|
|
Post by lili on Dec 13, 2006 17:13:12 GMT -5
I was researching stuff at the It's Only Love website. This was under Jane Asher: 29th October 1966, FABULOUS 208 Magazine page 19 playin' jane Quietly, without any false fuss, Jane Asher, actress, has arrived. After fifteen years of exits and entrances, Jane has become accepted as an actress. Not as just another pretty young girl to grace a TV screen, but as an actress capable of bringing the screen to life . . . doing a job that no one else could do quite so well. This is Jane Asher's year. We salute her. THERE is something very touching and vulnerable about Jane Asher that endears her to the armchair playgoers. She's like a daisy planted among roses. Fresh, delicate and unpretentious. She may be in The Saint, Love Story or in any old kitchen sink drama on TV, but the moment she appears, there is something happening on the screen. She doesn't throw her limbs into theatrical poses or shrill out her lines. There is a quiet strength in her performances that makes them far more memorable than hammy histrionics. She has been acting since she was five years old, and she has learned her craft the hard way, in fifteen years of repertory, radio and TV roles. Jane Asher has the look most big girls envy. Small-boned and fragile-looking she appears just as feminine in over-sized sweaters and sloppy jeans as some poor girl who has spent hours dolling herself up. She has a pale, elfin face, dominated by deep-set blue eyes, rather serious and a little sad. There is a lot happening behind them. Her long hair looks like great flames leaping about her face. She desperately wants to play Joan Of Arc. It was her hair which brought Jane, at five, into the acting profession. She was playing in the park one day with her mother, her younger sister Clare, and her big brother Peter. They all had bright red hair. Someone passing by said they ought to be in pictures or something. The idea appealed to Jane. Soon she was cast as the deaf mute in Mandy. She was Alice. She was Wendy in Peter Pan. And she was Juliet in a children's TV version of Romeo and Juliet. They were all roles that called for a pretty face, a limited range of expressions, and no particular acting ability. But Jane was attracting the notice of people who had plays to ofer her that would really put her talent to the test. THE supreme test came this year, when Jane played the lead in a new play called Cleo for the Bristol Old Vic Company. She held the stage for two-and-a-half hours playing a mixed-up teenager with a sensitivity unusual in a girl of twenty. Jane took a dozen curtain calls on the first night. People pushed into her dressing-room to shake her hand, and tell her how much they had enjoyed seeing a star born. The star sat on the floor in her shaggy sweater and kneed blue jeans, and calmly drank champagne from a cracked mug. JANE is uncompromisingly down-to-earth and sensible. She can cut through hours of fancy discussion with one simple scentence of logic. It's her ability to seperate the real from the superficial that makes her a good actress. She recently appeared in BBC-2's classic Brothers Karamazov. At the moment, she is appearing with Laurence Harvey, Moira Redmond and Diana Churchill in Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale, at the Cambridge Theatre, London. The play has been selected for study in C.C.E. "A" Level examination next January. Jane hopes that lots of young people will see the play, to prepare themselves. When this production closes - it's the one she appeared in at the Edinburgh Festival - Jane moves into a Broadway play. As we said, jane Asher, actress, has arrived. JUNE SOUTHWORTH Well, well, well... So, it appears that 1966 was " Jane's Year".   |
|
|
|
Post by beatlies on Dec 13, 2006 20:16:56 GMT -5
I wonder if her father, the prominent psychiatrist and media medical-pundit Dr. Richard Asher was involved in creating doubles and imposters. He was JPM's keeper and warden for the years he lived in a room in the Ashers' house. Dr. Asher must have also at least known about their use of JPM double Dino Danelli. Anyone for medical ethics?
|
|
|
|
Post by TotalInformation on Dec 13, 2006 21:42:53 GMT -5
Quietly, without any false fuss, Jane Asher, actress, has arrived. After fifteen years of exits and entrances, Jane has become accepted as an actress. /[]
TRANSLATION: A movie deal was part of the offer she couldn't refuse.
|
|
|
|
Post by lili on Dec 14, 2006 8:01:54 GMT -5
EXACTLY.
|
|
|
|
Post by TotalInformation on Feb 3, 2010 21:17:07 GMT -5
Yesterday at 7:16pm
Since Jane Asher met Paul McCartney in Spring '63 she's had a problem.
