Emma Roberts gets a lift for her spirits

EMMA ROBERTS started off Sundance on a shaky footing. The actress was looking down and out at Bing Bar at the festival on Saturday, where she politely refused to pose for pictures. That same night, a source tells us Roberts begged another woman to relinquish the cab they simultaneously hailed on Main St. in blizzard-like conditions. “Please let me take it, I’ve had the worst day ever,” Roberts told the woman, who graciously gave up the ride home.

ANTHONY MACKIE says he’ll be just fine if he never acts again. At Thursday’s after-party for Cinema Society and Gilt Man’s screening of “Man of a Ledge” at Acme, Mackie, who stars in the movie, told us that opening his Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, drinking den NoBar last year has turned out to be “the best way to make legal money.” The venture is so successful, he says he plans a second outpost in Williamsburg in April. But Mackie vowed he’ll “never” open across the East River. When Manhattan bars and nightclubs “start accepting pounds and euros, that’s when you know it’s over,” Mackie said.

In other action, a source tells us that in Sundance on Saturday, Mackie defended his driver when a pack of angry revelers, who had been denied a ride, pelted his car with snowballs. Our insider says Mackie, who’d just hosted the Bombay Sapphire Imaginative Filmmakers Spotlight event, left the car and fired a couple of snowballs back at the hooligans.

KATE BOSWORTH’s boyfriend Michael Polish is one smart fella. At the Stella Artois gifting suite in Sundance, we overheard the actress telling her beau that she looked bad, and he quickly disabused her of that notion. “Oh no, you don’t,” he replied, prompting the “Straw Dogs” beauty to walk over to him. Polish kissed his girl on top of her head, and when the couple and their entourage left the swag suite, they started making out in the hallway.

ANGELA BASSETT got a little emotional at dinner Saturday. The actress, who co-starred with Samuel L. Jackson in “The Mountaintop” at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, gave a teary toast at Orso in the Theater District to a group that included Jackson, Star Jones, David Alan Grier, Rufus Wainwright and Lily Rabe. A source says the dinner was hosted by producer Jean Doumanian to celebrate the play’s final performance the following day. Fighting back tears, Bassett described her time with the show, which reimagined the events the night before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, as “a perfect experience.”

SCENE STEALERS: Scarlett Johansson checking out “Sleep No More” with Kieran Culkin at the McKittrick Hotel on Thursday. After the show, a spy says the two were “goofing around” outside the venue. ... Amar’e Stoudemire waiting patiently for his table to be ready at the Darby Friday before sitting down to dinner with three pals and a lady friend. ... Wilmer Valderrama getting an entourage of more than 20 into Tao with Marquee Las Vegas at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday. ... Questlove celebrating his birthday on Friday with a lunch at Bill’s Bar & Burger in Rockefeller Center, which is near NBC’s “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” studio. An onlooker says the low-key party of seven shared burgers, beers and celebratory cupcakes. Post-lunch, the birthday boy and band members embarked on a weekend tour of five cities in three days.

WE HATE TO SAY we told you so, but our sources were right about Aretha Franklin. On Tuesday, the Queen of Soul and William Wilkerson issued a joint statement saying they were calling off their planned summer wedding. On Jan. 18, sources in Franklin’s camp told us they were skeptical the singer would actually walk down the aisle. (For more on the story, check out Gatecrasher online at nydailynews.com.)

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