I Wanna Hold Your Hand
One of the many pleasures of 1978's I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND is seeing the genesis of ideas director Robert Zemeckis and his co-writer Bob Gale would regurgitate in their later, far more successful (in terms of box office and otherwise) movies. Near the end of this rollicking saga of a group of teenagers who desperately try to glimpse the Beatles before, during, and after their 1964 appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, there are two scenes to which you can draw a straight line to BACK TO THE FUTURE . Through much of the movie you can see the beginnings of the honing of a manic style that would characterize many later Zemeckis efforts. While the Bobs' chops may not have been fully developed at this stage, this is still a wildly fun, destructive, and manic movie, one that sadly didn't quite find an audience during its original release. Rosie (Wendie Jo Sperber) is positively mad for the Beatles (especially Paul, who she wants to marry). If only she could get tic...