She's obviously very fond of Paul and terribly proud of him. But she's been an actress since she was five and is determined to make a success of her career on her own.
As soon as her name was linked with Paul's, the news was flashed around the world and she was instantly famous - but not for herself and not as an actress. Any girl whose name had been romantically tied with Paul's would have been as well known.
It was a terrible blow. How, in future, would she be able to tell whether people wanted to see her because of her power as a performer or merely for her friendship with a Beatle?
Paul encourages her to continue with her career because he thinks she has terriic talent and goes to see her perform whenever he can.
After the newspapers found out about Jane and Paul, fans began to collect outside her home. Being in the heart of London, it was easy for any Beatle-fan girl to find. Nauturally Paul - and the other boys, too - were frequent visitors to Jane's home when they were in town. They used to play discs and write songs down in the basement.
Once, the exasperated Mrs. Asher threw some water at some persistent girls to try to persuade them to go away.
Inside the Asher home, the phone kept ringing and unknown female voices asked for Paul. When told he wasn't there, they just hung up.
Jane's father, a medical man who has to have his number in the phone book, found it all very wearing.
And all Jane wanted was to be friends with Paul and go on being as good an actree as she knew how.
Rumours about Jane's friendship with Paul started in October, 1963, though they had met about six months previously when she went back stage at a pop concert at London's Royal Albert Hall.
After that she was often seen with The Beatles when they went to photo sessions and to parties.
When she and Paul went out they were recognised and their dates became world wide news.
For instance, in December, 1963, they went to see Never Too Late at the Prince of Wales theatre in London. They both enjoy plays but because Paul was spotted and mobbed they had to go home without seeing the last act.
Next morning, in the newspapers, there was a picture of them both sitting in the stalls. Good publicity maybe, but it's not easy to run a boy-meets-girl friendship in the full glare of big time publicity.
Jane was the first Beatle girl to become really well known, probably because she was already familiar to the public. Everyone knows her from films, television plays and appearances on panel games.
Being a good conversationalist, a girl with decided and original views and a forthright but charming way of putting her opinions over, she'salways been well liked.
Despite the fact that she's a sophisticated and quite a worldly person she's still very human and understanding towards other people. Maybe this is the reason for being the most poular Beatle girl. Being so very attractive to look at must have something to do with it, too. (Paul particularly loves her long, red hair.)
Paul and Jane are very well suited for both are mature, straightforward and have, under all their charm, a take-it-or-leave-it approach to things. Both are toughies at heart. Jane has earned herself considerable respect for her adamant attitude to publicity which is only connected with her Beatle boy and not with her acting. It's paradoxical that Paul unavoidably has made it more difficult for her to make her own way in the world and prove herself in her own right.
Before she met Paul, Jane had, of course, been dated by many attractive boys, including actor Albert Finney and poster Craig Douglas. Both those dates didn't make news.
But in Freruary, 1964, stories leaked out, linking Paul's name with Jill Haworth, the beautiful American actress.
He phoned back to England from Miami to reassure Jane that the papers had got it wrong. As soon as he got back, he drove down to Cantebury where Jane was appearing in The Jew Of Malta, to make it plain that she was the girl in his life.
When they went to see a movie at the Empire Cinema in Leicestr Square, London, that same month, they had to leave seperatlely and go off in individual taxis, because they were recognised and the crowds started closing in on them.
So unless they go to clubs where the people are mostly in show biz, like the Ad Lib, dates have to be carefully planned. They may go for a drive in his car or take a taxi and get out and walk round one of the quieter shopping areas, looking at clothes - both men's and girl's.
They like to be quiet and they tend to be rather a serious couple when they're on their own.
Marriage? There have been lots of rumours, including one that the ceremony took place on board ship, in Paris and in Kensington last year. Jane herself said, back in '63: "I'm not going to get married until I'm twenty."
She was nineteen on 5th April this year.
|
|
|
|
Post by TotalInformation on Feb 3, 2010 21:17:36 GMT -5
"Peter and Jane (Asher, not Fonda)" - 1967 - july - Teen Set Magazine
Share
Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 6:56am
With the January arrival of Jane Asher in Boston to begin her tour of America starring in "Romeo and Juliet," Americans had their first opportunity to see her-the most famous sister in the pop world-in person. This despite the rumors which have had her altar-bound in Seattle, backstage with Peter and Gordon in Atlantic City or in the dugout at Shea Stadium.
