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...founders of rock 'n roll, the one and only Richie Havens, will be shaking everyone in their seats with his folk/blues/pop repertoire. He played at Woodstock and now he's headed for Somerville stardom. Somerville Theatre, Davis Square, Somerville...
...decade of the '60s represents, in many ways, a time of change. All of the cataclysmic events, from Vietnam to Woodstock and everything in between, have been firmly impressed onto our national consciousness. Our parents' generation grew up in these tumultuous times; for them, the film will have extra significance. For us? Well, there's certainly no lack of interest in the '60s among our generation (how many of you watched that NBC special a few months ago?) Granted, the message of the film is universal enough to transcend the limitations of time. Pearl and her family could have lived...
...Would you have liked to have gone to Woodstock yourself...
...person of Walker Jerome (Viggo Mortensen), a peddler they call "the blouse man." While the others watch Neil Armstrong walk on the moon, Pearl is in the back of the blouse man's truck becoming a giddy, blossoming girl again. A few weeks later, she goes with him to Woodstock, gets baptized in Day-Glo body paint and is spotted by a horrified Alison. My mother--the hippie whore...
...movie, written by Pamela Gray and directed by Tony Goldwyn, stretches plausibility to the snapping point. (In Woodstock, an impromptu city of 300,000 people that weekend, what are the odds you'd spot your mom with the blouse man? And, at the time of the moon landing, wasn't everyone talking about another little event that happened that weekend--Chappaquiddick?) It also lays on the Kantrowitzes' ethnicity too heavily; they are like chicken soup that's all schmaltz...