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- Doc in Beatles case facing cancer suit
- The Beatles Rock Band Site Wins Best Games-Related Site in Webby Awards
- Beatles interview tape takes long and winding road to auction
- Belgrade welcomes Beatles magic
| Doc in Beatles case facing cancer suit Posted: 05 May 2010 03:47 PM PDT NEW YORK, May 5 (UPI) -- A doctor sued in New York for treating a woman for cancer she allegedly didn't have was once sued for revealing Beatles member George Harrison was a patient. The lawsuit pending in U.S. District Court accuses Dr. Gilbert Lederman of wrongful death for treating Giuseppa Bono, a 34-year-old mother of three who died in 2003, the New York Daily News reported Wednesday. The newspaper said court records show the year before she died, Bono went to see Lederman and Dr. Philip Silverman at Staten Island University Hospital and told them she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer by doctors in Italy. The two American doctors treated her with radiation and she returned to Italy where she later died. The suit alleges her cancer diagnosis was never confirmed either in Italy or the United States and that Bono had an inflamed pancreas, not cancer. Attorneys for the two U.S. doctors maintain in court papers that pancreatic cancer cannot always be proven by biopsy and that in their judgment she had the disease. The newspaper said lawyers for both sides did not return calls for comment. Lederman found himself in the public eye previously when he was sued by Harrison's widow and son for disclosing that the former rock star was his patient and allegedly forcing the musician to autograph a guitar while on his deathbed, the Daily News noted. That suit was later settled, the newspaper said. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| The Beatles Rock Band Site Wins Best Games-Related Site in Webby Awards Posted: 05 May 2010 01:33 PM PDT May 5, 2010 - Cambridge, Mass. - The 14th Annual Webby Awards has named TheBeatlesRockBand.com as Best Games-Related Site of the year. The site is produced by the Web Development Team at Harmonix Music Systems Inc., the world's leading developer of music-based games, in collaboration with Apple Corps, The Beatles' company. TheBeatlesRockBand.com introduces people to the unique interactive experience presented by The Beatles™: Rock Band. Set in the game's own distinctive style, it provides in-depth background information on the people, places and instruments featured in the game. Cutting-edge web design techniques and high-resolution, behind-the-scenes videos round out the experience. The Beatles: Rock Band was developed by Harmonix, the leading developer of ground-breaking music-oriented videogames that also include Rock Band, Rock Band 2, The Beatles: Rock Band and, the soon-to-be-released Green Day: Rock Band and Rock Band 3. Harmonix and Apple Corps will be honored June 14 at a star-studded ceremony hosted by B.J. Novak of NBC's "The Office" in New York City. Fans will be able to watch the ceremony on June 15, including Harmonix's five-word speech, at the official Webby Awards YouTube Channel. A full list of both Webby Awards and People's Voice Awards winners can be found at: "http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season=14" Hailed as the "Internet's highest honor" by The New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile websites. The Webby Awards is presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 650-person judging academy whose members include Martha Stewart, R/GA's Chief Bob Greenberg, David Bowie, Arianna Huffington and Twitter's Biz Stone. "The Webby Awards honors the very best of the Internet," said David-Michel Davies, executive director of the Webby Awards. "Harmonix's achievement is a testament to the skill, ingenuity and vision of its creators." "We are excited an honored to have TheBeatlesRockBand.com win the Webby Award for Best Games-Related Website," said Jeff Chausse, Harmonix's Web Director. "We wanted to capture the artistry and magic of the game on the web, and this award is further confirmation that Harmonix has created a truly unique celebration of The Beatles' music, which has really captured the public's imagination." The 14th Annual Webby Awards received nearly 10,000 entries from over 60 countries and all 50 states. Founded in 1996, The Webby Awards are known worldwide for its famous five-word speech limit. Past Webby Award winners – and their speeches - include Al Gore ("Please don't recount this vote"), Beastie Boys ("Can anyone fix my computer?"), and Stephen Colbert ("Me. Me. Me. Me. Me.").
