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Merch said
I loved the film, at first I though it was going to be bad, but it was a lot better than what I expected.
And I must admit @Ahhh Girl is a very good actress, the way she interpreted Rosie was amazing.
I saw your comment, @Merch, and just had to watch the movie. Yep, I’m probably Rosie.
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A round of applause, I think, for the wonderful Wendie Jo Sperber, who lost her battle with breast cancer in 2005 at the age of 47. I remember her more for the Back to the Future films (1st and 3rd), but Rosie was her first role, and am glad this thread reminded me of that.
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1 December 2009
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Yeah, I loved Wendie Jo in everything I saw her in.
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
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18 March 2013
Offline Watching this for probably the 20th time, I love it so much.
*on seeing a Beatles display in a record store*
Rosie: “OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD IT’S PAUL, I’M GONNA DIE!!!!”
Pam: ….he’s just made of cardboard.
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1 December 2009
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“My bass is all sticky!” 
Article on the making of the film
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AppleScruffJuniorGEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
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18 March 2013
Offline Yeah that one scene is just weird with Pam basically having sex with Paul’s bass (and no I am taking about his actual bass here that was not a euphemism although I can imagine Pam was thinking that it was Paul’s “bass”).
I always fast-forward through it because it makes me feel like I’m watching some weird fetish crap.
As everyone else has said Wendie Jo Sperber steals the film, a really great performance from a woman who died far too young (and coincidentally she died on the anniversary of George’s death).
Bloody great film, I love it.
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11.46am
1 December 2009
Offline Carrie Fisher would have been a great Janis Goldman, and she had huge name recognition by early 1978, when the movie hit theaters, so her presence might’ve made the movie a non-flop.
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Dingle LadGEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
12.21pm
28 February 2020
Offline I seen this in the theatre when it came out. Nancy wandering around alone in the Beatles hotel room have me a chubby particularly the bit with Paul’s bass.
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12.41pm
28 February 2020
Offline Ron Nasty said
A round of applause, I think, for the wonderful Wendie Jo Sperber, who lost her battle with breast cancer in 2005 at the age of 47. I remember her more for the Back to the Future films (1st and 3rd), but e Rosie was her first role, and am glad this thread reminded me of that.
I had to look before I opened my my mouth but she was also in The flop from hell 1941. It was either that or Howard the Duck. It was a flip of the coin for me, both were equally bad. Thank God for Wiki
Her other big role for me was on the TV show Bosum Buddies with Tom Hanks. Loved that show, as much for Dan Ackroyd’s future wife, Donna Dixon as anything else.
Actually reading her Wiki entry showed how much of a presence she had in my viewing habits. She was all over the place!
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12.32pm
14 December 2009
Offline “1941” was indeed a financial flop, but it definitely has its moments – the cast is solid (Wendie Jo especially), and some of the set-pieces are spectacular – the USO dance, the “Jaws” parody opening. Plus Spielberg’s mastery of the camera is in full effect. But the film grows exhausting, with all the manic hysteria and farcical destruction. Ultimately, it’s not as funny a Zemeckis-Gale script as “Wanna Hold…”, “Used Cars” or “Back To The Future”.
“Howard the Duck” was godawful.
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3.29pm
28 February 2020
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I have it on good authority that Dean did what little research he did on the pages of the Beatles Bible 
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7.01pm
1 December 2009
Offline …OK, I’ve seen this movie at LEAST a half dozen times since the early 80s (last time 3-5 years ago); and I never realized for myself something about it until a blogger pointed it out on his blog, and I came across it, and I feel so dumb for never realizing that: Our four leading ladies’ character’s names – Rosie, Pam, Grace and Janis – correspond to the Beatles’ own initials 
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2.14am
7 November 2022
Offline Never saw it. Interesting review by Janet Maslin. Incidentally, she was 14 when The Beatles played Sullivan, living in NYC. I wonder what she was doing that day…?
Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote, “The gimmick behind ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’ is the fact that you never actually see the Beatles; the genius of the film is that you never miss them … the sneakiness with which the neophyte director Robert Zemeckis skirts the issue is positively dazzling. The Beatles are both there and not there, and the paradox hardly even matters. This movie is about the fans and their hysteria, and so it’s the shouts that count”.
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5.26pm
14 December 2009
Offline Screenwriters Zemeckis and Bob Gale would’ve both been about 11 or 12 at the time of the Sullivab show – about the same age as the kid whose dad tries to force a haircut upon him. But I dunno if the role is meant to be autobiographical in any way; I also don’t know if Z or G were actually living in New York at the time.
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9.24am
30 August 2021
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Never saw it. Interesting review by Janet Maslin. Incidentally, she was 14 when The Beatles played Sullivan, living in NYC. I wonder what she was doing that day…?Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote, “The gimmick behind ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’ is the fact that you never actually see the Beatles; the genius of the film is that you never miss them … the sneakiness with which the neophyte director Robert Zemeckis skirts the issue is positively dazzling. The Beatles are both there and not there, and the paradox hardly even matters. This movie is about the fans and their hysteria, and so it’s the shouts that count”.
I’ve never seen it either. But I was aware that it is about a group of fans. I don’t see how fact that the Beatles aren’t in it is either a gimmick or genius.
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5.08pm
28 October 2024
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Never saw it. Interesting review by Janet Maslin. Incidentally, she was 14 when The Beatles played Sullivan, living in NYC. I wonder what she was doing that day…?
Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote, “The gimmick behind ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’ is the fact that you never actually see the Beatles; the genius of the film is that you never miss them … the sneakiness with which the neophyte director Robert Zemeckis skirts the issue is positively dazzling. The Beatles are both there and not there, and the paradox hardly even matters. This movie is about the fans and their hysteria, and so it’s the shouts that count”.
I’ve never seen it either. But I was aware that it is about a group of fans. I don’t see how fact that the Beatles aren’t in it is either a gimmick or genius.
I saw it just the once many years ago (mid to late eighties?). The real gimmick for me is that it was one of only two (three if you include the Rutles) Beatles movies made whilst they were all still alive.
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1 December 2009
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Sea Belt said
Never saw it. Interesting review by Janet Maslin. Incidentally, she was 14 when The Beatles played Sullivan, living in NYC. I wonder what she was doing that day…?
Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote, “The gimmick behind ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’ is the fact that you never actually see the Beatles
I’ve never seen it either. But I was aware that it is about a group of fans. I don’t see how fact that the Beatles aren’t in it is either a gimmick or genius.
Ms. Maslin wasn’t being really accurate there – it seems as though she was trying not to explain the clever way the Sullivan Show climax is staged, as if wanting to keep that a secret. It’s more accurate to say that we don’t actually see the Beatles’ faces, not close up. The actors portraying the Beatles are actually shown, from some distance away while on the Sullivan stage, playing their guitars and drums in synchronization with the actual Beatles actual filmed performance, which plays simultaneously on the Sullivan studio’s black & white TV monitors.
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5.05pm
14 December 2009
Offline …and of course, in an earlier scene, we do see “The Beatles”‘ boots and trouser cuffs from Pam’s perspective under a bed. We also hear them speak in this scene (making fun of Murray the K singing “surfing usa”, wondering if this ‘Johnny Carson’ person is a baseball player maybe), and from what I recall, the voices are slightly more believable than either the “Yellow Submarine ” or Beatles-cartoon voice actors.
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