The news that this year's slate includes the first-ever Sundance screening of a film by Chinese filmmakers prompted Utah. Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., a former U.S. diplomat, to bust out a Mandarin greeting at the Friday-night premiere of the Tom Hanks' produced film, "The Great Buck Howard." And that set up Hanks for a well-timed political joke. "Since Gov. Huntsman speaks fluid Mandarin, I'm not surprised he's leading in South Carolina by 13 points. He seems to have come out of nowhere." The crack lumping Huntsman with another prominent telegenic Mormon politician, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, scored big laughs with the hometown crowd. As did Hanks' joke that reading Sean McGinly's script felt like winning the "Utah lottery." All the levity was capped by the sight of Hanks carting the podium as he left the stage of Salt Lake's Jeanne Wagner theater, so the people in the "cheap seats" would have a better view of the movie starring his son, Colin.