Movie Madness
Published in Hudson Valley Magazine, March 2007
Last summer, I read an article in a local paper that described how, in March 2005, filmmakers had descended on a series of locales in Orange and Ulster counties and used them as stand-ins for rural Wisconsin.
These locations included the Sky Top Motel in Kingston, the Reservoir Dairy Deli in Shokan, and the Phoenicia Diner. This seemed both magical and bizarre to me. How, I wondered, could an ordinary diner, whose pancakes and sausages I was intimately familiar with, be transplanted to a Midwestern state I’ve never even visited? And why had the filmmakers picked the Valley for their sleight of hand? This demanded investigation.
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The first the American public heard of Dave Holland was when Miles Davis hired him at the age of 21 to play in his famous Quintet. “How about that Dave?” Miles said happily to jazz writer Leonard Feather shortly thereafter. “Ain’t he a bitch?” That was in 1968, nearly 40 years ago, and Holland has stayed aloft in the jazz stratosphere ever since. Local residents can hear why for themselves Saturday, July 29 when he plays a solo concert at 8 p.m. at Maverick Concert Hall.
