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CHANNELING BARBRA STREISAND: If you love everything Neil Diamond, Bette Midler, or Barbra Streisand, you are in for a treat. The vocally gifted illusionist Edwards Twins, Anthony and Eddie Edwards (no joke), are in Seattle for a limited time to sing their asses off and impersonate many of the greats. People raves: "The Edwards Twins in many ways are better than watching the real thing." If you don't believe it, you will now. Seating can be hard to come by, so get there early. As a perk, on Tuesdays there's a two-for-one dinner special. Not bad! 6:30 p.m. dinner, 8:30 p.m. show // Julia's on Broadway, 300 Broadway East // Tickets: $25-35

SIFF is making a big deal out of snagging local director Lynn Shelton's Humpday for its Northwest Connections program; it'll be the SIFF Centerpiece Gala on Friday, June 5, and hopefully help raise money to help SIFF pay for their office relocation to the Seattle Center's Alki Room. We saw--and liked-- the "mumblecore bromance" Humpday at Sundance. We'll assume you know the HumpFest backstory. The "local" emphasis of the Northwest Connections program makes for a grab-bag experience: Sundance hit The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle will rub elbows with the filmed-in-Wallingford World's Greatest Dad, starring Robin Williams, and Sandy Cioffi's documentary, Sweet Crude.

The big Seattle news at Sundance was Humpday. Late Monday night, Lynn Shelton's film got a mid-six figure deal. Apparently, Shelton had her pick of the litter, as there were five other offers and a protracted bidding war. But she ends up with "an unorthodox release plan [that] will see Magnolia [Pictures] launch the pic on video-on-demand before an August theatrical release."

The stats geeks at Deconstructing Sundance aim to be the FiveThirtyEight of the film festival world by predicting the future box office success of Sundance films, using the words in their festival guide descriptions (and a Bayesian algorithm) alone. Example: 62% of Sundance competition films in the last 15 years whose descriptions included the words "gay," "gays," or "homosexual" went on to commercial success. So "gay" becomes a positive indicator of success, and so on and so forth.

It's always hard to come back to work after a holiday weekend; furthermore, even though it's Wednesday, last week Wednesday was Friday (so to speak). Today it's merely a run-of-the-mill Wednesday, which could be considered depressing. Maybe that's why this guy jumped into traffic on I-5 by NE 50th St. this morning. He wasn't hit, but other than that no one seems to know exactly how he's doing or what possibly made him think that was a healthy and life-affirming hump-day activity.