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The Velvet Rope

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Paris Hilton titillates the surging masses at Ultra Supper Club

At 11 o’clock last night, the swarm of paparazzi was thick all the way down Ultra Supper Club’s black carpet as dozens of folks waited for one Paris Hilton. The rain was falling and the swarm of media hacks was ready with giant umbrellas to scooch under to protect their cameras. We were among them. This was not a moment to be missed; we just had to deal with the man pressed up against us, the bulge in his pants locked to our behind. But not this, nor the rain, nor the choking clouds of cologne was going to keep us from leaning in to get an utterance from the world’s most famous young blonde. Prior to her arrival, we overheard every line imaginable being spat at the bouncers, as desperate Paris look-alikes clamoured to see their idol. Suddenly, we had overwhelming sympathy for every doorman in town. After the jump, the arrival of Paris and why fame is so easy for her.

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Today's Special

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Prego Della Piazza: Paris, prosciutto and pirates

Each day of the 2008 film festival, Toronto Life will introduce one of TIFF’s hot spot restaurants. We inquire about the vibe, the celebs who dine there and, of course, the food. Today’s special: Prego Della Piazza.

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Gossip Hound

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Paris (Hilton) for one night only!

Late last week, producers of the new Paris Hilton documentary—Paris, Not France—cancelled two of three scheduled TIFF screenings of the film. The two slashed events are in the print book but have been wiped off the festival Web site. And oh, how the rumour mill is spinning! (Not least of all at Page Six, which couldn’t be bothered to spell director Adria Petty’s name correctly—but we digress.) Documentary programmer Thom Powers says he’s “very excited” about having even the single screening of a film he describes as “a case study on the role of celebrity in our culture.” Hilton is to attend the Toronto screening to do whatever it is she does; her people say that one screening helps create buzz, but there are rumours out there that Hilton is attempting to block the film’s sale. It’s all so meta. Stay tuned.—Katy P.

The Informer

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Why the Long Pen?

You couldn’t make it up. Monday evening, in a dingy warehouse-like book store in downtown Toronto, Conrad Black, under virtual house arrest in Florida, made use of a virtual technology called the LongPen to sign copies of his Nixon bio. He was introduced by the LongPen’s inventor, Margaret Atwood, and subsequently interviewed by CTV’s Seamus O’Regan before “signing” dozens of books for a mostly sympathetic audience. The LongPen allows Black to both sign the book more or less in real time (using a device so precisely calibrated that it replicates the exact pressure exerted by the writer’s hand at the other end) and carry on a two-way videoconference with his interlocutors.

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The Informer

Black Watch

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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

Oh, what might have been. I remember having the same giddy feeling at the prospect of seeing Emerson Lake & Palmer back-to-back with the Electric Light Orchestra. Or was it Yes with Genesis? I can’t remember. At any rate, today’s proceedings in Chicago might have been the double bill of the century: Maclean’s editor Ken Whyte paired with none other than The Donald. I wonder what they might have said to each other in the antechamber. Such are the great mysteries on which history turns. But alas, despite much ballyhoo, The Donald was a no-show.

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