PARK CITY — Supermodel Christie Brinkley and "Access Hollywood" smooth talker Billy Bush love Utah, and this week they were soaking up the 25th Sundance Film Festival.

After a day of skiing at Deer Valley Thursday, Brinkley chose Park City to unveil her new "got milk?" campaign Friday morning while Bush waited for an interview with her.

The fresh-faced Bush and a charming Brinkley took a moment to gush with the Deseret News about one of their favorite places.

"Canyonlands is just one of the most spectacular places on earth," Brinkley said in an interview. "I love the Wild West — I love getting 'out there ... "'

Brinkley's reaction was dramatic upon hearing how the Sundance Kid, Robert Redford, has been on the offensive lately against the oil and gas industry's proposals to drill in Utah's famed Red Rock country.

"Oh my gosh, no," she said. "That would be a crime," she said about one proposal, now nixed, to drill near Utah's iconic Delicate Arch.

This past week was Brinkley's first visit to Park City, a place she said is being threatened by its own popularity.

"I feel like there's an awful lot of buildings covering a lot here," she said. "It's a charming, beautiful place. I just hope that its own beauty isn't its own worst enemy."

Brinkley and a friend took in Thursday's opening premiere "Mary and Max," a feature film done in claymation. "It touched me," she said. "I had a lump in my throat halfway through the movie that didn't go away."

Brinkley described the film as "wildly creative" on every level, sweet and a movie with a great message of tolerance.

"You have to just treat people with respect every day," she said.

Brinkley said she plans to see a few more films with friends starring in them and that she'll be around until Sunday. One of her favorite places to eat, so far, was Grappa, just in case anyone wants to grab a good bite to eat and perhaps a glimpse of Brinkley's smashing smile.

Another guy with a lot to smile about is Billy Bush, who calls New York home but also spends about two months each year at his house in Park City, taking time out to ski with his children, ages 10, 8 and 4, in Park City, Deer Valley and at Alta when it snows hard.

On the flight to Utah Thursday he sat with an NBC executive who came up with the "Miracle on Hudson" tag for the "Today Show's" piece Friday on the commercial plane crash the previous day.

"Absolutely horrifying," Bush said about the crash. "Seeing that plane sitting in the Hudson River is a very horrifying sight — it just doesn't belong there."