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The Beatles: Unreleased Videos Coming November 6th as Part of Restored Greatest Hits

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The Beatles: Unreleased Videos Coming November 6th as Part of Restored Greatest Hits
Apple’s Jeff Jones is constantly thinking of new ways to repurpose the Beatles catalog. His new project? A re-release of the Beatles “1” album, 27 number 1 hits along with previously unreleased videos made of the songs from back in the day. The 27 numbers will also be in surround sound 5.1 for the first time. You know you’ll buy it. I’ll buy it. I want it now. There’s also a big color booklet involved. Paul and Ringo did new audio commentary. Here’s a description of the videos. Now we just wait for “Let it Be,” the movie.

BEATLES 1 DVD

DISC ONE

  • 1. LOVE ME DO
    Newly edited clip, featuring material from BBC TV’s The Mersey Sound, with performance footage filmed on 27 August 1963 at the Little Theatre, Southport.
  • 2. FROM ME TO YOU
    A live performance at the 1963 Royal Variety Show, filmed at The Prince Of Wales Theatre, London, on 4 November 1963.
  • 3. SHE LOVES YOU
    A live performance from the Swedish Television show Drop In, recorded on 30 October 1963 during a short Scandinavian tour.
  • 4. I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND
    From the Granada TV programme Late Scene Extra filmed on 25 November 1963.
  • 5. CAN’T BUY ME LOVE
    First broadcast in the TV show Around The Beatles, filmed on 28 April 1964 and broadcast the following month. It features a different audio track to that of hit single, recorded by The Beatles on 19 April 1964.
  • 6. A HARD DAY’S NIGHT
    Live performance at the Palais des Sports, Paris on 20 June 1965, while on a short European tour.
  • 7. I FEEL FINE
    Filmed at Twickenham Film Studios on 23 November 1965. One of ten films shot that day to satisfy global TV demand for broadcast material to accompany The Beatles’ hit records.
  • 8. EIGHT DAYS A WEEK
    A brand new clip edited from material filmed at the Shea Stadium concert in New York City on 15 August 1965, during which the band performed twelve songs, but ‘Eight Days A Week’ was not among them. The clip says so much about the band’s frenetic lifestyle in 1965, at the height of Beatlemania.
  • 9. TICKET TO RIDE
    Filmed at Twickenham Film Studios on 23 November 1965.
  • 10. HELP!
    The less frequently seen clip of those filmed at Twickenham Film Studios on 23 November 1965.
  • 11. YESTERDAY
    Paul performing on The Ed Sullivan Show, videotaped in New York City on 14 August 1965 and broadcast the following month, the day before the single was released in America.
  • 12. DAY TRIPPER
    Three versions of this clip were filmed at Twickenham Film Studios on 23 November 1965. This is version 2, in which all of the group are wearing polo neck sweaters, except for Paul, who wears a black shirt.
  • 13. WE CAN WORK IT OUT
    There were three versions of the ‘We Can Work It Out’ video filmed atat Twickenham Film Studios on 23 November 1965. This is version 2 in which all four Beatles are wearing black polo neck sweaters.
  • 14. PAPERBACK WRITER
    Filmed in 35mm, and in colour, in Chiswick Park, West London, by director Michael Lindsay-Hogg.
  • 15. YELLOW SUBMARINE
    This clip is newly created from original Yellow Submarine footage.
  • 16. ELEANOR RIGBY
    This clip is taken directly from the Yellow Submarine movie.
  • 17. PENNY LANE
    A ground-breaking clip by Swedish director Peter Goldmann that captures The Beatles in Stratford, London, and at Knole Park in Kent, with additional material shot in Liverpool.
  • 18. ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE
    Filmed in Studio One at Abbey Road, on 25 June 1967, and beamed around the globe as a part of the TV programme Our World. This colourised version was created for The Beatles Anthology TV programme in 1995.
  • 19. HELLO, GOODBYE
    London’s Saville Theatre was the location for this promo film, shot on 10 November 1967; The Beatles wear their Sgt. Pepper outfits.
  • 20. LADY MADONNA
    Just prior to leaving for India, The Beatles met up in Studio Three at Abbey Road, on 11 February 1968. They were filmed while recording ‘Hey Bulldog’.
  • 21. HEY JUDE
    Filmed at Twickenham Film Studios on 4 September, for broadcast on David Frost’s TV show, Frost On Sunday. The introduction by David Frost is different from that on disc 2.
  • 22. GET BACK
    The promo clip made available at the time of the original release of the single featured performances from the Apple rooftop synched to the record. This new clip has been rebuilt to replicate the original but with improved picture quality.
  • 23. THE BALLAD OF JOHN AND YOKO
    This original promo clip features outtakes from the Let It Be movie, with other private footage shot in Amsterdam, London, Paris and Vienna.
  • 24. SOMETHING
    The video features George and Pattie, John and Yoko, Paul and Linda, and Ringo and Maureen. and was filmed at locations in Berkshire, Surrey, and the Mull of Kintyre.
  • 25. COME TOGETHER
    The clip was created in 2000 by Melon Dezign for the launch of thebeatles.com and the original Beatles 1 album.
  • 26. LET IT BE
    A 1970 promo clip was made available to support the release of the single and it was different to the one featured in the Let It Be movie; this clip has been rebuilt from the original footage.
  • 27. THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD
    This clip is taken straight from the Let It Be movie.

