I did my favorite cheap date last night, dinner and a movie. Actually, it was movie, then dinner, but same difference. We saw Taking Woodstock, Ang Lee's new flick about the staging of the (in)famous concert back in the waning days of the 60s. Fortunately I did not check the Tomatometer at Rottentomatoes.com before deciding on this particular movie, as it got a big green splat from them. I just wanted to see what this film was all about. And I think those Tomato guys missed the point. It wasn't so much about the concert as about Eliot, and his dismal family, and his coming of age, and his loss of innocence. The whole thing was worth it to watch Liev Schrieber play this incredibly laid back drag queen. He must have taken a page from John Lithgow's book, when he played Roberta in The World According to Garp, and garnered an Oscar nod for his sweet, vulnerable performance. Meryl Streep's daughter Mamie Gummer had a role, and there was this Jim Morrison lookalike that was positively adorable. Everyone was incredibly laid back. Well, everyone was stoned. And, amazingly, with half a million younguns, all of them hotbeds of hormones, there was no violence over the three days of the festival. Makes me think they should legalize pot. Hell, they should put it in the water! Afterwards, we walked next door to the East West Cafe, where I had this huge chicken salad with brown rice and hummus on the side, lots of veggies, just yummy. Another hommage to that era when we were all about love and peace. Far out.
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