Entertainment In Brief
It’s “peace, love, rolling” for Ang Lee as he starts to shoot Woodstock movie. Plus, our pick for Halloween ’08
By the time Lee got to Woodstock...
Ang Lee — the Taiwanese director known for moving back and forth between Chinese and American films — has started filming his first flick in the U.S. since 2005’s pivotal Brokeback Mountain.
And the subject matter could not be more American — those three crazy days that comprised the cultural event known as Woodstock. Actually, in Taking Woodstock, Lee’s tackling more than those three days, as the movie begins before the first chords ring out, when local motel owner Elliot Tiber (The Daily Show’s Demetri Martin) brokers a deal between festival organizers and Max Yasgur (Eugene Levy), the owner of the dairy farm that became Woodstock’s home.
The movie is based on Tiber’s memoir of the same name, and the story has some things in common with Lee’s last North American release. Tiber was a closeted gay man who led a double life — helping his parents run their dilapidated, rural motel during the week, and partying with the likes of Truman Capote, Robert Mapplethorpe and Tennessee Williams in New York City on weekends.
Emile Hirsch will play a Vietnam vet, and reports are Liev Schreiber is in talks to play the drag queen Vilma, but his role had yet to be confirmed at press time. Taking Woodstock should hit theatres next June.
—Marni Weisz
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Artifact
This month’s objet de film
Sally Halloween Costume
It’s not easy to be spooky and adorable at the same time. In movieland,
no one has mastered this duality better than a little stop-motion
puppet named Sally.
Born of Tim Burton’s brain more than 15 years ago for The Nightmare Before Christmas,
Sally has remained a perennial fall fave thanks to a 3D version of the
movie that has been re-released in theatres for the past three
Octobers. (This year, it hits screens October 24th. Check Cineplex.com
for theatres with 3D capability.)
That’s why we chose this sweet Sally costume from Buy Costumes.com as our pick for Halloween 2008. For
$38 (U.S.) you get the patchwork print dress, long red wig and
glovelettes (makeup not included but is available on the site). Sally’s
true love Jack Skellington is also available.
—Marni Weisz
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