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“The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir” opens with old footage of Jerry turning to Bobby and saying, “I guess it’s you and me, Bob.”

Cut to Bob Weir, in modern day, driving his car across the Golden Gate Bridge from Sausalito to San Fran, explaining to the camera, “I’ve stood on stage more than any other, at least for the 3000 ‘Grateful Dead’ shows.”

Mike Gordon from ‘Phish’ shared this comment about Bob:

“If you don’t have an ego, you can be #2 on the planet, and that’s what makes Bob so special.”

Born in San Francisco on October 16, 1947, co-founder, vocalist, and rhythm guitarist of “The Grateful Dead,” wild child, Bob Weir, was kicked out of play school, and suffered from dyslexia, however, it was never diagnosed. His adopted parents worried about him, especially when he chose to be a musician. Bob met banjo player, Jerry Garcia, on New Year’s Eve of 1963-64 in Palo Alto, California at ‘Dana Morgan’s Music Store,’ and they instantly hit it off, formed a jug band, then a rock and roll band, and set off from Palo Alto, to San Fran, to the world.

On October 1, 1965 began the psychedelics, having taken one hit every Saturday for one year, riding along in the bus with Ken Kesey, the Merry Pranksters, and Neal Cassidy, going to Kool-Aid parties, and having a difficult time playing the guitar when the neck was turning into a ‘snake like critter’. Bobby explained that it was ‘permissive bedlam’. The once red, now purple, 710 Ashbury Street, where Neal Cassidy was his roommate. Bobby was considered the best looking and the heart throb of the band. He recalled his first real adventure with songwriting, “The Other One,” was a story trying to be told.

Once they realized that they could get paid to perform, they hit the road and didn’t look back.

The doc goes on to discuss the whole subculture, when they realized that the faces in the front row were the faces from the front row from a different city the night before, how Jerry was like a big brother to Bobby, the Dead’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, and how Jerry felt the R&R Hall of Fame was just a cult of personality, Jerry’s reverence for American Musical Tradition, his coma, their popularity through MTV music videos with 1987’s “In the Dark”/’Touch of Gray’, the drugs, the yoga, diving trips in Kauai and Pahoa, Hawaii, rehab, Jerry’s death on August 13, 1995, the obligation Bob felt to carry on for the fans, settling down and having 2 girls at age 50, wanting to find his biological parents, making sense of the endless depth to life, and searching for timelessness.

Beautiful.

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Jon Favreau, wrote, directed, and starred in what might sound like a simplistic plot, yet is very funny and feel good. Carl Casper (Jon Favreau), is the chef in a top restaurant in Los Angeles. When a famous food critic, Ramsey Michel (Oliver Platt), who recently sold his blog to AOL for $10 million, makes it known that he is coming into the restaurant that night, Carl wants to get creative with the menu. The owner of the restaurant, Riva (Dustin Hoffman), does not like the idea of him changing the dishes, and tells him to stick to the menu and “play the hits”. “If you went to a ‘Rolling Stones’ concert and Mick Jagger didn’t play ‘Satisfaction’ wouldn’t you get upset? Play your hits. Stick to the menu.”

Well, the food critic doesn’t like the food served on the menu and takes to twitter to blacklist the chef stating that “Carl is gaining weight and must be eating all the food that is being sent back to the kitchen.”

Carl and Ramsey start a bad mouthing war on twitter, and it goes viral.

Ramsey decides to give the top chef another chance at a better tasting meal, however, a downward turn of events sends Carl’s life into a different, yet happier direction.

Cute film that will make you hungry.

Article by Sharon Abella
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Tribeca Film Fesival 2014:

WINNER: World Narrative Competition: Israel, in Hebrew with subtitles.

The Nora Ephron Prize: Zero Motivation, written and directed by Talya Lavie (Israel). Winner receives $25,000, sponsored by Coach, Inc. The award was given by Delia Ephron, Carol Kane, Natasha Lyonne, and Tanya Wexler along with Stephanie Stahl, Executive Vice President, Marketing and Strategy, Coach Inc.

