julie says proof she is Frank's girl is "all over my face" and claims she and Sinatra share the same rare skin condition.

She says she cannot do a DNA test because Sinatra's estate has barred his body from being exhumed.

"The pain is not having known him in the physical life," said Julie, who never met Frank.

Even smart geek types can make these pages: People mag says

Napoleon Dynamite

superhero

Jon Heder

and his wife,

Kirsten

, are, at this very moment, welcoming their first child,

Evan Jane Heder

. The girl, whose exact date of birth has been kept confidential, is "safe and sound and healthy," say the parents, who met at Brigham Young University and wed in '02.

The print media's frenzy over

Brangelina

was at its most frenzied over this uncanny factoid: Dressed in a black tux and with slicked-back hair, Brad looked

exactly

like

Robert Redford

- well, as the elder thesp looked in the '74 classic,

The Great Gatsby

. See, Gatsby also sported a tux (we all know how unique men look in tuxes)

and

slicked-back hair! (Imagine the odds.) What a crazy world.

American film master

Martin Scorsese

announced yesterday at Cannes the founding of the World Cinema Foundation, which will preserve and restore forgotten films. The dot.org is an int'l extension of the American film foundation that the director of

Taxi Driver

founded 16 years ago with

George Lucas

,

Steven Spielberg

and

Clint Eastwood

.

It's an uphill battle, the 64-year-old Oscar-winner said: "In America, we know that 90 percent of all silent films are now gone."

Barbarella

, the '68 swinger sci-fi

art-film

(read: quasi-porn fantasy) which first established

Jane Fonda

as a social critic, will be ground into an '08 remake by

Grindhouse

director

Robert Rodriguez

.

"I love this iconic character and all that she represents," said R.R. about the title character, a hot sexually liberated mercenary hot on the trail of her evil nemesis, Dr. Duran Duran. "I'm truly excited by the challenge of inviting a new audience into her universe."

Based on a French comic book, the original film was directed by Fonda's then-husband, Roger Vadim.

The obnoxious feud between the equally insufferable and pestiferous wealth & publicity whores

Donald Trump

and

Marc Cuban

continues apace. In an almost orgasmic post on his blog, the Dallas Mavericks owner celebrates the fact that The Donald's show,

The Apprentice

, has been quashed by NBC.

"I actually feel sorry for the guy," Cuban writes. The NBA loudmouth, whose own stab at reality fare, The Benefactor, crashed and burned long ago, says Trump is not a businessman but a pathetic "celebrity without a TV show." But he does end with some marvelous career advice: "They need a replacement for Rosie on The View." (Now, that would be cool.)

NBC News has cut its trusted, rugged

Dateline NBC

coanchor

Stone Phillips

as if he were so much sediment.

The Peacock, which is owned by General Electric, says the Stone-cutting is a form of cost-cutting: Phillips, whose contract expires in June, will not be replaced. Coanchor Ann Curry will have to go it alone.

NBC issued Stone's statement (convenient), which reads like a love letter. "It's been a wonderful 15 years," it reads. "This is a great news division with a bright future. I wish the people of NBC News all the best." Bright future, eh? Hm, what about my main man Stone's bleak future?