Boston Globe film critic Ty Burr this week kicked off his book tour, appropriately enough, at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. As a boy growing up in Brookline, Burr, whose new book, “Gods Like Us: On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame,” is a rumination on our romance with stars and stardom, spent countless hours in the darkened theater. “It was a real trip to launch the book there,” he said. Burr read from the book and showed a couple of entertaining, esoteric film clips, including something from “Sylvia Scarlett,” a 1935 romantic comedy starring Cary Grant. The crowd included
WGBH CEO Jon Abbott, realtor Chobee Hoy, film buff Justin Freed, who owned the Coolidge Corner Theatre from 1977 to 1989, current Coolidge executive director Denise Kasell, and Boston Underground Film Festival founder David Kleiler.