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Shabbat Shmooze ~ Finally! Germany opens their huge Nazi crimes archive to public
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May. 10th, 2008 @ 12:09 pm
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The International Tracing Service (ITS) in the western town of Bad Arolsen contains about 50 million records on some 17 million victims of Hitler's Nazi regime. ...
... It even contains the names of people on "Schindler's List" -- hundreds of Jews saved by businessman Oskar Schindler -- which was the subject of a Steven Spielberg film.
Quote ~ "If these records had been opened earlier, they might have found each other. I could have found those documents 20 years ago, when she was still alive."
Story by MELISSA EDDY
Friday, May 9, 2008 7:45 AM MDT
( Read the entire article behind this cut )
More quotes: - Her parents survived the war, but her late father never talked about what happened to him or why he had a long scar down his neck.
But her unusual family name came up on an index card from a displaced persons camp in Italy. It contained detailed information about her father. "It listed every place he had been," she said - from Russia, to Tashkent, to surviving a shot to his neck by the Nazis by falling into a cellar and being left for dead.
- Tom Weiss of Newton, Mass. found his uncle's name on a yellowing Gestapo list of Jews arrested in France.
"When you see his name on these original lists it has an emotional impact," he said. "It sent chills down my back."
- "The Nazis took away our names and gave us numbers. Our role is to take away the numbers and give back the names," Gary Mokotoff, a genealogist who helped organize the group from Israel, the U.S., Britain and Australia, said Thursday. "There is a wealth of information here."
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One big reason why this touches yon eppylover, when usually it seems she's pretty discompassionate about the human condition in general (shades of Carlin and Napier-Bell) ~ is a small repartée that occurred awhile back with ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) layla1188 ~ Brian was a little Jewish kid during the Holocaust
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Starting at 99 cents! ...So why not?
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May. 9th, 2008 @ 08:18 am
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 Wow. wow.
So often I get asked,
"How can I know more about Brian? What do I read?"
... this is it!
Someone on eBay is selling the other BEST book ever written about Brian Epstein!
The Man Who Made The Beatles
~ until Wednesday, May 14. Starting at 99 cents!
For Beatle fans, it's a "must have" ~ no doubt about that.
( More! )
It's the totally fascinating, lovely, comprehensive and complete biography of Brian, and a big part of it looks at the Beatles part of his life from the Eppy perspective (of course).
(Also, when the movie comes out, you will have a much deeper understanding of anything that might otherwise whiz over your head.)
This and the Debbie Geller book The Brian Epstein Story
~ Here are the latest cheapest prices on that one ~
these two books are totally equal but so very different, yet both so trustworthy.
Taking into consideration that shipping from
regular booksellers tends to be higher than $4,
let's compare with some prices from
Amazon ~ The Man Who Made The Beatles
Barnes & Noble ~ The Man Who Made The Beatles
Finders Cheapers ~ The Man Who Made The Beatles
(I like this site)
Alibris ~ The Man Who Made The Beatles
Abe Books ~ The Man Who Made The Beatles
Go ahead and look at the various prices. You know you want to. XD
CLICK PIC
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Happy Last Day of Passover!
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Apr. 25th, 2008 @ 10:05 pm
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 "Quick Pesach Fun" ~
from an Israeli standup comic's blog called What War Zone?
Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
Sorry, nothing you can do will make the eppylover kosher,
for Passover or anything else. 
In other news...
Maggi Hambling Chosen
to create Liverpool statue
of Brian Epstein?
Lots of clickable enlargable thumbnail examples of her previous work. Yikes.
Please tell me if you think I'm an old poop,
but I think I make a few good points...?
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The only filmed interview ever made with Brian Epstein's mother
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Apr. 17th, 2008 @ 10:04 pm
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CLICK PIC FOR
LARGER IMAGE  Tony Palmer on John Lennon, Phil Spector, and how he televised the revolution
Times Online - UK
Quote from article: We played Russian roulette with Phil Spector,
and sat while Brian Epstein’s mother spoke
publicly for the first and only time, in tears,
about her beloved son ... I'm not really interested in the rest of this expensive box set, but I dearly wish to see this part of it.
If anyone has any idea how long the Queenie segment, on the actual DVD, is in minutes/seconds, pleease let me know!
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Brian Epstein favors? ~ Facebook, MySpace, and...The Tonight Show!
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Apr. 15th, 2008 @ 11:09 am
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CLICK PICS FOR
A FEW CHUCKLES 
I know. I'm sorry. I'm being a real pain in the tuchas today.
Three posts in a row this morning.
