Read this: Sundance It Girl Brit Marling, Ice Cream Man, Mike Pence, Jay Carney

Sundance darling Marling (Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Sundance)
It Girl alert! The breakout star at the Sundance Film Festival is a 2005 Georgetown grad, Brit Marling -- who not only starred in two acclaimed movies ("Another Earth" and "Sound of My Voice") but co-wrote them, with two different Hoya classmates. Marling threw herself into filmmaking, reports Ann Hornaday, after investment banking proved less than fulfilling, if you can imagine that.

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Ice cream man speaks! Everything you want to know about the coatless guy battling the thundersnow for a scoop of pistachio. And join the now iconic Zach Burroughs for a live web chat at 12:15.
In other news: It's 2011: Time for candidates to start dropping out of the 2012 race. Farewell, Mike Pence, we hardly knew ye... Jay Carney, new White House press secretary, is smart and engaged and all those other things reporters say about the new guy before the relationship falls apart.
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