Somebody has to step up here, because Sundance wouldn't be Sundance without Jeffrey Wells there to kvetch about it.

The esteemed movie-industry journalist, and proprietor of the blog Hollywood Elsewhere, reports that his usual room at Park City's Star Hotel has been booked out from under him - even though he left his cowboy hat "as a token of my intention to return the following year. A cowboy hat left behind means you're a true-blue guy!"

Wells is now scrambling to find lodging, and will accept a room-share arrangement if necessary.

Wells has his limits, though: "Park City or nothing. In fact, Park City proper or nothing. I would rather stay in New York and never go there than stay in some outer s---ty area like Kimball Jct. or Heber City or the Canyons."

UPDATE: Wells reports Monday on his Hollywood Elsewhere blog that he has found lodging in Park City. The only problem? He can't check in until Friday, Jan. 16 - and Wells arrives on Wednesday, the 14th. Meanwhile, Wells' readers/commenters have gone to town on him and his cowboy-hat economics.