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Headline: Ang Lee to take Woodstock!
23rd April 2008
Posted by: Gary Gray

Director Ang Lee has revealed his next project will be called Taking Woodstock.

The flick will be an adaptation of Elliot Tiber's memoir "Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, A Concert, and A Life." The book, published last year by Square One Publishers, was written by Tiber with Tom Monte.

Tiber played an unexpected but pivotal role in making the 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the famed happening it was. Working as an interior designer in Greenwich Village during culturally and politically exciting times, Tiber felt empowered by the gay-rights movement. But he was also still staked to the family business – a Catskills motel. As its part-time manager, he had become the local town's issuer of event permits, granting himself one annually for a small music festival. When he heard that the planned Woodstock concert had had its own permit denied by a neighboring town, he called to offer his own. Soon half a million people were on their way to Tiber's neighbor's farm in White Lake, New York, and Tiber found himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life, and American culture, forever.

James Schamus will write the script for the film studio he just happens to be CEO if, Focus Features.

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