Hey folks, Harry here with the beginning of a madcap Toronto week to be... If you are in Toronto - send in reports - help find those that need to be found and cry out to be discovered and trashed. The good, the bad and the ugly of Toronto. I'm very much looking forward to the insanity and the cool of another Toronto. And if I could just find a tent filled with silk pillows and Anton Sirius' YOWSA category... I'd die a happy man!
Star-Watchers Guide for Toronto 2003
Sorry this is a day late, starkinder, but I think you'll forgive me when you find out what I've been up to -- aside from watching Copernicus lose his shirt at poker, that is...
There don't seem to be as many big, huge, honkin' movie stars attending the fest this year. Or maybe my definition of movie star needs some updating in a world where Rachel Weisz is apparently above-the-title talent. What there is, however, is an awful lot of living legends.
We're Not Worthy!: Robert Altman; Jack Black; Francis Ford Coppola; Peter Greenaway; Anthony Hopkins; Ian McKellan; Ridley Scott; Omar Sharif; Neil Young
A-List: Nicolas Cage; Ed Harris; Nicole Kidman; William H. Macy; Liam Neeson; Sean Penn; Meg Ryan; Denzel Washington
Yowsa: Kate Beckinsale; Cate Blachett; Gina Gershon; Maggie Gyllenhaal; Katie Holmes; Scarlett Johansson; Milla Jovovich; Virginie Ledoyen; Laura Linney; Kelly Macdonald; Franka Potente; Christina Ricci; Isabella Rosellini; Chloe Sevigny; Jennifer Tilly; Naomi Watts
Other Hunks: Scott Caan; Benicio del Toro; Robert Downey Jr.; Val Kilmer; Dylan McDermott; Barry Pepper; Bill Pullman; Sam Rockwell; Gary Sinese; Scott Speedman
Too Cool: Jane Campion; Toni Collette; Sofia Coppola; James Cox; Richard Curtis; Joan Cusack; Ileana Douglas; Stephen Fry; Vincent Gallo; Adam Goldberg; Keith Gordon; Jennifer Jason Leigh; Guy Maddin; Malcolm McDowell; Mark McKinney; Rita Moreno; Errol Morris; Tim Blake Nelson; Oliver Platt; Parker Posey; Mark Ruffalo; John Sayles; Lily Taylor; Gus Van Sant
Aside from the Coppola family reunion (if only Jason Schwartzman and Talia Shire could make it... I guess Roman could tag along too) the big story is who I already have interviews lined up with:
- genius actress Toni Collette, here with Japanese Story, and whose performance in the Sixth Sense still ranks as one of the best of the last decade as far as I'm concerned.
- docu-auteur Errol Morris. The Thin Blue Line, A Brief History of Time, Mr. Death, and now Fog of War, a portrait of Cold Warrior Robert McNamera. He's merely one of (if not the) best documentary filmmaker working today.
- and, oh year, freakin' DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, Omar Sharif, starring in Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran. We are not worthy indeed.
If you've got any questions for any of those folks, feel free to pass them along.
Jack Black is of course the Holy Grail of this fest interview-wise, but it doesn't look like Paramount's scheduling one-on-one interviews, preferring the big media scrums. I guess they figure unleashing Jack on just one reporter at a time is too risky.
