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Bringing Woodstock Alive
Video Content:
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TV Segment
(with film clips)
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Director
Ang Lee and James Schamus
(full interview)
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Actor Demetri Martin
(full interview)
SIDEWALKS
host
Maaika Westen interviews actor
Demetri Martin
(playing Elliot Tiber), producer / director Ang
Lee ("Brokeback Mountain," "Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon"), and screenwriter / producer
James Schamus on their comedy-drama
film, "Taking Woodstock."
Studio Synopsis:
A 1969-set story, based on Elliot Tiber's memoir,
about a man, Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin of the hit
cable series Important Things with Demetri Martin),
who inadvertently played a role in making the
Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the famed
happening it was. Working as an interior designer in
Greenwich Village during culturally and politically
exciting times, Mr. Tiber felt empowered by the gay
rights movement. But he was also still staked to the
family business - a Catskills motel. Upon hearing
that a planned concert had lost its permit from the
neighboring town of Wallkill, NY, Mr. Tiber called
producer Michael Lang (Jonathan Groff) at Woodstock
Ventures to offer his family's motel, the El Monaco,
to the promoters. Soon the Woodstock staff was
moving into the El Monaco; half a million people
were on their way to Mr. Tiber's neighbor's Max
Yasgur's (Eugene Levy) farm in White Lake, NY; and
Mr. Tiber found himself swept up in a
generation-defining experience that would change his
life, and American culture, forever.
Director: Ang Lee
Writers: James Schamus; Based on the book by Elliot
Tiber with Tom Monte
Cast: Demetri Martin, Dan Fogler, Henry Goodman,
Jonathan Groff, Eugene Levy, Jeffrey Dean Morgan,
Imelda Staunton, Emile Hirsch, Liev Schreiber
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