For three years we U.S. girls have read about her, wondered about her and envied her. We have gone to see her films, written her countless thousands of letters, both kind and extremely rude, and taken up staring at her pictures in fan magazines trying to decide whether to become as much like her as possible, become her exact opposite in the hope that HE (Paul McCartney) might like a change-or just give up and committ suicide. And in the end solving the whole thing by drawing a moustache on her photo and constructively blacking out three of her front teeth.
In February, her brother, Peter Asher, followed Jane to America for his ninth tour of this country with his partner, Gordon Waller. By combining the innocent appeal of say, Peter Noone, and the graphic sexiness of Mick Jagger ("Girls want to mother me, " Peter one said, "and Gordon"), Peter and Gordon have remained top favorites with us as many of their countrymen (The Moody Blues, The Searchers, The Zombies, Gerry and the Pacemakers) have faded into relative obscurity.
Jane and Peter (and their younger sister Clare) inherited their mother's red hair. They were reared in a highly cultured, upper class home in London. Their father is an eminent Wimpole Street physician and their mother is a professor of the oboe at the Royal Academy of Music. They encouraged their children to use their mind and make their own decisions. Jane and Peter, who, at any rate, didn't need much encouragment in that direction, early possessed agile intelligence startling to those unprepared for it. They were sent to excellent schools, Jane to a small exclusive academy and Peter to Westiminster. Jane, who has been acting since childhood, decided not to go on to university and became a full time actress when she finished school at 16. Peter, though already singing with his classmate Gordon, went on for two years of philosophy at Kings College before chucking it to become a full time pop star.
You were aware of all of the aforementioned. Right.
They share many traits. Both are stubbornly independent and highly selective of their friends, keeping a small number of close ones virtually forever. Some call them snobbihs, but they aren't really, of course. They've been exposed too long to those who would know them not for what they are, but forwho they are.
They share an aura of remoteness, and their reactions are very tricky to decipher in their steady blue gazes. In fact, practically impossible. What makes it even more difficult is that Jane, particularly, is extremely adept at portraying emotions she does not feel. If she smiled warmly at you and two hundred and seven of your noisiest friends waiting outside the stage door ready to pounce on her en masse to get what souvenirs you could-she probably didn't mean it. Would you? If, however, you persuaded a hotel switchboard operator to ring Peter's room at 3 a.m. and you were crunched and resentful that he sounded sleepy and cross-well, he probably was. The Ashers respect the privacy of others (he wouldn't wake you in the middle of the night) and zealously cherish their own.
Fans writing to Jane Girlfriend receive no reply; as far as she is concerned there is no such person and the envelopes might as well be marked "Not Known At This Address." Letters to Jane Asher are treated in the nammer one would expect from a young lady who is very pleased that others buy tickets to her films and performances and watch her on television.
They get on well together, Jane and Peter, and always have, much to the amazement of the "Robin Hood" producer who broke his rule about casting siblings to act together and pessimistically expected them to do nothing but quarrel. They didn't then, don't now.
When she's in London, Jane is a loyal customer of Indica Books, of which Peter is a director. A bookshop was a natural business for Peter to establish, and for Jane to frequent, because they both read last thing at night, no matter how late the hour, and first thing on waking, perferring to rush about later to meet appointments. Aside from qualifying for a discount at Indica because of her relationship to one of the directors, she also more than earned it by helping Peter, John Dunbar and Miles paint the shop and build bookshelves.
Many English TV viewers remember the night three years ago when a newly released record was played to the Juke Box Jury panel, with Jane sitting on the panel. The producers of the show had promised not to play the record, because the guest panelist felt that she couldn't really be objective about it, but they had naturally broken their word and played it. It was "World Without Love" by a new duo, Peter and Gordon. In front of millions of people and to the laughter of the other members of the jury-because she was seventeen and her boyfriend had written the song and her brother sang it-Jane not only said that it was a hit, which was all she was required to say, but also, "It's going to be number ONE, I know it is," No one really remembers how the others voted after they had finished falling about laughing, but less than three weeks later Peter and Gordon knocked the Beatles from their positiion at the top of the pops with their very first record, a Lennon-McCartney compositon. And Jane Asher, who by then was quite accustomed to being right (for instance, about an up and coming group with a misspelled name and funny hair cuts), had two reasons to be happy that she was right again.
