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The gods of cinema (Robert Redford, Regal corporate) giveth and they taketh away.
Sundance distinguishes itself from these other festivals in a number of ways.
Theres gold in them there ski hills.
As did the 2022 festival, which was supposed to have been in person until Omicron shut it down.
Im here to slink into these places and watch it happen.
This is something ateddybear would wear, he says, I guess to imply that its not real-bear fur.
And I can hide food in my hat.
(Ben Platt, to be fair, is wearing a shearling coat.
With his beard and sad, sweet eyes, it gives the effect ofIkea monkey.)
Behind me, I hear W. Kamau Bell geeking out over the presence of Daniel Dae Kim.
Its Daniel Dae Kim!
Is he a hologram?
Im three feet from Daniel Dae Kim, and hes hugging my wife!
A moment later, I hear him say, Ivealwaysbeen like, Jin is being unfairly portrayed.
Theyre just like us!
Still hung up onLost.
I say something aboutM3ganthat falls totally flat.
When she brings upCall Me by Your Name,she says, Sadly I wasnt in that one.
Luca had asked me to play the peach.
There was a scheduling conflict.
Thank God, because then Id be another woman Armie Hammer tried to eat.DAKOTA!!
Just like that time she locked people inside aBlue Bottle coffee, shes got this whole room held captive.
When Lena Waithe presents Coogler with the award, she used the phrasethe Kings English.
Is this what were calling it now?
We have an Indigo Girls song in the movie!
You pick up with friends you see once a year, right where you left off.
But that, to him, is the spirit of Sundance as a festival.
Tomorrow: Rupi Kaur, brand activations, and the descent into disruption.
