Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the movie is set around the CBS television theater where the Beatles performed, and the Plaza Hotel, where they stayed. Sometimes it is all too obvious that the film was really shot in Hollywood, but there are many details that are just right. The rioting Beatles fans still wear the clothing and hair styles of the pre-mod years; Disc Jockey Murray the K and Ed Sullivan (in the eerie reincarnation of Impressionist Will Jordan) are on hand to play their pivotal roles in the drama. The Beatles themselves appear only as ghosts: on record jackets, in silhouette...
...freeze this frame. We're in the basement-level Forum Room at the Copley Plaza, downtown Boston. A 31-year-old Nieman Fellow on rapturous leave from The News and Observer in Raleigh, N.C., is burbling to no one in particular that the Bloody Mary they've served him before lunch, dammit, just won't do. At all. "It's pure Campbell's tomato juice," he sniffs petulantly...
...trouble all started at the Century Plaza Hotel, where the sheik was staying. Waiter Mario Rivas claims he delivered a basket of fruit to the sheik's room and that the sheik was furious because the food was two hours late...
Within a half-hour of the time the victorious Rodgers entered Prudential Plaza, the garage was mobbed with athletes, some limping with blistered feet, others leaning on the shoulders of friends who had come to greet the heroic conquerors of the distance test...
...went down on the Titanic, changing into evening clothes for the event. William, another wastrel, named the principal rooms in his house after the metals on which his fortune was based; the Salon d'Or was reserved for love. Solomon, who kept a suite at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, gave the doorman $1,000 tips so that he could keep his Fierce-Arrow parked permanently near the door, and once gave the captain of an ocean liner $10,000 to turn around in the English Channel and go back for his daughter, who had missed the sailing...