Peter and Jane Asher
|
|
|
|
Post by TotalInformation on Feb 3, 2010 21:18:44 GMT -5
1966 - Teen Life Magazine: "MY LIFE WHIT PAUL" by Jane Asher
EDITOR'S NOTE: It is with prode that we present this once-in-a-lifetime SCOOP from the heart of beautiful and tallented JANE ASHER.
Like millions of other girls, Jane flipped for Paul almost from the moment their eyes met! But Paul was ALMOST too busy to notice.
Will there be a fairytale ending for this famous couple ... wedding bells? What do YOU think? And now, read, read Jane's OWN story of their love. How they met. As he was then. As he is NOW.
In 1960, in Liverpool, all the boys around twenty years of age were wearing long hair, tight jeans and zippered high boots with pointed toes.
Most of them played the guitar on Saturday night and Sunday in the innumerable clubs in the city. They didn't make much money then, but later found national popularity and became a craze.
My brother, PETER knew some of these musicians, many of whom were beatniks, and for a while he replaced an absent member in one of these groups.
The most famous group in Liverpool were called THE BEATLES. They dressed in fashionable outfits, played at the Cavern Club and became very popular
with the girls. Peter had known them when they were called THE QUARRYMEN and he was friendly with JOHN LENNON who was doing the guitar accompaniment. As for me,
I knew by sight the bass guitarrist, PAUL McCARTNEY as we had been to the same school. We'd fisrt met some three years back but he'd never really talked to me. Perhaps he didn't remember me.
One night I went down to the Cavern with my brother. I had just taken off my coat when Peter said to me: "Jane, this is John and Paul."
I was the first to put my hand out. Paul opened his eyes wide with suprprise - and I smiled.
"I never thought that you were Peter's sister," he said. "you have changed! How are you?"
I found myself feeling a little ridiculous and didn't know what to say to him. He looked at me with that superior air he affects so well and laughed. He didn't wear his hair so long in those days and his baby face attracted the attention of all the girls. And although I had no right to be, I was jealous of that!
One night Peter said to mother: "May I invite two friends for dinner tomorrow? They are leaving for Germany and I doubt if I'll see them for several months."
Peter then told me that the two friends were John and Paul. I slept very little that night. I was convinced thet Paul wouldn't remember me.
I had no right to say anything but ... yes, I liked him.
The dinner was difficult for all of us and it was obvious that the two Beatles were leaving Liverpool with some regret. They had to accompany heir singer,
TONY SHERIDEN, to Hamburg as he had decided to make career in Germany.
I found it difficult to hide the way I felt about Paul, and wondered if he would notice. When he left the house he gave me an adress ... Star Club, Hamburg, Germany.
During those long months I wrote him a long letter every week, but he didn't write me much. He had been very successful, making money, letting his hair grow...
What a little idiot I had been occupying myself with him! I was just one of many grils trying to win his heart! I decided I was going to make myself
get over this and persuaded my mother to accompany me to London. I would work in the theater.
This was at the end of 1961.
Live in the capital was more hurried than in Liverpool. I became another person. I started taking a course in dramatics and applied myself to Shakespeare
and the poems of Lord Byron. Then, more news from Paul! He was coming back in July! I received a brief telegram: "I will be returning on the 15th. I kiss you. Paul."
I was overcome with joy. It wasn't till the 18th that I got a telephone call. Paul told me that he would be returning to Liverpool for three months.
They were going to sign a contract with a young man called Brian Epstein.
When my vacation came around nothing would keep me in London. My parents were staying in a country house about ten miles from the city. Paul and I dated twice.
This was when I began to think of myself at his gril friend. Their first record had been made, then came Please Please Me and I Saw Her Standing There,
two compositions by John and Paul, wich did very well.
From the start they were very popular. But my Paul was also the Paul dear to thousands of other girls. This was the reason that I had to keep my secret.
