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Now the Bedbugs Are Threatening the Toronto Film Festival

Because New York moviegoers shouldn’t have to endure this ordeal alone, organizers at the Toronto International Film Festival have confirmed they are fighting bedbugs at the Scotiabank Theater — the primary venue for press and industry attendees from around the world . “Before bedbugs becomes today’s meme: we’re on it, we’re talking to Cineplex & are planning for an itch-free #TIFF10,” tweeted TIFF co-director Cameron Bailey. Mm-hmm. Sorry, Europe! Good luck, Asia and Latin America! Bring your duct tape and bug spray, Los Angeles! We’re all blood brothers now. [ THR ]

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Now the Bedbugs Are Threatening the Toronto Film Festival

Bedbug Panic Hits the Web: The Interactive Map [Fearmongering]

In the mood for some bedbug-related fearmongering and/or pranks? Check out BedbugRegistry.com , where users catalog close encounters with the bloodsucking kind. Come, let us explore this terrorizing website and see whose lives we can ruin with it. More

Bedbug Panic Grips NYC Multiplexes!

The following is presented largely without comment because I am too busy sealing my doors, duct-taping my pants and shirt tight at the ends and renouncing public moviegoing forever : “[A] new division of bloodthirsty bedbugs has sacked the AMC Empire 25 multiplex in Times Square. A moviegoer who requested anonymity tells us that 30 minutes into [Sunday] night’s screening of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World , she was ‘covered in bites.’ [… T]he AMC on 125th is fighting a bedbug infestation as well.” And this is how I become a DVD reviewer. [ Gothamist via HE ]

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