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Obama Swiftboats Van Jones

Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Contractors, Fox News, Humanitarian, Green Jobs, Darfur, War, Drug Companies, Progressives, Private Insurers, Swiftboat, Drones, Van Jones, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Civilians, Howard Dean, Samantha Power, Mercenaries, Chris Wallace, Vietnam, Tim Geithner, Woodstock, Genocide, Afghanistan, Ryan Grim, Glenn Beck, Hillary Clinton, Treasury Secretary, Healthcare, Taking Woodstock, Countdown, Keith Olbermann, Msnbc, Politics News
Linda Milazzo

Van Jones' resignation isn't a testament to the frenetic dry-drunk tirades of a delusional Fox employee. It is due to the Obama administration's failure to rightfully and necessarily defend a valuable member of its team.

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GENDER BENDERS: Which Actors Are Believable Playing The Opposite Sex? (PHOTOS, POLL)

Huffington Post | Posted 10.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Mrs-Doubtfire, The World According to Garp, Tootsie, Slidepoll, White Chicks, The Crying Game, Boys Don't Cry, To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar, The Wedding Singer, Transgender, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Norbit, Sleepaway-Camp, The-Birdcage, Transgender Movies, Transamerica, Transgender Film, Breakfast on Pluto, Taking Woodstock, Entertainment News

Liev Schreiber plays a gun-toting transvestite in 'Taking Woodstock,' Ang Lee's latest film, but he's hardly the first actor to take on a gender-bendi...

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What a Long, Strange, Thoroughly Obnoxious Trip It's Been

Chez Pazienza | Posted 10.17.2009 | Style

Read More: Baby Boomers, Edward Kennedy, Woodstock, Hippies, Woodstock Anniversary, Taking Woodstock, Style News
Chez Pazienza

Never in the history of this country has there been a generation that's cast a longer shadow without really having done anything to earn it than the children of the 60s.

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Ang Lee's Movies: Which Is Your Favorite? (PHOTOS, POLL)

Huffington Post | Katy Hall | Posted 09.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Slidepoll, Sense-and-Sensibility, Eat-Drink-Man-Woman, Ang Lee, The Wedding Banquet, Hulk, Pushing-Hands, Ride With the Devil, Lust-Caution, The Ice Storm, Taking Woodstock, Entertainment News

'Taking Woodstock,' Ang Lee's loving portrait of the behind-the-scenes buildup to the 1969 music festival, opened Friday. Unsurprisingly, it looks lik...

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Q&A: Actor Jonathan Groff's Charmed, Provocative Life On Stage and In Film

Brad Balfour | Posted 09.28.2009 | New York

Read More: Ang Lee, The Bacchae, Hair, Duncan Sheik, Michael Lang, Jonathan Groff, Spring Awakening, Taking Woodstock, Off-Broadway, Broadway Plays, New York News
Brad Balfour

Jonathan Groff has starred in Hair on Broadway, played Dionysus in The Public Theater, and will play impresario Michael Lang in Taking Woodstock.

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Remembering Don Hewitt, Taking Woodstock, Michael Vick and More

Alec Baldwin | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ang Lee, Don Hewitt Dead, Don Hewitt, Michael Vick, CBS News, Cbs, 60 Minutes, Taking Woodstock, Entertainment News
Alec Baldwin

Sunday nights have been sacred television time in my house for years now. That's thanks to David Chase and, especially, to Don Hewitt and the cast, producers and staff of 60 Minutes.

