Sundance A to Z: Before you go, you need to know . . .

If you only cut out one article from the newspaper and tape it to your fridge each year, then, honestly, save your clipping for the Christmas show guide next holiday season.

But if you're willing to cut two articles out, then this "A-to-Z" look at the Sundance Film Festival might be worth the space on the icebox. It's full of useful, useless and usurped information that might come in handy when Robert Redford brings his closest 40,000 friends to town for an independent film love-fest from Jan. 20-30.

A-Team: Don't go get a mohawk — Mr. T and gang aren't debuting their bandied-about film. But there are a bunch of actors considered to be on the "A-list" who have flicks at Sundance this year.

Namely: Pierce Brosnan (no, a new James Bond isn't Sundancing; Brosnan's in "The Matador"), Michael Keaton, Robert Downey Jr., Adrien Brody, John Goodman, Danny DeVito, Sean Astin, Oumar Makena Diop, Holly Hunter, Kevin Bacon and Kevin Costner. . . . Oh wait, it's not the early '90s anymore; scratch Costner.

B-e-e: One short shows how Jimmy triumphs over the Sultan of Spell and the Queen Bee at the National Spelling Bee. Good luck to him if he has to spell the Sundance movies that have the words "Symbiopsychotaxiplasm," "Kekexili" and "Natchiliagniaqtuguk Aapagalu" in their titles. The latter, FYI, is a flick, according to the subtitles in the festival guide, that's about the time-honored father-son tradition of ""seal hunting with dad."

Curses!: Talk about bad timing. Michael Keaton's in a movie "Game 6" (remember the infamous Billy Buckner error?) that is based partly on how his character's run of bad luck rivals that of his favorite baseball team, the cursed Boston Red Sox. It apparently was made before Boston won the World Series last fall. Is there time left to edit? Call it: "Curse of the Reversed Curse."

Dancing, Sun-style: Currently, remaining individual tickets are on sale at box offices located at the Gateway Center (136 Heber Ave.) in Park City, at Trolley Square (700 E. 500 South) in Salt Lake City, at Sundance Resort in Provo Canyon, and in Ogden (2415 Washington Blvd.). Tickets cost $10. Don't get too traumatized if the films you want are sold out; other options include will-call, day-of-show tickets, wait lists and kissing up to Mr. Redford. Visit www.sundance.org for more info.

Extra! Extra! A Sundance film for everyone: Move over Harry Potter, here comes Helena. "MirrorMask," made in part by the Jim Henson company, is supposed to dazzle audiences young and old as a 15-year-old battles sloths, monkeybirds, scary sphinxes and other creatures to save the world.