On my second day in Toronto for TIFF08, I decided to wander the city with camera in hand and hope for the best.
After seeing a slam dunk contest and a pretty cool sidewalk chalk drawing in the Younge/Dundas square, I wandered up to Ryerson University and almost walked into LeBron James as he was being ushered out of a movie premiere. Missed getting a photo of him but at least his entourage didn’t beat the crap out of me for not watching where I was going.
I had been to the Sutton Place Hotel the previous day and since festival registration was there I thought I’d take a walk over that way to see if anyone was hanging around. The lobby at Sutton Place was bustling with flimgoers so I walked around the back of the hotel to escape the crowds. Good thing I did. Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) and The Edge (U2) stepped out of the hotel just as I turned the corner. Found out later they were at the hotel doing a press conference for the movie “It Might Get Loud“.
U2’s “The Edge”
Jimmy Page