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Toronto International Film Festival 2009

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RED CARPET INTERVIEW: Natalie Portman, Lisa Kudrow, Scott Cohen and Don Roos at the premiere of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

Toronto International Film Festival 2009

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Natalie Portman is hyper aware of cameras, Lisa Kudrow loves playing horrible people

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Natalie Portman shouldn’t fear cameras. Just look at her (Photo by Karon Liu)

When photographers snap 10 frames per second, more than half of the shots contain images of celebrities with their mouth open or their eyes opening unevenly. No one is more aware of this than Natalie Portman. (OK, perhaps with the exception of Paris Hilton.)

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Toronto International Film Festival 2009

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Michael Cera dishes on the status of the Arrested Development movie to a press conference with a paltry attendance of 10

Future Dillinger: Michael Cera declares range wider than awkward teens

Future Dillinger: Michael Cera declares range wider than awkward teens (Photo by Karon Liu)

“This is brutal,” said a film critic as we sit in the largely empty media room at Sutton Place. There were only five minutes left before the arrival of the cast and crew of the new Michael Cera awkward-teen rom-com (is there any other kind?), Youth In Revolt. Aside from us, there were four photographers and five reporters. The low turnout must have been due to TIFF burnout and the fact that most of the cast members—Justin Long, Ray Liotta, Steve Buscemi—didn’t show up.

The emptiness got so bad that organizers had to pull in the guys working at the BlackBerry booth outside to be seat fillers. And since all TIFF press conferences last 40 minutes, we all (including the BlackBerry guys) got together to brainstorm as many questions as we could to fill up the time.

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PHOTO GALLERY: Love and Other Impossible Pursuits premiere with Natalie Portman and Lisa Kudrow

Natalie Portman at the gala of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits at Roy Thomson Hall during the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. (Photo by James Helmer)Last night was the gala premiere of director Don Roos’s Love and Other Impossible Pursuits at Roy Thomson Hall. We snapped these red carpet photos of Roos along with stars Natalie Portman and Lisa Kudrow.

Toronto International Film Festival 2009

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Celeb spotting warm-up 4: Ewan, Demi, Weisz, Viggo and, yes, even more Clooney

Where Demi goes, can Ashton be far behind? (Photo by TechCrunch50-2008)

Where Demi goes, can Ashton be far behind? (Photo by TechCrunch50-2008)

In today’s lineup of galas and special presentations we have Ewan McGregor and Clooney chasing government conspiracies, Natalie Portman playing a stepmom (in non-Julia Roberts fashion) and Demi Moore and David Duchovny at war with their neighbours. Learn about all of these, plus the directorial debut of designer Tom Ford and many other screenings, after the jump.

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