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I was in Park City Executive Producing MTV News’ extensive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival. I interviewed The Edge on his involvement in the forthcoming film, “Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man.” This interview occurred at the Motorola Lounge on Monday morning, January 23, for a program on MTV’s broadband channel, Overdrive, called “Sundance Rock…

Until yesterday, I thought interviewing Neil Young was going to be my most challenging Sundance assignment. We have these daily production meetings here in our little condo/office where we run through who’s gonna interview who, and who’s gonna cover what. But I missed yesterday morning’s on account of my “Leonard Cohen” screening. Now, you gotta…

Saturday night at the Sundance Film Festival, and the MTV News team is in the hotel room watching “Austin Powers.” Well, not exactly. Smita and I are working. I’m writing a piece on the hip hop doc “Beyond Beats & Rhymes.” Smita’s cutting a piece on music documentaries. Vanessa and Pat are taking a break…

Everyone else is out getting their Sundance party on, and I’m inside watching a documentary. And what an spectacular documentary. I can’t tell you the last time I smiled for two hours staight. Or cried. Or felt this inspired. For “Wrestling With Angels,” Oscar-winning documentarian Freida Lee Mock spent three extraordinary years with one of…

Yeah, my condo has a hot tub. Yeah, I’m at the Sundance Film Festival. Yeah, it’s totally beautiful. Yeah, I’ve already been within two feet of Jennifer Anniston (Brad made a mistake). Yeah, I’ve already nearly bumped into Sting. But there’s no way I’m going to have a chance to sit in the aformentioned hot…

In twenty-four hours, I’ll be at 33,000 feet. I’m flying to Salt Lake City, then driving to Park City, to attend the Sundance Film Festival. And I’m kinda nervous. It’s not so much that I’m nervous about flying. I am. But that’s the price of entry. If the plane goes down, my brother knows what…