IN THE AFTERMATH OF LOVE AND WAR.

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      It's the 17th annual Edmonton International Film Festival and the bar is a watering hole across from the historic corner of Whyte Avenue that burned to the ground two nights earlier. Joe Canadian -- icon of the famous Molson ads -- is Jeff Douglas, who's starring as a commitment-phobe in a romantic comedy from Halifax called 'Touch & Go'. The hobbit is Glasgow actor Billy Boyd -- a.k.a. Pippin from 'Lord of the Rings' -- who's at the festival to promote a program of Scottish shorts. And there you have the pathos of Canadian cinema in microcosm -- an actor made famous by a beer commercial becomes a leading man, but ends up serving as an usher at his own movie, after being upstaged by a hobbit.