In the early 1960s, Paul McCartney began dating Iris Caldwell, a former girlfriend of George Harrison. Harrison had dated Caldwell briefly as a young teenager, so her relationship with McCartney was more mature and serious. Still, the couple fought often and broke up regularly. Every time they split, Caldwell could count on Harrison to come knocking on her door to ask her out.
George Harrison was interested in Paul McCartney’s girlfriend
In the two years McCartney and Caldwell dated, they got into many arguments. She found his desire to always be the center of attention exhausting, particularly because he often followed John Lennon’s lead.
“One night we’d gone to this coffee bar in Birkenhead called The Cubic Club because everything was cube-shaped — the tables, the seats,” Caldwell said, per the book Paul McCartney: The Life by Philip Norman. “Paul’s showing-off got on my nerves so much...
George Harrison was interested in Paul McCartney’s girlfriend
In the two years McCartney and Caldwell dated, they got into many arguments. She found his desire to always be the center of attention exhausting, particularly because he often followed John Lennon’s lead.
“One night we’d gone to this coffee bar in Birkenhead called The Cubic Club because everything was cube-shaped — the tables, the seats,” Caldwell said, per the book Paul McCartney: The Life by Philip Norman. “Paul’s showing-off got on my nerves so much...
- 11/10/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The U.K. edition of iconic game show “Password” will bow imminently on broadcaster ITV, and new countries are being added.
Variety can reveal that the Fremantle-owned format is getting versions in Greece (Alpha TV), Hungary (TV2), Israel (Channel 13), Mexico (TV Azteca) and Slovakia (TV Joj).
The word association game, which first launched on CBS in 1961, sees captains and contestants try to guess their teammates’ passwords with the help of one-word clues. The U.K. version will offer a cash prize in the final. It benefits from the presence of three eminent comic talents: Stephen Mangan as host and BAFTA winners Alan Carr and Daisy May Cooper as team captains.
The most recent U.S. version, starring Keke Palmer and Jimmy Fallon, launched last year on NBC and quickly became one of the network’s most popular shows. The U.K. version will have its own distinct flavor.
Variety can reveal that the Fremantle-owned format is getting versions in Greece (Alpha TV), Hungary (TV2), Israel (Channel 13), Mexico (TV Azteca) and Slovakia (TV Joj).
The word association game, which first launched on CBS in 1961, sees captains and contestants try to guess their teammates’ passwords with the help of one-word clues. The U.K. version will offer a cash prize in the final. It benefits from the presence of three eminent comic talents: Stephen Mangan as host and BAFTA winners Alan Carr and Daisy May Cooper as team captains.
The most recent U.S. version, starring Keke Palmer and Jimmy Fallon, launched last year on NBC and quickly became one of the network’s most popular shows. The U.K. version will have its own distinct flavor.
- 8/18/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Bob Dylan has been relatively tight-lipped about the people he has dated. He has had multiple romantic relationships, though.
Bob Dylan | Kevin Winter/Getty Images for AFI Barbara Ann Hewitt
Long before he was famous, Dylan was a high school student in Minnesota who had fallen in love with his classmate. He wrote many love letters to his then-girlfriend, Barbara Ann Hewitt.
Collection of love letters written by Bob Dylan sold for $670K https://t.co/EZt93oqhcT pic.twitter.com/Rpon6ksvBY
— New York Post (@nypost) November 20, 2022
The letters, in which Dylan invites Hewitt to events and writes about the songs he likes, sold for nearly $670,000 at an auction in 2022.
Mavis Staples
Dylan and Mavis Staples played overlapping shows, and Dylan quickly developed a case of what Staples described as “puppy love.” He spoke to her father about proposing, but never did.
“I still have letters that we would write to each other,...
Bob Dylan | Kevin Winter/Getty Images for AFI Barbara Ann Hewitt
Long before he was famous, Dylan was a high school student in Minnesota who had fallen in love with his classmate. He wrote many love letters to his then-girlfriend, Barbara Ann Hewitt.
Collection of love letters written by Bob Dylan sold for $670K https://t.co/EZt93oqhcT pic.twitter.com/Rpon6ksvBY
— New York Post (@nypost) November 20, 2022
The letters, in which Dylan invites Hewitt to events and writes about the songs he likes, sold for nearly $670,000 at an auction in 2022.
Mavis Staples
Dylan and Mavis Staples played overlapping shows, and Dylan quickly developed a case of what Staples described as “puppy love.” He spoke to her father about proposing, but never did.
“I still have letters that we would write to each other,...
- 3/20/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
A former Apple employee and friend claimed that George Harrison thought he was Indian in a past life. The former Beatle fell in love with the country’s culture in the mid-1960s. He loved that the old traditions remained and that spirituality ruled.
George Harrison, Mike Love, and John Lennon | Bettmann/Getty Images A former Apple employee said George Harrison believed he was Indian in a past life
In George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door, Graeme Thomson wrote that “physically, spiritually and emotionally,” George found very little of himself in his home city of Liverpool. After finding spirituality in the mid-1960s, George had little ties to much else. His real home wasn’t Liverpool, but anywhere he could connect with God.
