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Show WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2002 THE SUN rNew Sundance Film Festival getting Park City, Utah national attention Natalie Cooper Editor Sews The Sundance Film Festival concluded For nearly two weeks Park City'. UT has the host of the independent film festival that was founded by Robert The festival is growing in popularity' and drawing some big stars to our state. Even if you cant get tickets to any of the films it is a good place to have a chance to rub elbows with some big time stars. The following is from the Deseret News. Some of the festivals biggest stars: 1. Mira Sorvtno 2. Andy Garcia 3. Christina Ricci 4. James Cobum 5. John Malcovich 6. Brad Pitt 7. Jennifer Aniston 8. Robin Williams 9. Patricia Arquette 10. James Cromwell 1 . Rosanna Arquette on Sunday. Red-for- d. 1 12. Kyra Sedgwick 13. Urn . . . Paul Newman? 14. Matthew McConaughey 15. Ralph Macchio Movie: "The Laramie Project," touching and effective in spite of distracting celebrity cameos. Best Big-Hyp- Most Disappointing Big-HypMovie: The winner "Stolen Sum"Project Greenlight mer." Well-actebut the script is pretty' cliched and obvious. Movie: Austin Chick's "xxxy," refreshingly honest in its depiction of sexual stereoty pes. Best Little-Hype- d Worst Thematic Trend: Younger men having affairs with older married women, featured in "Tadpole," "The Good Girl" and "Rain." Best Performance: Philip Seymour Hoff- man, devastating as a grieving widower who turns to substance abuse for solace in "Love Liza." Best Performance by a "Friend": Jennifer Aniston, who shows surprising range as the title character in "The Good Girl." Worst Performance by a "Friend": Lisa Kudrow, painfully unfunny in a supporting turn in "Bark!" Best Performance by a Sundance Organizer: Sundance Nicole Guillemet, who kept the festival humming this year with less time to prepare and less funding than previous years. o Worst Fashion (for Women): Faux fur (at least they weren't sporting real fur). No-N- o Worst Fashion (for Men): Ponytails, which many, urn, folliclely challenged Sundance attendees seemed to be sporting. No-N- Worst Technological Development: The festival's Film Guide, which was the only way to find out what was playing (many Sundance goers didn't have the software or the time to download schedules). On-Li- Best Technological Development: Flux Network's software, which gave attendees a way Film Guide to perto dowmload the sonal digital assistants and let them w'atch the festival's online shorts. On-Li- Best Sign: "Buzz for sale. $20 per hype." It was on the Tower Theatre marquee during the entire film festival run. Phenomenon: The Best Meteorological somewhat balmy (for winter, at least) temperatures during the day in Park City for at least half of the festival. Worst Meteorological Phenomenon: The smog hanging around distinctly L.A.-lik- e both the Salt Lake City and Park City areas. Biggest Meteorological Exaggeration: Both L.A. Times critic Kenneth Turan and E Online columnist Anderson Jones claiming stories that Park in their in. snowed was nearly City 5 Anthrax investigation breakthrough may be near Susan Candiotti CNN special for The Sun Investigators appear to be on the verge of cracking the genetic sequencing of the anthrax strain that has killed five Americans since the fall, a source close to the federal investigation said. An announcement on the breakthrough could be made this week. The FBI and the U.S. Postal Service have been trying to locate the person or group that began sendletters through the mail in ing anthrax-lace- d to Senate offices in Washington and media outlets in New York and Florida. Two of the five people who died from inhalation anthrax were postal employees. All the deaths were traced to the Ames strain of the bacteria, first isolated in Iowa and maintained by the U.S. Army since 980 for testing purposes. The CIA also uses small amounts of the strain for research. Discovering the genetic sequencing could reveal the age of the deadly strain sent in the letters and might lead investigators to the laboratory or laboratories where it was produced, sources said. They said, however, even that information might not be enough to turn up a suspect, because so many scientists have access to anthrax for research purposes. Investigators have questioned workers at several laboratories in the United States, Canada and Great Britain. "We're not there just yet," one government official said. The potent anthrax spores found in the letter sent to U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, were being analyzed at the Army's biological warfare research laboratory in Fort Detriek, Maryland. Investigators said they hope the analysis also would help them locate the laboratory that produced the strain. Leahy's letter contained the largest amount of anthrax. Other letters were mailed to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, Dakota, NBCs Tom Brokaw and the editoi of the New York Post. CNN also confirmed Monday the FBI was investigating the loss or theft of more than two dozen potentially dangerous biological samples a decade ago from the military labs at Fort Detriek. The samples included anthrax microbes. An FBI source said the disappearance dates to 1991. The FBI investigation began after the first anthrax attacks last October, but it was unclear how long the FBI litis been looking into the missing microbes. Also this week, the FBI and Postal Service were expected to announce the rewart in the anthrax probe will nearly double, ti $2.5 million. Authorities said they hope ti publish a flier with the latest anthrax information. Florida photo editor Robert Stevens who died October 5, was the first victim in the anthrax outbreaks. No letter was discovered in that case, but anthrax spores were found throughout the American Media International building in Boca Raton where Stevens worked. The other deaths were in New York, the Washington, D.C., area and Connecticut. Bush declaires King a modern American hero 55 CNN Special for The Sun With the widow of Martin Luther King Jr. looking on at the White House, President Bush signed a proclamation Monday declar- ing the late civil rights leader "a modern American Hero." Bush praised King by saying he "brought much good into the world by the power of his voice and the truth of his words" as he worked peacefully for civil rights for people of all races. "His most powerful arguments were unanswerable, for they were the very words and principles of our Declaration of Indeand Constitution," said Bush, pendence recalling that when King led the August 28, 1963, March on Washington, it was "to hold this nation to its own standards; to live out the true meaning of its creed." The president also announced that in honor of King, the Department of Education would establish the "Martin Luther King Jr. Scholars Program to promising students all across America." "Some figures in history, renowned in their day, grow smaller with the passing of time. The man from Atlanta, Georgia, only grows larger with the years, Bush said. "America is a better place because he was here and we will honor his name forever." Coretta Scott King presented Bush with a portrait of her slain husband "to hang in the reminder of White House as an the power of the dream" he held for all Americans. ever-prese- nt |