People come to Sundance to tell their stories, and in that spirit, we eschewed talking to directors and actors (you know, art people) to listen to tales told by Sundance's swag baronesses. Viva independent film!

His manic persona may have ebbed, and his profile may have lowered since the 1980s. All the better for Bobcat Goldthwait, one of the unlikelier Sundance darlings we've run into this year in Park City.

Our final round-up of news from the Sundance Film Festival brings together at last the Mo'Nique/James Gandolfini combo the whole world has been waiting for.

Well Sundance '09 is finally winding down. As we stagger out of Park City and back to our respective ghettos—Seth and Kyle to LA, STV to NYC—we thought we'd run down the numbers for you.

Though we've pointed out how many of Billy Bob Thornton's costars suffer untimely fates, we had no idea the star was taking extreme, air-shunning steps to curtail the curse.

[Actress Uma Thurman at Sundance; image via WENN]

As our visit to the Sundance Film Festival winds down, the news somehow gets progressively better and worse at the same time. For example:

We caught Lee Daniels's buzzy Push last night in a sold-out midnight screening. Push is an impressive accomplishment—a female-driven, inner-city drama featuring several astonishing performances, first and foremost being unknown Gabourey Sabide's Precious.

It used to be that Sundance acclaim meant the kiss of death for its recipients. The 2008 Oscar nominations may signal the end of that curse.

Though Sundance may have turned into a ghost town in the festival's waning days, at least those ghosts are still haunting us with good old pearls of overheard Hollywood wisdom.

For most swag PR teams at Sundance, snagging John Krasinski for an interview or picture with their product would be a high-profile get. This is not the case for Timberland, however.

It didn't take long for the definitive verison of the restaurant tête-à-tête between critic John Anderson and "Dude" Jeff Dowd to reach the Sundance wires. Not that it makes any less mind-crampingly absurd.

Our eyes have barely adjusted after emerging from the Egyptian Theatre for a packed screening of The Carter, Adam Lough's riveting, all-access Lil Wayne documentary. Here's five things we learned about the rap genius:

Sundance wouldn't be Sundance without an appearance or four by Sam Rockwell, whose superb sci-fi effort Moon features the actor playing opposite one of his most formidable co-stars to date: Himself.

Last year's flat Sundance marketplace is but a distant, duddy memory, with two more sales confirmed overnight and likely more to come as the die-hard festivalgoers settle in for the Park City long haul.

We thought critic Lou Lumenick elevated the festival-violence bar to insurmountable new heights with his Ebert-thwacking exploits last year in Toronto. But a Variety critic at Sundance may have just set his own standard.

Gawker operative Stephen Kosloff has sent us another batch of photos from the frozen film wonderland that is the Sundance Film Festival. Now with product-placing bunnies.

We're currently at the counter of the MySpace cafe, where a steady stream of celebrities have been filing in, ordering hamburgers and lattes with little-to-no fanfare—people like Woody Harrelson, Emmy Rossum, and Ben Foster.