The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature – Zero Motivation, written and directed by Talya Lavie (Israel). Winner receives $25,000, sponsored by AT&T, and the art award “Central Park, NY” by Tony Bennett. The award was given by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal joined by Esther Lee, SVP Brand Marketing/Advertising, AT&T.

Jury Comments: “The winner of this year’s Founder’s Award follows young women who must find their place and establish their identity in a world normally dominated by men and machismo. They do so with humor, strength and intellect. The filmmaker mirrors these same qualities. We believe a new, powerful, voice has emerged.”

“Zero Motivation” is about the daily occurrences among young and restless, female Israeli soldiers serving their mandatory military sentences on a remote base in the hot Israeli desert. They kill time playing computer games, filing paper, and chasing male soldiers.

The story starts off where one non-military girl dresses up as a soldier and sneaks on to the base to be closer to a boy that she likes. When she finds him kissing another girl, she kills herself.

Meanwhile, a blonde haired soldier, who believes she is now possessed by the dead girls ghost, starts acting like a zombie, and begins to follow around the only female virgin on the kibbutz. The virgin is trying to lose her virginity with a male soldier that is scheduled to leave the next day. The possessed zombie blonde follows the virgin around to make sure she is safe, and makes sure she makes the right decisions.

Very amusing.

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The ESPN 30 for 30 Documentary Short about the Hillsborough disaster of 1989 is a must see, as well as, the one showing at the Tribeca Film Festival 2014, about soccer great, Diego Armando Maradona, entitled “Maradona ’86.”

“Maradona ’86,” directed by Sam Blair, illustrates the highs and the lows of one of history’s iconic soccer players. Fame saved Maradona from poverty, however, success was more dangerous than he bargained for. Of the four FIFA World tournaments that Maradona played in, he lead Argentina to their 1986 victory over West Germany.

In the quarterfinal round during that same tournament in 1986, he scored both goals in a 2–1 win over England. The first goal was a questionable and controversial, unpenalized handball known as the “Hand of God”, while the second goal followed a 60 meter run past five of the players on the English team, or “The Goal of the Century”. With the recent tension between the two nations from the 1982 Falklands War, this didn’t help their pre-existing rivalry.

Maradona’s career became even more controversial when he was suspended from participating in the sport for a period of time.

Must see!

Saturday, April 26, 2014 at Tribeca Cinema Theater 1.

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The jazz performance at the end of “Keep on Keepin’ On” held exclusively for Amex card members on Saturday night, April 19, 2014, may have been in the top 10, if not the #1 event, from the highlights of the Tribeca Film Festival since it’s inception. Five beautiful jazz songs were performed by a myriad of artists, one of whom being, a student of Clark Terry’s, Justin Kauflin, on piano.

First time film director from Australia, Alan Hicks, and ‘his mate’ Adam Hart, started documenting “Keep on Keepin’ On” five years go, and the great Quincy Jones came on as a producer.

Clark Terry is a jazz musician (trumpeter) with a career spanning over seventy years. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and wanted to play the trumpet so badly, that he made one himself out of a lead pipe (mouthpiece), and a funnel (bell). His neighbors couldn’t stand the noise that the makeshift horn made, so they collected $12.50 and bought one from the pawn shop. His first big break was when he was hired by Count Basie, and then as the first black staff musician at NBC. He went on to play with and/or teach some of the jazz greats, including Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Dizzie Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, and Quincy Jones. In fact, Quincy Jones was Clark Terry’s first student, and Clark left the Duke Ellington band to join Quincy Jones eleven years later. He has been inducted into the Jazz at Lincoln Center Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame, and rewarded with the 2010 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He has two Grammy certificates, and three Grammy nominations.

Clark or (C.T.), believes in mentoring and giving back to the community. He stated, “my dreams of playing the horn came true, and now it is my turn to make others’ dreams come true.” C.T. has taken countless students under his wing, one of whom, mentioned earlier, is Justin Kauflin.

