Time to finally name the mysterious, unnamed Montreal hairdresser who had the temerity to try to shut down the film Woodstock because it showed him disrobing with a woman for 150 seconds.
We don't know who he is but he'd likely be about 75 by now and might have led a bit of a failed life if you believe his own arguments.
The hairdresser, whose identity was never revealed in the media, slapped a libel suit in June 1970 demanding that the film stop airing because it showed him briefly stripping from a distance in a split-screen with a woman in tall grass, as can be seen here. He said it exposed him to ridicule and considered it libel.
The woman, also unnamed, was a 20-year-old secretary from Pennsylvania.
She testified that they stripped because it was raining. They had met just previously and had skinny-dipped in a nearby lake. They didn't have sex but they embraced in the tall grass, she said.
The defendants, Warner Bros. and United Amusement Corp. said that the hairdresser - who appears to have had an outlandishly large red beard - was not recognizable.
One Warner Brothers' lawyer said that it showed "beautiful people doing beautiful things."
Judge Paul Langlois replid "I'm not sure I would agree with that."
We don't find a verdict but it's safe to assume that the suit failed, as the movie was never yanked from theatres as far as we know.
That beard, it's the Idomo man.
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