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The best and worst of TIFF 2009

By Toronto Life
 | September 22, 2009
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The after party for The Men Who Stare at Goats. Not many people can say they were at a house party on the Bridle Path with George Clooney and Jeff Bridges.
It’s a tie, and both involve Drew Barrymore (although neither was her fault). The first was at the Whip It press conference, when a reporter asked how her family felt about roller derby (Barrymore famously filed for emancipation at the age of 15). The second was a question about Patrick Swayze’s passing; the actor didn’t know about Swayze’s death until that moment.

TIFF is toast for 2009, so we asked our team of writers and photographers report back on the best and worst, the scary and the sublime, the hot and the lame of this year’s festival. Here are their harrowing responses.

The best and worst of TIFF 2009
The best and worst of TIFF 2009
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The best and worst of TIFF 2009
The best and worst of TIFF 2009
The best and worst of TIFF 2009
The best and worst of TIFF 2009
The best and worst of TIFF 2009
The best and worst of TIFF 2009
The best and worst of TIFF 2009
The best and worst of TIFF 2009
The best and worst of TIFF 2009
The best and worst of TIFF 2009
The best and worst of TIFF 2009
The best and worst of TIFF 2009
The after party for The Men Who Stare at Goats. Not many people can say they were at a house party on the Bridle Path with George Clooney and Jeff Bridges.
The best and worst of TIFF 2009
The best and worst of TIFF 2009
The best and worst of TIFF 2009
The best and worst of TIFF 2009
The best and worst of TIFF 2009
The best and worst of TIFF 2009
The best and worst of TIFF 2009
The best and worst of TIFF 2009
The best and worst of TIFF 2009
The best and worst of TIFF 2009
The best and worst of TIFF 2009
The best and worst of TIFF 2009
(Images from Flickr.com are greatly appreciated and used under the Creative Commons license found here.)
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