TIFF may be in full swing, but in the outside world, people are still going to the movies. Actually, there’s a festival connection to this week’s box-office report; while “Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself” was clawing its way to the top spot with a $24 million gross, Perry himself was right here at the Four Seasons, participating in the press junket for the TIFF gala “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire” with the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Mariah Carey and Mary J. Blige.

I was elsewhere in the building, at the “Up in the Air” round tables, so I couldn’t ask how the hell Perry wound up in the “Star Trek” movie. We still need an answer on that one.

And before you ask: No, I didn’t meet Oprah. Didn’t even see her. But the elevator did stop on her floor briefly, and when the doors opened I swear you could smell freshly baked pie and hear the sighing of cherubs.

Okay, I made up the pie thing. But you’d totally believe it, right?