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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Toronto date for Polanski's Twist:
Roman Polanski's take on the Charles Dickens classic Oliver Twist is to receive its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.
This fugitive rapist is still awaiting sentencing in California for his rape of a 13 year old girl. Will the Toronto Festival crowd hold him to account for his criminality or fete him in absentia?
Plague City: SARS In Toronto: (Warning-Suppression Of Gag Reflex May Be Required)
"Condemned by the world, a city faces tragedy in Plague City: SARS in Toronto. Medical thriller humanizes the struggle of heroic health care workers during SARS crisis"
Saving the world or at least saving the civilized sections south of Hogg's Hollow is the weighty subject of this exercise in weird self-congratulation.
CTV.ca | Jewison takes swipe at celebrity culture:"We're all being suffocated. I can't believe that people are obsessed like they are now with celebrity. I don't know what's going on.''Half the movie stars today under the age of 30, I don't even know,'' he said."It's all a hype. Come on. How do you know whether anybody can act? You're told that they're a big star, you know, or somebody's got a cute ass or they've got great boobs."I can't buy it. I think we're living in age of such manipulation.''
If only the Great Director had spoken out before the onset of the era of thespian masters like Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie and Alex (Exile) Baldwin.
The National Review has a few insights from A. Breitbart to offer regarding the present state of commercial narcissism.
NRO: I'll leave Harry and his swastika to the Brits, but what is up with the "Fidel Fetishists," as you put it in Hollywood Interrupted? Robert Redford, Spike Lee, Robert DeNiro, Christopher Walken, Sidney Pollak, Woody Harrelson, Johnny Depp, Francis Ford Copppla, Danny Glover, Ed Asner, Shirley MacLaine, Alanis Morissette, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kevin Costner, Oliver Stone, and Steven Spielberg — to name some names — have all gone down to hang with and pay homage to Uncle Fidel. What is the attraction? (And, oh, by the way: Wouldn't you understand a little something about the evils of tyranny from making Schindler's List?)
Breitbart: Mucho elitism mixed con grande groupthink.Hollywood royalty wishes to maintain an adversarial relationship with its fan base. Many stars sought fame and fortune to escape their bourgeois upbringings. By fetishizing the poor and oppressed, and in honoring Fidel's revolution, this substantive celebrity subgroup advocates an unachievable egalitarian ideal while creating a wedge between themselves and their fellow countrymen in the wretched middle class.It goes without saying that Leo DiCaprio would rather be seen in Havana than caught dead at Wal-Mart.