Justin lost his vision from exudative retinopathy when he was in the sixth grade. Knowing he was unable to play video games or basketball anymore, he sat down at the piano and fell in love with it. While practicing to be a jazz pianist, he said to his mother, ‘I wish something bad would happen to me so I could play the piano like the famous jazz musicians.’ His mom would hesitantly say, ‘Honey, you just lost your sight, isn’t that bad enough.’ and Justin replied, ‘Naw, what these guys went through is much worse.’

C.T. has had diabetes for over 60 years, and as a result, has been losing his vision too. Justin and Clark could relate to one another in that regard.

Clark Terry’s advice,

“You have to have a desire to excel.”

“You have to want to play better than everybody else.”

“Other students don’t study themselves. You have to know your shortcomings and work on them.”

“Whatever you are doing, do it well.”

“Find your own voice.”

“Don’t copy.”

“If someone believes in you, it makes you believe in yourself more.”

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“Human Capital,” in Italian with English subtitles, is set in Italy and France, stars two of Italy’s finest actresses, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (Carla), and Valeria Golino (Roberta Morelli), and is part of the World Narrative Competition.

Divided into four chapters, all the shots are reshot from a different characters perspective, their lives intersect, they all know one another, and they are all in crisis; exploring feelings of loneliness, being a social outcast, losing wealth, gaining wealth, failure, relationships, cover up’s, extortion, and integrity.

It begins with an average middle class man (Dino), who owns a real estate agency, and would like to buy into (Giovanni) a wealthy tennis partners’ hedge fund. Dino signs away 700,000 Euros that he doesn’t have, with the intentions of making a 30-40% profit, meanwhile, his significant other (Roberta), tells him that she is pregnant.

Six months later, Dino and Roberta are at a gala, where Dino’s daughter’s boyfriend, Massimiliano, is competing for an award. Massimiliano is also the hedge fund owner’s son. Roberta is expecting twins, and begins to have contractions at the dinner table and needs to leave for the hospital asap. Roberta’s car keys are handed off to Serena (the real estate agent’s grown daughter), who was instructed to drive Roberta’s car home. Massimiliano loses the competition, and goes out partying afterwards to drown his sorrows in alcohol, meanwhile, a bicyclist gets hit by a car on the road and is found severely injured in a ditch. Now it becomes a whodunnit, as many of them were out on the road at that time for different reasons.

How much are human lives from different classes worth?

Very interesting. Very well done, and EXTREMELY well acted.

So far, the best Narrative I have seen.

“Human Capital” is playing THREE more times.

4/21 at 10pm
4/22 at 6pm
4/27 at 2:30pm

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The entire show was OFF THE CHARTS, but especially “BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE E STREET BAND,” as they rocked out “E Street Shuffle,” “The River,” and “Kitty’s Back”.

The 5 hour Induction will be condensed down to 2 hours and shown on Saturday, May 31, 2014 at 9pm EST on HBO.

The manager for James Taylor, and Linda Ronstadt, Peter Asher, got the evening started, followed by Peter Gabriel, who stated he “followed his heart, and that is what made his life interesting.’ ‘Let imagination guide you, and surround yourself with brilliance.’ ‘What you are is where your heart is.’

He played “Digging in the Dirt” from 1992’s “Us”, “Washing of the Water,” along with Chris Martin, and “In Your Eyes” along with “The King of Senegal,” Youssou N’Dour.

Chris Martin’s induction speech for Peter Gabriel was very witty and clever.
It was a play on words with the Bible, and went something to the effect, “I turned to the Bible and an angel of the Lord appeared, Phil the Collins asked and ‘who are you angel?’ ‘I am Gabriel, I am bringing you good news, Ye should be in ‘Genesis’, and after leaving ‘Genesis’ you will create, “Peter Gabriel 1,” “Peter Gabriel 2,” “Peter Gabriel 3,” “Peter Gabriel 4,” “So,” “Us,” and “Up.”

American guitarist, Tom Morello from “Rage Against the Machine,” and “Audioslave,” is currently touring with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, and had the honor of introducing ‘Kiss’.

