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Every November and December, a handful of current and former Toronto International Film Festival employees make the trek to the United Arab Emirates to help run the Dubai International Film Festival. Its fourth year having wrapped up on Sunday, DIFF—like most everything else about Dubai—is an experiment in accelerated postmodernization, an attempt to create a world-class film festival (this year's opening movie was Michael Clayton, with George Clooney in attendance) from scratch.

It used to be that as sure as you could count on awkward conversations at the office Christmas party and a stocking full of clementines on Christmas morning, you could count on being able to turn your TV to channel 11 on Christmas Eve to see a certain Bing Crosby vehicle featuring the best-selling single of all time: White Christmas. While channel 11 (it's certainly not CHCH anymore...what is it?) has given up its...

Slightly different beginning to our Film Friday today, because we’d like to highlight the fact that our favourite film in ages, Reprise (pictured above), was released on DVD this week. We really feel it should have been given the same kind of cinematic release it’s getting right now in the UK, rather than an astonishingly bare-bones DVD transfer with burned-in subtitles, but what are you going to do? You really have to see it anyway. It was one of our top picks from TIFF 2006, and is still as vital as ever (and Eye’s Jason Anderson agrees).

Seriously, who cares about Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt or George Clooney or Ben Affleck or whoever? Jerry Seinfeld––one of the greatest comedians, one of the greatest television actors, and owner of 47 Porsches––is coming to Toronto on Wednesday. He'll be at the Manulife Centre (55 Bloor Street West) at 9:45 a.m. to promote Bee Movie, the new animated movie that he directs and stars in.

Mayor Miller and Toronto get it right according to Vanity Fair, he gets it so right that the mag saw fit to include him in their Green Issue portfolio. He shares the page with the mayors of San Francisco, Seattle, Baltimore, Chicago and Miami. The spread also means that Miller shares the pages of VF with celebrities like Edward Norton, Bette Midler and cover boys and girls George Clooney and Julia Roberts.

Remember when Val Kilmer was a Top Gun actor? Quentin Tarantino even wrote hip pop-culture dialogue about his character. Well Iceman, you're not so hot anymore. Maybe it started with your second-rate Batman (although George Clooney seems to have recovered just fine.) Or perhaps it was when you chose to play William DeKooning to the far more interesting Jackson Pollack (specious Toronto segue: The AGO presents Willem de Kooning: A Painters Painter. The lecture is on Tuesday from 7 to 8:30 p.m.) But whatever the case, you came full circle last year when you actually played a character from a Tarantino dialogue, you John Holmes mutherf---er. And now, now you're playing Colin Farrell's father in Alexander! To add insult to injury, it looks like they wanted Chandler Bing for the part. (P.S. Gore Vidal, why aren't you defending this bisexual instead?) What would Jim Morrison say about you anyway, Val? "Riders on the storm/ Riders on the storm/ Into this house we're born/ Into this world we're thrown/ Like a dog without a bone/ An actor out alone/ Riders on the storm."