CABLE: Velvet‑Vamped Library Soirée. The Friends of the Summit County Library, Park City Film, and Reel Community Series brand themselves as guardians of free thought by staging the 2025 Sundance‑featured film “The Librarians” in the Jim Santy Auditorium, a venue that presumes gala black and step‑and‑repeat red, while the crowd struggles to find footing in a standing‑room‑only frenzy. Rebekah Cummings, digital‑portal crusader, Heidi Mathews, textbook savant, and former public‑defender Tom Ford exchange wary repartee on a panel that reads more like a charity wreath than a civic dialogue. Their earnest, yet slightly self‑congratulatory advocacy is eclipsed by an audience that seems more interested in photo‑op occupation than true discourse. The entire affair feels, at best, polished and, at worst, a façade of culture masking a fabricated sense of excess. Verdict: Send a check but stay home, because the PBS rebroadcast will sit on a quieter chandelier.