What a way to mess up your f'lists.
Anyway, did you know that there's a Brian Epstein Facebook?
Problem is, one must be a Facebook member to fully access and respond to any Facebook pages!!! You can click and see the Brian Epstein pic gallery, though.
Sooo.....
( Favors I must arsk of you all... )
Favor #3 ~ I've recently acquired a really rare audio, 11 minutes and 40 seconds of Brian Epstein on The Tonight Show August 22, 1966, being interviewed by Johnny Carson!
Thanks be to Paul K. at Six Plus Three!!!
The problem is, it's in .flac format. I can play it on WinAmp, but I need it as an mp3 for other reasons. I do not wish to install another program merely to convert one 77,266kb file.
Is there anybody out there who can convert it to mp3?
BTW, here's an interesting Tonight Show page.
Enough for now, okthxbye!
Noise: 1966 Brian Epstein & Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show |
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Auction starting at 99 cents!
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Apr. 15th, 2008 @ 09:37 am
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 (The one for sale is the one on the right ~
~ but they're both the same book)
MOST HIGHLY
EPPYLOVER-RECOMMENDED
BRIAN EPSTEIN BOOK EVAR!
*Equal in importance to, and the perfect companion to,
The Man Who Made The Beatles by Ray Coleman*
The Brian Epstein Story by Debbie Geller
eBay Item #300215783341, Ends April 20
I would NOT recommend the $12.99 "Buy It Now" price, though.
You can always get it for less than that.
I don't know who the seller is, but I HAD to let y'all know about this!
99¢? How can you lose? Buy it for someone else if nothing else!
(Except if the bidding goes too high... then you can lose, LOL)
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Ahhhh.......Kitty Brian on speed!
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Apr. 15th, 2008 @ 08:27 am
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If this ain't the anthromorphization
of an upper-stoked Eppy, I don't know WHAT is!
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The Beatles Story LP
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Apr. 6th, 2008 @ 07:39 pm
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Just a quickie here.
I was amused to find there's
a fella named BRIAN EPSTEIN
playing drums for a band named
"Playin Dead".......!
http://www.playindead.net/meet.html
Goodnight for now. ;D
Apr. 5th, 2008 @ 11:30 pm
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| » Shabbat Shmooze ~ Sean Altman's fave Beatle ~ and other joys of Jewmongous |
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A Jew's favorite Beatles member can't be John, Paul, George or Ringo.
To Sean Altman, the favorite has to be the most Jewish member of all - Brian Epstein, The Beatles' manager.
And here's the song!
I dedicate this video to Frizz K West, who "gets" it!
More about Sean, and more hilarious vids!
( Altman is most known for... )
Apr. 4th, 2008 @ 10:11 pm
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- Go to SNAILS
- Scroll down and wtf yourself all over the pic of
"What every snail thinks when you pick them up."
- Read History.
Please note that this does not refer to the Beatles' manager,
whose name is spelled Epstein.
Just thought I would make that point perfectly clear.
Good night.
Mar. 19th, 2008 @ 07:45 pm
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Okay, as always. I want to keep ALL my sweeet flisters.
( PLEEEZE don't click if you beleeeve there's such a thing as being 'blasphemous' *groan* )
For the rest of y'all, enjoy some Eppiness:
The ORIGINAL Bob Whitaker shots that convinced Brian to hire him:
 
Ooops, must sign off ~~ there be an OG lurking about! *cringe*
Mar. 16th, 2008 @ 01:31 pm
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Image courtesy the wonderful
Chazz Avery at BeatleSource.com 
In response to today's hot news flashes ~~
CityNews.ca / The Biggest Blunders In Music History
and
uk.reuters.com / War against Web tops music biz "screw-ups" list ~~ Dick Rowe.
He's the executive who refused to sign the Beatles, after Brian Epstein brought the quartet to him for a disastrous audition in 1962. His remark that "groups with guitars are on their way out" has become one of the most widely quoted stories about the Fab Four, even though the exec denied ever uttering the phrase. ~~ on that same subject, from back in August of 2006 ~~
Poor old Dick Rowe. What did that mean Eppy do to you? *snork*
[post includes a few pics]
.....by the way..... I thoroughly agree with Blender Magazine (who?) in their choice for the number one music boo-boo of all time. Which is: the clueless, paranoid, greedy record industry's hissy-fit over Napster, and its subsequent censorship/mishandling of the internet's filesharing potential.
They have hung themselves with their own rope and [in a premonitory tone not unlike Eppy's] I gleefully pronounce them a dead industry walking.
