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It's not music, but The World Famous Lipizzaner Stallions are at Mckay Events Center tonight at 7:30 p.m., for $14.50 to $24.50 at SmithsTix.I have nothing against horses, but ...

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Patton Oswalt, who got a lot of kudos at Sundance this year for his performance in Big Fan, gave us a little love in return. In his blog today, he writes about his final few days at Sundance, including his meeting with us and the fact that he turned the tables and interviewed our web producer, Darren Ewing. He even includes the (blurry) picture I shot of them together with his camera.Thanks

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It used to be said that Sundance brings the snow.If the slopes of Park City were a little sparse at Christmas, then by mid-January - just in time for the film festival - the flakes would start falling.This year, though, the streets of Park City were positively balmy. Temperatures in the 30s, sunshine and blue skies.So, of course, on the day all of us are leaving Park City, the snow is falling.

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Here are the winners of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival:Grand Jury PrizeU.S. Dramatic: “Push: Based on the novel by Sapphire,” directed by Lee DanielsU.S. Documentary: “We Live in Public,” directed by Ondi TimonerWorld Dramatic: “The Maid (La Nana),” directed by Sebastián Silva (Chile)World Documentary: “Rough Aunties,” directed by Kim Longinotto (United Kingdom)Audience AwardU.S. Dramatic: “Push

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A smattering of memorable quotes from the Sundance Film Festival's Awards Night ceremony:"I'm really humbled to stand here. And I'm standing here representing all people in Tibet whose voices are being silenced."- Ngawang Choephel, director of "Tibet in Song," which won a Special Jury Prize for World Documentary."I totally agree with the jury. She gave an astonishing performance."- Chilean

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Among the thank-yous he gave in his Awards Night speech - to his staff, the volunteers and the people of Park City - Sundnace Film Festival director Geoff Gilmore got quite passionate about the worrisome future of independent film."The future isn't clear, it really is uncertain," Gilmore said. "The independent arena will change, and it has to change in order to prosper. It has to change because

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Awards Night emcee Jane Lynch ("The 40-Year-Old Virgin") had a word of warning to the winners at tonight's show: “The award itself weighs about 17 pounds. As you're giving your speech, you might want to move it along.”

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Sundance Institute executive director Kenneth Brecher got a rousing boo and a big cheer at Saturday's Awards Night introduction.Here's what he said: "When we began this festival, George Bush was the president of the United States" - boo! - "and we ended with Barack Obama" - yay!Brecher said he was thrilled that CNN showed the crowd on Park City's Lower Main, standing in the cold watching Obama's

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The Awards Night Ceremony for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival is about a half-hour away from starting, so the folks at the Racquet Club (like the bartenders, above) are getting everything ready to roll for a good party.The decor follows the 25th anniversary theme that has carried the entire festival - with posters of classic and long-forgotten Sundance titles, and screens featuring trailers from

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When is a film not just a film? When it's "a starting point" for dialogue about a pressing global issue.That's what the makers of "The Reckoning," a documentary about the International Criminal Court in The Hague, hope will come from their film, which had its last Sundance Film Festival screening Saturday morning at Park City's Holiday Village Cinemas. (Here's the Tribune's review, and here's the

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Mo Perkins' drama "A Quiet Little Marriage," about a husband and wife with different ideas about having a baby, won the Grand Jury Award for narrative features at the 15th Slamdance Film Festival, it was announced Friday night.The Grand Jury Prize for documentaries went to Zachary Levy's "Strongman," a profile of a muscleman approaching middle age.Other award winners:Special Jury Mention for Best

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Max Mayer's romantic drama "Adam," starring Hugh Dancy as an engineer with Asperger's syndrome and Rose Byrne as the teacher who starts to fall for him, has received the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.The award - which comes with a $20,000 cash prize, sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - goes to a movie that depicts issues of science or technology, or has a

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Chris Rock is violating the first rule of Sundance celebrity: It's the second Friday of the festival, and he's still here.Writer-narrator-interviewer Rock and producer Nelson George (pictured) were on hand Friday for the last screening of "Good Hair," a documentary about African-American women's hair. And if you don't think that's a ripe subject for a documentary, you will by the movie's end -

