Ang Lee Going Back to Woodstock
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“Brokeback Mountain” director Ang Lee has announced that his next project will be a comedy revolving around the 1969 Woodstock music festival, Variety reported yesterday. “Taking Woodstock” will relate the life of Elliot Tiber, an interior designer and part-time manager of his family’s Catskills motel, who had become the issuer of event permits in Bethel, N.Y., in the late 1960s. When he heard that the planned Woodstock concert had been denied a permit in a nearby hamlet, he offered his own. Soon, half a million people were on their way to Mr. Tiber’s neighbor’s farm in upstate New York.
The film will be based Mr. Tiber’s 2007 memoir “Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life.”
