TIFF 07: Stevie's Blog

I have to admit that when you spend 2 weeks being in the midst of directors, actors and industry people, you kind of forget that there is a world outside of it all. But every now and then something so surreal happens that you have to just take a step back and enjoy the fact that you're in film festival land.

May I present some oddities that I've experienced in the past few days:

- Bumping into actor / director Gael Garcia Bernal ("Y Tu Mama Tambien", "The Motorcycle Diaries") en route to the bathroom of the Metropolitan Hotel and saying "hi" to him like I knew him (well, I know him... but only through his films, so therefore I was a total loser for forgetting our non-existant relationship).

Funnily enough, when I sat down for my meal, I saw that he kept on looking over to figure out if we did indeed know each other.  

- Watching Michael Cera ("Superbad") completely surrounded by a group of teenage girls who gave him their best flirt forward after the Juno press conference. Funnily enough, he looked totally horrified by the attention.

- Director Gus Van Sant sitting two rows in front of me watching the musical Across The Universe by himself. Fans would go up to him and say how much they loved his work, but he too looked weirded out by the attention.

Finally, I leave you with a little blind item:

Which major independant studio boss/player, notorious for being a hard edged negotiator/bully, was overheard sitting on the toilet shouting into the phone saying, "Steve, f**k you for talking to me like that"?

I was the only one in the bathroom when I heard it and thought he was saying it to me! Needless to say, I ran out pretty quickly!

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Posted by Stevie on September 10, 2007 11:23:00 AM EDT #