Great news. I've just heard back that my TIFF 2009 photos and coverage helped bring in some record numbers for CP24! To all my new friends who discovered this blog through CP24, thank you all for helping make this happen. I hope that you'll stick around for more goodies after the festival has ended, so please Bookmark my blog and visit often.
It was also a great pleasure to receive a congratulatory e-mail on this blog from Lainey Lui at Lainey Gossip today. What an honour, as I have great respect for the work she does!
Now without furthera due ado, here are my absolute bests and worsts of this year's festival.
It was also a great pleasure to receive a congratulatory e-mail on this blog from Lainey Lui at Lainey Gossip today. What an honour, as I have great respect for the work she does!
Now without further
Most Gratuitous Male Celebrities:
1) George Clooney
2) Matt Damon
3) Nicolas Cage
4) Colin Farrell
5) Colin Firth
Most Gratuitous Female Celebrities:
1) Drew Barrymore
2) Megan Fox
3) Jennifer Garner
4) Emily Blunt
5) Amanda Seyfried
Most Impossible Celebrities To Stalk:
1) Oprah Winfrey
2) Mariah Carey
3) Natalie Portman
4) Ellen Page
5) Ashton Kutcher & Demi Moore
The Even Hotter In Person Shortlist:1) Megan Fox
2) Emily Blunt
3) Rob Lowe
4) Tom Ford
5) Robin Wright Penn
Top 10 TIFF Films:1) Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
2) An Education
3) Whip It
4) Precious: Based On The Novel "Push" By Sapphire
5) Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
6) Up In The Air
7) London River
8) Mother & Child
9) The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
10) The Informant!
Five Most Memorable Moments:1) The most star-studded red carpet ever for Precious: Based On The Novel "Push" By Sapphire. Stars included: Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, Gayle King, Lee Daniels, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige, Robin Thicke, Gabby Sidibe, Paula Patton, Robert DeNiro, Sheri Shepherd....
2) Megan Fox drawing record size media turnout to red carpet at Jennifer's Body premiere
3) Two words: George Clooney
4) Drew Barrymore's week-long pimp-a-thon to promote Whip It.
5) Hugh Hefner's arrival in Toronto with Bunnies in tow.
Biggest Disappointments:
1) Roy Thompson Hall's new red carpet formation, making it near impossible for fans to interact with stars.
2) Johnny Depp's noticeable absence.
3) Precious cast's lack of interaction with fans on red carpet.
4) Penelope Cruz arriving very late to gala for Broken Embraces and fans getting shut out of a chance to see her.
5) Drew Barrymore's hair (!!!)
Special Acknowledgment:
Finally, I'd like to give kudos to TIFF for listening to our feedback this year for reduced ticket pricing for second day screenings of galas at Elgin Theatre. It makes little sense to charge moviegoers $40 for second day screenings of movies which often the stars don't even show up to. The new $21 price point is much more reasonable. TIFF also better ensured that the more popular titles were screened at appropriate-sized venues. I had little difficulty getting into the films I wanted to most this year. Cheers to that!
Finally, I'd like to give kudos to TIFF for listening to our feedback this year for reduced ticket pricing for second day screenings of galas at Elgin Theatre. It makes little sense to charge moviegoers $40 for second day screenings of movies which often the stars don't even show up to. The new $21 price point is much more reasonable. TIFF also better ensured that the more popular titles were screened at appropriate-sized venues. I had little difficulty getting into the films I wanted to most this year. Cheers to that!
If you'd like to go through my TIFF 2009 Gallery, you're welcome to click here for more photos.
xW
(Photo credit: Mr. Will-W.)
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