DISC TWO

  • 1. TWIST AND SHOUT
    From the Granada Television programme Scene At 6.30, which was videotaped on 14 August 1963.
  • 2. BABY IT’S YOU
    One of two clips used to promote the single taken from the 1995 Live At The BBC album. The clip is enhanced by the inclusion of unique colour footage of The Beatles filmed outside the BBC’s Paris Studio on Lower Regent Street, London.
  • 3. WORDS OF LOVE
    When On Air – Live At The BBC Volume 2 was released in 2013, it included ‘Words Of Love’, a Buddy Holly composition that the band recorded for radio. This new clip is a mix of existing footage and innovative animation.
  • 4. PLEASE PLEASE ME
    A live performance videotaped on 9 February for The Ed Sullivan Show, which was screened on 23 February 1964.
  • 5. I FEEL FINE
    Filmed at Twickenham Film Studios on 23 November 1965, this clip shows The Beatles eating fish and chips during their lunch break.
  • 6. DAY TRIPPER
    From the TV special The Music Of Lennon & McCartney that first broadcast in mid-December 1965.
  • 7. DAY TRIPPER
    Filmed at Twickenham Film Studios on 23 November 1965, with the group wearing their Shea Stadium Jackets with the ‘Nehru’ collars.
  • 8. WE CAN WORK IT OUT
    Filmed at Twickenham Film Studios on 23 November 1965 – showing The Beatles wearing the Shea Stadium jackets.
  • 9. PAPERBACK WRITER
    Shot on videotape at Abbey Road, on 19 May 1966, this studio version is prefaced by a short introduction by Ringo. It was broadcast on The Ed Sullivan Show in America.
  • 10. RAIN
    ‘Rain’, the B-side of ‘Paperback Writer’, was filmed in colour at Chiswick House, West London, on 20 May 1966.
  • 11. RAIN
    This black and white clip is a new edit from several takes of ‘Rain’ videotaped at Abbey Road on 19 May 1966.
  • 12. STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER
    Directed by Peter Goldmann and with newly restored footage, this was filmed at Knole Park, Kent on 30 and 31 January 1967.
  • 13. WITHIN YOU WITHOUT YOU/TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS
    The merging of these two tracks, one from Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the other from Revolver, was created for The Beatles Love show by Cirque du Soleil, which opened in June 2006 in Las Vegas. This video was created to promote the Love album released later that year.
  • 14. A DAY IN THE LIFE
    Filmed in Studio One at Abbey Road on 10 February 1967, this includes classical musicians, who were asked to wear evening dress, fake noses and funny hats for the recording session.
  • 15. HELLO, GOODBYE
    This clip is another shot at London’s Saville Theatre on 10 November 1967; The Beatles wear their ‘street clothes’.
  • 16. HELLO, GOODBYE
    This third version was also shot at London’s Saville Theatre on 10 November 1967; it includes elements from the first two films but with additional footage unique to this edit.
  • 17. HEY BULLDOG
    The original footage from a 1968 shoot for the ‘Lady Madonna’ promo film was unearthed in the mid-1990s. It was revealed that The Beatles were recording ‘Hey Bulldog’ and is an edit done to promote the reissue of the Yellow Submarine movie in 1999.
  • 18. HEY JUDE
    This is an edit of the two other takes filmed on 4 September 1968 for the Frost On Sunday TV show. This has a different David Frost intro to the clip on disc 1.
  • 19. REVOLUTION
    One of two versions, this was shot the same day as ‘Hey Jude’. John’s lead vocal is completely live, as are most of Paul and George’s backing vocals. The instrumentation, including Nicky Hopkins’ electric piano, is from the master tape.
  • 20. GET BACK
    This clip was assembled in 2003 to support the release of the album Let It Be…Naked and utilises studio footage from the famous Get Back/Let It Be sessions.
  • 21. DON’T LET ME DOWN
    This was the B-side of ‘Get Back’ and this clip is a composite of two live performances from the Apple rooftop in 1969. It was made available to support the release of Let It Be…Naked in 2003.
  • 22. FREE AS A BIRD
    The 1995 video is a work of art by director Joe Pytka, who used the concept of a bird’s-eye view to pay homage to many Beatles songs and images.
  • 23. REAL LOVE
    This video directed by Geoff Wonfor and ex-10cc and leading pop promo-maker Kevin Godley, this video was made in 1996 to support the release of the single.

