61.   Even in independent films, the supposed last bastion of reality, the decimal points are moving ever right.

62.   Even the cost of a modest independent film would explode at a big studio, he said.

63.   Eventually, some LA club owners looking to invest in independent film got the script and leaked it to their actor friends.

64.   Evidence of offbeat theatrical thinking was everywhere this week, from the casting of a queen of independent film to the arrival of the so-called squonkers.

65.   Executives in charge of independent film companies said that studio control has no downside.

66.   First shown at the Sundance Film Festival in January, it holds up as an independent film that works equally well on a big or small screen.

67.   For a number of independent film companies, this may be a breakthrough year in the hunt for Oscars.

68.   Five years ago, when this independent film came out, Burns was a novice filmmaker.

69.   For the independent film companies, the hot foreign markets of last year have cooled.

70.   For the last year, she has been dating Edward Furlong, another young actor, who works mostly in independent films.