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The Good Berkowitz

4/2/2014

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Periodically on these pages I've mentioned my friend Myles Berkowitz, who is a one-man circus, and I've said that his wonderful wife Elisabeth is the luckiest person alive because she has a guaranteed lifetime of entertainment by saying, "Hi, Myles, what's new?", and he'd go into a specular rant for the next half-hour, and he's asked about something else.

As it happens, I had dinner with those Berkowitz folks last night, with a delicious meal prepared by Elisabeth (and the evening made all the more entertaining by saying, "Hi, Myles, what's new?").  But it was also made even more fascinating by the lovely and shy Elisabeth off-handedly mentioning for some reason, in reference to something only tangentially related, that she had once been in a Poco music video.

Say what???!

I knew that Elisabeth had been a model early in her career, before she met Myles, but this had never come up in conversation.  (Oddly, since Myles -- among his many other talents and businesses -- is a filmmaker, who wrote, directed and starred in a wonderful mockumentary, 20 Dates -- in which he cast Elisabeth, who he'd just started dating at the time, to play a fictionalized version of herself -- on a couple of dates with a fictionalized Myles Berkowitz.  By the way, a fictionalized Myles Berkowitz is in many ways more believable than the real thing.  Anyway, this may be one of the few occasions in Hollywood history when a filmmaker told a beautiful woman, "I can get you in a movie," and not only mean it, but not say it as a way to hit on her...)  And I was bewildered too because Poco had its hey day a LONG time ago, before even music videos, I thought, but it turns out that this came from their attempt at a comeback of some sort, about 15-20 years ago.

The video is for a song called, "Nothing to Hide," and I have absolutely no idea what it has to do with the visuals -- but then, neither does Elisabeth.  I asked if she'd mind if I posted it here, and she said, "Oh, that's fine, whatever you want."

It's an overlap of several "plot lines" that appear to be about relationships breaking up, except for some of them seem to be getting back together.  Elisabeth most notably comes in at the 24-second mark, during apparently her Big Curly Hair Days.  She has a few scenes, disappears for some reason for a long time, and then has a close-up -- for some unknown reason -- at 2:53.

By the way, one of the user comments on Y
ouTube says that the video was directed by Michael Bay.  So, the fact that the video doesn't makes any sense becomes a bit more understandable now.

So, with all that out of the way, I present the Elisabeth Berkowitz Video, featuring Poco.
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Elisabeth Berkowitz
4/2/2014 08:52:25 am

I didn't know the video was directed by Michael Bay. Myles walked in when I was reading that and before I could get to the end of the paragraph I told him and he said, "no wonder it doesn't make any sense!"

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Robert Elisberg
4/2/2014 11:36:05 am

And today, Michael Bay is reading this and saying, "I didn't know that was Elisabeth Berkowitz".

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Elisabeth Berkowitz
4/2/2014 11:57:45 am

Oh, yes. I'm sure that's the case.

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Nicholas Wright
7/26/2015 10:48:41 am

Awesome! :)

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Michael C
8/27/2015 06:48:48 am

I loved that film. 20dates. And Ms. Elisabeth was great in it. I'm glad she and Miles ended up together in REAL LIFE.....

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Robert Elisberg
8/27/2015 08:01:33 am

For inexplicable reasons, which Myles has tried to find an answer to, but hasn't been able to yet, 20th Century Fox hasn't yet put "20 Dates" out on DVD. Hopefully soon -- or one day. It's a pretty amusing film.

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