Gawker contributor Ray Lemoine, occasional Hilton adversary and resident Defamer party crasher, was in Utah last week to see the sights at the Sundance Film Festival. Here is his dispatch from the front lines of Hollywood's most famous excuse to get drunk in the snow.

The 30^th anniversary of the Sundance Film Festival is finally here and stars from around the world are flocking to Park City, Utah in the hopes of being seen seeing movies. This year the Sundance Institute, an organization "dedicated to the discovery and development of independent artists and audiences," will debut films starring newly discovered artists like Paul Rudd, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Lithgow, and Michael Fassbender.

Hollywood's favorite M&M's-addicted bully is the reason we can't have nice things. Or at least why the Sundance Film Festival can no longer have nice things, and instead has to have Paris Hilton, paparazzi, and worst of all, Hollywood.