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Miles from the Mainstream
D. R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor
~ November 11 ~

NOVEMBER 14, 2004 --

The day began with LPR photographing a Veterans Day ceremony at the Riverdale Bell Tower in The Bronx. That evening, LPR went to Columbus Circle for an anti-war protest and then attended the opening of the New York Internationa Independent Film and Video, Music and Art Festival that continues at the Cinema East movie
theater on Second Avenue and 12th Street.

LPR attended screenings, thus far, of "Customer 152," a commentary on credit card bankruptcy -- blamed on the GOP? -- among other things from director Jonathan Holbrook made in the state of Washington, and "Almelund," a film shot
in Minnesota, dealing with the Sasquatch legend, by director Jeff Green. LPR also viewed Deborah Rowe's documentary on striptease dancers,"Portraints of a
Naked Lady Dancer," and several shorts, including "What are the Odds,"(which seems to have a happy ending), directed by Bev Land, and "When Life Gives You
Lemons," directed by William Cicchino," about an out of work salesman who decides to compete with neighborhood children and opens a lemonade stand.

LPR also attended the screening of Corey Smith's four minute short,"Making the Grade," about a high school student whose crush on her teacher -- played by Hugh Jackman -- yes, Broadway megastar High Jackman, prompts her to make surfe she fails her final so she can
repeat the class.

LPR also attended a screening of "Two Days Til Iraq," a documentary from Shahin Afran, based on family conversations of a British soldier about to leave for Iraq. The soldier, a fireman, is shown in slow motion and the conversations are heard on the soundtrack, augmented by English subtitles. A certain rivalry with U.S. forces is suggested, along with some cynicism;
the Brit refers to the Iraq war as "Operation Cheap Petrol."

The festival's opening evening included an art exhibit and LPR plans to post some of the artwork next week -- this edition of LPR is necessarily rushed to get back to the festival's screenings.


Jon Abrahams, "Mike" in "What are the Odds," a short "dramemdy" directed by Bev Land.

 

Playing in the NYC ad hoc street festival -- the Ebony Hillbillies.


Jackie heads for Torrington 11 days after he appears at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.


Anti-war demonstration in Columbus Circle, November 11.


Veteran's Day commemoration in the Bronx, at the Riverdale bell tower November 11.


Apparenty the hardcore anti-Bushies would quarrel with this suggestion, overloooking the Henry Hudson
Parkway in Manhattan, that President Bush as been re-elected properly.