Religulous bill maher’s say it’s festival

My voice is still a bit shaky, PopWatchers, and my sleep schedule
remains all kinds of wackadoodle, but at least the remnants of Gustav
have finally (hopefully) pushed beyond the Ontario borders. That’s
right, the sun is shining bright on the Toronto International Film
Festival, which means I can at long last vlog outdoors! (Ooo. That
just sounds vaguely untoward, huh? It’s not, I promise.) So click on
to hear more about why I had to walk out of (starring Ben Kingsley and
21’s Jim Sturgess), what surprised Kevin Smith the most about Toronto,
what may be an advance look at a Religulous DVD extra courtesy Bill
Maher, and what some native Torontonians had to say about the film
festival that’s called their city home for over 30 years.

As a Torontonian who has been attending the festival for the last 8
years, I’d say that it definitely has changed. More star seekers, more
corporate and more expensive. But it’s still my favourite part of the
fall.

As to the celebrity question…I can’t imagine a case where I’d accost
someone on the street or stake out a hotel, but at the screenings
themselves I definitely grab my camera and take a picture or two.

First, let me comment on the obscene number of empty sponsor seats at
The Duchess gala premiere last night. What a waste. Dozens of people
would have loved to fill them. Secondly, I saw Religilous today and
LOVED IT! I haven’t laughed that hard in a while. (Wanted to post on
Bill Maher’s site but there’s nowhere to do that). Thank goodness for
people like Bill Maher who try to shake some common sense into the
general public and for exposing the ridiculousness of the belief
system. And it IS a system. Nice work, Bill!

Oh, Adam, Adam… Please learn fast because those vlogs are getting
hopeless. There’s potential, but most of us could probably get better
production value sitting at home filming ourselves with a cell phone.

If he did indeed give money to Obummer becase of a speech that the
next Vice President of the United States made, I have to ask if Billie
boy has a brain?

Isn’t it more scary that Obummer is as close to a Socialist that has
ever been running for president? Does he care that Obummer has Zero
experience (other than mimicking his preacher… oh yea that’s fine)
and changes his words (right in your face to Billy boy) to get the
vote?

Bill, I used to think you were funny and sharp. You blew it. I hope
that everyone boycotts your movie in October of this year. Since you
go with the buck, perhaps that will scare you more.

I couldn’t drag myself out of a Jim Sturgess movie if he was speaking
Klingon! Dude, REALLY.

The festival here in Toronto has definitely gotten a little out of
hand, but I think it’s chugging along at par with the rest of North
America’s celeb-obsessed culture, so it’s not really a surprise. It
was odd going to the see The Wrestler last night with tonnes of fans
lined up across the street, most likely with no clue about what they
were waiting for!

Yeah, I would probably check out all the celebrity happenings. But I
would also plan to go out and eat at a nearby restaurant, just to have
a legitimate excuse to be there.

My God! Is there any way you could possibly make watching these
“vlogs” any more boring!? Zero personality + nothing meaningful to say
= SNORE

ya need to hang out with more foreign english speakers to get to
understand them, I’m Irish and I live in Toronto and I hope people
understand me. I do find a big change here in TO with all the fuss, I
am a movie fanatic and it’s getting insane, I wouldn’t rush up to the
‘talent’ but thats just me, but the whole planet is celeb obsessive
now! I still wanna see the smaller movies, as I can see the
‘hollywood’ ones in a few weeks. I saw ‘Slum Dog Millionaire’ last
night and it was fantastic! best movie so far!

As an almost-native Torontian (I grew up in Mississauga, the city
immediately to Toronto’s west), and as one who had volunteered at the
festival for a few years, I can honestly say that, while I was
starstruck, I never approached any stars because I didn’t want to
bother them. That doesn’t mean I didn’t have any encounters, of course
–Emily Watson smiled at me, I was Farrah Fawcett’s seat holder, and
Brain de Palma even yelled at me–but I never initiated contact. The
only time I ever did that was with Ally Sheedy, and that’s because it
was my job at the time.

