After Woodstock
The True Story of a Belgian Movie, an Israeli Wedding, & a Manhattan Breakdown
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Publisher Description
During the summer of ’69, Elliot Tiber (April 15, 1935–August 3, 2016) helped start the gay liberation movement and saved the Woodstock Festival from cancellation. But some of the best and most significant events of Tiber’s life did not happen until After Woodstock.In this third volume of his memoirs, following the critically acclaimed Palm Trees on the Hudson and his breakout bestseller Taking Woodstock, Tiber chronicles his hilarious, madcap, and often heartbreaking adventures in the entertainment industry. Guided as much by chutzpah as by his creative drive, Tiber travels around the world, always looking to grab the brass ring. And everywhere he goes, from Hollywood to Brussels, Tiber makes his indelible, irreverent, unique mark.Along the way, Tiber meets the celebrated Belgian playwright and director André Ernotte. Over the course of his decades-long relationship with Ernotte, Tiber realizes his potential as a humorist and writer, and finds a way to cope with his difficult mother, whose second wedding in the hills of Israel gives new meaning to the Wailing Wall. The relationship is tested by the AIDS crisis and a string of professional disappointments, but ultimately endures the test of time. With Ernotte, Tiber finally learns the true meaning of love...
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After the Woodstock Festival in 1969, Tiber (who wrote about his involvement in organizing the event in Taking Woodstock) plunged headlong into a new life, leaving behind his career as a Manhattan interior designer to become a gay rights advocate and travel the globe. His sexual awakening, sparked by the infamous Stonewall Riots, puts him at odds with his "Old World" Jewish parents, but he found emotional renewal in the arms of Andre, an acclaimed Belgian theater director. Tiber sees Andre as a career-driven theater professional and often feels jealous of his work at Yale and Columbia and Hollywood. In Belgium, Tiber and Andre successfully collaborate on a musical comedy and a Holocaust film. Some of the key moments in the bittersweet memoir feature Tiber's humorous, hypersensitive observations about the rigors of being openly gay in America during the turbulent gay rights era and the AIDS crisis, as well as his struggles with his overbearing mother. Tiber delivers a wonderful account of survival while wrestling with creativity, loss, tragedy, and disconnection from traditional family values. Foreword by noted film director Ang Lee.
