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The Knl and Black
Wednesday. May II. I»H3
Biographer airs Fab Four’s dirty laundry
A review of "The Love You
Make. " by Peter Brown and
Steven Gaines Published by
McGrow Hill Book Co.
Hardcover. t!4 95
By EDWARD THOMAS
Hrd and HI., k Hull WrUn
Peter Brown, former
director of the Beatles'
management companies
NEMS Enterprises and
later, Apple Corp , has taken
the words of John Lennon
and Paul McCartney's
"Paperback Writer" to
heart — "Will you read my
book, it took me years to
write, it'll make a million for
you overnight "
His new book, “The Love
You Make," written with
celebrity-biographer Steven
Gaines, is the latest
biographical contribution to
Beatlemania and took
almost 13 years to be
published after the Beatles'
breakup
And if its presence on
current best-seller lists is
any indication, it had indeed
"made a million for him
overnight,” to the tune of
114 95 a copy
And he isn't even a
"paperback" writer yet
The book is named. Brown
claims, for the last lyric in
the last song on the last
Beatles' album, which goes,
“And in the end, the love you
take is equal to the love you
make "
Indeed, the book does
center on the love and loves
thr Beatles made during the
course of their incredible
career — "dirty laundry”
told as only a privileged
insider can tell it
"The Love You Make"
begins and ends with the
dissolution of a John Lennon
marriage The first anecdote
is Cynthia Lennon Bassanini
Twist's recounting of the
fateful day she returned
from a Grecian vacation to
find husband John blithely
sipping tea at the kitchen
table with a Japanese
woman named Yoko One,
both clad only in dressing
gowns
The book ends with a vivid
description of the five shots
fired by Mark David
Chapman on Dec 8,1982 that
ended John’s marriage to
Yoko
In between, we are told
many tales of the Beatles'
promiscuity — Paul's many
paternity suits, John's
homosexual encounter in
Spain with Beatles manager
Brian Epstein, himself a
diligently practicing
homosexual and the Fab
Four’s “whoring" days in
Hamburg, Germany, when a
needle stuck in their arms
was more than likely filled
with penicillin
The story of their U S.
touring days, when lines of
girls would wait outside the
boys' hotel suites waiting to
“meet" the Beatles, often
passing the time by ironing
their clothes, is also
chronicled
But there is more to "The
Love You Make" than its
title would suggest It also
documents many major
events in the lives of the lads
from Liverpool, both as the
Beatles and individuals
• Their infatuation with
marijuana and its influence
on the writing of the
“Revolver” and "Rubber
Soul" albums.
• John's self-destructive
use of USD and heroin
• The business details of
the ill-fated Apple Corp
which was a major con
tributor to the Beatles'
demise as a group
• Historic first meetings
with Bob Dylan and Elvis
Presley
Many incidents and stories
are also included that Brown
seems proud to point out, are
"told here for the first
time."
Other than this, "The Love
You Make" exhibits very
little self-indulgence on the
author's part Brown seems
quite content to let his major
sources, "fifth Beatle" Neil
Aspinall, the first Mrs
Lennon, Starr and Harrison,
recount the Beatles' history
Lennon friend "Magic
Alex" Mardas and Queenie
Epstein, mother of Beatles
manager Brian Epstein, also
assist in the third-person
account up until the for
mation of Apple Corp . after
Brian Epstein's death, when
the author takes over with a
first person narrative
Brown does, deservedly
so, proudly mention that "I
was immortalized in the
verse (of the song, "The
Ballad of John and Yoko"),"
‘Peter Brown called to say
you can make it okay/You
can get married in Gibraltar
near Spain," referring to his
search for a secluded
wedding spot for John and
Yoko
Intentionally absent from
"The Love You Make" is a
documentary-style, date-by
date retelling of the Beatles
career performances and
detailed musical and lyrical
analyses of the quartet's
compositions In their stead,
the author refers readers to
several previous works, the
best among them being "A
Day in the Life, The Beatles
Day by Day," and "Beatles
Forever."
