Ang Lee’s next project is set to go before the cameras later this month. Lee’s longtime producing partner James Schamus has adapted the memoir Taking Woodstock by Elliot Tiber, “who played a role in helping the historic 1969 music fest unfold on his neighbor's farm.” Variety sez Demetri Martin of The Daily Show will play Tiber, “an aspiring interior designer in Greenwich Village obliged to run the family business, a Catskills motel. In summer 1969, he found himself at the center of a generation-defining experience when he volunteered the motel to be the home base for Woodstock concert organizers after his neighbor, Max Yasgur, made his farm available for the event.” Our advice to young Mr. Martin: avoid the brown acid.
Jackie Chan is set to star in an action-comedy that the Hollywood Reporter assure us is 100% Chris Tucker-free.
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