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- Beatles Director Donates Archives to British Film Institute
- Beatles director donates rare Hollywood archives to BFI
| Beatles Director Richard Lester Donates Archives Posted: 23 Aug 2010 05:15 AM PDT 08/23/2010 Among the treasures are first draft scripts for the two Beatles movies he directed: "A Hard Days Night" (1964) and "Help!" (1965); the scripts are entitled "The Beatles" and "Beatles Two." The landmark, "A Hard Days Night," influenced a generation of musicians and directors; both the band and Lester received the inaugural MTV Video Vanguard Award in 1984 for "essentially inventing the music video." - more on this story Share this article on Twitter Click here to read today's full report Preview and Purchase Beatles CDs
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| Beatles - Lennons Toilet Up For Sale Posted: 23 Aug 2010 04:27 AM PDT Caption: Starr's home facing demolition {Beatles (Picture)} fans are fuming over plans to demolish the house in Liverpool, England where {RINGO STARR} was born. The drummer was welcomed into the world on 7 July 1940 in a house on Madryn Street in the band's famous hometown. The property first came under threat in 2005, when Starr himself spoke out against.... A lavatory from the home of late BEATLES legend JOHN LENNON is to go on sale at an auction of Fab Four memorabilia later this month (Aug10). The porcelain toilet bowl was installed at Tittenhurst Park, Lennon's luxury mansion in Berkshire, England, where he lived until moving to New York with Yoko Ono in 1971. The lavatory is expected to fetch $1,500 (£1,000) when it goes under the hammer in the Beatles' hometown of Liverpool on Saturday (28Aug10). Other lots in the auction include a mono copy of Lennon and Ono's Two Virgins album, expected to sell for $3,750 (£2,500), and a black-and-white photo of Sir Paul MCCartney outside his home in Liverpool when he was aged 21. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php | ||||||||||
| Beatles Director Donates Archives to British Film Institute Posted: 23 Aug 2010 04:11 AM PDT
Highlights of this sizeable donation include correspondence with everyone from Hollywood actor Charlton Heston to comedian Spike Milligan, part of fabled British comedy troupe the Goons, the BBC reports. Over a 40-year career, Lester had many hits, including 'Superman II' and 'The Three Musketeers,' but his first feature film break came thanks to the Beatles. As every Fab Four obsessive knows, the band were huge fans of the Goons' surreal brand of humour, especially John Lennon, and Lester came to their attention due to his connection with them. The young director had worked on one of the Goons' first forays into television, 1956 series 'The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d.' So the Beatles had a say in Lester coming to direct their first two films, though the scripts here are only titled 'Beatles One' and 'Beatles Two.' Now aged 78, Lester has retired from the movie world, apart from a brief return to make a film of Paul McCartney's 1989-90 world tour, 'Get Back.' Nathalie Morris, the BFI's curator of special collections, expects more treasures to appear as her team sorts through 60 boxes of documents, including Polaroid photos that give behind the scenes insights. She said, "It is an immensely generous gift and it's great to know that people are going to be able to come in and look at it." This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php | ||||||||||
| Beatles director donates rare Hollywood archives to BFI Posted: 23 Aug 2010 04:10 AM PDT London, Aug 23 : The British Film Institute's collection just got richer - Beatles director Richard Lester has donated many rare photographs and production shots taken during his stint in Hollywood, to the institute. The treasures include draft scripts for The Beatles' films 'A Hard Day's Night' and 'Help', correspondence from Hollywood stars Audrey Hepburn, Raquel Welch and Charlton Heston. According to BBC News, the archive also contains a letter from comedian Spike Milligan, who offers to do laundry in exchange for a job. Lester was instrumental in adapting radio comedy programme 'The Goon Show' for television, in the 1956 series 'The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d'. Lester's success with the Fab Four made him a mainstay of the Swinging '60s scene. The director later found box office success in Hollywood, directing Christopher Reeve in 'Superman' and Oliver Reed in 'The Three Musketeers'. His donation is his way of returning something to the industry that gave him so much recognition. "The organisation has always been very helpful to me," said Lester. "It is a pleasure for me to be able to offer them the detritus of my working life," he added. --ANI This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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