The Beatles Resurface
So the Beatles say they’ve unearthed a long-lost song from the “Yellow Submarine” sessions. Forget that “Yellow Sub” is the Beatles’ worst album and that it’s painful to imagine a song that wasn’t good enough to make the cut. Rumor has it that the new song is just a different take of the cute rocker “Hey Bulldog.” After all, the Beatles’ archives were scoured for the Abbey Road “Sessions” book and again for the “Beatles Anthology.” How is it that nobody found the “long-lost” track before? Whatever the case, we’ll hear the song this fall, as part of a “Yellow” juggernaut: revamped album and movie, bikes, surfboards, boxer shorts, oven gloves, etc. Sounds like the submarine has turned green.
Emmy Fever
Ben Stein–yale-trained lawyer, Nixon speechwriter and ubernerd actor–is up for his first Daytime Emmy as host of the game show “Win Ben Stein’s Money” this week. NEWSWEEK offered him a penny for his thoughts: “People keep saying, ‘Do you mind being with the soap operas?’ I’m honored! When I worked for President Nixon, I routinely stopped work when ‘The Young and the Restless’ came on. I would love to be in a soap opera. All those women with huge, fake breasts–there’s more silicone there than in Santa Fe. Of course, I’d be very upset if I was Susan Lucci and I’d lost all those times. Then again, she’s very good looking. It’s some consolation. She probably won’t talk to me. She’ll say, ‘Who are you?’ "
A Model Student Makes the Grade
A model with brains? that may sound like an epoxied moron, but not if you’re talking about Christy Turlington. Last week Turlington received a liberal-arts degree from New York University, where she studied philosophy, literature, art history and religion. If that weren’t impressive enough, she even showed up at graduation, along with her cheering family–and a few bodyguards. Turlington plans to go to graduate school, too, maybe in a writing program. “I really crave the order and the discipline” of school, she says. “There’s so little of that in my profession.” And so few with the guts to wear rayon.
