Helena Bonham Carter, Sir Ben Kingsley, and a major purple coat.

“I read whatever is put in front of me,” says 13-year-old Kara Hayward. “I gobble up books. Right now I’m rereading Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Hayward’s voracious reading habits are shared by Suzy Bishop, the precocious bookworm she plays in Wes Anderson’s new film, Moonrise Kingdom.

Tanya Wexler is exactly like you’d hope the director of a romantic comedy about the invention of the vibrator— Hysteria , out today—to be: outspoken, funny, a generous conversationalist, and quick to laugh. She dresses and behaves like your childhood friend’s cool feminist mom—which is, in fact, exactly what she is (she has four kids)

Among the good things that came out of Sundance 2012 is Slated, a company devoted to investing in quality indie films! Here, here. Slated’s first two projects are already in the works: a look into the continuing demand for director Roman Polanski, in spite of the charges he faces for statutory rape he faces, should he ever return to the US, and a modern adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull, directed by actor Christian Camargo.