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LONDON (AP) — Thirty years after they split up, the
;e surviving Beatles have written a book setting the record
straight about the “Fab Four,” a newspaper reported Sunday.
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band's rise to the top of the
pop world in the 1960s, The
Sunday Telegraph said.
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"It will dispel some of
the myths ... as every
Tom, Dick and uncle of
a friend has been writing
books about the Beatles
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— Paul McCartney
Former Beatles bassist
The Sunday Telegraph said the book, which will sell for
.afoul $80, will disclose new information about The Beatles’
drug taking, their sexual exploits, their rivalries and eventu
al breakup in 1970.
“It will dispel some of the myths ... as every Tom, Dick
and uncle of a friend has been writing books on the Beatles
since 1963,” the newspaper quoted McCartney as saying.
The newspaper said Yoko Ono, the
widow of John Lennon — the fourth
Beatle who was shot to death in New
York in 1980 — will receive a quarter
of the profits.
Among other things, the book
will counter the widely held belief
that McCartney pushed for the band
to split up, the newspaper said, re
vealing that Lennon was the first to
walk away, leaving McCartney to
make the official announcement
months later.
The newspaper says the book will
also disclose that in 1996, the three
Beatles turned down an offer of $ 175
million to perform 17 concerts in the
United States, Germany and Japan.
McCartney, 57, Harrison, 57, and Starr, 59, have collect
ed 1,200 photographs, mostly unpublished, for the book, The
Sunday Telegraph said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Gregory B.
huker, a journalist and documentary
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sues won prizes at Cannes and else
where, died March 29 of liver cancer.
He was 67.
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porter in 1959 when he discovered its
then-experimental television unit,
Drew Associates, and eventually'
moved from print to documentary
film-making, using the unobtrusive
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cinema-verite style. After leaving
Time-Life, Shuker joined the Public
Broadcast Laboratory, forerunner of
PBS, and participated in two pioneer
ing films — The Chair, about an at
torney trying to save a condemned
man. Another of his documentaries,
Free At Last, a 90-minute documen
tary about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
that by chance was being made when
King was murdered in 1968.
The Chair won the grand prize at
the Cannes Film Festival; Free at
Last won an Emmy and first prize in
the Venice Film Festival.
Shuker earlier won a grand prize
at Venice for Faces in November,
showing mourners at President
Kennedy’s funeral. Other work in
cluded Letters from Vietnam, a 1965
documentary, and a 1967 ABC-TV
special, Twiggy: Why? in which he in
terviewed media theorist Marshall
McLuhan.
Survivors include three children
and five grandchildren.
Roberts’ Erin Brockovich tops
Box Office for third week
Legal drama defeats newcomer, Road to El Dorado
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Julia Roberts’ Erin Brock
ovich remained the nation’s top movie for the third straight
weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The legal drama took in $ 14.2 million to hold off the de
but of the animated buddy flick The Road to El Dorado.
The heavily hyped El Dorado grossed a soft $12.5 million
to finish in second place.
The Skulls, a campus thriller about a working-class
stiff who joins an Ivy League secret society, overcame
bad reviews to debut at No. 3 with $11.4 million.
High Fidelity, a romantic comedy starring John Cusack
as the owner of a vinyl record shop trying to sort out his
love life, premiered in fifth place with $6.4 million.
The weekend’s other new movie, Jimmy Smits’ boxing
picture Price of dory, bombed with $1.5 million, finish
ing well out of the top 10.
Erin Brockovich, the story of a real-life single mother
who led a court battle over polluted water, has grossed
$76.2 million in 17 days. It is poised to become Roberts’
third straight $100 million movie.
The Road to El Dorado, featuring the voices of Kevin
Kline, Kenneth Branagh and Rosie Perez, was the latest car
toon epic from DreamWorks, which has been trying to chal
lenge Disney’s dominance in animation.
£7 Dorado executive producer Jeffrey Katzenberg,
who co-founded DreamWorks with Steven Spielberg
and David Geffen, was the driving force behind Dis
ney’s animation resurgence with such movies as Beau
ty and the Beast and The Lion King.
DreamWorks has had modest success with two previous
animated pictures, The Prince of Egypt and Ante. But its an
imated movies have not posted numbers to rival Disney’s
typical cartoon returns.
The Road to El Dorado, about two 16th century fortune-
hunters searching for a lost city of gold, failed to grab the
audience DreamWorks had hoped for in opening the movie
so widely and marketing it so heavily.
“It was slightly below what we expected,” said Jim
Tharp, DreamWorks’ head of distribution.
“But on the positive side, we have about four weeks be
fore any other family movies open.”
The movie’s PG rating, earned partly for a scene sug
gesting off-screen sex between two characters, may have
been a turnoff for families with young children. And while
it features sumptuous animation, the movie received so-so
reviews describing it as formulaic and not clever enough to
appeal to adults.
“Maybe it fell in between,” said Paul Dergarabedian,
president of Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc., which tracks the
box office.
“It’s not like Antz, where adults could go without the
kids and still enjoy it,” he said.
DreamWorks did have continued good news with Amer
ican Beauty, last weekend’s big Oscar winner, including
the best-picture honor. The studio expanded the film to
1,990 theaters, up 328, and took in $5.8 million for a sixth-
place finish.
American Beauty has grossed $ 117 million since open
ing in September.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at
North American theaters, according to Exhibitor Relations
Co. Inc. Final figures are to be released Monday.
1. Erin Brockovich, $14.2 million
2. The Road to El Dorado, $ 12.5
million.
3. The Skulls, $11.4 million.
4. Romeo Must Die, $9.7 million.
5. Eligh Fidelity, $6.4 million.
6. American Beauty, $5.8 million.
7. Final Destination, $5.2 million.
8. Mission to Mars, $3.4 million.
9. (tie) Flere on Earth, $2.4
million.
9. (tie) Whatever It Takes, $2.4
million.
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