Word: owen
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...Rather than tread the sitcom writer route, Shenson and Lester selected Alun Owen, an acclaimed Liverpudlian playwright, to write the script. Owen was finely attuned to the nuances of the rough working-class humor indigenous to Liverpool, and rather than impose artificial comedic personas on the Beatles, he simply constructed larger-than-life interpretations of traits he observed in the individual Beatles...
...first Lennon was resistant to Owen's skills. "You're just a professional Liverpudlian," sniped the cynical Beatle. "Better than being an amateur one," was Owen's smart-aleck response. Lennon was sold in that moment...
...Shenson, Lester and Owen decided on a comedic day-in-the-life film and spent a few days on the road with the Beatles as they prepared for their upcoming American debut. Within a week of that momentous "Ed Sullivan" debut, British TV was showing a slapdash documentary of the Beatles on that landmark February 1964 visit. The instant documentary was shot by Albert and David Maysles (later to find fame with their Rolling Stones/Altamont documentary "Gimme Shelter." Lester saw it and instantly grasped its significance. If he could capture that crackling energy in a fictionalized form the film would...
RUNNER-UP: Noodles: The New Way by Sri Owen (Villard; $24.95) Grab your chopsticks! Egg noodles, rice noodles and soba noodles never looked as delicious as they do here. Take a twirl...
When Democratic incumbent Owen B. Pickett announced his retirement, the elder Wagner felt the call of duty--and an opportunity, Rachael Wagner said...