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...pull off the hoax, "a Paul lookalike contest was held and a living substitute found in Scotland... an orphan from Edinburgh named William Campbell... Minor plastic surgery was required to complete the image." Not only did Campbell look amazingly like McCartney, according to LaBour, but "the difference in voice timbre between the original and phony Paul... was so slight" that the Scottish orphan was able to sound the same as Paul...
...friend Tom, a fellow Mather orphan, arrived at his six-man quaint to find all the bedrooms padlocked and reserved with signs for "Dave and Betsy." "Steve and Joanne," "Mona and The Madman," "Ken," and "Crazy Al." The living room was filled to chest level with barbells, broken furniture, and several Persian rugs and boxes of knickknacks Ken had culled from a couple of profitable years on the Lampoon business board...
This rather sad, silly and sterile proposition is seen through a teary blur of bravery. Thank You might have been subtitled Orphan of the Sexual Storm. Seduced, pregnant and very much alone, Sandy Dennis, an arch-valiant London waif, decides to have her baby anyway. She wouldn't dream of darkening her parents' door, and they have left for Africa anyway. She is too proud to tell the father (Ian McKellen), a BBC TV announcer who was only with her for one gravid night. Apparently she takes a dim view of his husbandly potential in any case, though...
...FOOL KILLER and THE BOYS OF PAUL STREET. In The Fool Killer, a runaway twelve-year-old orphan comes to the beginning of maturity through a series of picaresque adventures. The call to action in The Boys of Paul Street is a dispute over the last vacant lot in town. Both films are tragicomedies that are focused on -and for-youth...
...FOOL KILLER and THE BOYS OF PAUL STREET. In The Fool Killer, a runaway twelve-year-old orphan comes to the beginning of maturity through a series of picaresque adventures. The call to action in The Boys of Paul Street is a dispute over the last vacant lot in town. Both films are tragicomedies that are focused on -and for-youth...