Is it just me or has Aussie actor Sam Neill become this year’s Mickey Rourke or Nick Nolte, a la the omniprescent star of TIFF?
First, the star of Jurassic Park and The Piano shows up at Michael Caine’s Harry Brown screening on Saturday night at the Elgin, followed by Caine’s public interview at the Isabel Theatre on Sunday afternoon and even pipes up with a query about acting during the Q&A portion.
And then he’s at not one but two parties on Monday night in Yorkville where they shut down the street with police, security types and women carrying clipboards for check-in purposes, creating major havoc alongside the hundreds of stargazers, autograph hounds and paparazzi cordoned off.
Neill was making the scene at the Vanity Fair party for Tanner Hall at the Hazelton Hotel’s swanky One restaurant and bar where they served up platters of lobster tacos and salmon sushi and poured the champagne like there was no tomorrow to such stars as Chris Kattan, Amy Sedaris, producer Barry Diller and his fashion designer wife Diane Von Furstenberg, and Irish director Jim Sheridan.
Neill also made the scene across the street at Amber where the folks behind The Invention of Lying were celebrating with one big group hug on the packed outside deck upstairs alongside the film’s stars Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner and Rob Lowe while servers offered up Kobe beef burgers and blackberry (also party sponsers) white chocolate cream cakes.
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