Another Strange Beatle Story

jwilli · Post by **jwilli** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 4:08 pm

Brian, he called you a "luntic" not a lunatic. :-0

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:14 pm

No, Brian, I travelled with my doggy (a Chow) for years. That wasn't my point--but a press conference to complain about hotel rules that should have been discussed in advance?

Smacks of grandstanding, don't you think?

winston · Post by **winston** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:04 pm

I agree with that Paul. Simply put, if my little dog Winston is not invited then I just don't stay at that particular hotel. I don't ever remember, even for one millisecond, considering calling a press conference to complain either.

One would think that the press would have better things to do than to cover some fool who is not able to stay at a particular hotel because they don't allow dogs in the room.

Grandstanding? I think so.

John, luntic is not in my dictionary either, so with a small amount of deductive reasoning I presumed that Kent meant lunatic. Now, to carry on with his hypothesis if 96.4% of all lunatics are lurking on the internet then 3.6% are somewhere else. Maybe they are the ones calling attention to themselves at every affordable opportunity. Like Mr Nauert, perhaps?

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:04 pm

"...Terry Southern, Author of "Candy" and "The Magic Christian"..."

Don't forget "Dr. Strangelove"...

"Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all this stuff..."

325_fan · Post by **325_fan** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:35 am

Top row:

Sri Yukteswar Giri (guru)
Aleister Crowley
Mae West (actress)
Lenny Bruce (comedian)
Karlheinz Stockhausen (composer)
William Claude Fields (comedian)
Carl Gustav Jung (psychologist)
Edgar Allan Poe (writer)
Fred Astaire (dancer)
Richard Merkin (artist)
The Vargas Girl (by artist Alberto Vargas)
Leo Gorcey (actor) (removed)
Huntz Hall (actor)
Simon Rodia
Bob Dylan (songwriter)
Second row:

Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator)
Sir Robert Peel (British Prime Minister)
Aldous Huxley (writer)
Dylan Thomas (poet)
Terry Southern (writer)
Dion (singer)
Tony Curtis (actor)
Wallace Berman (actor)
Tommy Handley (comic)
Marilyn Monroe (actress)
William S. Burroughs (writer)
Sri Mahavatar Babaji (guru)
Stan Laurel (actor)
Richard Lindner (artist)
Oliver Hardy (comedian)
Karl Marx (political philosopher)
H.G. Wells (writer)
Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (guru)
Anonymous (wax hairdresser's dummy)
Third row:

Stuart Sutcliffe (artist/former Beatle)
Anonymous (wax hairdresser's dummy)
Max Miller (comedian)
The Petty Girl (by Artist George Petty)
Marlon Brando (actor)
Tom Mix (actor)
Oscar Wilde (writer)
Tyrone Power (actor)
Larry Bell (artist)
Dr. David Livingstone (missionary/explorer)
Johnny Weissmuller (swimmer/actor)
Stephen Crane (writer)
Issy Bonn (comedian)
George Bernard Shaw (playwright)
H.C. Westermann (sculptor)
Albert Stubbins (soccer Player)
Sri Lahiri Mahasaya (guru)
Lewis Carroll (writer)
T.E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia")
Front row:

Sonny Liston (boxer)
The Petty Girl (by George Petty)
Wax model - George Harrison
Wax model- John Lennon
Shirley Temple
Wax model - Ringo Starr
Wax model - Paul McCartney
Albert Einstein (scientist)
John Lennon
Ringo Starr
Paul McCartney
George Harrison
Bobby Breen (singer)
Marlene Dietrich (actress/singer)
Gandhi (Indian Leader) (removed)
Legionnaire from the Order of the Buffalos
Diana Dors (actress)
Other objects within the group include:

Cloth grandmother-figure by Jann Haworth
Cloth Figure of Shirley Temple by Jann Haworth
A Mexican candlestick
A television set
A stone figure of a girl
Another stone figure
A statue brought over from John Lennon's house
A trophy
A doll of the Indian goddess Lakshmi
A drum skin, designed by fairground artist Joe Ephgrave
A hookah, or water tobacco pipe
A velvet snake
A Japanese stone figure
A stone figure of Snow White
A garden gnome
A tuba
Hitler's hand over Paul Mccartney's head

alanz · Post by **alanz** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 9:57 am

Hitler's hand over Paul McCartney's head

That means he's dead, right?

Hitler, I mean.

jeff · Post by **jeff** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 11:41 am

The hand actually belongs to comedian Issy Bonn. Hitler was going to be included at John Lennon's request, but was taken out for obvious reasons.

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 6:23 am

The most obvious reason being the difference between The Beatles' relationship with their management/label and that of, say, The Rolling Stones...

jeff · Post by **jeff** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:28 am

Lennon's "more popular than Jesus" remark (although taken greatly out of context) from the previous year didn't help matters either.

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 5:39 pm

some interesting clips of that event here:

http://www.beatlesagain.com/bapology.html

jeff · Post by **jeff** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 1:38 pm

Here's an outtake from the Sgt. Pepper photo session showing where Hitler was designated in the montage. He's to the left of Issy Bonn (who's holding his hand up).

rhinobass · Post by **rhinobass** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:14 am

Dion was from Dion and the Belmonts, I think.

http://www.history-of-rock.com/dion_dimucci.htm

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:54 pm

Yes, then he went solo, had many hits. He's a heavy weight in his niche just as most of the rest who were included in the photo.

http://www.diondimucci.com/album.html

http://www.history-of-rock.com/dion_dimucci.htm