Today's Culture Vulture column (in the dead-tree Salt Lake Tribune) examines the whole foofooraw over California's Prop. 8 - the ban on same-sex marriage - and the calls for a boycott of the Sundance Film Festival through a unique perspective: That of the festival's programming director, John Cooper.

Cooper - who married his partner of 19 years while it was still legal - is also one of thousands of California gays and lesbians whose marriages are in legal jeopardy because of Prop. 8.

But Cooper also is determined to make Sundance a success, and a great experience for the filmmakers who bring their work to it.

"I'm not going to go in and damage this festival -- or more importantly damage an experience a filmmaker might have -- for talk of boycott," he said.