Re: Milos Forman's film version of HAIR

["Helen" <elbo@xxxxxxxxx>]

!!!!!!!!!!! See, everything in this world HAS a Who reference. No surprise,
Who`s a popular word, a pronoun!!!
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From: <PellegrinoLand@aol.com>
To: <TheWho@igtc.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: Milos Forman's film version of HAIR


> Forman's HAIR is one of the greatest films ever, see it on DVD. In the
summer
> of 1979 there was a big group of people who hung out in Central Park, and
all
> summer we'd collectively go to see HAIR and The Kids Are Alright, the
> greatest film ever. I saw Kids on June. 10, 1979 for the first time at a
> theater on E. 58th St. (the Plaza, I think - it no long exists). That date
> was the dividing line of my life. Kids premiered at this theater with a
> special showing the night before, attended by Ox & Kenny Jones. After I
saw
> it, I was very pissed I hadn't gone the night before. It played at this
> theater for about 3 months. I was heartsick when it closed, but it moved
the
> next day to Cinema 2 on 3rd Ave. for another long run. That theater is the
> first place I'd heard Who's Next - they played it between showings. I'd
only
> been able to get Meaty, Leeds, and By Numbers till then (I was 13).
>
> Anyway, anyone who loves Kids should at least like HAIR very much. Treat
> Williams, John Savage, and Forman himself all should have got Oscars for
it.
> Both films forcefully demonstrated that there were much better
possibilities
> for living one's life, and they both inspired exploration in ways that
change
> you forever.
>
> sp