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The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960 and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. The group's best-known lineup consisted of John Lennon (rhythm guitar, vocals), Paul McCartney (bass guitar, vocals), George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals) and Ringo Starr (drums, vocals). Rooted in skiffle and 1950s rock and roll, the group later worked in many genres ranging from pop ballads to psychedelic rock, often incorporating classical and other elements in innovative ways. Their enormous popularity first emerged as "Beatlemania"; as their songwriting grew in sophistication, by the late 1960s they came to be perceived by many fans and cultural observers as an embodiment of the ideals shared by the era's sociocultural revolutions.
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founder members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Together with Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved as a teenager in the skiffle craze; his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group disintegrated towards the end of the decade, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine". After his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to devote time to raising his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He was murdered three weeks after its release.
Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940), better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He joined the Beatles in August 1962, taking the place of Pete Best. In addition to his drumming, Starr is featured on lead vocals on a number of successful Beatles songs (in particular, "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Yellow Submarine", and the Beatles version of "Act Naturally"). He is credited as a co-writer of the songs "What Goes On" and "Flying", and as the writer of "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's Garden".
As drummer for the Beatles, Starr was musically creative, and his contribution to the band's music has received high praise from notable drummers in more recent times. Starr described himself as "your basic offbeat drummer with funny fills". Drummer Steve Smith said that Starr's popularity "brought forth a new paradigm" where "we started to see the drummer as an equal participant in the compositional aspect" and that Starr "composed unique, stylistic drum parts for The Beatles songs". In 2011, Starr was picked as the fifth-best drummer of all-time by Rolling Stone readers.
Actors: Ben Mendelsohn (actor), Wayne Douglas Morgan (actor), Orlando Jones (actor), Tony Shalhoub (actor), Brooke Adams (actress), Mark Kelly (actor), Ivana Milicevic (actress), Katherine Brooks (producer), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (actor), William Stanford Davis (actor), Raffaello Degruttola (actor), Michael Matzdorff (editor), Cullen Douglas (actor), Sarah Shahi (actress), Ever Carradine (actress),
Plot: Beatle's business card reads "Towing/Assassination", and she's been working on her hit-man training video infomercial for months now, but to no avail. A beautiful, incorrigible loner who refuses to live by the rules that society has set up. Her only human contact is with her psychiatrist, Dr. Vanderark, and Carla, the stripper/hooker she employs once a week that is until the night she meets a suicidal woman with a secret by the name of Athena Klendon. With a demented, sado-masochistic killer on their tail, courtesy of Athena's crooked former employer, the two quickly strike a bargain. Athena will change her life insurance policy to reflect Beatle as the beneficiary in exchange for her own execution. And while they wait for the paperwork to come through, Beatle will provide room and board in exchange for a little help with her infomercial. Throughout the course of this dark comic tragedy, our two heroines learn new ways of living this thing called life, and manage to fall in love in the process. But, what does fate actually have in store for these two star crossed lovers?
Genres: Thriller,Actors: Arnold Pinnock (actor), Al Mukadam (director), Jonathan Malen (producer), Al Mukadam (producer), Jessica Booker (actress), Lucy Filippone (actress), Joseph Weadick (editor), Allana Harkin (actress), Mazin Elsadig (producer), Mazin Elsadig (writer), Kofi Payton (actor), Ryan Wynne (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Short,Actors: Mark Webber (actor), Michael Shannon (actor), Will Patton (actor), David Von Roehm (actor), Holly Hunter (actress), Samantha Morton (actress), John Ventimiglia (actor), Billy Crudup (actor), Denis Leary (actor), Greg Germann (actor), Jack Black (actor), Dennis Hopper (actor), Ross Miller (miscellaneous crew), Lydia Dean Pilcher (producer), Chris Swinney (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: A gentle and usually mellow young man, who sometimes knows things before they happen and gets vibes of premonition, tell us his story: how he met Michelle in Iowa in 1971, how he got the name Fuckhead, how she introduced him to heroin and their falling in love, his thieving, his hospital work and their time in Chicago when she gets pregnant, detox, going to Phoenix to live, AA meetings and a dance, working at a care center where he learns to touch the residents, and modifying his daily schedule so that he passes a neighboring Mennonite household at the right time to hear the wife sing Gospel songs in the shower. Slowly, very slowly, FH lets his gifts emerge.
Keywords: 1970s, abortion, abortion-clinic, alcoholics-anonymous, amish, anti-abortion-demonstration, apocalypse, baby, baby-rabbit, bar