PARTY PLATTER Sundance's party slate got a heavy dose of rock-star charisma to add to the regular movie crowd. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion's set at the Indiewire shindig rocked the Deer Valley Lodge despite Spencer's complaints that ''flying coach'' from Nashville for the show had taken a toll on his performance.... Over at the Mulberry Street restaurant, the fete for Allison Anders and Kurt Voss for "Sugar Town" hosted rockers-turned-actors John Doe (X), John Taylor (Duran Duran), and Michael des Barres, as well as stars Ally Sheedy and Rosanna Arquette.... The Showtime party provided celeb sightings of Eric Stoltz, Julie Delpy, and Stephen Baldwin.... While he's kept a low profile at the fest thus far, actor Tommy Lee Jones was spotted leaving a screening of "The Minus Man," a psychological thriller starring "Armageddon" actor Owen Wilson.

TAYLOR'S NEXT WAVE: In "Sugar Town," former Duran Duran bassist John Taylor plays a musician who hit big in the '80s but can no longer find a record label for his band of passe rock and roll heavyweights (insert your own joke here). The role, which writers Allison Anders and Kurt Voss wrote for Taylor, was more than a little autobiographical. "Right now, I don't have a record company, so I'm just finding my way," Taylor told EW Online. "I've gone through a phase in the last seven years where I'm not a pop star anymore; I'm a musician, and I'm just trying to work." Taylor is currently selling his albums through his website. However, if the buzz over "Sugar Town" is any indication, Taylor's next wave may be forthcoming. Even the film's early-morning screenings, usually the bane of hard-partying fest goers, have been packed.

ON HER MARK Jacqueline Bisset stars in the Slamdance entry "Let the Devil Wear Black," a reprise of "Hamlet" that features the actress in the role of the adulterous mother. Bisset, who has been taking more and more roles in indies and overseas productions, admits that, though she may have been shy about putting in her two cents at the beginning of her career, she's now able to make sure the lighting and sound technicians on her films stay on their toes.

"I think it's really important to be lucid in everything in life," said Bisset. "By being prepared in that way, I can relax and forget my body and what I look like and concentrate on my acting." However, that doesn't mean that Bissett throws her weight around -- or has much tolerance for young upstarts who do. "At some point you've got to lose your ego and realize you're part of a bigger picture," she says. "I think when I'm on the set and I work with a new actor who's really into the ego trip, I get irritated inside because I realize he hasn't yet reached the point where he's realized he's part of a movie."

JACKIE WHO? While Bisset may have mastered life on the set, she should have a word with some of the street promoters for "Let the Devil Wear Black." One young man handing out flyers for the film called out to passers-by, "Has anyone ever heard of Jacqueline Bisset?" When one fest goer replied in the affirmative and said that Bisset was a household name, the callow youth shrugged, "Maybe for the older people."