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Published on: 10/1/2007
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Up to Woodstock next day as Caroline had 2 films she'd cast on view at the Woodstock Film Festival: the Wim Wenders-produced "The House is Burning" (directed by new German cinema badboy Holger Ernst--screening of this film at Cannes much lauded by Peter Bogdanovich)... and Sol Tryon's "The Living Wake" (got a fantastic review in Variety)..and we stayed with old friend BBD&O producer Peter Feldman and his inamorata the lovely Lisa, graphic designer extraordinaire (Peter is genuinely a lucky so-and-so) at his cool house deep in the Mt. Tremper woods ...drove down to Rosendale to its funky old theater (very Last Picture Show) and was quite proud of Caroline's work for "House is Burning" (didn't see the other film unfortunately), an excellent film on the order of Larry Clark's "Kids", about a dysfunctional blue-collar Jersey family and their wayward son about to be shipped off to Iraq--expertly cast and acted on a Cassavete's level of realife, mix of actors and young non-professionals...Su
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Up to Woodstock next day as Caroline had 2 films she'd cast on view at the Woodstock Film Festival: the Wim Wenders-produced "The House is Burning" (directed by new German cinema badboy Holger Ernst--screening of this film at Cannes much lauded by Peter Bogdanovich)... and Sol Tryon's "The Living Wake" (got a fantastic review in Variety)..and we stayed with old friend BBD&O producer Peter Feldman and his inamorata the lovely Lisa, graphic designer extraordinaire (Peter is genuinely a lucky so-and-so) at his cool house deep in the Mt. Tremper woods ...drove down to Rosendale to its funky old theater (very Last Picture Show) and was quite proud of Caroline's work for "House is Burning" (didn't see the other film unfortunately), an excellent film on the order of Larry Clark's "Kids", about a dysfunctional blue-collar Jersey family and their wayward son about to be shipped off to Iraq--expertly cast and acted on a Cassavete's level of realife, mix of actors and young non-professionals...Su
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day morning Peter and I ran into Mr. Woodstock.
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of Jerry, Ernie, Billy, Jason and Joey before a nicely full house boasting luminaries Michael Lang, the cherubic curly-haired imp/resario responsible for the original Woodstock Festival; Steven Saporta from the Invasion Group and his lovely wife; world music maven and Roswell Rudd's main squeeze Verna Gillis; percussionist extraordinaire Jerry Marotta who I'd last seen playing with Peter Gabriel and Tony Levin; legendary luthiers Joe Viellette and s Harvey Citron, plus Harvey's galpal my old friend Janet Perr, who was looking great--Janet is a brilliant award-winning graphic designer and illustrator with a new book out soon, "Yiddish for Dogs" on Hyperion (don't be a shmendrick, buy a copy!--the perfect gift for Hanukkah); Peter Feldman, ace BBD&O producer with immaculate musical taste buds; the great Levon Helm's manager Barbara O'Brian; stellar recording artists John Berenzy and Traci Bonham--legendary Led Zep drummer Bonzo's daughter--and her hubby, who writes for Rolling Stone; Mig