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...GLOBAL FORUM, Flamengo Park and other city sites, Rio, June 1-14 The largest sideshow will be an ecological Woodstock for an estimated 12,000 people from "nongovernmental organizations," including environmental groups, human-rights movements, religious communities, women's caucuses, youth associations, trade unions and alliances of indigenous peoples...
This is the new Hollywood gospel, and its prophet is Jeffrey Katzenberg. In January, Katzenberg, who runs Walt Disney's movie operations, wrote a staff memo that was passed around Hollywood more quickly and urgently than a joint at Woodstock. In this back-to-basics plea, he ripped the notions of the bankable star. "If this were true," he asked, alluding to Batman and The Two Jakes, "then how can one explain what happened to 1990's vehicle for 1989's 'most bankable star,' Jack Nicholson?" He apologized for the studio's big- budget Dick Tracy and disclosed that...
...Woodstock, N.Y., became the symbol of the Age of Aquarius when it lent its name to a three-day love-in and rock concert featuring, among others, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Arlo Guthrie. Though the festival was ultimately held 50 miles away, Flower Power devotees and New York City weekenders have since flocked to the once quiet community. But as Woodstock (pop. 6,800) has grown, it has run into some of the fiscal problems facing other towns and cities. Among them: paying off an $8.5 million debt to the local sewer district...
LIVING The Woodstock spirit is alive and well among the Rainbow People...
...Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, Jim Morrison's grave site pulls in the biggest crowds: pilgrims, rockophiles, ragged hippies who look as if they stepped out of a Woodstock Portosan 20 years too late. Last spring, while Oliver Stone's rockudrama on Morrison's group the Doors was still in production, with Val Kilmer in the lead role, one possessive admirer etched this graffito into the Pere-Lachaise headstone: VAL KILMER...