Hollywood hustlers should take a class from fast-talking
Minnesota filmmaker Tim "Vandy" Vande Steeg, who's proven
himself the Steve Buscemi of schmooze at Utah's Sundance Film
Festival this week. VandeSteeg's golf movie "Mulligan," shot last summer at Superior
National golf course in Lutsen, Minn., isn't in Sundance, but
he rented a space near festival headquarters to screen the film
Tuesday and Wednesday and got a sports bar to show it free. VandeSteeg
-- who's telling anyone with ears that his film is "Clerks" meets
"Caddyshack" -- lined up more than two dozen sponsors, including
the Subway sandwich chain, to the alleged envy of "Clerks" director
Kevin Smith, who asked, "How the heck did you do that?"
Here's one way: "Don't be a PIB -- person in black -- which is
what the locals call festival people," VandeSteeg said. "I told
my crew, 'Do not wear black.' " (K.T.)
