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Sundance Pundit Poll: What Are Your Three Must-Sees?

Here at Movieline HQ we like to keep our fingers on the pulse of the film world, so we’ll be polling film critics and bloggers in Park City on a variety of topics throughout the week. Check in each day to hear what our panel of experts have to say about the hot films, deals, and stories coming out of Sundance ’11… starting with Day 1’s Big Question: Which three films do you refuse to leave Park City without having seen?

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The World Does Not Need a Bed Intruder Reality Show, But It Will Get One Anyway

Internet users, you’ve created a monster. Antoine Dodson, the Huntsville housing project resident who shot to insta-stardom after providing an unintentionally hilarious local news segment about his sister’s attempted rape (only in America, guys) has become a viral sensation — he’s already been featured at length on Tosh 2.0 — and served as inspiration for “Bed Intruder,” a popular iTunes remix by the Gregory Brothers. And now, Dodson might be coming to a television set near you. To paraphrase America’s newest sweetheart, “hide your kids, hide your wife and hide your husband.”

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The World Does Not Need a Bed Intruder Reality Show, But It Will Get One Anyway

This Week in Joan Rivers Insults: Tommy Lee Jones, Sarah Palin

Since we’re still all bitter that Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work wasn’t considered for the Oscar documentary shortlist, Movieline’s giving its own awards now. “Best Tommy Lee Jones/Fuhrer Joke” goes to Joan “You Don’t Even Know Me, Judd Apatow ” Rivers. At the tail end of a week where Rivers mocked Sarah Palin on Fox & Friends , she just named The Fugitive ‘s Oscar winner as Hollywood’s evilest, most Hitler-conjuring man. We had no idea! Let’s watch her explain.

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Sundance Swag Report: The Power of Ed Helms Compels You (To Keep Warm)

It’s still eerily quiet here in Park City, so Movieline popped into Main Street’s only pop-up insurance agency for our first Sundance Swag Report. Those crazy kids over at Fox Searchlight have constructed an entire insurance agency to promote their Sundance entry/coming-of-age comedy Cedar Rapids , about a small town insurance agent (Ed Helms) who has the weekend of his life at a convention in Iowa. Because nothing says “sexy Sundance swag” like wood paneling and hot apple cider! (Sexy, sexy swag pics within.)

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Sundance Swag Report: The Power of Ed Helms Compels You (To Keep Warm)

PIC: 30 Rock Reveals NBC’s Programming Strategy

American Idol Top 3 Auditions: I’m So Over the Rainbow

American Idol in New Orleans! Jambal idol ! Interview with a Vamp idol The second day of Idol auditions was mercifully shorter than the first, but we still took home the same amount of triumph and travesty. An economical episode, really! Nigel Lythgoe so gets America. Let’s rewind and pick three auditions that didn’t make us poison ourselves.

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American Idol Top 3 Auditions: I’m So Over the Rainbow

OMG: The Breaking Dawn Title Treatment Arrives; Wait, What?

At the risk of being a jerk: Has anyone actually seen the phrase “title treatment” before? “Title card,” sure; but “treatment”? It just seems like we’re in new territory here — one similar to the place where that Transformers: Dark of the Moon announcement trailer lives. (And looks awesome; what can I tell you?) Anyway, click ahead to see your first look at the title treatment for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part I . There’s no butter-colored sex , but there is some fancy, curly typeface. So, win!

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Project Nim Opens Sundance, Proves Life Stranger Than Fiction

It says something that out of four feature-length films opening the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, the hottest ticket in town wasn’t the celebrity doc ( Sing Your Song ) or the buddy cop thriller starring two famous-for-an-indie-movie stars ( The Guard ). Instead, Thursday’s big premiere was Project Nim — or, as it was referred to around Park City, “the monkey movie” — a documentary by returning Grand Jury Prize/Audience Award winner James Marsh, whose first and last Sundance debut ( Man on Wire ) went on to win an Oscar.

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Project Nim Opens Sundance, Proves Life Stranger Than Fiction

George Lucas Doesn’t Believe in 2012 and 6 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Also in this Friday edition of The Broadsheet: A Star is Born gets born again with an unlikely duo… Russell Brand is ready to Rock … Taco Bell doesn’t like potential kiddie porn… and more ahead.

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George Lucas Doesn’t Believe in 2012 and 6 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Sundance is Hip, Red State Fuss Overblown, and 6 Other Talking Points From Robert Redford & Co.

Among the topics at hand today as Robert Redford held court in Park City, Utah to open the 2011 Sundance Film Festival: The Sundance Institute’s commitment to artists, their plans for global domination, how the fest is getting with the times ( Twitter !), and of course, Kevin Smith’s Red State . Because even in a wide-ranging convo about the storied indie mecca that Redford built, Smith’s attention-grabbing, not-screening-for-press Christian homosexual murder pic had to steal the spotlight. Highlights of what Redford, festival director John Cooper, and Executive Director Keri Putnam had to say (including awkward chatter about marketing “riff raff” and rival fest Slamdance) after the jump.

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Sundance is Hip, Red State Fuss Overblown, and 6 Other Talking Points From Robert Redford & Co.