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Almighty Goz
December 15, 2011 | 3:37 pm

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Ryan Gosling faces some handsome competition for two Golden Globes

We do hate to admit it, but we don’t actually have a monopoly on Ryan Gosling gushing here at The Hype. This morning, Gerard Butler, Woody Harrelson, Rashida Jones and Sofia Vergara announced the 69th Golden Globe nominations, which revealed that the Almighty Goz could have two shiny statuettes coming his way next month. He’s received a nod for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical for Crazy Stupid Love, competing with Jean Dujardin in The Artist, Brendan Gleeson in The Guard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt in 50/50 and Owen Wilson in Midnight in Paris. For Best Actor in a Drama, Goz is up for The Ides of March against some of the biggest boys in Hollywood: George Clooney in The Descendants, Leonardo DiCaprio in J. Edgar, Brad Pitt in Moneyball and Michael Fassbender’s penis in Shame. The big award of the night, Best Picture, sees Ides up against The Descendants, The Help, Hugo, Moneyball and War Horse—in short, everything is coming up Goz. Does the Almighty Goz deserve this much attention? Click on to cast your ballot in our Goz versus the World polls—who will achieve Golden Globe supremacy?

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Pretty Young Things
October 3, 2011 | 1:52 pm

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Ryan Gosling proves wet willies can be sexy at a screening of the Ides of March

Ryan Gosling’s stock is rising fast, and his acting chops are certainly a big reason his star burns so bright—he has leading roles in Drive and The Ides of March, which were both heralded as successes at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. But the Gos isn’t all business, he’s a heartthrob too (which requires him to just stand, sit, or walk around and look pretty), and since the Internet is full of titillating images, we present to you, by way of Ryan Arnolds, Ryan Gosling giving his heartthrob predecessor George Clooney a wet willy at a New York screening of The Ides of March.

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TIFF Talk
September 20, 2011 | 2:15 pm

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TIFF 2011 Roundup: The winners, and the losers, from this year’s installment of the Toronto International Film Festival

(Images: Christopher Drost)

Well, it’s a wrap. Some might suggest that there are no winners and losers at TIFF, and that the festival is a harmonious celebration of filmmaking and the artistic spirit. For our part, we say these people are wrong. Life is a competition, and we’ve got the goods on the stars, the parties, the neighbourhoods, the red carpet galas and the films that came out on top—and on the bottom—this year, after the jump.

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TIFF Talk
September 20, 2011 | 12:15 pm

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TIFF 2011 Roundup: Has Ryan Gosling officially overtaken George Clooney? (Also, Madonna vs. Bono)

Every time we mentioned George Clooney on this site during TIFF, our web traffic spiked. And every time we mentioned Ryan Gosling, same thing. Which led us to wonder, has the young Breaker High upstart finally caught up to the ageless perpetual bachelor in our readers’ hearts? We dove into our statistics to find out (don’t worry, there’s no tricky math ahead):

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TIFF Talk
September 20, 2011 | 12:00 pm

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TIFF 2011 Roundup: How to be Don Draper (er, Jon Hamm)

Jon Hamm at the George Stroumboulopoulos Hazel Hotel Takevoer party (Image: JJ Thompson)

One of the many A-list celebrities to grace Toronto’s streets last week for TIFF 2011 was none other than Jon Hamm himself—or as he’s perhaps better known, Don Draper, the enigmatic ad executive he plays on the television show Mad Men. Hamm was a class act throughout TIFF: he took in Toronto sights, went to all the right parties and, of course, looked devastatingly handsome while doing it. Based on Hamm’s short but sweet stay in the Big Smoke, we’ve distilled four rules on how to be a gentlemen—Mad Men style—whilst in Toronto, after the jump.

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TIFF Talk
September 16, 2011 | 1:23 pm

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Venice vs. TIFF fashion showdown, Marisa Tomei edition

The seemingly ageless Marisa Tomei (can you believe she’s turning 47 in December?) attended the Ides of March premiere at both the Venice Film Festival and TIFF this year, with distinct fashion choices at each. In the film, Tomei plays a snooping journalist alongside George Clooney, who plays an elected official with a dark secret. We think both looks are stunning, but once again it seems another starlet has chosen a glamorous look for Venice and something more casual for TIFF’s concrete carpet. Which dress do you think is the best?

