Paranoia strikes deep

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The Celebrity September 11 Conspiracy Club. It's an exclusive group that's free to join, but membership comes with some baggage.

Doesn't it?

Maybe not, judging from the entertainment world's passive response to celebrities who claim the September 11 attacks were an inside job.

First, the club's charter members: Rosie O'Donnell, Willie Nelson and Charlie Sheen.

Director Richard Linklater ("Slacker," "The School of Rock") isn't officially on board, but he was intrigued enough to send Washington Times reporter Kelly Jane Torrance some conspiracy videos.

Miss O'Donnell claims the collapse of the World Trade Center towers was "the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel ... it is physically impossible."

Popular Mechanics quickly refuted her expert account, saying the steel was weakened by the fire enough to hasten the collapse.

Mr. Nelson compared the falling Twin Towers to an implosion he witnessed in Las Vegas and said, "There's too much similarities between the two."

The latest member of the club is newly minted Oscar winner Marion Cotillard ("La Vie en Rose"). She told a television interviewer last year that the September 11 attacks were orchestrated to bring down two buildings that were too expensive to renovate. For good measure, she also questioned whether U.S. astronauts really walked on the moon in the 1960s.

Miss Cotillard, apparently, doesn't think this membership has its privileges. She and her press team issued a statement this week saying she was taken out of context. However, she also refused to apologize for her comments.