wattstax

March 20 movie: Wattstax. I've been meaning to watch this since we saw DJ Spooky at Duke last month; his performance used many samples from this movie. It's a fantastic documentary about the 1972 Wattstax concert, and interviews/ruminations with people living in Watts, LA, at that time. The community interviews include Ted Lange (Isaac the bartender from "Love Boat") as one of a group of guys hanging out & making jokes about a lot of things, especially women as I recall. It's not clear whether this was his first appearance on screen or not. IMDB says he had a couple of bit parts in the same year Wattstax came out. But it's clear that he's one of the guys, not "Ted Lange, actor," when the movie was filmed.