Notes From a Film Festival...

The film festival is alive and well here in Toronto, and since I am participating rather extensively, here are a few important news briefs NOT covered in the regular papers:

- Gwyneth Paltrow has 19 times her body weight in entourage.

- Nick Nolte is almost alive.

- Where is Steven Soderbergh?

- Entertainment journalists don't cure cancer, but 2 out of 3 behave like they do.

- Roger Ebert is officially melting.

- People are standing around for hours in crippling heat just to get a photo of some preening actor exiting a hotel. Now don't you feel more fulfilled about your own meaningless bullshit life?