JOIN THE "TOUCH EXPERIENCE": LAUNCHING TOMORROW

The Touch Xperiment

With one week to go until its Premiere on Global Television, I am one of 125 Canadians who have been asked to help kick-off a Social Experiment launching a new Series named Touch starring Kiefer Sutherland.

The Drama explores hidden Human Connections through Science and Spirituality and sees Sutherland working to make a difference in people's lives due to Text Messages he receives on a lost Cell Phone. To celebrate and demonstrate the power of Individuals and how they can touch the lives of Others, the Experiment will be launching tomorrow.

There are three simple steps to the Experiment:

• Take a picture of a Person, Place or Thing that has touched your Life (big or small)

• Text the photo to Global (it will be uploaded to a Photo Gallery on GlobalTV.com)

• Pass it on to Someone – be it a Friend, Family Member, or Stranger on the street – and ask them to do the same 

I will be at Scotiabank Theatre (Richmond x John) at 6:15 PM tomorrow in the Lobby and will be passing on this Phone to the next person.  Don't be shy! Touch somebody.

$0.10 from each Photo taken will be donated to The Children's Wish Foundation, so let's get it out there! Touch premieres on Global Television, Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 9:00 PM EST.

Keep track of the Touch Experience on Twitter with the Hashtag #GlobalTouch.

(Photo credit: Global Television/Mr. Will-W.)

KIEFER SUTHERLAND AT TIFF FOR "MELANCHOLIA"

Kiefer Sutherland in Toronto - September 2011

Occasionally, I receive Reader requests and Kiefer Sutherland is a name who comes up.  The Canadian Actor was spotted out and about doing Press earlier, before hitting the Red Carpet of Lars von Trier's Melancholia at Ryerson Theatre starring Kirsten Dunst and Alexander Skarsgård . Although in a rush, he was friendly to throw over a wave.  Enjoy!

(Photo credit: Mr. Will-W.)

KIEFER SUTHERLAND SPOTTED IN TORONTO

Kiefer Sutherland & Mr. Will-W.

Although I only met him a year ago to this day, coincidentally I ran into Kiefer Sutherland a second time tonight on his way into Toronto. It is said that Sutherland is in-town visiting his ailing Mother, Shirley.  The Actor who has found some success with his Web Series The Confession of late, just may be seen at TIFF 2011 this September with Lars von Trier's acclaimed new Film Melancholia.  The Science-Fiction Drama saw Kirsten Dunst get awarded Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival this past May.

Hurrying off to his Vehicle, a fit looking Sutherland stopped quickly to greet Fans before he head onto the Movator.  Just as kind-spirited as the way I remember him from the last time we crossed paths.

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"THE TREE OF LIFE" AND KIRSTEN DUNST WIN BIG AT CANNES

Still from The Tree of Life

Congratulations to Terence Malick for his victory at the Cannes Film Festival.  The shy Director's Feature The Tree of Life just received the coveted Palme d'Or Award for Best Feature; he was not on-hand to accept the Award.  Despite some "boos" having been heard at its Premiere in Cannes last week, it turns out that the Drama starring Sean Penn and Brad Pitt is a Critical Darling after all.  The Film gets a Canadian release on June 10, 2011.

In a surprising turn of events, Kirsten Dunst was awarded Best Actress for her work in Lars von Trier's Melancholia.  The Dancer in the Dark Director known best for tortured Heroines in his Films, recently generated a bit of controversy when he made some Anti-Semetic remarks he made, getting him banned from the Festival. Melancholia is a Sci-Fi Piece about two Sisters whose relationship is compromised as another Planet threatens to collide with Earth.

Melancholia is due in theatres November 4, 2011 and also stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland and Alexander Skarsgård.  The Film is garnering some controversy as Dunst appears fully nude for the first time ever in it after having publicly gone on the record to say that Pedro Almodóvar is the only Director for whom she would remove her clothing.  Expect this one to do the Festival rounds including a possible TIFF stopoff this September.

(Photo credit: Fox Searchlight)

GREG KINNEAR ON THE SET OF THE KENNEDYS IN TORONTO

Hallelujah!  The History Channel mini-series The Kennedys, based of course on one of America's favourite families, has been filming in and around Greater Toronto for the past two months and it has finally set-up shop in Toronto.  Believe me, I've been waiting for this moment for a long time.

The series, directed by Canadian Jon Cassar, who most notably brought us Kiefer Sutherland's career-resurrecting 24, can be expected to surface some time next year; it only recently reached the half-way point in production.  

Most of the buzz surrounding the series has centered around the woman playing Jackie Onassis - Katie Holmes, who has sparked some fierce competition among Paparazzi to get that elusive photo of her and daughter Suri together, on and off set.  And if they're lucky, throw in a photo with or of husband Tom Cruise too, as he's been seen in an around town between breaks in his schedule.

For me today's filming location was very close to home, just minutes from where I normally walk my dog Billy, and I clued into this after reading Cassar's Tweet this morning: "We are on location today just a 10 minute walk from where I'm living.  That never happens."  I can assume too that Cassar is living very close to me also right now also perhaps?

KIEFER SUTHERLAND OUT AND ABOUT IN TORONTO | AUTOGRAPH GIVEAWAY

Nothing brightens my day like a nice Celebrity.  I caught Kiefer Sutherland on his way to lunch with a blonde, curvacious female companion twin sister Rachel in Yorkville and he is surprisingly amazingly nice despite what I've read in Tabloids.

The Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor told me he's enjoying his free time of late with no attached projects right now.  And what's great about Sutherland is that genuinely he wanted to have a conversation, asking me how my day was going.  Just the way us Canadian Boys are raised to be.  He then went on to tell me that he flew in only to spend time with friends and family and he had a very late night out Friday, drinking-it-up at a Patio in Little Italy with two female friends according to sighting reports on Twitter.

Despite his critical and commercial success, even aside from 24, Sutherland is incredibly down-to-earth, choosing to walk by foot and hailing his own Taxis in a city laden with Celebrities tucked-away in Escalades.  I asked him to sign a couple autographs including one for my readers and of course he was totally into the idea.  I'm giving away one signed 5x7 promotional photo of Sutherland as Jack Bauer, inscribed "All My Best, Kiefer Sutherland".  You know you want it.