Madonna: Plenty of Seats Available at All Prices for Three New York Shows

Roger Friedman
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Madonna: Plenty of Seats Available at All Prices for Three New York Shows

I keep getting tweets and emails from Madonna fans who’ve seen big “bald spots” at her Rebel Heart shows.

Well, Madison Square Garden and the Barclays Center are going to look a lot like the top of my own head starting tonight. That is, unless StubHub can unload the hundreds of seats they have in their inventories.

Seats for all three shows are aplenty, and at reasonable prices, in all sections. They are also available in quantities. Want to take seven or eight people? You can, and you can sit anywhere.

Secondary market ticket sellers obviously overestimated the demand for Rebel Heart seats. Maybe there will be a big walk up business. I’d go tonight, but I want to see Eliot Sumner at Pianos in the Lower East Side.

If you do go to a Madonna show, and see huge “bald spots,” please send pictures to showbiz411@gmail.com.

Tennis Anyone? US Open CEO Was Paid $1.3 Mil Last Year, USTA Calls Itself Non Profit Organization

Roger Friedman
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Tennis Anyone? US Open CEO Was Paid $1.3 Mil Last Year, USTA Calls Itself Non Profit Organization

Serena? Federer? Djokovic? Think they’re the highest paid players in tennis? Guess what: the US Open, which just concluded, is far more interesting backstage that on the court. I can tell you, and I’m surprised, that Gordon Smith, the CEO of the US Tennis Association, took home $1.3 mil last year. The second highest ranking exec at the US Open, COO Daniel Zausner, got $828,700.

Total salaries for the USTA last year came to almost $7 million. That doesn’t include another $14 million to independent contractors.In 2013 they claimed $131 million in assets, un-taxed assets.

How do we know this? The USTA is a 501 c3, a non profit organization. They file a Form 990 Tax return. Like the NFL, they consider themselves a, ahem, charity.

You do realize the US Open is played just once a year. It lasts two weeks. What a racket! (Pun intended.) This is better than the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The USTA’s 501c3 filing is totally separate, by the way, from another one for the USTA Foundation. Patrick McEnroe, John’s brother, is paid a whopping $940K out of the foundation’s non profit monies for “player development.”