The focus of "The Love
You Make" is rather, as the
author asserts, "on the sage
of the Beatles' lives.” It is
the first truly "kiss and tell”
Beatles tome to see print,
and its comprehensive
nature erases the need for
any more works of this
nature.
The book has ridden the
crest of a new tidal wave of
Beatlemania which began
with the death of John
Lennon and will end only
who knows when For the
Beatles and Beatlemania
will always be with us
Indeed, "The Love You
Make" will become a
standard by which all
subsequent Beatles books
will be measured
It is the “Sgt. Pepper's" of
its genre.
The Beatles lived fast and loved hard
'Hunger 9 satiates with a sophisticated bite
A review of “The Hunger," Blurring Catherine Deneuve,
David Howie and Sunan Sarandon Directed by Tony Scott
A n MOM release Now playing at the Classic
By SUSAN ALLRED
Nnl and Mark Ntaff Wrilcr
There is a phenomenon called "persistence of vision"
which lets us see film as motion instead of the series of still
photographs it really is Our eyes remember the first frame
of film while the second frame is showing
This phenomenon blurs the past with the present to make
the movies move Tony Scott, director of "The Hunger," has
taken this blurred time and expanded on it for his thought
provoking horror story
The sounds of future conversations overlap previous action
in "The Hunger " Parallel events taking place miles apart
are intercut to comment on. and perhaps explain, one
another
These aren't techniques one sees every Friday night at the
picture show Such manipulations imply some use of the old
gray matter on the audience's part But the cross-cutting of
sound and vision works perfectly to pump new blood into an
old legend
Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie star as the thinking
man's vampires Scott's new breed has souls They can be
seen in mirrors, have their pictures taken, and travel freely
in daylight
The vampires, Miriam and John Blalock, haunt the new
music discos of New York City searching for victims With
their high-fashion clothes and stiletto-sharp stares, the
Blalocks blend right in with the meat market scene
This sleek pair wouldn't have anything so gauche as fangs
They slit their prey with tiny silver-cased gold knives con
cealed in ankh necklaces that look like Gucci made them
Miriam's enemy is not a Jonathan Harker armed with a
cross and a silver bullet, but with the mere ravages of time
She can promise eternity to (he lovers to whom she gives the
kiss of live, but she can't deliver it
Every century or so, Miriam must watch a lover age from
bright youth to near-dust in the short space of a few days
Then she searches for a new dinner companion This time,
it's pop rocker David Bowie brushed off for "Rocky Horror"
veteran Susan Sarandon
The line between high fashion and high camp is a thin one
Director Scott painted it no thicker by casting his main
characters from the ephemeral jet set But the quartet walk
the line dauntlessly
Academy-Award nominee Sarandon has demonstrated
seemingly limitless talent and charm since her early career
with "The Rocky Horror Picture Show " Her cult role
deserves to be forgotten in the wake of “Pretty Baby" and
"Atlantic City " But the comparisons can't be helped
Her character even has this line, culled nearly verbatim
from the "Show "
' 'We re talking about the secret of life and death here "
Bowie has learned to relax with the camera. Unlike many
singers who've tried to conquer the screen, Bowie has
become as competent on film as he is on disc
Deneuve, as Miriam, translates her model's poise into cen
turies of stately elegance She's calm and seductive, and not
above making promises she knows are false
Both the beginning and ending of the film are disconnected
from the formality of the main story
The end suffers from an abundance of rickety skeletons,
which are never as convincing on the screen as they seem in
the imagination.
But the opening encounter with a pair of social parasites is
the best part of "The Hunger "
There is no dialogue for ten minutes into the film
Therefore, the exposition relies heavily on it's vivid visuals
Intercut are speeding limousines, killer monkeys and the
Blalocks with their prey These sights may antagonize as
many viewers as they delight, but they do not fail to shock
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