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Post by Doc on Sept 29, 2008 20:05:04 GMT -5
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Post by Girl on Sept 29, 2008 20:15:27 GMT -5
Great find, Doc... things could get very interesting.
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Post by JoJo on Sept 29, 2008 20:46:35 GMT -5
Saved for posterity..  Paul almost looks like a wax version of himself. |
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Post by c on Jun 20, 2009 10:16:44 GMT -5
Rock Hudson and the Beatles. The film Mr. Hudson did in 1966 (Seconds) could cause those who are acquainted with celebrity replacement, the idea of replacements, to think of Paul, couldn't it? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seconds_(film)Apologies if this has been mentioned before. |
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Post by B on Jun 20, 2009 10:51:23 GMT -5
from link c provided:  Seconds was first released October 5, 1966. Brian Wilson and Seconds Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson saw the movie during its initial release, between sessions for Smile. Under the influence of drugs, the early stages of schizophrenia, and pressure to complete Smile, Wilson found Seconds an especially intense experience, that affected him personally (beginning with his arriving late; the first dialogue he heard onscreen was "Come in, Mr. Wilson", taking him by surprise). His state of mind shifted over the next months, between fantasies of escaping his own life in a similar way, and thoughts that perhaps rival producer Phil Spector had somehow convinced Columbia Pictures (sic) to make the movie "to mess with my mind". Wilson later abandoned the Smile sessions, and did not see another movie in a theater until E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in 1982. His experience was later recounted in The Beach Boys by Byron Preiss, Look! Listen! Vibrate! Smile! by Domenic Priore, and Wilson's own Wouldn't It Be Nice: My Own Story (written with Todd Gold). Plot: Arthur Hamilton (played by John Randolph) is a middle-aged man whose life has lost purpose. He is disengaged at his job as a banker, and the love between him and his wife has dwindled. Through a friend whom he thought had died years earlier, Hamilton is approached by a secret organization, known simply as the "Company", which offers wealthy people a second chance at life. The Company, in the person of Mr. Ruby (played by Jeff Corey), interviews Hamilton, and resorts to blackmail to convince Hamilton to sign on, foreshadowing the unfortunate consequences of accepting the Company's assistance. The Company fakes Hamilton's death for him by means of a phony accident and a corpse disguised as him. Through extensive plastic surgery and psychoanalysis, Hamilton is transformed into Tony Wilson (played by Rock Hudson). As Wilson, he has a new home, a new identity, new friends and a devoted manservant. The details of his new existence suggest that there was once a real Tony Wilson, but what became of him is a mystery. The remainder of the film follows Wilson as he copes with the consequences of his new identity. Relocated to a fancy home in Malibu, California, where he works as an already established artist, he commences a relationship with a young woman named Nora Marcus (played by Salome Jens) and for a time he is happy, but soon becomes troubled by the emotional confusion of his new identity, and by the exuberance of renewing his youth. At a dinner party he hosts for his neighbors, he drinks himself into a stupor and begins to babble about his former life as Hamilton. It turns out that his neighbors are "reborns" like himself, sent to keep an eye on his adjusting to his new life. Nora is actually an agent of the Company, and her attentions to Wilson are designed merely to ensure his cooperation..... |
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Post by JoJo on Jun 20, 2009 13:34:30 GMT -5
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Post by iameye on Jun 20, 2009 14:28:36 GMT -5
It's Brian's 67th birthday today, BTW2 Happy BIRTHDAY, BRIAN  |
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