Saturday, October 22, 2005

What? The Beatles were totally movie stars!

Sir Paul McCartney was "chuffed" that Liverpool was recently selected as a "world class cultural city". I'm sure "the lads" had something to do with it. Sorry George and John didn't get to see it, though there is a statue of John at the airport. Back in the 19th century those that earned their livlihood on the sea used to have an expression "See you in Liverpool" as invariably many ships landed there and people crossed paths, some started from the "Black Ball" line, run by the Quakers, out of the port of New York, carrying mail and cotton for the looms there, through Liverpool, England. The H.M.S. Titanic's homeport was Liverpool, sorry she never "made" New York. In some ways the Beatles films were all some of us had connected to those, people in our lives, who were still or lost at sea. Also, East Liverpool, Ohio was an important ceramic artists center for many of the ceramics kiln-fired in the United States before American mass produced ceramics overwhelmed it, lately there a fight over a PCB incinerator next to a school. Cinematical

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