Taking Woodstock

For all the talk that the fifties and sixties were ‘simpler times’, I can show you Vietnam, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Suez Crisis, the Space Race, McCarthyism, Stonewall. But The Woodstock Festival, which crash-landed in a dairy field in New York State in the late 60’s, was to all intents and purposes, a giant…

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Michael Clayton

I’ve been meaning to write about Michael Clayton for a while, but I kind of lost track of it in the melee of all my travels this year (I’m in Tbilisi, Georgia as I write this.) But it is worth writing about, and having just seen the trailer again, it reminded me of what a…

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