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All Sundance, all the time.


So you can't make it to Utah this year, but you want to get up-to-the-minute up-to-the-min·ute
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Constituting or including the very latest information: an up-to-the-minute news bulletin.


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 news on the latest happenings at the Sundance Sundance is a popular ski resort located near Provo, Utah. It was bought by the actor Robert Redford in 1968. Redford's wife was from Utah and they had built a home in the area five years earlier.  Film Festival? Fear not, film buffs The name Buffs can mean:
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. Sundance Channel, the pay-cable network available on many cable systems throughout the country, promises to take viewers wherever the action is.

Throughout the festival the network will screen three-minute updates rifled ri·fle 1  
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a. A firearm with a rifled bore, designed to be fired from the shoulder.

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 "It's Right Now!" which will offer breaking news and coverage of parties, screenings, and events along with filmmaker profiles and human interest stories. There also will be two editions of "24 Frame News," a six-minute news program featuring profiles of films and interviews with filmmakers. The first screens January 22 and will serve as a prefestival overview. The second screens January 29 and will recap re·cap 1  
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1. To replace a cap or caplike covering on: recapped the bottle.

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 the goings-on of the first festival week.

On January 30 at 11 p.m. Eastern time, the network presents "Sundance Film Festival Live!" a 90-minute program covering the closing awards ceremony. But you don't have to be a Sundance Channel subscriber to see this. As it did in 1998, the pay network will bring the festival's final weekend to cable customer across the country during a free preview Free preview is a term, most commonly used by cable television, referring to when cable systems offer a pay-TV service to customers for free for a short period of time. History  January 29-31.

As if all this were not enough, throughout January Sundance Channel will present nearly 100 independent features and shorts from previous Sundance festivals, including the television premiere of Tony Vitale's 1997 Sundance entry, Kiss Me, Guido. Want more? Check out Sundance Channel's Web site at www.sundancechannel.com.

Frutkin is senior arts and media editor of The Advocate.
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Author:Frutkin, Alan
Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Date:Feb 2, 1999
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