As Tattle writes this, a few thousand people are gathered at the square at Yonge and Dundas for a roller-derby exhibition to promote Drew Barrymore's "Whip It."

With horror master George Romero in town on Saturday, a few hundred people dressed like zombies (some quite realistically, gashed, spitting blood, the works) and shambled up Yonge Street (think Center City's Market Street, with way more honky-tonk activity and without the Liberty Bell) with a police escort, no less.

For bleary-eyed publicists and journalists, a beautiful woman stood on her rooftop next door to the Four Seasons Hotel and performed naked yoga for about 15 minutes to the amazement of even those jaded Hollywood types.

But it isn't all a calming pose.

At the Saturday night gala screening for "Triage," an overeager photographer screamed at a woman to move off the red carpet so that he could get a better shot of the movie's star, Colin Farrell.

The problem was, she was Colin's sister, Claudine.

According to the Toronto Sun, Colin quickly ran to his sister's side and got in the face of the photog.

"Don't yell at her," Colin said angrily. "That's my sister you're yelling at."

* Two young, female stars sure to break out from the festival: Carey Mulligan, as an English schoolgirl who falls for an older man, in "An Education"; and Anna Kendrick, as George Clooney's tightly-wound sidekick in "Up In the Air."

* Philadelphia is once again representing well. Lee Daniels' searing "Precious" is one of the talked-about fiction films, and Don Argott's "The Art of the Steal: The Untold Story of the Barnes Foundation" is one of the talked-about documentaries. At a sold-out public screening that Tattle attended, the movie got a huge ovation. It will not get a huge ovation in certain sectors of Philadelphia high society.

* Unintentional celebrity sighting: Tattle rode the elevator with Rebecca DeMornay. Twice. Up, then an hour or so later, down. Maybe she's stalking us.

* One of the rumors floating around the fest was that Penelope Cruz (Pedro Almodóvar's "Broken Embraces") was pregnant. She sure didn't look pregnant in a form-fitting dress, but Emily Mortimer ("Harry Brown") looked pregnant enough for both of them. She's due in January.

* Asked how she dealt with her pervert fans, Megan Fox ("Jennifer's Body") said that her fans were great and that she didn't think she had any pervert fans. Pause. Then she added, "But I guess it depends on what your definition of pervert is."

* Hey, George Clooney fans, don't go looking for the star's Facebook page. Asked if he planned to join the social networking site, Clooney, in Toronto for "The Men Who Stare at Goats" and "Up in The Air," said, "I would rather have a prostate exam on live television from a man with very cold hands than have a Facebook page."

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