
Left: John Cameron Mitchell and his assistant at the turntables. Right: Miss Margot on Queen West (Images: Fraser Abe)
The acronym TIFF has always offered opportunities for puns (we’re certainly not above it), so we were not shocked to hear that the party celebrating all that’s glorious and gay about the film festival had titillatingly been titled Stiff. Pre-event buzz forced a venue change from the tiny Beaver Café to the enormous Wrongbar, where Miss Margot (a.k.a. the doorwoman with the enormous bouffant wigs at Big Primpin’) played hostess with the mostest to patrons clamouring to get a glimpse of rumoured guests Xavier Dolan and Dustin Lance Black.
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The arrival of TIFF always demands answers to three crucial questions: which celebs are coming to town, what are the best flicks to see, and where can we get inebriated at ungodly hours of the night? The first two we’ve taken care of 



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