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Legend David Bowie showed up - late and unexpectedly - to the premiere of Moon tonight at the Eccles In Park City. Most of the press had dispersed from the red carpet, but our photographer Robert Hirschi was tipped off by staff that Bowie might show. -- Kim McDaniel

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This is the point during the Sundance Film Festival, after days of no sleep and too many movies, when the hallucinations set in. So I had to take a picture of this to prove to myself it was real.Jokes aside, this was the attraction of a PETA protest on Park City's Main Street this morning. PETA is campaigning against the use of live animals - particularly apes and chimps - in movies.As PETA

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Darren Ewing and I have spent a full week up in Park City covering Sundance. We've tweeted, blogged and interviewed our tails off, (producing more than 20 videos!) and it's ALL for you, of course. While we're catching up on sleep and sanity, you can check out anything you may have missed. We have interviewed Patton Oswalt, Robert Siegel, Kevin Spacey, Sam Rockwell, Rob Corddry, "Zombie Girl"

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The last two nights of big shows at Harry O's (427 Main St., Park City) have some of the biggest names all week. Tonight is Cee-Lo of Gnarls Barkley and Big Boi of OutKast, and Saturday night is Nas and N.E.R.D. with Pharrell Williams.OK, OK, OK. We know the price to go see these guys is a little steep in these tough economic times. But it's the last night of the Sundance-related concerts at

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Today is the last day of the ASCAP Music Cafe, and Guggenheim Grotto and Lenka are the stars. You can read about Guggenheim Grotto earlier in this same blog.Lenka has a hit on top-40 radio with "The Show," a pop ditty with some world music influences. She's from Australia, and is on her first headlining tour after coming to Utah late last year with the Hotel Cafe tour."I've always seen lots of

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Actors and actresses, especially at Sundance, can be a little self-important. But Saffron Burrows, Mark Webber, Keke Palmer and Dallas Roberts - a good chunk of the cast of Shrink, also starring Kevin Spacey - were happy to share some tidbits with us yesterday at the Stella Lounge. Check out our best-of video with them:-- Kim McDaniel

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As laid back and cool as you think Kevin Spacey is - he's all that and more. The multiple Oscar winner sat down with us in the Stella Lounge today to talk about his Sundance film Shrink, mentoring young actors and filmmakers (on stage and screen), and gave a little shout out to the web geeks out there (and in here). Check it out:-- Kim McDaniel

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Kevin Rudolf might not be a household name yet, but you've heard the song above. He and Georgia-based rapper Yung Joc will be at Harry O's (427 Main St., Park City) tonight for only $50, a third of what it cost the night before for Common and Macy Gray (the latter whom I heard was a no-show).Doors open at 8 p.m. Get your tickets at SmithsTix or YaYaTickets.com.

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It was a Good Hair day for us yesterday (hee hee), as we got to sit down with several of the people involved in the documentary. Scroll a bit, or check the playlist to the right (-->) for our Chris Rock interview. Below, hear what actress Sarah Jones and producer Nelson George had to say. They were just prepping for the Salt Lake screening, and George is a Sundance veteran, so there are some

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Today's Academy Award nominations were loaded with honors for films that first received attention at the Sundance Film Festival.One of the nominees for animated short - "This Way Up" (pictured above), a tale of two undertakers and a wayward casket, by British animators Adam Foulkes and Adam Smith - is playing in the Animation Spotlight program this week in Park City. (It screens tonight at 9 at

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The Wednesday night concert at Harry-O's featuring Chicago-bred rapper Common and Macy Gray got cut in half when a last minute cancellation by Gray put Common in the spotlight. Her loss. The club was jam packed top to bottom. The rapper/actor, who can be seen in the film Smokin' Aces, and the soon-to-be-released Terminator Salvation (with The Dark Knight's Christian Bale) proved that he can

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Destin Daniel Cretton's "Short Term 12" - billed in the Sundance program as "a film about kids and the grown-ups who hit them" - has won the Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.The winning short films were announced Tuesday night at a ceremony at Park City's Legacy Lodge.The Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking went to Swedish director Jonas Odell's "Lies,"

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