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See the embedded trailer for Focus Features' "Taking Woodstock," starring Demetri Martin, Emile Hirsch, Imelda Staunton and Liev Schreiber.   The film is adapted from the historic 1969 memoir written by Elliot Tiber who Demetri Martin ("The Daily Show With Jon Stewart") portrays.   Story follows a Greenwich Village based interior designer who now turns to running a motel in Catskills; a family-owned business.In 1969 he volunteered his motel to be the home for concert designers of Woodstock after his neighbor Max Yasgur have given his farm to be used for the massive, historic-making event.       Movie Title Matches: Taking Woodstock(2009) - Released date: 8/14/2009 (Ltd.)Starring: Demetri Martin, Emile Hirsch, Imelda Staunton and Liev Schreiber

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The future is scary: hadron colliders, HD-video iPhones and nanotube lightbulbs are as bizarre as they are promising. Thankfully, this week on the Web shows us that not all that much has changed; we're still the same gawkers we were 100 years ago, and we still need hammers and rope to get things done.
The Old-Time Face Book
According to The New York Times, the social networking fad we discuss so much may not be new to humanity.
According to a 1902 newspaper article unearthed from the archives of the Boston Daily Globe, a game called "Face Book" emerged around the turn of the century and achieved massive popularity. Academics studying the game say it involved players sketching out cartoon caricatures of each other, and reveals an interesting parallel between image-building then, and image-building with Facebook walls and MySpace pages today.
The ancestral thread lies in scrapbooking: the hobby of collecting tidbits
Chris Dannen

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My take on "The Daily Show" is a tad personal, though this has faded through time. In late-1997/early-'98, I was swamped with "Mr. Mike," scheduled for release in July '98. I had spent the previous three years consumed by Michael O'Donoghue, the National Lampoon and SNL, and was pretty burned out, wrestling with publishing company bullshit, making sure that every change had been set, anticipating wrath and anger from who-knew-where, given the wild mix of egos and temperaments I'd dealt with. And so on. Then an acquaintance at Comedy Central suggested that I submit a package to Tds. With a book about a comedy legend coming out, and having already written for Bill Maher, Tds would be the perfect next move. While it wasn't my favorite show, I did find a lot of it funny. One bit I loved was...
Dennis Perrin

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