NY Post’s Page Six and others are lamenting the presence of idiot celebrities at the Sundance Film Festival, which opened last week. Most of these people have never acted in anything other than their bathroom mirrors but are huge publicity whores.

Well, Sundance isn’t the only place this happens. The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, September) was once barely attended, but once Toronto started being called Hollywood North because of all the film production, a lot of B-, C-, and D-list celebs started showing up. And probably the paparazzi that goes with such turnouts.

Vancouver has not yet suffered this problem, despite all the film production there, but after the 2010 Winter Olympics, they might. [Updated] The city does have its VIFF (Vancouver International Film Festival), so the same sort of “d-list movement” is bound to occur there. Where there’s publicity, there’ll be publicity whores.