Lee to Direct Gay
Woodstock Film

Brokeback Mountain director Ang Lee will make another gay-focused movie, this one about the gay man who helped make the 1969 Woodstock music festival a reality. Taking Woodstock is based on Elliot Tiber's 2007 memoir of the same name, according to Reuters. Tiber, who was working as an interior designer and part-time Catskills hotel manager, headed the Bethel, N.Y., Chamber of Commerce, which issued the permit for the famous festival.

Focus Features' CEO, James Schamus, will adapt Tiber's book for the screen. Schamus was cowriter of Lee's recent film Lust, Caution. Schamus and Lee also worked together to make the gay-themed comedy The Wedding Banquet, released in 1993. Brokeback Mountain, released in 2005, was Focus's biggest hit. (The Advocate)