Five days at the Festival!
It's the halfway point of the Toronto International Film Festival and I finally got to watch my first movie. I got a call from a friend of mine this morning who produced a film called "Everything's Gone Green" which is getting all kinds of amazing reviews after it first screened at the festival on Sunday night. I couldn't make it Sunday night to the sold out screening so Chris was cool enough to make sure I got a ticket to the second screening which was this morning at 11:30am. Popcorn for lunch doesn't exactly fit into my new plan for how to eat, run and lose fifteen pounds in fifteen days but I only ate half the bag so who cares.
The movie was really good and I hope some of you guys seek it out after it does the festival circuit. The star of the film who's name is Paulo Costanzo was really great in this movie. He has been in a few things but Road Trip is the movie I remember him from. I should have stopped and said hi to him and told him I thought he was great in the movie but I was in a rush to meet some people for lunch so I didn't get to.Maybe that's why I am doing it here in my blog instead.
I've actually spent alot of time in Toronto since the festival started on Thursday. I didn't really expect to be hoopin it up all that much this past weekend because the pubicist who has been hired to help us promote "BE REAL with JR DIGS" seemed to think that because I am primarily a Tv type guy, and maybe because I'm just JR DIGS, it would be tough to get me invited to any of the big fancy film festival parties and events.
Well yo know me guys, I don't quite comprehend the concept of not being able to do something so last Friday I did what I always do when faced with dissappointment and frustation....I took matters into my own hands like I've always had to do and I just started calling up some of the film people know to see if DIGS actually had any juice considering all that's appening in my little life these days!
A few hours later I had an invitation to the Holt Renfrew Party and I even ended up passing on stopping in at the CHUM Schmoozfest in favour of supporting my friends Dan and Chris who were hosting a party in celebration of their movie. Dan Lyon is the executive producer of "Everything's Gone Green" but more importantly, Dan is a friend of mine and one of the nicest most sincere guys I know in this bussiness. You don't meet alot of people like Dan in this racket and when you do, you feel very lucky to have the chance to get to know them.
I can't really say that I got to know Sacha Baron Cohen the other day when I met him but it was cool to at least have the chance to spend a few minutes with him. He couldn't have been much nicer of a guy. He wasn't in character or anything like that, so it's not like he was trying to entertain anyone, he was just a regular guy with an accent! He was very generous with his time and we ended up hangin out for six or seven minutes just talking about regular stuff and then about what I'm doing in latenigth on Global later this fall. It would be crazy ass awesome if I actually could get him on my show in a few months. Wouldn't that be awesome?
Anyways, right now I have to, have to, have to get back to some other stuff before it gets too late and I have to crash. It's been a non stop five or six days in a row doing lots of everything but the stuff I have to do right now so I'll blog back later and bring you guys up to speed on my week at the film festival so far.
Borat is the shit! Later guys.
The movie was really good and I hope some of you guys seek it out after it does the festival circuit. The star of the film who's name is Paulo Costanzo was really great in this movie. He has been in a few things but Road Trip is the movie I remember him from. I should have stopped and said hi to him and told him I thought he was great in the movie but I was in a rush to meet some people for lunch so I didn't get to.Maybe that's why I am doing it here in my blog instead.
I've actually spent alot of time in Toronto since the festival started on Thursday. I didn't really expect to be hoopin it up all that much this past weekend because the pubicist who has been hired to help us promote "BE REAL with JR DIGS" seemed to think that because I am primarily a Tv type guy, and maybe because I'm just JR DIGS, it would be tough to get me invited to any of the big fancy film festival parties and events.
Well yo know me guys, I don't quite comprehend the concept of not being able to do something so last Friday I did what I always do when faced with dissappointment and frustation....I took matters into my own hands like I've always had to do and I just started calling up some of the film people know to see if DIGS actually had any juice considering all that's appening in my little life these days!
A few hours later I had an invitation to the Holt Renfrew Party and I even ended up passing on stopping in at the CHUM Schmoozfest in favour of supporting my friends Dan and Chris who were hosting a party in celebration of their movie. Dan Lyon is the executive producer of "Everything's Gone Green" but more importantly, Dan is a friend of mine and one of the nicest most sincere guys I know in this bussiness. You don't meet alot of people like Dan in this racket and when you do, you feel very lucky to have the chance to get to know them.
I can't really say that I got to know Sacha Baron Cohen the other day when I met him but it was cool to at least have the chance to spend a few minutes with him. He couldn't have been much nicer of a guy. He wasn't in character or anything like that, so it's not like he was trying to entertain anyone, he was just a regular guy with an accent! He was very generous with his time and we ended up hangin out for six or seven minutes just talking about regular stuff and then about what I'm doing in latenigth on Global later this fall. It would be crazy ass awesome if I actually could get him on my show in a few months. Wouldn't that be awesome?
Anyways, right now I have to, have to, have to get back to some other stuff before it gets too late and I have to crash. It's been a non stop five or six days in a row doing lots of everything but the stuff I have to do right now so I'll blog back later and bring you guys up to speed on my week at the film festival so far.
Borat is the shit! Later guys.
posted by JR DIGS
at 10:43 PM
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