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An Interview With Janis Ian Plus This Week's New Albums

Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Inner Circle, The O'Jays, Imogen Heap, The Adventures, Janis Ian, Cate Bros., Rubicon, Daryl Hall & John Oates, The Beach Boys, Woody Guthrie, Eric Burdon, REO Speedwagon, Otis Redding, Now That's What I Call Country, Matt Hires, Mark Schultz, Jack Ingram, Smile Empty Soul, Roy Hargrove, Billy Ocean, Cheap Trick, Rory Gallagher, David Guetta, Stefon Harris & Blackout, Michael Bolton, Queen Latifah, Matisyahu, Robert Glasper, The Roy Hargrove Big Band, Cass Elliot, Neil Diamond, The Casualties, Roberta Gambarini, Patton Oswalt, George Benson, Elvis Presley, Phil Stacey, Tim Buckley, Delores O'Rioran, Carmen Appice, The Mamas & the Papas, Al Jarreau, The Old Grey Whistle Test, Entertainment News, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, The Dukes, Paul Revere & the Raiders, 16 Horsepower, Collective Soul, Fun., Alan O'Day, Pilot, Now That's What I Call Music, Kitty Daisy & Lewis, Roy Orbison, The Bloody Beetroots, Felix Da Housecat, Teddy Pendergrass, The Subdudes, James Carter, Adam Ant, Colbie Caillat, Arctic Monkeys, Jeff Golub, Jackie DeShannon, Island Records, Fame, Woodstock, Sounds of Blackness, Yo Gabba Gabba!, Smokie Norful, Irma Thomas, Mew, Tanya Stephens, Brian Bromberg, Willie Nelson, Jack Wagner, The New City Ramblers, Mott the Hoople, Love and Theft, New Releases, Deryl Dodd, Cross Country, Radiohead, Bob Dylan, Nat King Cole, Kenny G, Jet, Niti Sawhney, Vander Graaf Generator, Sally Shapiro, John Denver, Jason Aldeean, Smokey Robinson, Taking Woodstock, Vandaveer, Najee, Selah, Needtobreathe, Latoya, Strawbs, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Advocate, Lgbt, Sony Legacy, Verve Records, Roberta Flack, Leonard Bernstein, Grammy, Ang Lee, Atlantic Records, Jerry Wexler, Gramma Awards, Saturday Night Live, Wbai, Wnew, Miami Vice, Dar Williams, Birthers, Fox News, Cher, Teabaggers, Joan Baez, Glen Campbell, Mel Torme, Death Panel, Nina Simone, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Janis Ian is one of the Woodstock era's unsung musical heroes who, just two years prior to the Bethel Bash, shocked our nation with her controversial single "Society's Child."

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Tom DeLay and the Woodstock Nation

Michael Winship | Posted 09.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ang Lee, Politics, Jack Abramoff, Woodstock Now and Then, James Schamus, Woodstock, Tom Delay, Dancing With the Stars, Barbara Kopple, Woodstock Anniversary, Taking Woodstock, Entertainment News
Michael Winship

It's wistful to reflect on a Woodstock Nation that never really materialized, its moment of rhythm and harmony trumped by the heavy-footed dance stylings of men like Tom DeLay.

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Remembering Woodstock: A 13-year-old's Experience Still Resonates Today

Jim Schumacher and Debbie Bookchin | Posted 09.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Dave Marsh, Politics, Social Change, Woodstock, Music, Joan Baez, Pete Fornatale, Abbie Hoffman, Taking Woodstock, Entertainment News
Jim Schumacher and Debbie Bookchin

What I remember about Woodstock was that even though I was essentially alone -- dressed only in a tee-shirt and a pair of jeans with a few dollars in my pocket -- I never once felt afraid.

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The Long, Strange Trip of Woodstock Ventures

Shawn Amos | Posted 09.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Woodstock, Michael Lang, Max Yasgur, The Who, Janis Joplin, Iron Butterfly, Martin Scorsese, Taking Woodstock, Entertainment News
Shawn Amos

The Woodstock organizers were in it to make money, but it didn't quite work out that way (not for lack of trying), and two things were definitely in their favor: they had a great idea and knew their audience.

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Why Can't the Boomers Just Shut Up About Woodstock?

