{"id":14651,"date":"2021-12-07T21:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T02:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14651"},"modified":"2021-12-07T11:43:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T16:43:32","slug":"i-wanna-hold-your-hand-1978-robert-zemeckis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14651","title":{"rendered":"I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978, Robert Zemeckis)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anticipating a new wave of Beatlemania on twitter when Get Back<\/em> dropped, I watched this in early Nov. I always catch a new Yo La Tengo reference when I watch a Beatles movie – last time was in Help!<\/em>, dreaming ’bout Eleanor Bron, seeing her in the arms of Paul saying “I can say no more.” This one’s got a cameo by New York DJ Murray the K, who must be the inspiration for Ira’s DJ name.<\/p>\n

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Three girls and two boys experiencing different levels of Beatlemania in Maplewood NJ drive into the city to crash the Beatles’ Ed Sullivan Show<\/em> appearance in NYC. No actual Beatle involvement, just stand-ins, glimped from below or behind with impersonator accents. Silly idea for a movie, pulled off wonderfully, an ensemble piece with an ever-growing ensemble, an awful lot of Beatles songs and a woozy happy ending.<\/p>\n

L-R: Pam, Janice, Grace, Rosie<\/em>
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Rosie’s the emphatic one who wills the trip into action (Wendie Jo Sperber, Marty’s sister in Back to the Future<\/em>), Pam is her bestie who plans to elope with her boy tomorrow (Nancy Allen’s followup to Carrie<\/a><\/em>), then there’s Photographer Grace (Pesci’s wife in Raging Bull<\/em>) and Protester Janice (Susan “daughter of Paul” Newman). Tony is basically a stowaway, out to cause trouble (Bobby Di Cicco of The Big Red One<\/em>). Larry’s the Cameron-in-Ferris-Bueller of the gang (Marc McClure, aka Jimmy Olsen in Superman<\/em>), borrowing his undertaker dad’s limo to get them all close to the hotel.<\/p>\n

The theater has posters for Wild Strawberries and The Cranes are Flying<\/a>:<\/em>
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In charge of security on the Beatles floor is Dick Miller – Pam gets by him inside a drink cart and spends quality time with the bands’ instruments while they’re out. Grace and Larry fail to raise cash by selling scraps of Beatle bedsheets, then she tries being a call girl but settles for extortionist instead. Janice and Tony befriend a mophead kid whose dad has tickets but will only give them up if the kid gets a haircut. And Rosie capers with a Beatlemaniac nerd called Ringo (Eddie Deezen of Grease<\/a><\/em> the same year).<\/p>\n

Miller grabs Grace:<\/em>
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Anticipating a new wave of Beatlemania on twitter when Get Back dropped, I watched this in early Nov. I always catch a new Yo La Tengo reference when I watch a Beatles movie – last time was in Help!, dreaming ’bout Eleanor Bron, seeing her in the arms of Paul saying “I can say no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,164,2272,361,1647,440],"class_list":["post-14651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-beatles","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-robert-zemeckis","tag-rock-roll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14694,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14651\/revisions\/14694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}