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The Beatles
“Anthology 2”
Apple Records
Grade: A
The Beatles’ “Anthology 2” is a
trip into the wonderland of the
Beatles’ psychedelic period. It al
lows the listener a journey further
into the looking-glass minds of the
creators and their artistic process
than ever before. This compilation
covers the progression from the ex
perimentation and departure from
pop norms in “Rubber Soul” to the
impenetrable peak of “Sgt. Pep
per.”
The tracks on “Anthology 2”
show different roads and avenues
in the distinct worlds that the Beatles
crafted for the songs of this period.
The best example is the collection
of takes from “Strawberry Fields
Forever,” which begins with the
first recordings of John tinkering
with the song in his home.
This humble arrangement fades
into the incomparable unreleased
first take with a brilliant alternate
vocal. This vocal casts an entirely
new emotional feel to the song.
Eerie slide guitar gives the track a
“Space Oddity” ambience that is
perfectly complementary to the
spaccy sense of John’s vacuous
ness.
This first take is followed by the
familiar take seven that makes up
half of the released version of the
song. It has the complete ending
with Ringo’s drum solo and John’s
nonsense ramblings, revealing
clearly the hidden phrase “cran
berry sauce,” not the “I buried Paul”
line heard by straining fans for de
cades.
In a similar way, “A Day in the
Life” is a majestic compilation of
the many takes of the song in the
studio and recordings of the studio
itself. The song is like a jigsaw
puzzle of Bauhaus art pieces. The
section that later contains the first
orchestra passage bears only John’s
distorted count and Paul’s disso
nant piano. The orchestra comes in
at the end, but the final chord is
replaced by Paul’s commentary on
the song’s evolution.
Many of the first takes of songs
on this compilation rival the re
leased takes for emotional reso
nance. Besides the first take of
“Strawberry Fields,” the first run
throughs of “Norwegian Wood,”
“Tomorrow Never Knows” and
“I’m Only Sleeping” are in many
ways better than the well-known
versions.
There is not much more a Beatles
fan could ask for from the
unreleased takes of this period. The
tracks are remixed and restored and
by far superior to the Beatles boot
legs that have kept fans’ interest
alive for so many years until the
coming of “Anthology.”
— Jason Gildow
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Hollywood scramble leaves
Oscar tickets hard to find
By Constance Sommer
Associated Press " “
LOS ANGELES—Hoilywood’s workaday
scramble can become a frenzy around Oscar
time, when tickets to the big show are hard to
come by.
Things are better every third year, when the
Academy Awards are staged at the 5,800-seat
Shrine Auditorium. But because that venue is
more expensive, the ceremony usually is held at
the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, which has half
the seats.
Nominees and presenters can attend, of
course—along with one guest. And studios get
block ticket allotments. Academy members—
all 5,900 of them—may submit applications to
a lottery. About 450 to 600 lucky ones win a
pair.
The man caught in the middle is Otto Spocrri,
financial controller of the Academy Of Motion
Picture Arts, and Sciences. He gets to decide
ticket allotment, run the lottery and assign seats.
“I get the nasty phone calls because I send
the letter out in my signature that you didn’t get
tickets,” Spoerri said. “I don’t discriminate. I
have sent back some big names, believe me. If
I start choosing and picking, it wouldn’t be
fair.”
Limited seating and the lust for tickets means
headaches for others, too.
“It’s a mess. It’s a big mess,” said Hollacc
Davids, a Universal Pictures executive given
the unhappy task ofassigningthe paltry 28 scats
the studio received for Monday night’s cer
emony.
Universal has four films accounting for 20
Oscar nominations, meaning scores of people
involved with the movies deserve to attend.
“There are people who are disappointed,
let’s put it that way,” Davids said.
But there arc only so many tickets to go
around. There’s the usual allotment to the
Academy’s Board of Governors and “honored
guests” like county supervisors, the press and
industry guild representatives.
ABC gets 96 tickets for televising the show.
Those tickets arc divided among network ex
ecutives and commercial sponsors.
And then the studios get theirs.
At one of the smaller studios, one executive
turned in desperation to scalpers, who some
times purchase tickets from Academy mem
bers.
Speaking on condition of anonymity be
cause of strict Academy rules prohibiting such
sales, the executive said a scalper offered to sell
an orchestra ticket—which the Academy prices
at $200 — for $4,500.
If she was willing to take the balcony —
usually priced at $50 a scat — she could go for
a mere $2,600.
“I said,' I could have a fair amount of plastic
surgery for that and win an Oscar mysel f,’ ” said
the executive, who refused to buy at those
prices.
Picks
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BEST PICTURE
Jeff: First, I’ll pose a question. How
can two films (“Leaving Las Vegas” and
“Dead Man Walking”) be nominated for
Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Direc
tor without being nominated for Best Pic
ture? Hello, Academy, are you there? All
right, I’ll go against my personal prefer
ences on this one and give it to “Apollo
13” because every person over 30 that I
know loved it (I hated it, by the way). For
the record, I’d like to see “Babe” win.
Hey, if “Leaving Las Vegas” isn’t in it,
the whole category can godown in flames,
as far as I’m concerned.
Gerry: “Babe” is bacon, “Sense and
Sensibility” was good but too boring to
win “Best Picture,” “The Postman” is
both dead and a foreign film and “Apollo
13” was too widely appealing. Thus, it’s
“Braveheart” all the way. I must agree
with Jeff on the sad absence of“Leaving
» Las Vegas” and “Dead Man Walking” in
this category, which would have made
thiscatcgory adifficultchoice. Isn’ta pig
film’s nomination for Best Picture one of
the signs of the Apocalypse?
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