It doesn't get much more A-list than the George Christy lunch. On Saturday, a couture-clad coterie of about 122 very important people sipped champagne and gobbled canapés at the 17th annual luncheon hosted by the much-feted Hollywood Reporter entertainment columnist.

Hundreds don finery for Wedding reception
Gayle MacDonald, The Globe and Mail
Friday, September 7 2001

Hundreds of people gathered at Roy Thomson Hall Thursday night for the gala dinner to celebrate the opening of the 26th annual Toronto International Film Festival. The opening night event saw celebrities from the film community and Toronto's Who's Who.

In the black
Black is, well, the new black. And there will be noir attitude galore at next week's Toronto International Film Festival, says The Globe's fashion editor DEBORAH FULSANG
By DEBORAH FULSANG
Saturday, September 1 2001

If you've finally adjusted to this summer's fresh-faced palette of turquoise, pink and coral, get over it. Black is back. As a colour -- and an attitude -- it was all over the fall runways. But this season's black is not just basic. It's mysterious, sexy and subversive.

Sex and the city
When Hollywood arrives next week for the 26th annual Toronto International Film Festival, the city gets another chance to reveal its steamier side,
By SIMONA CHIOSE
Saturday, September 1 2001

TORONTO Night after night, Kate had perched on the rim of the bathtub in her cramped 11th Street Manhattan apartment while the director of the film she was producing lay on the couch in the kitchen opposite the tub and moaned about the corruption of his vision. Three months of this had paid off. She'd gotten her prize. The film was going to the Toronto International Film Festival. She was on the plane with it.