It’s August 2014 and forty-five years since the forever young Woodstock Music & Art Fair (Woodstock) was billed as An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music. On the original poster, its iconic graphic of a white dove on a guitar neck is forever ingrained alongside the dates August 15, 16 and 17, 1969. Held at Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in the Catskills, 32 music acts performed outdoors on 600 acres during the dog days of summer in...
Congratulations Alice Guy! The induction into the Class of 2013 New Jersey Hall of Fame takes place on Tuesday, January 14, 2014. The steep ticket price ($1,250) for the reception does not allow for me to attend but I can savor the moment as I have worked for years alongside Fort Lee Film Commission in making this happen. Here's a bit about Alice Guy and what she had gone through. While she is gone from this life since 1968, she will never be...
The Celluloid Ceiling report is a variant on the Glass Ceiling – a look at the behind-the-scenes employment of women in the top 250 of the highest grossing domestic films. Statistically, women are underrepresented in creative positions in Hollywood. According to The Wrap– “the 2011 study by Martha M. Lauzen, executive director of the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University, showed that 38...
