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Desert Bloom. Not a snowbird? Try heading to Utah's Red Mountain Resort & Spa, where the "Signature Package" includes three meals per day, unlimited fitness and wellness classes and guided hikes for $199 per person per night, plus you can book a massage or facial for just $69. Forgo the classes and just enjoy the meals and the resort's pool and fitness center for just $169 per night. Through March 31. 1275 East Red Mountain Circle, Ivins, UT; 877-246-HIKE...
...film. The major fault in my plan was that actors and directors with movies at Sundance don't see other movies, since that would restrict the time they could spend talking about their own movies. Desperate for a new strategy, I thought about what had worked before in Utah. I gently asked festival programmer Trevor Groth what the punishment was for bribing judges. "Bribery doesn't happen enough in the film-festival circuit. I've been waiting for it for years," he said. So I asked talented, handsome actor Lou Taylor Pucci--one of three shorts judges--whether...
...corner, downing an impotent Utah beer and staring at a roomful of younger, hipper, less competitive people. They really were just happy to have their work shown to an eager audience. And for at least that moment, I was happy to have talked about myself to celebrities, eaten free food and drunk an enormous quantity of free absinthe. In fact, Defamer.com called me "the most coddled noncelebrity at Sundance." Which could form the basis of a pretty good short for this June's CineVegas festival...
...tell someone who lives in Aspen that you spent five days skiing and watching sixteen films, they might suspect that you spent the week on a cocaine binge with the ghost of Hunter S. Thompson. If you tell the same story in Park City, Utah, though, even your cab driver will give you a knowing smile that says, “Your first Sundance Festival...
...explained the whole story of the Mormons to me—from Joseph Smith to the point in the 1970s when Latter Day Saint clerics announced that miraculously the Mormon church was no longer just for white people. I soon found that the most common defense of character in Utah is, “I’m not Mormon.” The driver was Italian, he said...