You Talkin' to Moi?

Robert De Niro is still fuming over his run-in with a French judge after the actor's name was found in an address book seized in a prostitution-ring inquiry. "I never paid for a woman in my life," De Niro told the newspaper Le Monde, adding that he would never return to France and would tell his friends to stay away, too. He also said he would boycott the Cannes Film Festival and send back the Legion of Honor (one of France's highest civilian decorations) that he was awarded at last year's festival. Later, on a French TV talk show, De Niro changed his tune, saying he would indeed return to France this fall for an exhibition of his late father's paintings. The actor has been a star in that country since 1976, when his film "Taxi Driver" won honors at Cannes.