SUNDANCE — The Mormon man who calls himself "Sundance Skippy" has the necessary talent for what he does.He's not easily intimidated and he'll do just about anything to get a picture with a celebrity.He'll wave, shout, run alongside and generally embarrass himself to get their attention.He'll wait for hours in the freezing cold in the hope that somebody with a famous face will stroll by.He'll give away oven mitts, T-shirts and panic whistles.And once he's given the chance, he'll chat up people he's only met (or in some instances, people he's not met but he's going to call friend anyway).__IMAGE1__As a result, he has an impressive collection of photos of himself standing next to the likes of Kristen Stewart, Justin Timberlake, Uma Thurman, Al Gore, Zooey Deschanel, Josh Rabnor and a host of small and bigtime stars.He's a Facebook friend of Jason Ritter.He's also been dusted by a few of the famous. Robert Redford was in a hurry to get to dinner and Josh Brolin didn't seem interested in a friendly chat.His 2009 encounters are on a DVD show and available at the 2010 LDS Film Festival in Orem Jan. 20-23, a DVD documunted by local photographer/producer Mark Finch Hedengren.Hedengren said he filmed Skippy almost by accident after he ran into him in 2008 doing his thing. He intended to shoot a 3-minute short but ended up filming through the entire 2009 festival."Skippy" is actually Scott Jessop, a full-time Utah Valley University student with a major in communications who moonlights delivering 5-Buck Pizza when he's not haunting the streets of Park City in a T-shirt that says "I see Famous People" or "Free Hugs.""I'm the official correspondent for K-Bull 93 Radio," Jessop said, "so I'm usually here by 9 a.m. and stay until 11 p.m. unless it gets really cold. The colder you get, the less excited you get to see somebody."Jessop knows where to hole up and when to wait for celebrities because he's done this now for six years."Celebrities need to sleep and eat and so if you go where they go to sleep and eat, you run into them," he said.He usually tries to find spots that aren't popular with other fans because they tend to scare the celebs away, he said.He figures he's collected over 1,000 celebrity pictures.It's both a hobby and an obsession of sorts. He spend several hours a day in advance of the Sundance Festival researching stars so he recognizes them and knows something about their work. That way he has something to toss out when he gets his chance."They come out and you get starstruck for a second," he said. "It helps if you have something to say to them."
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