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TIFF Talk
September 14, 2011 | 3:16 pm

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Interview magazine and Joe Fresh host a rooftop party for Like Crazy’s Felicity Jones and Anton Yelchin

Anton Yelchin (Image: Sam Santos/Wireimage)

Interview magazine, Joe Fresh and Paramount Productions hosted an invite-only soiree last night at the Spoke Club rooftop, where the Joe Fresh–orange cocktails were flowing and everyone was loose, including Like Crazy cast members Felicity Jones and Anton Yelchin. It was a party without George Clooney and Ryan Gosling, or other faces we’ve grown tired of this week, yet it grew larger by the second and saw Jason Reitman and Jessica Chastain pass through—even Kimberley Newport-Mimran, fresh off a plane after a Pink Tartan show at New York Fashion Week, was seen laughing with husband Joe (or Mr. Fresh to his closest friends). Newport-Mimran gave us the scoop on her menswear line Black Tartan, which will be debuting in her Yorkville store very soon. That’s an actual fact— something there aren’t many of in the typical “Toronto is so much friendlier than New York” responses that journalists usually get from interviews during TIFF. Pics of the party guests and their thoughts about Toronto after the jump.

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TIFF Talk
September 13, 2011 | 2:19 pm

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QUOTED: George Clooney points out a similarity between being a father and shooting heroin

I’ve played a father before a few times. I don’t think you really have to, you know, you don’t have to shoot heroin to play a heroin addict.

— George Clooney, at a press conference, on playing a dad in The Descendants without being one in real life

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TIFF Talk
September 12, 2011 | 1:29 pm

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TIFF Weekend Roundup: the best fashion, spottings and gossip

(Images: Soho House)

As usual, the opening weekend of TIFF meant an overdose of red carpets and parties, but we’ve still got our eyes and ears glued to every other TIFF event going on. After the jump, the best party fashion, festival news, gossip and star spottings from the weekend:

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TIFF Talk
September 12, 2011 | 11:43 am

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TIFF Weekend Roundup: the five splashiest parties

It girl in the making Elizabeth Olson is introduced to perennial it man George Clooney. (Image: Jeff Vespa/WireImage/Getty Images Entertainment)

The first weekend of TIFF is basically one big long party, with a non-stop crush of big premieres, boldface names and tremendous amounts of running around (sleep is usually not involved). In case you missed it, here are last weekend’s five splashiest parties:

  • If you haven’t already heard, the party for A Dangerous Method at Greg Goose Soho House was pretty much the best party ever. In attendance: David Cronenberg, George Clooney, Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Bono, Keira Knightley, Evan Rachel Wood, Emily Blunt, Adam Scott, Jonah Hill, Chris Pratt, Anna Faris, Jon Hamm, Alexander Skarsgård and many more. Read our recap »
  • As usual, the Vanity Fair party had all the markers of a successful TIFF bash: happy (drunken) partygoers and a stack of celebrities sticking around for more than 10 minutes (Bono, George Clooney, Elizabeth Olsen, Alexander Skarsgård and more). It also featured some rather provocative posing by The Oranges’ Allison Janney. Read our recap »
  • George Stroumboulopoulos once again took over the Hazelton Hotel for his trademark mix of big stars, CBC television personalities and gawkers. We particularly enjoyed seeing Jon Hamm in full-on shaggy-hair mode (compared with Don Draper, at least). Read our recap »
  • There’s something about tall, Scandinavian vampires that sets the fan girls wild, which is exactly what happened at the Melancholia party when Alexander Skarsgård (Eric Northman from True Blood) showed up. Kirsten Dunst had the good sense to smile politely and stand aside. Read our recap »
  • A rather more genteel time was had at the annual luncheon thrown by famed Hollywood reporter George Christy at the Four Seasons. In attendance: Kathleen Turner, Geoffrey Rush, Norman Jewison, Atom Egoyan and assorted Mulroneys. Read our recap »

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TIFF Talk
September 12, 2011 | 10:34 am

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TIFF Weekend Roundup: the five buzziest red carpets

Angelina Jolie wears a gold purse handcuffed to her wrist as she poses with Brad Pitt (Image: Lia Grainger)

The first weekend of TIFF is basically one big long party, with a non-stop crush of big premieres, boldface names and tremendous amounts of running around (sleep is usually not involved). In case you missed it, here are last weekend’s five most talked about red carpets:

  • A wall of screams surrounded Roy Thomson Hall on Friday for the gala presentation of Moneyball. The culprits? Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie (whose purse was handcuffed to her wrist), Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jonah Hill. Check out our red carpet gallery »
  • The Ides of March was a kind of passing of the torch from the charming, ageless George Clooney to the charming, youthful Ryan Gosling (who brought his mother along as his date). Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood also shone. Check out our red carpet gallery »
  • Michael Fassbender didn’t show, but Keira Knightley and Viggo Mortensen brought star power to the Canadian premiere of David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method. Check out our red carpet gallery »
  • Kirsten Dunst, elegant as ever in a polka-dot top, stole the show at the gala for Lars von Trier’s Melancholia (although Alexander Skarsgård and Kiefer Sutherland were also there). Check out our red carpet gallery »
  • Take This Waltz saw a gushing Sarah Polley (it’s only her second feature, after all) and a very pregnant Jennifer Podemski (along with co-stars Seth Rogen and Sarah Silverman). Check out our red carpet gallery »