My existence had to be kept from jopurnalists. The same thing for CYNTHIA, John's wife.
At the begining of 1963 I left for London. John, Paul, GEORGE and RINGO had preceded me by several weeks. She Loves You, their great success, was at the top of the hit parade. They had become the most popular musical group. They were triumphant.
Paul called me on the phone every day.
When he was on tour I lived in an appartment in London's Belgravia and kept the adress a State Secret. It was gayly decorated and a little showy, but I had some rare objects: an ancient barometer, a bronze lamp, a painting by a well-known painter and many things in Regency style. By contract, the kitchen was ultra modern and American style.
Some believe that Paul is a little snobbish and shy. This is not completely true. His sense of humor is sharp and precise. His smile, when he lets himself smile, is difficult to resist.
Once, on a Saturday morning, he just went off by himself for a stay of the south coast. He returned on the Monday. I didn't ask him a single question.
I have never sopken to him about this trip.
Soon afterwards I had to change my appartment. His fans never let up. The phone rang every five minutes.
Then Paul bought a house ten miles north of London - a villa with fifteen rooms which looked like a castle. He was isolated from the world and his telephone number was changed every week.
I helped him decorate it in the romantic style of the nineteenth century. It is very charming.
In order to drive through London, Paul always uses his little Cooper-S wich is a two seater. When we are free we visit the homes of the other three Beatles.
This evening, for example, we shall go to the Scotch Club in order to hear some good music: the ANIMALS and MICK JAGGER have appeared there.
Paul is working hard at the moment. He hopes to be finished with the music of their third film, A Talent For Loving, in about a month. As for me, I'm currently working in the London theater.
Paul was able to come to the premiere and there isn't a day when he doesn't ask me about the success of the play. My beatle, for me, is not afraid to be tender, attentive and delightful."
|
|
|
|
Post by TotalInformation on Feb 3, 2010 21:19:34 GMT -5
16 Magazine (1965)
FULL REAL NAME: Jane Asher
BIRTHDATE & PLACE: Born on April 5, 1946, in London, England
PERSONAL DATA: Five feet and five inches tall; weighs 112; has red hair and blue eyes.
FAMILY INFO: Father is a physician; mother is a classical musician; one older brother, Peter, and one younger sister, Claire.
HOME INFO: Lives in a large private home in a fashionable section of London.
SCHOOLS ATTENDED: London private schools.
FAVORITES
SINGING GROUPS: The Beatles.
INDIVIDUAL SINGERS: Too many to list.
ACTOR & ACTRESS: Lawrence Olivier
TV SHOWS: Juke Box Jury.
COLORS: Black and blue.
FOODS: Chinese food, caviar and smoked salmon
HOBBIES: Sewing and knitting
SPORTS: None
WHAT LOOKED FOR IN A BOY: A sense of humor, intelligence and sincerity.
WHAT DO YOU LIKE TO DO ON A DATE?: Enjoys going to the theatre, then having a snack at a "disco".
BUSINESS PLANS & AMBITIONS: To become a tharoughly accomplished actress
PERSONAL PLANS & AMBITIONS: To marry and have several children
ADRESSES: 11 Blenheim St. New Bond St. London, W 1, England
|
|
|
|
Post by TotalInformation on Feb 3, 2010 21:20:06 GMT -5
15 Sept 1964, VOGUE Magazine page 100-101: BRITISH BEAUTY: the new confidence that's catching
The way our girls are looking now is affecting good looks around the globe. Where influence once came from Hollywood, then from the Left Bank (with a bit of Bardot), then from Italian films, English girls now not only have the nerve to be themselves but can enjoy watching others copy them. Our models - Jean Shrimpton, Celia Hammond, Tania Mallet to name but three - are a rave in New York. The list of young actresses who are more and more in demand (e.g. Hayley Mills, Sarah Miles, Susannah York, Smantha Eggar) is getting longer each month (American Vogue writes . . . "dream looks from London where rising fashion spirit is larky, romantic, British to the core"). This new self-confidence is catching. Nothing succeeds like success and it's certain that self-confidence is the most important ingredient of good looks, just as it is of being a Beatle or a Rolling Stone or a desingner like Mary Quant or Gerald McCann. In those big beauty competitions the English girls were, like Daisy Ashford's heroines, "pretty in the face" but they often failed to please the judges because of sloping shoulders or a flat look through the diaphragm. Now nearly every girl enjoying a holiday success in the Mediterranean could measure up to James Bond specification in length of her leg and handsomeness of torso. This is not to say they are narcissi-like in their new goold looks. Their self-confidence extends to not thinking it neccesary to gild the lily overmuch. But if they go light on make-up they are fussy about all the details. They put their eye make-up on using magnifying mirrors; they are particular about the precise kind of pale pearliness of their nails, they try all the new perfumes to get the one that sings. They're worth watching.
