Word: beatlemania
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...Wanna Hold Your Hand is an abundantly dizzy comedy set on that famous February weekend when "Beatlemania" invaded the U.S. Written and directed by two 26-year-old protégés of Director Steven Spielberg (the film's executive producer), it tells the story of a gaggle of suburban teen-agers who will stop at nothing to see the Beatles in person during their maiden visit to New York. As madcap farce the movie is wildly uneven: it starts slowly, and ultimately tots up as many dead spots as solid laughs. Yet the film succeeds...
...Need Is Cash, a frantic spoof of Beatlemania, is 90 minutes long and has about three genuine laughs. By the prevailing standards of network comedy specials, like Mary Tyler Moore's recent hour on CBS, three laughs are nothing to scoff at. But this show promised so much more. The producer is Lome Michaels, the guiding spirit of NBC's feisty Saturday Night Live. The writer and co-director (with Gary Weis) is Eric Idle, of Monty Python's Flying Circus. The show's cast includes Mick and Bianca Jagger, George Harrison, Paul Simon and four...
...started watching it, but perhaps nothing ever on T.V. that could legitimately be written about in this column was more stupid than the Famous National Magazine Show last week, followed, closely, in second, by the Salute to the Beatles (not to be confused with the infinitely superior Beatlemania, which is lousy itself, to give you an idea of how lousy) on the other network (or was it the same network?), featuring 12 people I guarantee you who when the Beatles first came out were already so old that they could only joke "Spray D-Con on them, spray...
...rebirth of Homo habilis was not easy. Fischer asked Hollywood Makeup Artist Bob O'Bradovich, whose credits include work for Beatlemania and the Hallmark Hall of Fame, to prepare a mask of Homo habilis from Leakey's sketches. A rubber model was made in New York, which Fischer and O'Bradovich then took to Leakey in Nairobi...
...Whatever Beatlemania is, a concert with visuals or a "rockumentary," as one Boston critic described it, its techniques seem tailor-made for a new audience -people from twelve to 20. When it comes to live dramatic spectacles, the vast majority of these go only to rock concerts and would not know "Doc" Simon from Simon Gray. Bernard B. Jacobs, president of the Shubert Organization, which owns the Winter Garden, where the show is playing in New York, likes to think of Beatlemania as something that could help revitalize the Broadway audience rather than change the theater itself...