[bomp] Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch

[Paul Gouldhawke <nicp@xxxxxxxxx>]

   RUTLES 2: CAN'T BUY ME LUNCH TO HAVE WORLD PREMIERE IN LOS ANGELES
   by Hans ten Cate
   Tuesday, 5 August 2003

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     Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch will premiere at the [1]Don't Knock the
      Rock Festival on August 16, 7:30 PM and 11:45 PM at the [2]ArcLight
                                                                  Cinemas

   After sitting on a shelf at Warner Brothers for over a year, Rutles 2:
   Can't Buy Me Lunch, the much anticipated sequel to Eric Idle's 1978
   mockumentary, will receive its world premiere in Los Angeles on August
   16. The screening is part of the first annual [3]Don't Knock the Rock
   Festival, which is being held August 15-17 in various venues
   throughout Hollywood.

   The festival's organizers have arranged two showings, the first at
   7:30 PM and again at 11:45 PM that same night. Both screenings will
   take place at the [4]ArcLight Cinema on Sunset Blvd.

   The first Don't Knock the Rock Festival launches what will be an
   annual film and music event celebrating the rock and roll roots of
   Hollywood. The three-day festival is a historical journey of classic
   and new rock and roll films.

   Saturday night will be the world premiere of Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me
   Lunch, which actually wrapped production last year. Written by Gerard
   Corvin and directed by Eric Idle, Rutles 2 is the sequel to All You
   Need is Cash and, like the original, it is a parody of the myriad
   documentaries made about the Beatles.

   For Rutles 2, Eric dug up some outtakes and old footage from the
   original documentary. "Yes, there's found footage," confessed Eric. "I
   went to New Jersey and found the original outtakes - the negatives -
   which are fabulous. Mechanically, you could just process them, and the
   positive was all fresh and great." [[5]1] In addition, the film uses
   the Rutles' second album, Archeology (1996), to look back on the
   Rutles' influence on contemporary artists.

   "It's a documentary with my same narrator character," said Eric, "only
   it's 30 years later, and he goes around talking to Salman Rushdie, Tom
   Hanks, James Taylor, David Bowie and Bonnie Raitt about how the world
   has been influenced, and how their lives have been changed by the
   Rutles." [[6]2]

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   The same narrator (Eric Idle), nearly 25 years later, outside the same
    famed hotel in which the same Rutles actually stayed Tom Hanks tells
      how the Rutles released the world's first and only triangular LP
                                   record

   "He pursues Jennifer Lopez and Madonna trying to get interviews, which
   is really funny, and Gary Shandling is just brilliant. I made it under
   the aegis of Lorne Michaels again, and we sold it to Warners." [[7]2]
   For reasons unbeknownst to even Eric, Warner Brothers sat on the
   project and the film has, until recently, only seen limited test
   screenings. August 16 will be the official world premiere.

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      Rutles 2 will feature some "found footage" and outtakes from the
      original documentary Hans Haenkie (Robin Williams) discusses the
                      impact the Rutles had on Germany

   The cast includes Eric Idle, Neil Innes, Ricky Fataar and John Halsey
   as The Rutles, along with Rutles fans and foes David Bowie, Billy
   Connolly, Carrie Fisher, Tom Hanks, Jewel, Steve Martin, Mike Nichols,
   Conan O'Brien, Salman Rushdie, Garry Shandling, Robin Williams, and
   cameos from the first installment by Mick Jagger, George Harrison, and
   Ron Wood.

   Tickets to the event are available on the ArcLight Cinema's website,
   [8]www.arclightcinemas.com.
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