And may we introduce to you -- the trailer for the legendarily awful film version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
I was actually acquainted with the guy who wrote this steaming pile of offal, and a bitchier old queen you never met. He hated rock-and-roll and considered the film his revenge on the music.
Ah, good times.
I bring the whole dismal affair up as a warning, however.
Think there couldn't possibly be a worse two hours of celluloid with a soundtrack of bad Beatles covers?
Wrong. Julie Taymor's Across the Universe is coming soon to a theater near you.
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As I have noted before, I have a soft spot for this movie and own it on DVD. And I think they'd make it again in a heartbeat, possibly with Sanjaya as Billy Shears.
Okay, I just threw up in my mouth a little.
"with Sanjaya as Billy Shears."
Brilliant!
Get me the Weinsteins pronto!
Maybe you are new around here Simels, but Miss Ivors thoroughly covered SPLHCB months ago.
So who remembers a film from the mid/late 70s called "All This and World War Two", which consisted of WWII footage run alongside Beatles' covers?
I only mention it because there was a lavishly-produced double album box set of the soundtrack that featured Peter Gabriel doing one of the best Beatle covers ever - his version of "Strawberry Fields."
I think I might possibly be the only human being in North American who has actually sat through this atrocity *twice* in a movie theater. (The second time, I had to bring my little sister.) I think I deserve a medal. Or free therapy. Or something.
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