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...celebrate (and, of course, exploit) the 40th anniversary of their conquest of America, Apple Corps will reissue on Feb. 3 the feature-length documentary The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit, with a 51-min. add-on of outtakes and reminiscences. The original film, a cinema verite record of the group's tour by Albert and David Maysles, is a brisk rough sketch of A Hard Day's Night, which the boys started making later that month. Same dashing from train to limo to photo op to TV stage. Same use of wit as armor against imprisonment and ennui...
...sister Ann, who had performed with her in a childhood act, died of ovarian cancer.) Flanked by a phalanx of stars, including Chan and Yeoh, she told her fans: "Please don't worry about me. Watch me win this war." She threw herself a lavish, tearful 40th birthday party and, ever defiant, prepared for a role in Zhang Yimou's next film, House of Flying Daggers. "I realized she would never surrender to the devil of the disease," Zhang told Time. "To her, this film wasn't just a job but her ultimate struggle-to challenge her life, her destiny...
...40th birthday recently, Chinese pro-democracy activist Yang Jianli languished in a Chinese prison. That same day, his wife, Harvard Medical School researcher Christina Fu, and their two young children, Aaron and Anita, spent over an hour outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., trying to persuade a faceless security guard—through locked doors, closed curtains and a small speaker—to accept a hand-drawn birthday card to deliver to him in prison. Their quest ended in vain. For the Yang family, this experience was a sad illustration of the opaque approach that the Chinese authorities...
...seems like a victory for John F. Kennedy's assassin--assassin(s), for you Warren Report agnostics--to define the President's life mainly by his death. But that's what will happen this month, as the 40th anniversary of his murder inspires the media to cash in--er, reflect on a turning point in history--with a raft of TV specials...
...wealthy family on the national stage, was at first unnoticed. But as it began in the mid-1950s, the Kennedy-Lowe relationship helped define, more than any record of the period, the Jack and Jackie Kennedy mythology. Lowe's Remembering Jack, which appears on the eve of the 40th anniversary of J.F.K.'s death, is in many ways the most complete account of that youthful political insurgency and the magic it left behind...