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Hot off the heels of another summer hit movie and likely Oscar-worthy role in Julie & Julia, Meryl Streep visited Toronto for an informal conversation chat with Globe and Mail journalist Johanna Schneller in the Royal Ontario Museum at a special event entitled "An Evening with Meryl Streep." The evening is part of the series The Question of Celebrity, a lineup of public programming surrounding the museum’s newest exhibition, "Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008."

The arrival of Toronto Life in the mailbox each month is something to look forward to, except for one thing: the ridiculous payload of advertising that comes with it. Now, we understand that magazines generally lose money on subscriptions, and Toronto Life's $24 annual fee is worth every penny, but we think that Toronto Life is starting to look more like Toronto Life Square. Subscription card "blow-ins" and heavy-stock ad inserts are extremely unpopular...

Last night, the seats of Harbourfront Centre's studio theatre were packed with a mix of middle-aged art aficionados and well-coiffed hip, young homos all dying to see Francesco Vezzoli give a lecture and screen his notorious Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula. Vezzoli is an Italian artist known for his work in video and embroidery (yes, embroidery) who set the art world ablaze a couple of years ago with his re-imagining of the infamous, semi-pornographic swords and sandals schlock-fest that actually was written by Gore Vidal. Vezzoli's trailer for an imaginary remake features Vidal as himself, as well as a ridiculously A-list cast, including original Caligula star Helen Mirren, Milla Jovovich, Justine Bateman, Karen Black, Gerard Butler, Benicio Del Torro and Michelle Phillips of The Mamas and The Papas fame. The title role is played by both Vezzoli himself and Courtney Love and the costumes are designed by Donatella Versace.

Torontoist first heard of Toby Young soon after the launch of his debut book How To Lose Friends And Alienate People. Young, a British magazine editor and writer, tries to cross the pond and make it at Graydon Carter's Vanity Fair. The book was a recounting of Young's misadventures in the New York media world and because journalists like nothing more than talking about each other, the book was widely reviewed, inflated Young's reputation (for good and bad). It even got the book made into a play in London's West End and optioned for a film.

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.

When tipsters aren't writing in to tell us that local weekly editors were spotted eating burritos, they write in to tell us even more mundane things - On Monday David MacFarlane was seen walking down College Street, possibly exiting a dry cleaning shop. But fresh on the heels of Zoilus' announcement that a NYTimeser was in town to do a piece on this town's musical lights, we get word that a certain Vanity Fair writer has also been traipsing around the IFOA, gathering materials for a piece on Toronto's writerly lights. Other than that, Shinan tell us that Zadie Smith (not to be confused with the new Zadie Smith, or the new, new Zadie Smith) came to hear a Mac-toting Candace Bushnell do her thing, and frowned. The low celeb wattage matches the weather, and the weather makes us want to curl up with a good book. Author Julian Barnes gets interviewed by the Globe's Marty Levin tonight.