Bad Adam! That Word is officially verboten. Okay, let’s make a
deal…you don’t say That Word and I will stop using “verboten”. LOL

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I’m reading burn in religulous movie

• (Burn After Reading). She canceled reservations in one hotel
she considered too close to him and relocated to premises further
away. Aniston’s privacy was also protected by her main PR man Stephen
Huvane, who spread his jacket in front of her to block any underwear
shots during her limo exit.

• The premiere of Burn After Reading turned the normally cool
Toronto crowd into a blazing mob of young girls hot for Pitt, who
signed autographs on any material offered. The Bradulation overwhelmed
costar, who felt compelled to apologize to the crowd: “I’m sorry I’m
not Brad!”

• MIA from the Burn After Reading screamathon was Pitt BFF , in
Milan filming a Japanese commerical for Honda.

• to escort her, Hathaway was ushered down the red carpet by her
mom and dad. “OK,” she admitted, “I’m adorkable.”

• “I’m a guy’s girl and a girl’s girl,” said Elizabeth Banks
(Zack and Miri Make a Porno), who went all out for director Kevin
Smith. Although she thought one controversial MPAA-offending scene
went “too far,” she said after seeing the finished movie that she
changed her mind. “It’s such a great moment, a moment where we really
push it, and why not?”

• A small and polite group of local protesters—who may have
been part of a publicity stunt or just your typical low-key
Canadians—were trying to save the soul of and damn his religion-
mocking film, Religulous. Asked whether the sign-carrying marchers
(“Pray for Bill,” “Hate + Fear = Religulous”) were employed by Maher,
the comic only denied the handwriting was his, saying the
demonstrators “wouldn’t have been so lame if I’d hired them.” Writer-
director Larry Charles, who as a producer of Seinfeld and Curb Your
Enthusiasm made an art out of nothing, found nothing nice to say about
Sarah Palin. Palin’s desire to have creationism taught in school with
evolution is, Charles quipped, “like teaching magic and chemistry
together.”

• , Alicia Keys andSophie Okonedo were in town to amp up the buzz
for their Civil Rights story, The Secret Life of Bees. Latifah said
she’s brave enough to “drive in a car 200 miles an hour,” ride a
motorcycle “or put me on a roof five floors up. But you put me in with
bees, I’m shivering. It was kind of scary.” Latifah also noted how
Barack Obama came campaigning near their set in North Carolina and
“suddenly the world changed.”

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That seems to be the theme at the , which is noticeably lightening up
a year after having a slate dominated by dour Iraq-war movies.

“If you look back at the great years of comedy, like the 1930s,
Americans were having a hard time then with an economic crisis and
war. But people do what they can to laugh,” says Cameron Bailey,
codirector of the fest, whose 33rd edition launhes Thursday and runs
through Sept. 13.

Major yuks are expected from Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno,
starring Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks, as well as theCoen brothers’
spy caper Burn After Reading, with ).

As the world’s largest public film festival, this year’s blowout will
draw over 500 movie stars, screen 312 films from 64 countries and sell
about 350,000 tickets to the city’s mass of cinema-crazed denziens.

Among the other gala presentations: Norton and Farrell’s cop face-off
Pride and Glory; the friendship-after-war film The Lucky Ones with
McAdams and Robbins; Knightley’s latest costume drama, The Duchess;
Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq-war film (you can’t have a film festival
without one) Hurt Locker, with and Alicia Keys.

While more countries represented at TIFF ’08—including a first-
time entry from the Bahamas—the number of films has shrunk by 40
from last year’s total.

The reason for fewer films? According to Bailey, smaller films were
being ignored in the rush to see the big commercial releases.

“We’re a global film festival,” he says, “and ensuring all kinds of
films are given due attention is a good and healthy sign that shows
our depth of reach and diversity.”

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