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

· Good news! Sundance's insidious freebie parasites avoided the swag cutback forecast for 2009, with Paris Hilton actually picking up 10 bags totaling $7,000 worth of shit from one lounge on Main Street. The economy is OK after all!

· Bad news! This year's documentary class isn't selling as swiftly as previous years'. Making matters worse, with nonfiction films quarantined mostly to the Temple Theater outside Park City, fewer audiences are seeing docs in 2009 than perhaps ever before.

· Good news! The consensus around town has 2009's fest selections as one of the best Sundance line-ups in recent memory.

· Bad news! Unless you made one of maybe 10 lucky films purchased to date, count on going home with your movie in one hand and a tin cup in the other.

· Good news! The festival's short-film juries announced this year's winners, led by Short Term 12 and followed by work from photographer Sam Taylor-Wood (Love You More) and actor Brady Corbet (Protect You + Me).

· Bad news! Without comment, we pass along the word that Peter and Vandy star Jess Weixler "is done with her days of playing a man-eating vagina."