Squeal of Fortune! We Have a Winner!
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 2:45PM 
We have a winner from yesterday’s Squeal of Fortune, it’s mrs5000, who correctly guessed the movie title of Help, starring The Beatles. Thanks also to Biff, tiefighter25 and Professor Dungpie for chiming in, you were so close...yet so far away, just like a Carole King song!
Help had a working title of Eight Arms To Hold You, referring to The Beatles combined appendages. However, when John Lennon wrote the song, Help, it was decided that that would be the name of the movie. Help was the Beatles second movie and while not as critically acclaimed as the first, A Hard Day’s Night, it’s still a lot of fun. Although it sounds like it was even more fun to make, here’s a quote from Ringo Starr about the making of Help:
“A hell of a lot of pot was being smoked while we were making the film. It was great. That helped make it a lot of fun...In one of the scenes, Victor Spinetti and Roy Kinnear are playing curling, sliding along those big stones. One of the stones has a bomb in it and we find out that it's going to blow up, and have to run away. Well, Paul and I ran about seven miles, we ran and ran, just so we could stop and have a joint before we came back. We could have run all the way to Switzerland. If you look at pictures of us you can see a lot of red-eyed shots; they were red from the dope we were smoking. And these were those clean-cut boys! Dick Lester knew that very little would get done after lunch. In the afternoon we very seldom got past the first line of the script. We had such hysterics that no one could do anything. Dick Lester would say, ‘No, boys, could we do it again?’ It was just that we had a lot of fun — a lot of fun in those days.”
—Ringo Starr
The band Veruca Salt released an album called “Eight Arms To Hold You,” in 1997 and the title was a tribute to the original title of what eventually became, Help.
So there you go. Congratulations on being today’s winner mrs5000! And we’ll see you all next week on...SQUEAL OF FORTUNE!
Reader Comments (5)
Yaay for me!!!
Chuck Norris once challenged Lance Armstrong to a "who has more testicles contest." Chuck Norris won by 5.
Congratulations mrs5000! I wish I could tune in from work, I'm always too late for them!
I have no testicles! Lmao!
every time i read a quote by ringo starr, my brain hears it in his voice!