Sideshow | Topping Spielberg's list: Hillary

In a momentous move the magnitude of which is hard to overestimate, Hollywood megamogul

Steven Spielberg

has endorsed

Hillary Clinton

's presidential bid - thus throwing a cruel vibe

Barack Obama

's way.

"I've taken the time to familiarize myself with the impressive field of Democratic candidates and am convinced that Hillary Clinton is the most qualified candidate," the E.T. creator said.

But there's dissent in Spielbergia: The director's DreamWorks partners David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg both back Obama.

As thousands of paparazzi shots testify, he seems most comfortable shirtless, a bit sweaty from some manly exercise he and a male friend (various buds have been pictured) have bonded over. Seems this is precisely the sort of man readers of People crave: The mag has named topless male icon

Matthew McConaughey

the 2007 Bachelor of the Year. Speaking to People for an exclusive! chat about his life, his dreams and especially his dream woman, Matthew says, "What I look for in a woman is what I love to call the 'two H's' - hotness and humor."

Asked whether Matthew was a smooth mover in high school, his ma, Kay McConaughey, was blunt: "Those girls liked his butt."

Madonna

is trying her hand at hubby

Guy Ritchie

's trade: She's directing a movie starring Brit

Richard E. Grant

and the Russian gypsy-punk-rocker

Eugene Hutz

. And trying badly, says London's Daily Mail, which claims Madge's cine-incompetence and arrogant diva behavior have made her a nightmare to work for. Things are so ugly, the crew is about to mutiny.

The flick has the pretentious title Filth and Wisdom. It's probably one of those neo-Jean Genet/Pier Paolo Pasolini message movies about how sexuo-narcotic degradation is a transgressive experience of the Abyssal Nothingness beyond the tyranny of logic and the insanity of sanity, which will enlighten as much as any religious experience. (Or is it a sequel to Julien Temple's Sex Pistols docu The Filth and the Fury?)

Madge's last film, '02's Guy-directed Swept Away, was a ripe old turkey.

The Evening Standard says that

Victoria

Beckham

was fuming when airport security in L.A. forced her to take off her

Christian Louboutin

stilettos for an airport check before she was allowed onto her New York-bound flight.

Perhaps she was still aflutter with fear&loathing over news that NBC has truncated the six-episode reality series about the Beckhams that was announced in February, to the (paltry) one-hour special Victoria Beckham: Coming to America, set for July 16.

An L.A. Sheriff's rep yesterday said that

Paris Hilton

, who has undergone medical and psychiatric tests at a correctional department medical facility, has a clean bill of health and her condition has been declared stable. He said the celebutante had been returned to the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood, Calif., where she is to stay until her June 25 release date.