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...some, TIFF is an Oscar reunion party; this year's 500-plus guest list of actors, directors and producers includes more than a score of Academy Award winners, from George Clooney to Jodie Foster, Sean Penn to Susan Sarandon, Michael Caine and Michael Douglas to Michael Moore. The new hot couple, Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal, will show up to promote their politically charged drama Rendition; and perpetual hottie Brad Pitt will light up the city when he appears in support of his western, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Rock icons Lou Reed and Eddie...
...still programmers at heart, and they are happy to tip the TIFFist to a few of the films they love. Handling cites Rendition, Thomas McCarthy's The Visitor and It's a Free World ... from the veteran writer-director team of Paul Laverty and Ken Loach. Cowan recommends Penn's Into the Wild, the Guy Maddin "docu-fantasia" My Winnipeg and Nothing Is Private from Alan Ball, writer of American Beauty, which, in 1999, had its world premier at Toronto on its way to a Best Picture Oscar...
...poll tabbed Penn to finish second in the league, while the Crimson is picked third. The Quakers and Harvard each earned one of the two first-place votes not garnered by the Bulldogs, while 2006 co-champ Princeton ranks fourth in the preseason poll. Cornell is fifth and Columbia sixth, while Brown, just two years removed from an Ivy title, is the media’s pick to finish seventh. Dartmouth rounds out the picks in last place...
...report, requested by Rep. John Murtha, D-Penn., chairman of the defense subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, says that drafting people could make it easier for the Army to reach its 2012 goal of 547,000 soldiers. It might also save some money if Congress opted to pay draftees less than volunteers. But the downside, the report claims, would be a less effective fighting force, thanks to a sudden influx of draftees who would remain in uniform for much shorter spells than today's all-volunteer soldiers...
...family goes." LaBeouf drew on the memory again for scenes in Disturbia, in which he plays an aggrieved high schooler who attacks a teacher and ends up under house arrest. For all his Hanksian Everyguy appeal, LaBeouf's performances in these two films reveal flickers of Sean Penn--style pent-up fury. "A lot of actors in their 20s don't have that much range," says LaBeouf's Transformers co-star John Turturro. "The world is different now, less rugged in some ways. Everything is facile. But Shia has something else. He's been through a lot." Stardom in youth...