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...from the north could become a crown prince on the strength of one good tune or two. Stardust picks up in 1964, and MacLaine and his group, the Stray Cats, seem modeled on the Beatles. They jump from being a bunch of good-time lads playing dungeons in Liverpool to the very top of the pops in a series of brisk scenes that capture both the suddenness and improbability of such success. Once he has it made, MacLaine becomes in quick succession a poet, a guru, a her mit and finally a cultural casualty. He is aided and discomforted through...
...your old man. Harry Harrison has spent his life in odd jobs: as a British merchant navy barber and steward and a Liverpool bus driver. Gerald Ford moved from model and lawyer to the House of Representatives, and last August into the White House. Still, the two men have something in common. When Harry dropped by Salt Lake City's Salt Palace to see his son, ex-Beatle George Harrison, 31, now touring the U.S., he ran into Jack Ford, 22, one of the President's boys. Said George proudly to Jack: "This is my Dad. If your...
This is the at first unpromising story of three English women living in crabbed intimacy in a Liverpool row house: two sisters, Nellie and Margo, plus their brother's daughter Rita, 17, who came into their care after her mother died. Unmarried Nellie's indignation colors their lives. Having sacrificed her own youth to the care of her mother, she holds Marge's brief, unsuccessful fling at marriage in daily contempt. Nellie sews dresses at home. Margo works in a munitions factory and drinks-when she can afford to-because she is fiftyish, fat and frustrated...
Shaffer took time deciding to make the theater his career. Born in 1926, he and his twin Anthony (who wrote Sleuth) grew up in Liverpool. Their father, an Orthodox Jew, was a successful real estate broker. In 1944, both sons were conscripted to work in the mines. Under the Bevin plan, depleted mines were beefed up by youngsters chosen by ballot. "It was wicked work," recalls Shaffer. Later he went to Cambridge, where he toyed with the idea of writing, and then he and Anthony teamed up to turn out three detective novels, long since out of print. Peter drifted...
...high schools, English teachers used "relevant" Beatle songs to communicate with their alienated students. In academia, scholars minutely analyzed the irony and symbolism of "Sergeant Pepper." People were married to the music of The Beatles, and at least one man had his funeral conducted to the tunes of the Liverpool boys...