Brianland

It opens Friday, April 4th.  Here’s some info on it . . .
Shine A Light  (2008)
The Rolling Stones, with Darryl Jones, Chuck Leavell, Blondie Chapman, Bernard Fowler & Lisa Fischer, and a 4-piece horn section led by a wailin’ Bobby Keys.
Special Guests:  Buddy Guy, Christina Aguilera, Jack White 
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Cinematographers:  Scorsese brought together [...]

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I’m looking for an autographed copy of the book “Barefoot in Babylon” by Bob Spitz, about the Woodstock ‘69 concert.
It has all sorts of autographs in it of people who were at Woodtsock ‘69, many of them “To Brian” 
I am that Brian, and have been looking for it since it disappeared in NYC in 1982. 
If [...]

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 film review:  Lucky Numbers (2000)
Directed by Nora Ephron; starring John Travolta, Lisa Kudrow, Tim Roth, Ed O’Neil, Richard Schiff, Bill Pullman, Michael Rapaport, Michael Moore. 
First of all – this is made by Nora Ephron!  Heartburn!  Sleepless!  Her and Penny Marshall have to be the two best female filmmakers going – at least of the older [...]

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                           The Grateful Dead Played My 30th Birthday
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           Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned At A Grateful Dead Concert
            The weekend of my 30th birthday, four old friends drove from Winnipeg to New York to help celebrate it, and the Grateful Dead flew in from San Francisco to play.
            It’s a curious [...]

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Here’s an article I wrote on the film Festival Express, published in Relix Magazine, April 2004. 
Drivin’ That Train . . .        
The Festival Express Rolls Again After 30 Years
by Brian Hassett

“That was the best time I’ve had in rock and roll,” said Jerry Garcia. “There were no straight people.”
In the summer of 1970, the Grateful [...]

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 This is a nice essay that was slipped over the transom by a fellow New York warrior in honor of Women’s History Month, thought I’d share. 
MEET THE NEW FEMININE FEMINISTS,
by Zoe Artemis
These days my life is divided up into two moving parts: teaching dancing, and campaigning for Barack Obama.  Yes, I’m a Baby-boomer for Barack.
On [...]

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Most people think this amazing PA primary is in April – but it’s really March 24th – ‘cause that’s the last day you can register.  If you’re not in it by then – you’re off the bus!  No scoop for you! 
You may have heard this one before, but Every Single Vote (Really) Counts in this [...]

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I was looking for this number and found the most optimistic guess at it (via the Hillary campaign) in the NYT yesterday:
“If the results of Florida & Michigan are allowed to stand, and Mr. Obama is awarded the delegates won by ‘uncommitted’ on the Michigan ballot, Mrs. Clinton would pick up 64 delegates toward the [...]

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You’re not going to believe this — it’s right out of a great espionage novel — but just after Super Tuesday, the great veteran politico Al Hunt, now Executive Editor at Bloomberg News, was emailing with the Obama campaign, who mistakenly included in a dispatch to Hunt the campaign’s projections for all the remaining states.  [...]

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“Goin’ all-in” – tonight the voters get called and lay the cards on the table. 
 
Poll closings:  (all times Eastern) 
 
7 PM  Vermont  (should be another double-digit win for Obama, making it 12 in a row)
 
7:30 PM  Ohio — thus begins the double-header nail-biters of the primary. 
 
8 PM – primaries end in most of Texas (but no media [...]

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