JANE ASHER is more than a chum of Beatle Paul McCartney and sister of Peter, the other half of Gordon. At eighteen, her luminous little face has shone in a dozen feature and TV films. Asked how she would describe her looks she says, "I don't". Pressed further, she admits, "Although I hate the idea, they could be rather Alice In Wonderland". Her looks remain as they were pre-Beatle. Her hair is the stunning feature - very straight, very long, very red. She wears it just as it grows - but brshed and clean (Breck shampoo for dry hair) and goes now and then to Vidal Sassoon to get fringe and ends snipped. She also posesses a brown wig, straight and a little shorter than her own hair which she wears for occasional amusement. Her problem is a skin so fair and fine that five minutes sun is more than enough. her freckles don't fade, even in winter, and she finds Max Factor pancake in Cream 2 helps even up th colour. She swears by Leichener eye make-up, never uses shadow but likes mascara. Currently she is not using lipstick.
|
|
|
|
Post by jpmtruthcanuck on Oct 25, 2012 18:00:32 GMT -5
If Paul was replaced in 1966, is there a record of Jane's whereabouts during this time? In particular, where was Jane Sept 11 and Nov. 9, 2 dates that often come up when reading about the Sgt. Pepper drum kit. According to Cynthia Lennon's book, 'John', Cynthia wrote that Paul and Jane were travelling in Africa during the fall of 1966. Thanks for any comments.
|
|
|
|
Post by jpmtruthcanuck on Jan 14, 2013 18:04:02 GMT -5
On Amazon.ca when searching for Jane Asher books, there is a novel called The Question, which she wrote in 1998.
Someone wrote a review stating the 2 main characters are John and Eleanor Hamilton (Maybe Eleanor Rigby inspired that name choice)?
John led a secret life for twenty years (it was 20 years ago today) and had a lovechild daughter.
'John is badly injured in a car crash, becomes a victim of PVS - Persistent Vegetative State. Although he is capable of communicating by the smallest of signals, he has no quality of life.'
An interesting plot in this novel.
Sorry if this was posted elsewhere (couldn't find it with search). I found a post about this book on another website, so it's not my find, but I thought I'd share.
|
|
|
|
Post by B on Jan 14, 2013 19:38:26 GMT -5
jpmtruthcanuck wrote: 'John is badly injured in a car crash, becomes a victim of PVS - Persistent Vegetative State. Although he is capable of communicating by the smallest of signals, he has no quality of life.'
An interesting plot in this novel.
