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...discredit the bourgeois press usage of phrases like "academic freedom" and "Free World," but also to overcome the somewhat arbitrary tendency of the press to concentrate its coverage on spectacles. Reading the book, we are less likely to encounter the verbiage the New York Times brought us about Woodstock than fascinating pieces by John Holt and Weatherman Bill Ayers on the need for revolutionary forms in education, personal accounts of radicalization, and essays on the women's movement...
...watch the Elvis documentary or its Woodstock big brother, but don't think you're getting the early Elvis or the simple life. It all comes to you courtesy of MGM or Warner Brothers, and, just as the form is the cold, calculating product of the corporate arm, the content has been twisted and frozen. Elvis is no longer Elvis and Woodstock never really was. Instead, they mock our need for a heroic and honest past...
...counter culture is anathema in Vegas. Hang around the blackjack tables and you'll see that the greening of America has very little to do with determined little plants poking their heads through concrete vistas. Vegas was to have a rock festival last July, a bone-dry echo of Woodstock was all set to grit its teeth against the drifting sands while digging into an abandoned airfield on the edge of town. The town fathers moved quickly to see that it never came...
...having a bad year of it at MGM. Antonioni's Zabriskie Point had fizzled out. The Strawberry Statement hadn't caught on. Stanley Sweetheart hadn't even been heard from. Somewhere out there were all those youths, many of them paying more money to see Warner Brothers' version of Woodstock than they had paid to attend the actual event. So the MGM executives, never loath to jog after a trend, shoved a camera crew, armed with Metrocolor and Panavision, off to Vegas. Denis Sanders, who had recently won an Oscar for a documentary entitled Czechoslovakia, 1968, was sent along...
Disaster strikes so frequently nowadays that films like Elvis and Woodstock alone seem able to withstand the rush of events. A few years ago, Monterey Pop was an equally annoying achievement-full of interminable concentration on the Mamas and the Papas (John Phillips was in on its financing) and packed with a lollipop and roses view of life. But, ironically, due to the deaths of Redding, Hendrix, and Joplin, all of whom appear in the film, it is now, for all its flaws as a film, one of the few permanent memories of their work we have...