• Remembering Kubrick as a 'demented perfectionist'
• Brokaw warns college grads of technology's 'ugly scar';
  Cosby tells 'em to clean their rooms
• Catherine Zeta-Jones rates Sean Connery's kiss
• Leading composers pay tribute to Linda McCartney
• Ronald Reagan's daughter communicates with dad without words

Kubrick

(CNN) -- The late director Stanley Kubrick once described himself as a "demented perfectionist." It was just that character that led to many offbeat tales at a Directors Guild of America tribute to Kubrick on Sunday.

The audience included Jack Nicholson, Steven Spielberg and Warren Beatty.

Warner Bros. co-chairman Terry Semel talked about the "hundreds and hundreds of phone calls and thousands of faxes" Kubrick sent him during their 30 years together. "I guess you could say he was unrelenting."

His colleagues knew where Semel was coming from, especially Spielberg. He recalled how Kubrick loved new technology. He would fax Spielberg in the middle of the night to praise a new camera, microphone or some other gadget. The incessant ringing annoyed Spielberg's wife Kate Capshaw so much, she made her husband move the machine to the den.

"His eccentricities were the ones of an artist protecting his vision," said film critic Richard Schikel. They seemed to work for Kubrick. He gave the world "2001: A Space Odyssey," "Dr. Strangelove" and "A Clockwork Orange," among other significant works.

Kubrick died in March at age 70. "Most of us were so shocked by his death because we figured if anyone had it wired to live to 110 or 125, it was Stanley," Beatty said.

Brokaw

(CNN) -- NBC anchor Tom Brokaw told graduates of the College of Santa Fe, New Mexico to be wary of technology at their commencement on Saturday. He remarked that technology has let people down and left an "ugly scar on the face of history."

"An ideology designed to empower the masses became one of the most ruthless instruments of oppression," according to Brokaw. "It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough."

Comedian Bill Cosby took a less serious tone at Colgate University graduation in Hamilton, New York. Wearing sneakers, warm-up pants and a sweatshirt under his gown, he advised graduates to tidy up.

"Your rooms are as filthy today as they were when you graduated from high school. And we want them cleaned up," Cosby said.

He didn't attempt to ease them into the real world. "You're out of here," Cosby said. "You can't sit around anymore. (Get a) J.O.B."

Zeta-Jones

CANNES, France (CNN) -- Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones says Sean Connery's kisses are off the charts. "On a scale of one to 10, I'd rate him 11 plus," she raves. The two lock lips in their latest film "Entrapment."

The 68-year-old Connery is equally complimentary of the younger Zeta-Jones. When asked what it was like kissing so many gorgeous women in his career, Connery replied, "It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it. And Catherine's a great kisser."

McCartney

LONDON (CNN) -- Eight British classical composers are planning a tribute concert in memory of Linda McCartney, wife of former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney. She died of cancer in April at age 56.

The charity concert, entitled "A Garland for Linda," is to comprise original works. It's scheduled to premiere in Britain on July 18 and move to New York on December 4. Her husband, John Tavener and Sir Richard Rodney Bennett are among the composers taking part.

Reagan

GLENDALE, California (CNN) -- Ronald Reagan's daughter Patti Davis says she's learned how to communicate with her father without talking.

The 88-year-old former United States President has Alzheimer's disease, which causes a loss of memory and language skills.

"I found that if I accept that this is the reality that has happened to us-- this is my father's exit from this wold -- that I'm just content to be with him and sometimes in total silence, looking at a picture book or a book of photographs," Davis said in Sunday's Daily News of Los Angeles.

She made the remarks at a women's health forum on the effects of Alzheimer's last weekend. Davis told the attendees she tried to make amends with her father, after he was diagnosed with the disease.

"I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever ... childhood wounds were left," Davis recounted.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.