Taking Woodstock Page #7

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let us share your music

with all your friends and your

parents, here in White Lake.

Now we would like

to introduce to you

the resident theater artists,

here at the El Monaco this summer,

the Earthlight Players,

who have adapted Anton

Chekhov's classic, Three Sisters,

to a contemporary,

happening interpretation,

and they would like now to share

a part of that experience with you.

Ladies and gentlemen,

the Earthlight Players.

Artifice and imagination!

Truth and fiction!

The players play!

But you, the audience,

you sit and judge.

You sit and judge.

You sit and judge.

But the revolution requires

the roles must be reversed!

The players

are the judges now.

Your revelry must end, and your

souls will be bared for all to see.

Christ who died for you,

but not for me!

Now we are Christ!

Our nakedness

will reveal your own.

Indecent legions of decency!

Indecent legions of decency!

Fascist pornographers!

Fascist pornographers!

Racist warmongers!

Racist warmongers!

Republican cocksuckers!

Republican cocksuckers!

Indecent legions of decency!

Indecent legions of decency!

Fascist pornographers!

Fascist pornographers!

Put your clothes back on.

Billy. Billy.

Jesus Christ.

Racist warmongers!

Fascist pornographers!

Fascist pornographers!

Billy!

Billy!

Get your ass down here!

Get your ass down here!

Billy!

Everything is gone...

Annie?

Elliot. Namaste.

Hi, Elliot.

Namaste, dear Elliot.

Hey, Georgette.

How are we doing?

Hey, Elliot.

Hey, guys.

Hey.

Here.

Hey.

Thanks.

All right.

Where we going with these?

Barn.

Stan and your theater guy set

up some medical volunteers.

The combination of the bare

feet and the brown acid...

Real.

Yeah.

Anyway, I hope you don't mind, we

just were grabbing everything we can.

And your mom gave me

these blankets.

My mom? Gave?

Yeah. She's cool.

Hey.

Hey, Dad?

Dad.

The New York State Thruway

has been backed up all the way

from the George Washington

Bridge to the Catskills exits,

and from there,

it's basically a parking lot.

Police are now planning

to put into effect

a first-ever emergency

closing of the entire Thruway.

We go now to John Stevens,

who is in the field...

Ma, you okay?

The nisht-gute...

Evil!

You seen the chicken legs

on some of these hairy people?

Mom, they're kids,

not evil spirits.

You don't know!

They've made all the roads one-way

now, Elli, one-way just to Max's.

God forbid,

what if your father

should have a heart attack

from all this running around?

He couldn't get

to the hospital.

You're really worried

about him, aren't you?

Him? It's you

who brought this.

How will you live

with the guilt?

Hit him in the kisser, hit him

in the guts, nine, ten, out!

Hey. Give me three.

How you doing, Dad?

How should I be doing?

I haven't slept in three days, my hip

is killing me, and the beer's warm.

So, you're good? Yeah, I'm

good. Hand me that bottle.

You're ready for one?

I thought you'd never ask.

How you doing, kid?

I haven't slept in three

days, the beer's warm,

I'm actually not making this

up, but my hip is killing me.

So, you're good?

Come on, Elliot.

I'm standing near the

intersection of Route 17B and 55,

where state authorities now estimate

that perhaps half a million kids

have already made it

to the White Lake area,

and there's another million trying to

get here who will just never make it,

putting upstate communities in an

uproar at this major hippie invasion.

Bob!

Bob!

What's this all about?

We got the permit pulled, you idiot!

We're shutting this thing down!

But there's a half a million

people over at Max's.

How do you think

they're gonna react?

That's the same thing

the cops said...

Before they laughed at us

as if we were children.

So we're doing it

ourselves!

Right.

Hi, Elliot!

Come on.

Not so tough anymore,

are you?

Come on, you.

Go to hell!

F*** you, old man!

You get off my property,

you thugs.

You f*ggot freak.

Hippie lover!

This is where

we rinse the sheets.

Hey, brother.

You hear that?

It's starting.

Elli,

you should go.

What?

To Max's.

I can't.

You guys would...

We can take care

of things here.

Dad...

You go.

Go see this thing.

Go.

See what the center

of the universe looks like.

Yeah, sure.

Wow.

Bet you thought you were just gonna

drive right up to the thing, huh?

Actually, my family,

we own the motel here.

The El Monaco, huh?

So you're the guy they're all

blaming for bringing all this here.

Governor just declared this

whole county a disaster area.

Yeah, it's a disaster. I'm

the disaster guy, officially.

No kidding. I was looking

forward to just coming up here

and clubbing a bunch of

hippies over the head.

But instead,

I don't know.

I must be getting

high off the fumes.

Peace, man.

See what I mean?

Groovy.

I think I'm gonna head over

and check it all out.

On foot? Lt'll take you

all afternoon with this crowd.

Here.

Thanks.

Officer.

What do you say to all those

young men fighting in Vietnam

while you're here

enjoying yourselves?

We're waging peace, man. We're

teaching peace to the world.

You think they're gonna understand

that? While they're bleeding and dying?

Why won't they...

Find your buddy, girls!

The innocent people

of North Vietnam...

Bombs for peace!

Bombs for peace!

War bombs for peace!

War bombs for peace!

Yeah,

dream on there, buddy.

Hey, it could happen.

I know you can do it.

Come on, just for fun.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you, Sister.

Peace to you.

Thank you.

God bless you.

Come on, burn them, sisters!

Burn your bras and read this!

You've gotta join

this demonstration.

Stop the pollution.

Keep our rivers clean.

Hey, man.

Hey.

Hey.

You look thirsty.

I am.

Thanks.

Have you guys been down

to see the festival yet?

We're cool,

and we'll get there again.

We got to the top of the hill,

and looked down at the sea,

and the tiny little people on stage

with their waves of tiny electric voices.

Like ants making thunder,

man. It was cool.

But you couldn't really tell

who was jamming down there.

And we left our trip

in the car.

And the sh*t they're passing

around down there, not quality.

Ours is beautiful.

I see you have California

plates. Is that where you're from?

There, and New Mexico...

And Oregon.

You're from everywhere.

We're from everywhere.

You're from everywhere.

I'm from here.

You're from here, man.

That's so cool.

I guess so.

Man,

you're amazingly from here.

Here, man,

take a ride to here and now.

Eight miles high.

I'm actually

a little afraid of heights.

What the heck.

Hey.

Come on in, sit.

So...

Yeah?

You sure that was acid?

I didn't really taste any...

It just takes a while.

Hey, let's listen to some

of our own sounds.

What? What's that?

Hey, it's okay.

Just breathe.

Hey, it's okay,

just breathe.

It's okay, just breathe.

Just breathe.

Hey, it's okay.

It's okay.

Just breathe.

Where are my arms?

Where's my arm?

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