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

Read More: 1960s, Bill Clinton, Barry Lewis, Civil Rights Movement, Baby Boomers, Ronald Reagan, Andrew Sullivan, George W. Bush, Led Zeppelin, Generation X, Iraq, Cadillac, Wall Street Journal, Woodstock Museum, Janis Joplin, Gay Rights, Times Herald-Record, The Atlantic, Jimmy Carter, Woodstock, Exurbs, Jimi Hendrix, Bethel, Women's Liberation, Milennials, Taking Woodstock, Living News
Nathan Hegedus

Unless you were backing up Janis Joplin in a secret jam session, or at least at, you know, actually at Woodstock, please, shut up.

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Monday Music Quarterback

Mike Ragogna | Posted 08.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Guardian, Tori Amos, Conor Oberst, Tyrone Wells, Denison Witmer, Country Joe McDonald, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Comic-Con, Dan Fogler, , Henry Goodman, Sling Blade, Jonathan Groff, Rosa Agostino, Eric Rosse, Porno for Pyros, Matt Hires, John Mayer, Arcade Fire, Vienna Film Festival, Eugene Levy, One Tree Hill, Silver Mt. Zion, Martyn Lenoble, Screaming Trees, Sufjan Stevens, Gossip Girl, Queens of the Stone Age, Guy Picciotto, Elvis Costello, Mike Patton, Cowboy Junkies, Jem Cohen, Asthmatic Kitty Records, Battlestar Galactica, Modest Mouse, Rick Rubin, Dmetri Martin, Beth Ditto, Robert Moses, Brace Paine, P-Vine Records, Entertainment Weekly, Ry Cooder, Laurel Canyon, Marc Broussard, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Gossip, Supernatural, Vic Chestnutt, Townes Van Zandt, Emile Hirsch, Elephant Six, Robert Francis, Constellation Records, Farscape, Speed Racer, Michael Stipe, O.a.R., Danny Elfman, Jefferson Airplane, Arlo Guthrie, Elf Power, Myspace, Melanie, Richard Warren, Imelda Staunton, Steve Earle, Grateful Dead, The BQE, Stephen Halker, Jane's Addiction, Smashing Pumpkins, Dave Matthews Band, Widespread Panic, World's Fair, Paolo Nutini, Rosie Thomas, Osso Quartet, Janis Joplin, Ang Lee, Atlantic Records, Hannah Billie, Woodstock, Bill Frisell, The Hives, Mark Lanegan, Chinese Zodiac, Love, Richard Hawley, Empires of Tin, Spunk Records, Danielson Famile, Crosby Stills & Nash, Elliot Tiber, My Brightest Diamond, Npr, Liev Schrieber, Canned Heat, Iron Man II, Rough Trade Records, Howard Bilerman, Jason Pierce, Dennis Herring, The Doors, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Red Ghost, Richie Havens, Itunes, The Band, R.E.M., Taking Woodstock, The Observer, Bruce Springsteen, Clash, Mutemath, Fugazi, Lambchop, Sparklehorse, Spiritualized, Viewmaster, 92ytribecca, Japan, Athens-Georgia, Detroit-Michigan, Louisiana, Tampa-Florida, Seattle-Washington, Montreal-Canada, Canada, New York-New York, Los Angeles-California, Salt Lake City-Utah, United Kingdom, Australia, New Orleans-Louisiana, Oxford-Mississippi, San Francisco-California, Chicago-Illinois, Portland-Oregon, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

As you're recovering from the joyful overkill that was this year's Comic-Con, take a few moments to catch-up on a handful of the more interesting new press releases.

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CANNES: Ang Lee's 'Taking Woodstock' Premieres (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 06.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ang Lee, Film, Slideshow, Emile Hirsch, Cannes, Tilda Swinton, Cannes Film Festival, Taking Woodstock, Demetri Martin, Cannes Film Festival 2009, Entertainment News

(AP Article, Scroll for HuffPo Slideshow) CANNES, France - Ang Lee views his 1970s drama "The Ice Storm" as a representation of the disillusionment o...

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