At least they’re charitable. The USTA Foundation gave away roughly $1.6 million in 2013 to youth tennis and community groups. The USTA main 501 c3 benefits no one but their execs and the maintenance of the stadium in Flushing, Queens. The latter group had $63.5 million in expenses in 2013, and none of them were grants or donations.

The huge USTA salaries are commensurate with the actual players. Singles winners of the US Open receive $3.3 million apiece. The singles runners up get $1.6 million. Semi finalists winners get $805K. This means the execs are paid in the same ballpark, so to speak, without breaking a sweat.

Get this: the 64 players who won first rounds each received just $39,500 for their work. What shnooks! They should have gotten jobs in the front office!

The USTA has lots of expenses: $13 million in rent for the National Tennis Center out in Queens.(They pay it to themselves since the USTA owns Arthur Ashe Stadium, where tickets can run into the thousands of dollars to see matches.)  Legal fees of $720,000. Almost $1 million in travel expenses was paid for those highly remunerated execs.

Last year the USTA paid almost $2 million to have security guards at Arthur Ashe Stadium.

Again, what a racket.

 

Tobey Maguire: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kevin Connolly Support His Terrific Performance as Bobby Fischer

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Tobey Maguire: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kevin Connolly Support His Terrific Performance as Bobby Fischer

Where has Tobey Maguire been? AWOL from films mostly, playing in high stakes Hollywood poker games and getting into a bit of trouble. He hasn’t starred in a hit movie since 2007’s “Spider Man 3.” All that is about to change.

Maguire, now 40, plays profoundly troubled, perpetually paranoid and sadly mentally troubled chess iconoclast Bobby Fischer in Ed Zwick’s sensational “Pawn Sacrifice” opening  tomorrow. The Blecker Street release, shown at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival, has a strong 86% among critics and bloggers.  It may be Maguire’s best acting since “The Cider House Rules.”

Written by Steven Knight and directed by Edward Zwick, “Pawn Sacrifice” co-stars the talented Lily Rabe, who plays Bobby’s sister Joan, a looming Liev Schreiber as Soviet chess whiz Boris Spassky, lauded theater actor Michael Stuhlbarg, who plays his long suffering lawyer/confidante Paul Marshall, and the always terrific Peter Sarsgaard who plays Father Bill Lombardy, a childhood fellow chess friend who becomes his adviser.

Zwick assembled an impressive cast. He told me at last week’s premiere: “I made sure to put together some of the best actors out there.”

Zwick more than adeptly pulls it off, with the story of Brooklyn born Fischer, his rise to world rock star status and his impending, tragic fall.

Tobey is married to the lovely Jennifer Meyer, daughter of Universal Pictures chief Ron Meyer. Meyer made an appearance at the screening, as did Tobey’s BFF’s Leo DiCaprio (hanging in the back row with a baseball cap on) and “Entourage” star Kevin Connolly, who told me he’s excited to direct the long awaited John Gotti flick with John Travolta.  “It will be a wild ride,” Kevin told me. That’s an understatement considering the movie’s background.

Sarsgaard told me: “I’ve always been a chess geek. I was playing it on my phone in the car here. Bobby Fischer’s  story is really sad. He became homeless, with his already existing paranoia worsening. He still thought everything was a conspiracy. When 9/11 happened, he called into a radio station and blamed the US. He became a huge embarrassment, and kept breaking the law. He finally landed in Iceland where they gave him asylum and he died there, broke, in 2008.”

Maguire did his homework as well saying, “I’ve been wanting to do this for about ten years. I watched everything I could get my hands on and talked to so many people who knew him. I wanted to get it right.”

Toni Braxton Life Story Coming to Lifetime with Director Vondie Curtis Hall (Exclusive)

Roger Friedman
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Toni Braxton Life Story Coming to Lifetime with Director Vondie Curtis Hall (Exclusive)

One of my favorite people is directing a movie about another beloved personality.

