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Since I posted in May about the casting of Demetri Martin as Elliot Tiber, the gay interior decorator, hotel manager, and Bethel, NY Chamber of Commerce head who played a central role in facilitating the legendary rock festival in upstate New York, the cast has evolved quite a bit.

You have to give Ang Lee credit for being a wily and unpredictable filmmaker. He’s moved somewhat seamlessly from low-budget dramedy (The Wedding Banquet) to classic period piece (Sense and Sensibility) to infidelity drama (The Ice Storm) to ignored western (Ride With the Devil) to much maligned

Ang Lee’s ‘Gay Woodstock’ Film Starts to Take Shape Posted in Film News tagged Ang Lee, Demetri Martin, Lieve Schrievber, Paul Dano, Take Woodstock Emile Hirsch at 4:38 am by Nick Plowman Remember Ang Lee’s “gay Woodstock“ movie (”Taking Woodstock” that was reported a few months ago? Well, it’s starting to coalesce.

Taking Woodstock, the upcoming Ang Lee/James Schamus film (the geniuses who brought us Brokeback Mountain) is set to begin production late this month. The film is based on the memoir of Elliot Tiber, a gay Greenwich Village interior decorator who volunteered his family's Catskills motel as the home base of the Woodstock music festival in 1969.

…but I’ll try.  A sprint of sorts through deacades of deserving contenders (in my opinion, of course). I ask you this: How did those lovable characters from “The Wizard of Oz,” portrayed so brilliantly by Ray Bolger (Scarecrow), Jack Haley (Tin Man), Bert Lahr (Lion) and Margaret Hamilton (Wicked Witch), fail to be nominated in any of the supporting categories?

We’ve seen a bunch of people developing great new Freebase apps over the last month or so, and I thought it was time to highlight a few of them. Powerset You might have seen Freebase mentioned in conjunction with Powerset recently. Powerset is a semantic search engine that searches Wikipedia and Freebase.

A nice ego-booster out of the blue. Bennett Cohon directed my play, Dead Angel, back in 2005 up in Hollywood. He spotted my blog on the internet and emailed me, said he remembered Dead Angel, liked it a lot and would I be interested in submitting something for Write Act Repertory's Freeway Series? I sent him Team Player, Thank You and Missing.