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| Beatles interview tape takes long and winding road to auction Posted: 05 May 2010 04:24 PM PDT A Canadian man's reel-to-reel recording of a Beatles news conference in Toronto on Aug. 17, 1966 — the Fab Four's last concert date in this country — is set to sell for up to $25,000 at a U.S. auction of pop culture treasures. The 14-minute recording, described by Bonham's auction house as "the only audio known to survive" from the Q-and-A session held at Toronto's King Edward Hotel, features the bandmates defending American draft-dodgers in Canada, John Lennon addressing his incendiary more-popular-than-Jesus claim and both Lennon and Paul McCartney joking about the band's possible breakup — which happens four years later. The 43-year-old recording was made by Canadian freelance photojournalist Paul Hourigan, who went on to a lengthy career as a staff photographer with the Hamilton Spectator. At the time, though, he was recording the news conference with plans to sell it to a local radio station for $50 or so. "No one was interested in buying it," Hourigan told Canwest News Service on Wednesday. "Now I'm sure glad they didn't." Hourigan's rediscovery of the sound relic four decades after his "pack rat" wife, Florence, tossed it into a box of souvenirs is expected to produce a serious payout at Bonham's June 13 auction of entertainment memorabilia in Los Angeles. "I'm hoping it will aid me in my retirement," said the 64-year-old Hourigan. "Fingers crossed." The news conference with Lennon and McCartney — the band's main songwriters and vocalists — guitarist George Harrison and drummer Ringo Starr took place between two shows held that day at Maple Leaf Gardens. With Canada still in the throes of Beatlemania, screaming female fans thronged the four musicians with each movement between hotel, stage or airport. And coming just a few months after Lennon's controversial comments comparing the band's popularity to that of Jesus Christ, crowds of reporters were on hand to question the Beatles about religion, politics and a host of other subjects: war, the generation gap, trends in music, and the band's future. Would they ever break up? "Well, everything's possible, you know," says Lennon. "There's no answer to that. We obviously are not going to go around holding hands forever. We've got to split up or progress." McCartney, then 24, adds: "The only reason we won't be around is we'll be dead. But, uh, as Beatles we could be around still doing the same thing as we're doing now, only we (will) have developed a bit. But you know, it'd be a bit embarrassing at 35." Responding to a question about the Vietnam War and young Americans fleeing to Canada to escape the draft, Harrison states: "I think anybody who doesn't feel like fighting, or feels like fighting is wrong, has a right not to go in the army. There's nobody can force you into going and killing someone." Lennon quickly adds: "But they do." And foreshadowing his Give Peace a Chance anthem — recorded three years later in a Montreal hotel during his famous bed-in with Yoko Ono — Lennon said he and his bandmates "just don't agree with war for any reason whatsoever. There's no reason on Earth why anybody should kill anybody else." Beatles memorabilia has been a huge seller at auctions in recent years. Last July, a crude poster with the words "L'amour et la paix" — signed by Lennon and Ono and taped to the wall above the couple's Montreal hotel bed in 1969 — sold for $140,000 at a Christie's auction in London. In 2008, Lennon's handwritten lyrics to Give Peace a Chance sold for a stunning $800,000 at a Christie's sale. The scribbled words were given by Lennon to Montreal teenager Gail Renard, who had slipped past bed-in security guards and was welcomed into the couple's room. And a reel-to-reel recording of an interview from the same Montreal event was sold to a British museum for almost $40,000 at a 2005 auction, and was later broadcast in a BBC Radio special. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Belgrade welcomes Beatles magic Posted: 05 May 2010 06:24 AM PDT Michael Green05 May 2010THE Magic Of The Beatles celebrates the music of the Fab Four at the Belgrade Theatre later this month - and you could win tickets courtesy of The Observer. * What was The Beatles' first single? Send your track choice and answer, together with your name, address and daytime telephone number, to: Magic Of The Beatles Competition, The Coventry Observer, 45 The Parade, Leamington Spa, CV32 4BL. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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