Lost Beatles interview

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Lost Beatles interview

In a lost 1964 interview with the Beatles' John Lennon and Paul McCartney, broadcast Monday on BBC Radio after it was salvaged from the audio track of a damaged roll of film, McCartney expounds on the duo's song-writing process. "Normally, we sit down and try and bash one out," he said. "But then again, there's no formula, because [Lennon] can come up with one completely finished. We still say we both wrote it, though."

Jolie hospitalized

Brangelina's twins aren't here yet, but the big day is drawing closer. The seafront Lenval hospital in Nice, France, said Tuesday that Angelina Jolie had checked in at its maternity clinic to be kept under doctors' surveillance and get some rest before she gives birth. "She is not on the verge of giving birth, not at all," said Nadine Bauer, a hospital spokeswoman. The 33-year-old actress will likely remain in the hospital until she gives birth, Bauer said. Jolie has said the babies are due in August, but twins are often born early. She and her partner, Brad Pitt, have four children: Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara, 3; and Shiloh, 2.

Critters

Hungry for sport

German police Monday said a 6 ½-foot-long catfish apparently choked to death after trying to chow down a soccer ball in the locks of a Bavarian canal. Police weren't sure if the final of the Euro 2008 soccer championship on Sunday — during which Germany lost 1-0 to Spain — had anything to do with the fish's demise.

In Court

Sausage attack

Gregory Allen Praeger, 46, was charged with battery after he hit his mother in the head with a 3-pound package of Polish sausage Friday, Deland, Fla., police said. His mother told police he had been drinking and arguing with her, then picked up the package of sausage and hurled it, grazing her head. She was not badly hurt. He was held on $500 bond, according to jail records.

Passages

Angel Tavira, 84, a one-handed violinist who dedicated his life to Mexican folk music and won a Cannes Film Festival award for acting in the 2005 film "The Violin," died of kidney problems Monday in a Mexico City hospital. When he lost his right hand setting off fireworks at the age of 13, he learned to play the violin with the bow tied to his stump.

Donald White, 71, a Mount Vernon native and social activist who helped organize and coordinate dozens of initiatives involving human rights in Central America and anti-war efforts around the world, died of an apparent heart attack June 19 at his home in Los Angeles.

Today in History

1881: President Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Washington railroad station; Garfield died the following September. (Guiteau was hanged in June 1882.)

1937: Aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight along the equator.

1961: Author Ernest Hemingway shot himself to death at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.

Today's Birthdays

Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos, 79. Actor Robert Ito, 77. Actress Polly Holliday, 71. Actor Ron Silver, 62. Writer-director-comedian Larry David, 61. Luci Baines Johnson, daughter of President Johnson, 61. Actress-model Jerry Hall, 52. Actor Jimmy McNichol, 47. Singer Michelle Branch, 25. Actress-singer Ashley Tisdale, 23. Actress Lindsay Lohan, 22.

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