Tom stated how when he first saw ‘Kiss’ his ticket said ‘a partial view’ on it, which he misunderstood to mean that ‘the band was going to reveal some new secret corner of their artistic souls. In reality it meant that my seat was behind a pole. Still, that concert was the most exciting, cathartic, loudest and most thrilling two hours of live music I’ve seen to this day. All four guys were great lead singers, and made him and many others love rock and roll. “What Elvis was to the Beatles, Kiss was to us, influencing everyone from “Metallica,” “Lady Gaga,” “Pearl Jam,” “Alice in Chains,” and “Lenny Kravitz.”

Tom continued on by stating, “What if you wandered into a dive-y club in your hometown and saw Kiss in all their glory, crashing the place to the ground? One guy belching fire and spraying blood past his gargantuan tongue? A guitar player so incredible, his axe billows smoke and shot rockets? A frontman flying back and forth across the joint like a superhero Tarzan? All of them, in frightening, horror-movie sexified Kabuki makeup, wearing high healed platform shoes. The place blowing up with explosions and heavy duty, liberating rock & roll? What would you say if you saw that? You’d say, ‘That band’s fucking awesome!’ and that they are the “fierce-some foursome.”

This speech was absolutely hysterical and had be giving the rock and roll sign with both hands and wanting to rock and roll all night, and party everyday, only to quickly find out that they would not be playing as they were unhappy that the Induction committee would not allow all the band members, past and present, be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Peter Criss stated it was good to be back home in Brooklyn, giving thanks to their first manager, Bill Aucoin, Casablanca Records, Neil Bogart, and being male breast cancer free for the past seven years, and how early detection saved his life.”

“In or out of makeup, I’ll always be the ‘Catman'”.

“It’s all KISS-TORY.”

Ace Frehley stated when he was 13 years old, he picked up the guitar and knew he was in for something big, then he was exposed to the Summer of Love. Ace shared how he was sober and alcohol free for the past 7 1/2 years, and that what people don’t understand is that most addicts are born that way, and it is not due to a lack of will power, ‘try using willpower when you have diarrhea.'”

The rare performance by Yusuf/Cat Stevens was one I will always remember.

Art Garfunkel joked how “Bridge of Troubled Water” had to get made so that “Tea for the Tillerman” could arrive, and how this bearded Hamlet who turned his back on money and world acclaim, walked away from it all and moved to Rio, and sought awareness as Yusuf Islam.” Yusuf stated, “I wanted to look elsewhere for my fulfillment.”

Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens shared, “The first thing that inspired me was my sister’s record collection, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, and the best pop song ever, Bach, Leonard Bernstein’s, ‘West Side Story,’ the grandfather of Blues, ‘Lead Belly,’ Bo Diddley, Buddy Holly, the Beatles (inspired us all), and Bob Dylan.

He thanked his wife (who is his biggest fan), and the all mighty who made us all, saying, “There is only ONE, and how within this strange Rock and Roll fraternity (that I still belong to), I don’t drink, or smoke, or throw tv’s out of hotel rooms, how I only sleep with my wife, and how the Rock and Roll Hall of fame made a brave decision to still induct me into it’s Hall of Fame. Peace!

He played, ‘Father and Son,’ ‘Wild World’ and ‘Peace Train.’

NOW, I have to say, the tribute to Linda Ronstadt brought me to my knees. She unfortunately did not make it as she suffers from Parkinson’s Disease, and no longer travels, however, Glenn Frey, Carrie Underwood, Bonnie Raitt, Emmylou Harris, Sheryl Crow, and THE Stevie Nicks sang, “Different Drum,” “Blue Bayou,” “You’re No Good,” “It’s So Easy,” and “When Will I Be Loved.”

Stevie Nicks shared how when she first heard Linda sing “It’s So Easy,” she said she knew that “that is what I want to do. I didn’t look as good in cut off’s as Linda, but I knew that that is what I wanted to do.”

The harmony was so beautiful.

Then came Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band induction speeches,

Daryl Hall and John Oates who joked ‘Aren’t you glad there are only two of us’, and the remaining members of Nirvana, Dave Grohl with Krist Novoselic, along with Courtney Love, Joan Jett, Kim Gordon/’Sonic Youth’, Annie Clark of ‘St Vincent’, and Lorde.

Rock on!

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