Thomson wrote that George’s “eternal spirit, born and reborn over and over again, simply re-entered ‘a body’ at that particular place and that time.”
“It was...
George Harrison, Mike Love, and John Lennon | Bettmann/Getty Images A former Apple employee said George Harrison believed he was Indian in a past life
In George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door, Graeme Thomson wrote that “physically, spiritually and emotionally,” George found very little of himself in his home city of Liverpool. After finding spirituality in the mid-1960s, George had little ties to much else. His real home wasn’t Liverpool, but anywhere he could connect with God.
Thomson wrote that George’s “eternal spirit, born and reborn over and over again, simply re-entered ‘a body’ at that particular place and that time.”
“It was...
- 2/19/2023
- by Hannah Wigandt
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Blink49 Studios To Adapt ‘Things To Do When It’s Raining’
John Morayniss’ Blink49 Studios has picked up the rights to New York Times bestselling author Marissa Stapley’s romantic drama Things To Do When It’s Raining. The novel, Stapley’s second, is set in Canada’s 1,000 Islands and centers around a woman who is driven by deception and despair to return home from the city to her grandparent’s inn. There, she encounters Gabe, the island-dwelling boy who was her companion as a child and her first love as a teenage girl, but then disappeared from her life without a trace. In-house Blink49 execs Virginia Rankin and Carolyn Newman will exec produce for the newly-formed Endeavor Content-backed studio, which was founded by former eOne TV Chief Morayniss, Patrick Theroux, Jeff Lynas and Nelson Kuo-Lee. Stapley said: “Carolyn Newman and Virginia Rankin’s passion for a book so dear...
John Morayniss’ Blink49 Studios has picked up the rights to New York Times bestselling author Marissa Stapley’s romantic drama Things To Do When It’s Raining. The novel, Stapley’s second, is set in Canada’s 1,000 Islands and centers around a woman who is driven by deception and despair to return home from the city to her grandparent’s inn. There, she encounters Gabe, the island-dwelling boy who was her companion as a child and her first love as a teenage girl, but then disappeared from her life without a trace. In-house Blink49 execs Virginia Rankin and Carolyn Newman will exec produce for the newly-formed Endeavor Content-backed studio, which was founded by former eOne TV Chief Morayniss, Patrick Theroux, Jeff Lynas and Nelson Kuo-Lee. Stapley said: “Carolyn Newman and Virginia Rankin’s passion for a book so dear...
- 3/15/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Tony Sokol Dec 13, 2018
Beatles insider Ken Mansfield always had the best seats in the house, even when the show was up on the roof.
Michael Lindsay-Hogg's 1970 documentary film Let It Be was recorded in January 1969, while the band rehearsed songs for their twelfth and final studio album Let It Be. Originally planned as a television documentary to go along with a concert broadcast, the documentary saw The Beatles get back to their roots. Augmented by a keyboard player they'd known since their beginnings in Hamburg, the band performed as they had in the beginning, as a five-piece with loud guitars, steady thunderous drumming and unadorned voices through microphones covered in nylon stockings. Until that day, January 30, 1969, on the roof, the Beatles hadn't performed live since August 29th, 1966, when they performed at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park. Ken Mansfield, the former manager of The Beatles' Apple Records in America...
Beatles insider Ken Mansfield always had the best seats in the house, even when the show was up on the roof.
Michael Lindsay-Hogg's 1970 documentary film Let It Be was recorded in January 1969, while the band rehearsed songs for their twelfth and final studio album Let It Be. Originally planned as a television documentary to go along with a concert broadcast, the documentary saw The Beatles get back to their roots. Augmented by a keyboard player they'd known since their beginnings in Hamburg, the band performed as they had in the beginning, as a five-piece with loud guitars, steady thunderous drumming and unadorned voices through microphones covered in nylon stockings. Until that day, January 30, 1969, on the roof, the Beatles hadn't performed live since August 29th, 1966, when they performed at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park. Ken Mansfield, the former manager of The Beatles' Apple Records in America...
- 12/13/2018
- Den of Geek
Friday, October 15th will see the launch of 'Take Me Out', a new series currently in production from Sideline for Irish broadcaster TV3. Though it has yet to debut on Irish television, a second series of the Irish show hosetd by Ray Foley has already been commissioned here. Iftn talks about the upcoming Irish production with Freemantle Media's Chris O'Dell, an executive producer who has brought shows such as 'Take Me Out', 'X Factor' and 'Got Talent' to audiences around the world. Chris O'Dell is an Executive Producer for Fremantlemedia's Worldwide Entertainment. Since 2007 he has overseen the international productions of the group's bigger formats including 'The X Factor', 'Got Talent', the 'Idol' series, 'Hole in the Wall' and 'Take Me Out'. He was recently involved with bringing 'Take Me Out' to Ireland. With the series starting its broadcast here on October 15th we spoke with Chris to see what his job actually entails,...
- 9/28/2010
- IFTN
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