Watch out for the Joaquin Phoenix impersonator!
Correction: Pay attention to the Joaquin Phoenix impersonator!
That’s the confusing message that comes from the first attempted media fuss of Toronto 2010, when a PR company sent out an email detailing how someone apparently posing as the actor-turned-rapper had been “causing a stir” at Toronto by crashing red carpets with a gaggle of “scantily clad female groupies” and a phalanx of security.
Fans, it said, are being “tricked and disillusioned by the fraud.”
The trouble is, at the time the email was sent out on Thursday morning, there hadn’t been any TIFF red carpets.