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TIFF Talk
September 11, 2011 | 5:22 pm

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This year’s Vanity Fair party was a splashy affair, obviously

Charmed, I’m sure (Image: Jeff Vespa/WireImage/Getty Images Entertainment)

There are certain markers that make a TIFF party successful: people need to be happy (drunk), celebrities (i.e. not the Degrassi kids) need to be there for at least 10 minutes, and people need to be happy (drunk). Vanity Fair and Belvedere Red delivered last night, hosting its annual party that brought out guests—and apparently best friends—Bono and George Clooney, who were inseparable all night (the two left Scarpetta moments after arriving, because they had to get to what is now being referred to, by us, as the best after party of TIFF 2011—so far). It girl in the making Elizabeth Olsen was spotted getting up close and intimate with T-shirt-under-blazer-clad Emile Hirsch in front of a giant bottle of Belvedere vodka that glowed red, as if Scarpetta had somehow transformed into C Lounge. Olsen wasn’t drinking, but leaned in to hear Hirsch’s whispers over a Rihanna soundtrack, and moments after, Olsen got up from her seat and left Scarpetta—okay, not immediately, she vanished after a tête-à-tête with Clooney. Find out who else was there and see all of the hot celebrities in our Vanity Fair party gallery after the jump.

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TIFF Talk
September 11, 2011 | 2:25 pm

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SPOTTED: Every famous person ever (well, almost) at Grey Goose Soho House last night

Apparently, David Cronenberg knows how to throw a party: pretty much every celebrity currently in town for TIFF attended the Canadian director’s party at Grey Goose Soho House last night in honour of his new film, A Dangerous Method (click here to see our photo gallery). The list of bold-faced names included: Cronenberg, George Clooney, Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Bono, Stacy Keibler, Keira Knightley, James Righton, Evan Rachel Wood, Emily Blunt, Kate Mara, Max Minghella, Adam Scott, Richard Kelly, Jonah Hill, Chris Pratt, Anna Faris, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Westfeldt, Justin Long, Scott Porter, Jimmy Kimmel, Guillermo Diaz, Ewan McGregor, Kirsten Dunst, Emile Hirsch, Michelle Monaghan, Gina Gershon, Dave Matthews, Morgan Spurlock and Paz de la Huerta. Also, the Twitter machine provided a running commentary for the evening. Check out the highlights, after the jump.

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TIFF Talk
September 11, 2011 | 1:30 pm

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TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: George Clooney continues to lay on the charm at The Descendants press conference

Amara Miller, Nick Krause, George Clooney, Shailene Woodley and director and co-writer Alexander Payne

George Clooney, such a charmer. When dealing with the press, the actor, it seems, has one persona and one persona only: jovial trickster loved by all. Hollywood’s silver fox was all jokes once again at the press conference for The Descendants yesterday afternoon. He guided his much younger cast mates—two teens and one 20-year-old (they play his children in the film)—through the heavily choreographed proceedings, instructing them to carefully look into each camera in unison and then prompting them to lean into the mike and join the conversation. Amara Miller, who had never even been in a school play before being cast for the film, was delightfully unpolished, while her fellow fresh-faced colleagues Shailene Woodley and Nick Krause were the opposite, delivering the requisite gushing praise on director and co-writer Alexander Payne. Clooney was Clooney, and delivered this little gem by way of explaining how the world’s most famous bachelor is qualified to play a father: “You don’t have to shoot heroin to play a heroin addict.” Zing!

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TIFF Talk
September 11, 2011 | 1:15 pm

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TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Robert De Niro, Clive Owen and Jason Statham at the Killer Elite red carpet

Compared to Friday night’s Brangelina-induced hysteria, yesterday afternoon’s red carpet presentation of Killer Elite was relatively subdued—especially considering the trifecta of badasses in attendance. Old-school badass Robert De Niro has clearly done this way too many times: he couldn’t muster the kind of enthusiasm that other red carpet stars like Brad Pitt or George Clooney still manage to put out there. He was quiet and courteous—but nothing more. Jason Statham, on the other hand, was all winning smiles and brash cockney banter, although he refused to take off his sunglasses (but we still managed to catch him without them). Clive Owen looked rather Bond-ish (yes, we know, he hasn’t played that role—yet). He was followed by the lady of the hour, statuesque Yvonne Strahovski, who appeared to relish being the only female in a sea of manly men.

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