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TIFF party pics: Martin Sheen shows us his underwear and Paul Haggis kisses Josh Brolin

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Nice pants, President Bartlet. Photography Kira Crugnale

Seeing jokester Paul Haggis kissing Josh Brolin is almost too good to be true. Seeing this the same evening as Martin Sheen showing cameras his underwear just isn’t fair.

The red carpet at the the Artists for Peace and Justice Fundraiser for Haiti event last night at the Toro After Dark space was, without a doubt, the most fun step and repeat in the city. Haggis turned to Brolin to give him a big smoocher on the mouth, which was followed by Brolin exclaiming, “that’s it, my career is OVER!”

This was probably the second best moment of the evening, which was promptly followed by Martin Sheen being encouraged to show us his Ellen Degeneres-gifted briefs–in exchange for a $1,000 donation to Haiti. To his publicist’s utter chagrin (who, for the record, was somewhat like a real life Lloyd from Entourage) he turned around, undid belt, dropped a bit of trou, turned back and showed us those briefs. But it’s for a good cause right? Read more »


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TIFF party pics: Carey Mulligan, Marion Cotillard and James Franco at the Vanity Fair bash

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Carey Mulligan at the Vanity Fair party. Photo by Jeff Vespa/WireImage/Getty Images

The Thompson hotel hosted a blockbuster line-up of celebs last night for the  Fox Searchlight/Belvedere/Vanity Fair party. Carey Mulligan arrived fresh from the Never Let Me Go premiere, sporting a starry Christopher Kane dress with a zip-on panel at the bottom. Though she was gone by the time we arrived, Marion Cotillard made an appearance, reportedly spending an hour and a half sitting in a booth looking gorgeous and nuzzling with boyfriend and Little White Lies director Guillaume Canet. Model and actress Clémence Poesy arrived in the uniform of a too-cool-for-school French It girl: A sequined Balmian jacket, black skinnies and flat suede boots. James Franco, Josh Brolin, Minnie Driver, Sam Rockwell, Hilary Swank, Juliette Lewis and British actress Lucy Punch, decked out in Louis Vuitton also popped by.

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Block party! Free K’naan and cupcakes at tomorrow’s TIFF Bell Lightbox opening

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Here’s a TIFF party you don’t need an invite for: Tomorrow, September 12, the TIFF Bell Lightbox is throwing a huge block party to celebrate the grand opening of Toronto’s newest movie house.

The ribbon cutting is at noon, but musical festivities happen all day. The line-up includes Fefe Dobson, The Sadies, and, just announced, the no-longer secret musical guest, Somali-Canadian rapper K’naan. Plus, there’s an exhibit of posters and artifacts from the Essential 100 films, interactive installations and commissions from the likes of Atom Egoyan and Guy Maddin.

And if you’re not sold yet, you should also know that there will be free cupcakes.

The event runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at King and John Streets.

Missed today’s coverage of celeb sightings and red carpet style? Check it out at fashionmagazine.com/redcarpet. We’ll have full coverage of tonight’s premieres and parties tomorrow. See you then!


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TIFF party pics: Emily Hampshire, Rachel Blanchard, and Juliette Lewis in emerald Dolce at the Alliance bash

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Juliette Lewis at the Alliance bash. Photography by Kira Crugnale

Last night Alliance hosted a bash for Toronto industry insiders and visiting talent to sling back a couple of cocktails under the shadow of the appropriately shiny Scotia Bank tower.

Who did we see? There were rumours of Clive Owen and David Schwimmer, but alas, no. We did however get Juliette Lewis, who’s in town supporting Conviction with Hilary Swank. You could tell she was there as an actress, rather than rock star by her teeny tiny emerald green Dolce & Gabbana. She gushed to red carpet reporters about loving TIFF for how laid back it is. Yeah, we get that a lot. Read more »


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Party pics: See our favourite looks from Holt Renfrew’s Tommy Ton fête

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Tommy Ton takes a turn in front of the lens. Photography by Kira Crugnale

A party at Holt Renfrew in honour of shoes and a fashion blogger almost sounds too cliché to be true. It probably would be if Holt Renfrew couldn’t pull that kind of thing off (which they did) and if the attendees weren’t suckers for shoes (which we are). Read more »


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Hot, shirtless male models! (And other news from the Ezra Constantine launch)

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Photography by Kira Crugnale

When your first sight is a quartet of male models in shiny trunks, fake tattoos and sandals paired with work socks (toes and heels excised for summer) posing by a pool spanned by Grecian columns, you know you’re at a Stephen Wong and Kirk Pickersgill production. The pair, known best for their women’s line, Greta Constantine, decided to throw a party to officially launch their menswear effort Ezra Constantine. Read more »


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Dell collaborates with Threadless on some charming laptop art

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Putting stickers on your laptop is never a good idea. They inevitably begin to peel off and then the employees at the Mac Store Genius Bar always raise an eyebrow at the grey sticky residue polluting the shell of your Macbook when all you really wanted was a functioning track pad.

In a series of partnerships, the folks over at Dell have teamed up with the likes of OPI and Product (Red) to add a little bit of pep to their laptops, making further bedazzlement unnecessary. In their most recent collabo, they’ve joined forces with Threadless (threadless.com), a global graphic design community with over 80,000 members, to bring 11 new laptop lids featuring work from Threadless’s user-submitted portfolio. The designs add US$85 to the purchase of one of Dell’s Studio 15 laptops, but they make for a fine bit of embellishment. And tell us those two lovebirds perched on the deer’s back isn’t the cutest thing you’ve ever seen.


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Beyonce’s hot hot Heat launch party

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When Solange Knowles tells you to “Stop Twittering, put away your phones and dance,” you do. Ms. Knowles, who actually uses far choicer, more imperative words, is spinning Michael Jackson for a crowd that, by and large, is surrounding her older sister with an amphitheatre of phone cameras for Twitpic-ing purposes. The older sister in question is Beyoncé, naturally, and the crowd is packed into a tiny room at 15 Union Square—a glass-sheathed building, glowing with red light this particular evening—to fete the singer’s debut fragrance, Heat (from $59, at Shoppers Drug Mart/Pharmaprix).

Read the rest of the story and see pics of Usher, Solange and more from the Heat launch party.


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