----------------------------------- <--- u were in a car crash & u lost ur hairen.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Sam"Plot Sam Dawson (Sean Penn), a man with a developmental disability, is the single father of Lucy (Dakota Fanning), following their abandonment by her mother. Despite his limitations, Sam is well-adjusted and has a supportive group of friends with developmental disabilities, as well as a kind, agoraphobic neighbor Annie (Dianne Wiest) who takes care of Lucy when Sam cannot. Though Sam provides a loving and caring environment for precocious Lucy, she soon surpasses his mental ability. Other children tease her for having a "retard" as a father, and she becomes too embarrassed to accept that she is more intellectually advanced than Sam. In preparation for a custody case, a social worker turns up at Lucy's birthday party and takes her away, allowing Sam two supervised visits per week...." Cast (the names are telling)Sean Penn as Sam Dawson Michelle Pfeiffer as Rita Harrison Williams Dakota Fanning as Lucy Diamond Dawson Dianne Wiest as Annie Cassell Loretta Devine as Margaret Calgrove Richard Schiff as Mr. Turner Laura Dern as Randy CarpenterMarin Hinkle as Patricia (Rita's receptionist) Brad Silverman as Brad (credited as Brad Allan Silverman) Joseph Rosenberg as Joe Stanley DeSantis as Robert Doug Hutchison as Ifty Rosalind Chao as LilyKen Jenkins as Judge Philip McNeily Wendy Phillips as Miss Wright Scott Paulin as Duncan Rhodes Kimberly Scott as Gertie Michael B. Silver as Dr. Jaslow Eileen Ryan as Estelle Dawson Mary Steenburgen as Dr. Blake Elle Fanning as "Lucy" (aged 2)"... As the movie was shot and produced to the original Beatles music, the artists had to record their covers to the same musical timing (tempo) as The Beatles original pieces had." --------------------------www.imdb.com/title/tt0277027/"A mentally retarded man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter, and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family. Storyline Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song), and raises her. But as she reaches age 7 herself, Sam's limitations start to become a problem at school; she's intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities take her away, and Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita Harrison into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love, and whether it's really all you need. Written by Jon Reeves <jreeves@imdb.com> " I am Sam trailerwww.youtube.com/watch?v=EROTbDCr5ag |
|
|
|
Post by iameye on Jan 14, 2013 19:59:30 GMT -5
"she soon surpasses his mental ability" lol  |
|
|
|
Post by ramone on Jan 14, 2013 23:41:43 GMT -5
Dakota?
|
|
|
|
Post by B on Jan 15, 2013 11:10:38 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by jpmtruthcanuck on Jan 15, 2013 16:40:27 GMT -5
On Amazon.ca when searching for Jane Asher books, there is a novel called The Question, which she wrote in 1998. Someone wrote a review stating the 2 main characters are John and Eleanor Hamilton (Maybe Eleanor Rigby inspired that name choice)? John led a secret life for twenty years (it was 20 years ago today) and had a lovechild daughter. 'John is badly injured in a car crash, becomes a victim of PVS - Persistent Vegetative State. Although he is capable of communicating by the smallest of signals, he has no quality of life.' An interesting plot in this novel. Sorry if this was posted elsewhere (couldn't find it with search). I found a post about this book on another website, so it's not my find, but I thought I'd share. Are Eleanor and 20 years clues given by Jane? Did a German fan not claim Paul was the father of her lovechild? Is the car accident/PVS another clue of what really happened to Paul, or are all these coincidences merely an imaginary plot? |
|
|
|
Post by B on Jan 15, 2013 18:34:14 GMT -5
Are Eleanor and 20 years clues given by Jane? You said they were.Did a German fan not claim Paul was the father of her lovechild? Yes. Bettina Heubers Is the car accident/PVS another clue of what really happened to Paul Quite possibly - to one of the 'Paul's at least, which is why I pointed out the
car going through Paul's head scenes in the "Peace of Mind" video I posted above.
Those were taken from the "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "I am the Walrus" videos.or are all these coincidences merely an imaginary plot? That's possible, but I would think they might possibly be part of 'a larger plot'. www.amazon.com/The-Question-Jane-Asher/dp/B0018P9YLC"***** Revenge can be sweet! February 10, 2007 By Love to read Format:Paperback Jane Asher's second novel is a compelling and well written study of the terrible effect of jealousy on a woman's life. John and Eleanor Hamilton are middle-aged, wealthy, and settled in their comfortable life in Hampshire and London. John didn't want children, so instead Eleanor used her energies to help run the company and get involved in the local community. So imagine her horror when, one day, she discovers that her husband has led a secret life for twenty years, in the shape of a mistress and a nineteen-year-old daughter - the daughter that she herself wanted but never had. The jealousy that Eleanor feels is all-consuming, driving her to limits she would never have thought possible. Then John, badly injured in a car crash, becomes a victim of PVS - Persistent Vegetative State. Although he is capable of communicating by the smallest of signals, he has no quality of life. And so the ultimate question is raised - and the ultimate opportunity for revenge. Should he live or should he die? Revenge can make for an interesting and gripping story - but in this instance, after the betrayal had been discovered, the story's twists and turns, the lies and cover-ups, I found were sometimes a little ridiculous. However, it did have a nice nasty ending! " |
|
