An article explaining a bit more about the Weinstein Co purchase of Nowhere Boy:

Harvey Weinstein: The fifth Beatle?


01:48 PM PT, Mar 19 2009

For all of us Beatles fans, the news earlier this week that the Weinstein Co. had acquired "Nowhere Boy," a coming-of-age tale about John Lennon's tumultuous teenage years in Liverpool, was cause for high hopes, especially because the script, written by Matt Greenhalgh, offers a bracingly unsentimental portrait of the fabled artist as a young scamp -- sensitive but bitingly sarcastic, smart but achingly soulful, wildly ambitious but without a ruthless bone in his body. The script, which I've read, has a host of the most vivid moments from early Beatles mythology, but always plays them in the right key, capturing John's artistic drive and caustic wit.

When Lennon and Paul McCartney first meet, at a Quarrymen rehearsal at the St. Peter's Church Hall, a friend shows up with Paul, who's come armed with a guitar. The friend says, "Paul plays too." Lennon immediately responds: "With himself?" After he gets a round of giggles, John takes the edge off it, adding "I do. All the time. Good for the wrist muscles."

But for Weinstein, who turned 57 today, the acquisition of the film -- now shooting in and around Liverpool -- was more personal. For the veteran film impresario, being involved with a Beatles project was the equivalent of coming full circle. Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Weinstein was a skinny, long-haired, bell-bottomed teenager, he worked at Apple Records' New York office. The highlight of his job involved running errands for Paul McCartney and picking up Lennon at the airport. For a 16-year-old Beatles fan, full of Hollywood dreams, it was nirvana.


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Full article at : latimes

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Paula, thanks for posting the pics of Julia. I was wondering what she looked like.