Movie profiles '60s singer Phil Ochs
"God help the troubadour who tries to be a star," Phil Ochs warned in his song "Chords of Fame."
The lines echo with bitter irony. Ochs' personal celebrity peaked in the 1960s as a "protest singer, though he disliked that label. His songs included "Small Circle of Friends" and the anti-war anthem "I Ain't Marchin' Anymore." His fame dissipated extensively by the time he hanged himself in 1976 at age 35.
New York film director Kenneth Bowser hopes to raise that profile again with "Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune," a documentary released last winter, which will be screened 2 p.m. Sunday at the Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, 3101 Clifton Ave., Clifton.
The event is the project of Cincinnati freelance writer Steven Rosen.
"I was kind of waiting for it to come here, then when it was clear it wasn't coming, I decided to do this," Rosen said.
The movie includes interviews with the likes of actor Sean Penn and musicians Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul and Mary) and Billy Bragg.
"He represented something political about the '60s but also much more than it," Rosen said. "He's just one of those people like Harry Nilsson who accomplished so much but didn't get his due one way or another."
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