Actor Vondie Curtis Hall is directing “Unbreak My Heart: The Toni Braxton Story” for Lifetime. Coolness. Vondie is the “Chicago Hope” actor who also is featured in the “Daredevil” TV series and appears in the new movie “Experimenter.” Vondie’s directed a lot of TV, as well as Mariah Carey’s notorious “Glitter.” He’s married to director Kasi Lemmons.

Braxton’s movie is based on her autobiography. Her story has lot of triumphs and sadness including #1 hits and two personal bankruptcies. She had a recent comeback once again with an album of duets with Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds. Her movie will feature Edmonds, LA Reid, Reid’s first wife Pebbles, and Braxton’s singing sisters.

No word yet on who will play Toni. Maybe she’ll play herself!

Movies: Smoking is Back, in a Big Way, as Characters Light Up in Toronto Fest Films

Roger Friedman
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Movies: Smoking is Back, in a Big Way, as Characters Light Up in Toronto Fest Films

Smoking. It kills you. It causes lung cancer and other cancers. Ads for cigarettes are considered verboten in 2015.

In the movies, smoking always made people look sexy and cool. Until it didn’t, and then it mostly disappeared.

Alas, if the Toronto Film Festival is any indication, smoking is back big time. After the last couple of days in theaters, I’ve started to smell like a virtual ashtray.

Naomi Watts smokes up a storm in “About Ray,” but she’s under a lot of stress. In Jay Roach’s excellent “Trumbo,” set in the 1950s, there’s a cloud of smoke hovering over the Black List. Dalton Trumbo is almost never seen without a cig. Of course Keith Richards smokes in his totally enjoyable documentary, “Under the Influence.” And I do mean cigarettes.

There’s plenty of smoke in the Hank Williams bio, “I Saw the Light.” That’s also set in the 1950s, so they have an excuse. Alicia Vikander plays a painter who smokes through one of those long, glamorous cigarette holders in “The Danish Girl.” I’m pretty sure cigarettes are what keep most of the people going in “Our Brand Is Crisis.”

Ironically, smoking is the only vice Lance Armstrong doesn’t seem to have in “The Program.” Performance enhancing drugs? Why, yes! But smoking, you know, is bad for you.

Ha ha.

Dan Rather on How NBC Threw Brian Williams Under the Bus: “He Trusted Them”

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Dan Rather on How NBC Threw Brian Williams Under the Bus: “He Trusted Them”

Former CBS News star Dan Rather– a legend in news, and the longest holder of the “Evening News” chair– has a good theory about what happened to Brian Williams at NBC.

“When things started coming apart, he didn’t hire an expert to help him,” Rather told me at Sony Pictures Classics’ annual Saturday night dinner in Toronto. “He relied on their PR people. He trusted them. That was his mistake. They threw him under the bus.”

Rather came to Toronto to support the movie “Truth,” in which Robert Redford plays him and Cate Blanchett is producer Mary Mapes during the time CBS threw them under the bus and ousted Rather unceremoniously. It was a pleasure to see him. It’s easily forgotten now that Rather scored hundreds of scoops and reporting coups during his long run at CBS, and was something of a maverick. He’s the real thing.

Rather told me by the way that he thinks CBS’s current Evening News with Scott Pelley is “the best produced news show on TV.” I agree with him.

Rather wasn’t the only star at the swanky and intimate SPC dinner. The other guests included Brit actor Tom Hiddleston and Elizabeth Olsen, stars of “I Saw the Light,” about Hank Williams, Elisabeth Moss of “Mad Men” fame, Susan Sarandon, Topher Grace, and legendary British director/producer Nicholas Hytner, who’s got a new movie called “The Lady in the Van” starring Maggie Smith.

