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...bunch. At the top is Titleist, makers of the ProV1 series favored by PGA Tour pros and their wannabes. More than half the balls sold in the U.S. are stamped TITLEIST or PINNACLE, its value line, aimed at the duffer not willing to part with the nearly $60 per dozen for the top shelf. Nike, Callaway Golf and TaylorMade scramble for much of the rest...
...bottom is Top-Flite, for years proud makers of the rock-hardest projectile off the tee (it's the distance, stupid!) and purveyors of double-dozen packs for less than a double sawbuck. Its last innovation occurred in the hickory age. Top-Flite's balls had come to deserve their "Rock-Flite" and "ammunition" monikers. But since Callaway bought the company from Spalding in 2003, Top-Flite has been on a technology tear, launching two new balls in two years and attempting to reposition itself as a rebel...
...fomentors and beneficiaries of all this divine madness are the festival's two bosses: Piers Handling, chairman and CEO of the Toronto International Film Festival Group, and Noah Cowan, TIFF's co-director. They supervise a team of a dozen programmers who make this sprawling event the world's best 10-day movie binge. Europe may have those venerable showcases Cannes, Berlin and Venice, but the crazy intensity of Toronto - the too-much-of-a-muchness - makes it utterly American. Or, as Canadians would no doubt gently correct: utterly North American...
...even a quarter of what's available. "We serve so many different masters here, so many different audiences," says Handling, "that there's leeway to program the widest range of films, from the most populist to the most esoteric." So each movie lover scans the list, finds a couple dozen promising titles and creates a personal minifestival...
...resident specialist on Eastern European films, programmer Dimitri Eipides, "approaches the Romanian new wave with some skepticism. You could barely field a soccer team with all the Romanian filmmakers. Apparently there's one great teacher at the film school there who has passed his influence to a half-dozen interesting directors...