Entertainment News Roundup: Unseen photos taken by Paul McCartney show Beatlemania; Film 'Joy Ride' takes group of friends on raunchy rollercoaster to China and more

Images of McCartney and his former Beatles bandmates - John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison - as young men flying to America, relaxing by a pool in Miami and being chased by photographers in New York form part of "Paul McCartney Photographs 1963- 64: Eyes of the Storm." "They document this period in which they went from sort of Beatlemania in Britain through to global fame - through...


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Entertainment News Roundup: Unseen photos taken by Paul McCartney show Beatlemania; Film 'Joy Ride' takes group of friends on raunchy rollercoaster to China and more
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Unseen photos taken by Paul McCartney show Beatlemania

Personal and previously unseen photographs taken by musician Paul McCartney as 'Beatlemania' was soaring in the 1960s have gone on display at The National Portrait Gallery in London. Images of McCartney and his former Beatles bandmates - John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison - as young men flying to America, relaxing by a pool in Miami and being chased by photographers in New York form part of "Paul McCartney Photographs 1963- 64: Eyes of the Storm." "They document this period in which they went from sort of Beatlemania in Britain through to global fame - through... their first ever visit to America," exhibition curator Rosie Broadley said. There are over 250 photographs from McCartney's archive on display, which even his team hadn't seen for decades. One image, which Broadley said is a favourite of McCartney's, show's George Harrison in a pair of sunglasses relaxing with a drink and cigarette by a pool a few days after the Beatles had performed to millions of people on hit U.S. television programme "The Ed Sullivan Show". "I don't know quite if what had just happened has actually sunk in, but this photograph just shows George really enjoying .. the good life," Broadley said Another shot taken in Washington shows a young girl looking in at McCartney through a car window. "A lot of (the photographs are) very intimate and personal....which is why it's called 'The Eyes of the Storm,'" Broadley said. "It's the inside looking out. It just gives this other layer of personal experience." With photographs taken in London, Paris and across America, the exhibition is on until October 2023.

Film 'Joy Ride' takes group of friends on raunchy rollercoaster to China

When actress Stephanie Hsu realized there were no limits to how outrageous she could be in the film "Joy Ride," she was confident it was going to be a "good time." Director Adele Lim, a co-writer for "Crazy Rich Asians," was similarly grateful that no one ever told her that the raunchy U.S. comedy, which arrives in theaters on Friday, was "too much."

Motor racing-Life in the Pitt-lane: F1 prepares for movie action

Formula One has its pitstops and pitlane and this weekend's British Grand Prix will also have Brad Pitt getting in on the action. The 59-year-old Hollywood actor's as-yet untitled Formula One movie starts filming at Silverstone against the race backdrop, with the production having its own garage and pitwall stand as a fictional 11th team.

Coco Lee, Hong Kong-born singer-songwriter, dies at 48 after suicide attempt

Hong Kong-born American singer Coco Lee died at 48 on Wednesday following a suicide attempt that left her in a coma, Lee’s two sisters, Carol and Nancy Lee, said in a statement posted on Instagram and Facebook. Lee died in Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong, where she had been living.

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