Report From Toronto Film Festival: Paris hits town

In Joseph Conrad's immortal words, as hissed by Marlon Brando at the end of "Apocalypse, Now": "The horror."

Fear and trembling, Hunter Thompson style, may well descend on some of the more overwrought types covering this year's Toronto Film Festival.

Why?

So much is Toronto Hollywood North these days that Paris Hilton is in town. Yup. The least talented and most pointless and vulgar celebrity in the long history of Western Civilization is in town, according to the good, gray Toronto Globe and Mail.

According to the paper's Amy Verner, Hilton is in Toronto making a movie called "Repo!: The Genetic Opera," and is soaking up the reflected glory of the talented people who aren't her peers and never will be.

Meanwhile, the real business of the film festival -- you know, that cinematic excellence thing --is scheduled to start this very night.

The advance words on some movies: good on the Coen Brothers' "No Country for Old Men" and Brad Pitts' "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" and mixed on Julie Taymor's Beatles fantasia "Across the Universe" and "Lust, Caution" by Ang Lee.

--Jeff Simon

Comments

[BobbyCat]

Ok Jeff...so screw the flicks, who have you SEEN on the streets and in the theaters? Ya gotta name names. Did you spot any
A-listers. We can talk movies later.