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DIED. JULIUS EPSTEIN, 91, Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Casablanca and author of more than 50 produced screenplays; in Los Angeles. Epstein was the inspiration for the naive Julian Blumberg, whose stories are plagiarized by Sammy Glick in Budd Schulberg's Hollywood novel, What Makes Sammy...
...Epstein was quietly convinced that the Beatles had a remarkable talent that would enable them to eclipse the popularity of Elvis and last for an eternity. At the time, this was seen as a ludicrous boast about a loud, scruffy group from an unfashionable English province...
...forces behind the film were a curious mixture of talents who eschewed such a cynical approach. It started with the Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein. An urbane, failed drama student, he had found his metier with the Beatles. He discovered them brash and raw, and without changing their music he shaped them and made them presentable for a mass audience that suckled on the television tube. No TV show in Britain (let alone America) would have embraced the leather-clad Beatles. The foppish suits and Olde World charm of that little bow at the end of each set sugar-coated...
...such was Epstein's conviction that he was picky about every thing the group did. He turned down several film offers for the group before accepting the approach of one Walter Shenson, an American in London. Shenson's best calling card was that he had worked with Peter Sellers on a 1959 film "The Mouse That Roared...
...Alexandra Munroe with Jon Hendricks, a survey, complete with a CD by Ono and her son Sean Lennon; Paul McCartney Paintings (Bulfinch; 146 pages; $50), which features the cute Beatle's artwork; and In My Life by Debbie Geller (St. Martin's; 208 pages; $24.95), a biography of Brian Epstein, the Beatles' manager...