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Taking Woodstock more about journey than music Fun and interactive coming of age film ...but don't waste your ten bucks LAUREN MILLER Staff Reporter My first reacrlon TO[he movie "Taking WoodsTOck" was extreme dislike and disappointment. I wenrintorhemovierneaterrhat Sarurday afternoon hoping [0 see a movie that would have given me a more fun version of rhe history ofWooclstock with reenacted performances from [he great, and more than likely stoned, art- ist, at Woodstock nearly 40 years ago. as compared to rhe many documentaries on this year on the History Channel. The auroblo- graphical film, however, gnve nudiences a roruUydifferenr view 0 f rhe epic three day event. While I was expecting to hear some riffs of Hendrix, rhe Who. and Joplin. insreari r W~ bombarded with naked people, homosexuality, and Jewish Motel owners. What I had expected from the movie was a 2D nperience of watching the concert. Wh'lIlacmallygotwasanc:lrly3Dinreractiveexperiencelhal brought viewers into the grounds in Berhel. NY rc experience Woodstock in a way tim only being present Aug. IS-18th, 1969 at the original feslival would have experienced. The film was slow going for mcsr of rhe 110 minutes il ran, bur wirh many doses of csffelnared beverages I was able 10 make ir to rhe end. Elltor Tlber.jbe main character, may never have made it down to the arrual stage, but along the way he was in- troduced. and in turn introduced rhe viewers. to the myriad of eclectic rharacrers [hat made up the audience of Woodstock. He took us on an acid trip in an old V\'(I bus. He mer a Transvesrire marine and saw nuns and police officers telling loose. When £1- lior's old school-jewlsh parents ate some special brownies was a gemofascene. Whal this film was more than anything was a coming of age StOfYfor a young man who was growing up in a time where all boundaries were pushed. All in all I say rent this one. Ir may not be worth the 510 ro see it in a theater, but it's not a movie 10 miss either. Kelli Garner, Demelri Marlin, and Paul Dcno in Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock. Transvestite dance What to Watch: Of Men and Galaxies moves and full body CHARLES MULLIN .. r Stoff Report shaves; Oh the horror! The way J watch television is the way Iread a book or watch a movie. I watch it as a form o~ art. If something is rerri~le, I'm not going ro keep watching it to pass [he time. If something is good, [hen it can take a rlmeframe of an hour or thlrry minutes and rell an original Story. And those few that are good are why I love lV. SAMANTHA LAMBERT lion will have the trademark fishnets SloffReporler and corsets, so don't fret about char. but there is abo going to be a punk Hair added to rhe mix. Cast members Go.. " Nee long ago I sat at the pub with a are going to have dyed neon hair and Mnd Mm (AMC, Sundays at few cast members of the long-await- bright make-up along with animal- 10:00 p.m.) ed Rocky Horror Picture Show. and prinrand merallicdothing. Set in 1960's New York, Mnd I have no doubt rhar rhe Sepr. 30th Production plans also call for a Mm stars actor Jon Hamm as Don production is going to blow the tube- live band performing on a rotating Draper. head of fictionalized STer- socks off any pamciparlng fans in the platform. To make stage sets easi- ling Cooper Advertising Agency in audience. Mcljanlel's theatre depan- er, the tech crew is incorporating a Madison Avenue. The show finds rnenr has certainly made this cult multi- media fee! by adding a projec- Draper being not only a business classicirs own. tion screen in the background that man, but a ladies' man :15 well. And To prepare for the auditions for will Rash such images as crazy sci- the show deals with gender roles, this scienc~ fiction-horror produc- entists and creepy trees according to sexlsrn, and innovation in a swipe of rion, it was recommended that the each scene's needs. a hand. It is rhe winner of an Acad- cast members take a class called Act- McDaniel's own Andrew Tucker. emy Award for Best Drama and Besr ing and Musical Theatre their '09 who plays the leading role of Rocky, Acrorvyee lr also gets plenry cf praise Spring Semester with rhe director of admits (hat he is getting his whole for its accurate cosrume design. RHPS, Elizaberh Vandenberg (Troy body shaved and spray tanned to fit Women). After auditions the cast the image of Dr. FTankenfurler'ssex- member then further perfect their ual experiment. II hasyer to be con- Bad: ~sweet transvesd[e~ dance moves and firmed if he will bleach his hnir or HUON (NBC, Fourrh Season stans Sept. 2151) lilles by anending rehearsals every wear a wig "" Ihough he is not op- The show that starred off so well in i15 first seamn wilh complex characters inrcrw . I I' . . night for fout hours. posed to either opdoll. conc:pts eventually cam~ to a.crashi.ng and horrifying halt when the second and ;hitd sea::~:~~eo~~~esH:~!sf:~I~~i~~ If anything, thiSC35t is extremely The show is ~going to be preuy speCial people who 3te given mcredlble powers and have a specific destiny but the h . h . dcdicaredandenrhusiasricaboulthis epic." Tucker said. "It's going to re- acrers, ~oomany plot. holes, and too many filler episodes to count. Its ratrngs havenptlu:':~::cl ~s~::Sl;:00 maoy .char- production: "I only hope every show invigorate the meatre ... reinvcnr the worst kmd of bad. [IS a show that strives to be smart, but looks incredibly dumb and palhetic in the pr!:.ce. It IS rhe is as good as this one. said Chelsea whole vision TOget a new audience M Cook, a phamom involved.~ Something You May Have Missed: The cosrumes fOf rhis produc- Bnrrlmar GnlActica (Syfy, 2003 - 2009)