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DIRECTOR Michael Wadleigh has insisted time and again that he retained total control over Woodstock. Now if the people who write about movies in this country knew anything about them, he wouldn't dare make that admission; but as it is, the Woodstock movie is being hailed as imaginative moviemaking. It's not; it's poorly shot, clumsily edited, has no new ideas about the event, nor any on how the event should be presented. If you were at Woodstock, you'll know the film for a shuck; if not, you'll suspect...
...area in front of the stage, jamming it tight in a mass of wriggling, dancing ecstatic human flesh. The Band played for more than an hour, and at the end of the concert one of them told the crowd, "We're going to tell all our friends in Woodstock that Boston is one of the best places in the world to play music...
Explains Carrabello: "Stan sold his clothes for us. He went out and cut hair while we all stayed home and played music. He really pushed us into it." Two years ago, they achieved star billing at the fabled Fillmore West without ever having made a record. They played at Woodstock last summer; their performance in the subsequent documentary movie-with Shrieve on drums -is one of the longest and most arresting single acts presented. A year ago, Columbia Records released the first Santana album. So far it has sold 2,000,-000 copies and has earned the group...
While you devote most of your space to the Woodstock crowd, you frequently mention the existence of young Nixonites and Wallaceites, and on special occasions you even hint that there are a few scattered wishy-washy moderates...
...entertainer needed a stooge," says his father, "Elliott would be the one they'd choose. He could do a dozen dialects?German, Italian, Jewish, all of them. Then he performed one summer for three weeks in summer stock. He had the second lead in a pre-Broadway show at Woodstock, Some Little Honor...