*Christine throws a handful of confetti over her head*
Mar. 12th, 2008 @ 03:55 pm
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I know you guys are curious too, right?
Okay, people ~ referring back to [ THIS POST ], I am dying to find out what characters are planned to be in the movie and what they might be doing...
...so, to start 'er off, I'm gonna suggest that I'd personally love to see ~~ - The times where Alistair and Brian would sit up all night with each other laughing their asses off and enjoying each other's company ~ and that was before Brian's virgin episode with marijuana!
- And speaking of the substance, of course everyone wants to see the movie's version of Brian and his boys the first time they smoked pot (courtesy of Dylan)!
- The part where Alistair's wife Lesley claims (with amusement) that Alistair is deeply in love with Brian ~ and he is forced to admit that she's probably right, albeit in a non-physical sense.
- I would just die to watch Brian "doting on" his baby niece Joanna.
- (Very sad) The Lionel Bart/Alma Cogan connection, how she became almost a wife to Brian, and then ~ to add to the trauma of Beatle tours ending forever ~ she dies.
OKAY. This is a challenge now!
I started y'all off, so ( use this chart for more ideas... )
(Hint-hint: I might even be persuaded to do an Eppy-spam if lots of people are cooperative!) 
Mar. 10th, 2008 @ 10:31 pm
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| » The Book By Bramwell |
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99 cents and less than $6 shipping?
An insanely cheap price for this, if no bidding war ensues.
I'd grab it myself, but I already have it, hahaa.
Can't let anybody else miss out, though!
Magical Mystery Tours-My Life With The Beatles
by Tony Bramwell
Item number: 310029054910
Contains loads of not-to-be-missed Eppy material,
and even more Beatles stuff,
from their loyal childhood friend.
( You might like what's under the cut... )
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Mar. 5th, 2008 @ 07:08 pm
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| » Who in Eppy's life would YOU like to see played in the Brian Epstein movie? |
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song music movie concert guitar songs music movies concerts guitars
In this board of the forum,
regarding characters who will be in the movie
(other than Brian and The Beatles themselves)
I had submitted a list off the top of my head
of possible Brian people who might be portrayed ~~
song music movie concert guitar songs music movies concerts guitars *Early Days*
Harry and Queenie
Clive Epstein
Joe Flannery
Sam Leach
Vera Brown
Bob Wooler
Allan Williams
Sonia Seligson
... (stagename: Stevens)
Rita Harris
Alistair Taylor
Cilla Black
Gerry Marsden | *Beatlemania Days*
Cyn, Mo, Pattie, Jane
Neil Aspinall
Mal Evans
Alf Bicknell
Derek Taylor
Ed Sullivan
Tony Bramwell
Tony Barrow
Brian Sommerville
Murray the K
Larry Kane
Dizz Gillespie
Nat Weiss | *Brian's Last Year*
Alma Cogan
Lionel Bart
Clive's wife Barbara
... and baby Joanna
Dr Norman Cowan
Joanne (Newfield) Petersen
Peter Brown
Geoffrey Ellis
the "rent boys"
... who showed up too late
Bryan Barrett
Dr John Gallway
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Jonathan (with the movie) posted a little teaser for your response!
Unless dealing with this would make you think too much.... ;P
Here it is: Hi everybody,
Good to see some new members signing up for the boards.
I'd be happy to drop some clues on some other characters that are in the script, but I'd love to see everybody else's thoughts first.
Who would you like to see in Brian's story? Who do you think deserves to be there?
~Jonathan song music movie concert guitar songs music movies concerts guitars The Eppylover is burning with curiosity now!
Mar. 4th, 2008 @ 11:32 am
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Feb. 22nd, 2008 @ 04:07 pm
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| » "Perhaps you would please..." ...Bluh-bluh-bluh....GAH? |
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From The Blackpool Gazette
"Perhaps you would please sign both copies if you approve and return to me; I will then return one of them to yourself with my own signature."
Come again?!
As a former clerical/secretary of many different ilks during the past 30-some years, I just gaped at that. And read it again, and gaped some more.
Anybody familiar with British English, please, please set me straight on this! ~
Does the above constitute proper British grammar for business correspondence? Or does our poor Eppy sound flasterblastercated out of his gibbers? Did he even read it before he signed it?
If this was indeed worded improperly and awkwardly, I hereby administer a hearty cyber-slap to whomsoever his secretary was at that time (initials are "OJ") ~~ because she should have done something about it, and not let it go out as it was. Good lord.
However, if this IS proper British form, then here's proof positive that I would never make it as a secretary in Jolly Olde.