Olsen, by the way, is one of the most articulate and charming actresses of the new crop of actors. She’s an absolute knockout as Audrey Mae Williams, Hank’s first wife and mother of Hank Williams Jr. Hiddleston’s performance is a revelation– and not to be missed when “I Saw the Light” is released November 27th. The film also features one of the great theater actors of all time, Cherry Jones, as Hank’s irascible stage mother, Lillie. I have a feeling that Cherry Jones will soon turn into the US’s version of Judi Dench– “discovered” for movie work in her late 50s and suddenly a beloved grande Dame. If only…

Exclusive: John Slattery of “Mad Men” Fame Joining “Veep” as Wall Street Mogul

Roger Friedman
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Exclusive: John Slattery of “Mad Men” Fame Joining “Veep” as Wall Street Mogul

Exclusive: John Slattery, forever Roger Sterling of “Man Men” fame, is coming back to TV. He tells me he’s joining “Veep,” playing Julia Louis Dreyfus’ possible romantic interest. His character is a Wall Street mogul like JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon.

Slattery will be at the Emmys next Sunday to cheer on castmates Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, and Christina Hendricks as well as show creator Matt Weiner. What I don’t understand is that Slattery isn’t nominated for his work as Roger. He was easily beyond anyone else on TV in a supporting role.

Slattery — who’s in the cast of the new movie “Spotlight,” premiering Monday night in Toronto– did joke with me about the Emmys. “I was doing my own comedy and they [Mad Men] were doing a drama.”

Roger Sterling was the quippiest, smartest character on TV. Slattery delivered him like Cary Grant in “The Philadelphia Story.” Imagine what he’ll do with JLD on “Veep.” The mind reels!

Prince Caves, Puts New Album “HitNRun” on iTunes After All– And as CD on Jay Z’s Label

Roger Friedman
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Prince Caves, Puts New Album “HitNRun” on iTunes After All– And as CD on Jay Z’s Label

After just a few days, Prince has caved. He’s put his new album “HitNRun,” on iTunes after all.

It must have dawned on Prince that his exclusive deal with Jay Z’s Tidal service meant no one was hearing his work.

On iTunes the release date is today, September 14th. So now Prince’s album is available for digital download.

An actual physical CD is listed on Amazon as of tomorrow– and it’s on Jay Z’s Roc Nation through Universal Music, the rival of Warner Bros., which has Prince’s catalog and has his two CDs from last year. They must be thrilled. What the heck happened?

It’s hard to say how many people care one way or another. “HitNRun” is turning out to be a marketing disaster.

Anyway, I’ll pony up $9.99 for the download. Even odd Prince is better than no Prince at all.

Miley Cyrus vs Lady Gaga at the Oscars as Miley Sings Linda Perry Song for Julianne Moore Movie

Roger Friedman
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Miley Cyrus vs Lady Gaga at the Oscars as Miley Sings Linda Perry Song for Julianne Moore Movie

Picture this at the Oscars: a sing off between Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus. And they’d be singing songs by respectively two amazing female songwriters, Diane Warren and Linda Perry.

Last night we heard Miley’s new song, “The Hands of Love,” written by Perry for the Julianne Moore- Ellen Page movie “Freeheld,” co- starring Michael Shannon. The movie is a little gem, and the real story of how Freehold NJ police detective Laurel Hester (Moore) fought to leave her pension to domestic partner Stacie Andree (Page). This only happened a few years ago, before gay marriage was legal. The fight became national news as Hester was dying of lung cancer and wanted to ensure that Andree would be considered her rightful heir.

The screening in huge Roy Thomson Hall was unmitigated success, boding well for the October 1st release of the film. Everyone is top notch in Peter Smollett’s film, but Moore — with a showier role– could pick up awards buzz for her fearless portrayal of Hester. On the other hand, Moore is also so exceptionally good in Rebecca Miller’s very funny comedy “Maggie’s Plan,” that she could be running against herself.

Indeed it was Julianne Moore Day in Toronto.

Meanwhile, Miley’s song is a huge sweeping anthem, written by Perry just for the film. No one knew it was coming, but the audience stayed. The song is magnificent.

So what will we do? Lady Gaga’s “Til it Happens to You” is just as good if not better. The Oscars are going to be like the Grammys.

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