THE POPCORN REEL AT SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2008
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Park City: Where The Heat Isn't
Cold clock: The thermometer clock on the facing of
the Prospector Theater Hotel at midday today. The needle tells a chilling
story. (Photo: Omar P.L. Moore)
By Omar P.L. Moore/January 23, 2008
Even as the sun shone today in Park City, the
only thing that kept everyone going was the temperatures -- if they were
outside, that is.
It was a day to be inside and watch movies, which of course is what the Sundance
Film Festival is mostly all about. The other big Sundance draw is the
party circuit, which journalists, filmmakers and party-hearty locals who are
still around in this city of majestic mountains and narrow roads.
Still, there were those brave (or idiotic)
souls who were seen gallivanting on these frigid streets with na'ary a winter
coat to protect them.
At night it was bitterly cold, and even after a film "Assassination of a High
School President", a film which raised lots of guffaws at the Eccles Theater,
the cold was simply too much to bear.
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