Feb. 21st, 2008 @ 11:32 am
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Sometimes, when you see a pic, does it ring a bell about another pic?
Awhile back, I posted the (masked-up and scribbled-up) press photo (at right) of Brian, because I thought his smile was adorable. However, the face of the guy looking at him was driving me crazy because I knew I had seen him SOMEWHERE.
I thought it was probably one of his other artistes, from one of his groups ~
Then, as I posted my latest Eppy-spam yesterday, a bell jingled again, and I realized who that guy was from the earlier pic.
( Here he is... )
I feel better now. I guess. Ha.
Feb. 20th, 2008 @ 09:50 pm
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I was using a different search engine ("MSN Live Search"), just to see what they could come up with that Google hasn't yet.
Well. There's a very obviously photoshopped & colorized image of Brian and George Martin at [ THIS PAGE ] ~~ but (perhaps because it's been altered so much) I don't recognize offhand what original picture(s) their faces came from.
Plus, I must protest, Brian would never be caught dead in a military uniform.
Not at all nice of this "artist" (or whatever he thinks he is) to do this. Boo.
Feb. 18th, 2008 @ 12:32 am
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Holy shite...
Y'know I love Cilla, because
she was Brian's "daughter"
and he loved her so much...
but...
AUGGHHH...
she can be SUCH a fookin' airhead!!!
"Cilla's Destiny Calls"
   
Feb. 14th, 2008 @ 11:23 am
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In response to an inquiry in this Beatlepics comment ~
salonia said: "...do you know anymore about this Hollywood movie about Eppy? That sounds great, but I hope they don't get it horribly wrong like, overly nasty, punk John, pushy Paul who's the only one that wants them in suits, etc.
And the thing with Brian's personal life. I hope they don't emphasise that, especially the masochism. Also I'd hate to see them depicting Brian's homosexuality as the ONLY reason he wanted to manage the Beatles. Because that would be WRONG.
I'm really anal about these things. If they are going to do a film I hope the producers and director do their homework, and don't try to appeal to the LCD."
So, since I don't wish to overwhelm somebody else's Brian pics post with the following (which would take at least two comments to fit), I shall put it here for everyone:
( My reply )
     
Feb. 13th, 2008 @ 03:41 pm
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( Click for large newly-found pic )
...by the end of the Swinging Sixties, liberation was complete and its influence was far-reaching: "There was the sense that social wrongs could not stand: racial, sexual and class oppression, bullying, warfare, unchecked savaging of the environment. In England during the Swinging London years, homosexuality was decriminalised, capital punishment banned, divorce laws reformed and censorship of the arts curtailed ... Nothing of the modern world we share could have been the way it is without those years in London."
But the sudden force of liberation created its victims.
...The "fifth Beatle", the genius entrepreneur of his generation, Brian Epstein, the real "Nowhere Man" of the eponymous song, slipped unassumingly away on a barbituric nightcap.
Liberation came at a hell of a price.
The shortest century and the greatest party
February 16 2003
By Adrian Collette
Feb. 11th, 2008 @ 11:13 am
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Are there any of you out there who want to join me in adding your name and state (or wherever you live) to the following email?
Dear Sir,
I have admired Brian Epstein for over 40 years, and have always been unhappy at the next-to-no prominent tributes to him.
I'm not a big statue person, but his Boys are honoured with innumerable monuments all over the world. Even they have said that Brian was "one of them." If he hadn't been there, we are convinced we would never have seen The Beatles.
It's also more than possible that Liverpool would be a city well-known only to geographers and the like. We are convinced Brian Epstein started it all, despite what some people wish to think.
Therefore ~
Please take very seriously a version of our suggestion (photo attached) as the best pose to show Brian's proclivity toward being a private person, and yet showing his command and influence.
The crossed arms, sunglasses, and head slightly bent down personifies his reticence and self-consciousness in the public eye, yet a bit of a wide-legged stance and proud expression denotes authority and love for his artistes.
Thank you for listening!
Sincerely,
Christine Holmes
Michigan
( the photo )
I'm going to send this email tomorrow night, and another of the same to Cllr Steve Rotheram.
Basically, I'm scared of how they are going to show his face. Artists/sculptors usually get the eyes wrong, among other things ~ and shades would at least cover that possibility ~ plus be a symbol of how "hidden" he wished to be.
Please let me know if you've got any additional ideas, and give me your name and state, in a screened comment or email if you wish.
at
fifthbeatlemovie "at" gmail "dot" "com"
Thanks!!!
Your hopeful Christine~
Feb. 2nd, 2008 @ 02:59 pm
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