From the you can't make this up file: This was posted on the Globe and Mail website recently. Anyone think there'll be any flare-up at the screening of Not Quite Hollywood? Only one way to find out, join us Sunday night!

Hot stuff on red carpet

Perhaps the Toronto Fire Department should be on hand for the Sept. 8 screening of Not Quite Hollywood, the raucous Australian documentary that's part of TIFF's Midnight Madness series. It tells the madcap story of Ozploitation films, a flood of soft-core sex romps, splatter flicks and road movies that were created after Australia's strict censorship laws were lifted in 1971. All were made on the cheap and on the fly, with zero on-set safety standards. Actors, directors and stuntmen took off their clothes, strapped themselves to speeding cars, dodged real bullets and in several cases, set themselves on fire. Now the doc is inspiring more than fond memories in the nearly 90 people whom director Mark Hartley interviewed. When it recently opened the Melbourne International Film Festival, the renowned stuntman Grant Page set himself on fire on the red carpet. "As a director you can't ask for more than that," Hartley says. "I'd love to do that in Toronto. Brian Trenchard-Smith, one of the main directors in the film, is coming to Toronto with me, and he once set himself on fire to prove to an actor it was safe. Maybe I could just light up Brian."