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When her cardiologist husband (Martin Donovan) leaves her, Judith Nelson (Holly Hunter) goes out into the world, her pain making her receptive to everything and everyone--from the elevator man (Danny DeVito) who returns her friendship with uninvited amorousness to the torch singer (Queen Latifah) who takes her to after-hours clubs, where she dances ecstatically with young women.
The music of the early 1960s in the Liverpool area was often referred to as beat music, and so, modeling themselves after Holly's band, the Crickets, John, who couldn't resist a pun, suggested Beatles as a play on beat music.
The opening is teasingly misleading, as if to make you think you're seeing The Gingerbread Man II : In Holly Springs, a small, Mississippi cotton town, Willis Richland (Charles S. Dutton) staggers out of a blues joint semi-drunk, then drops his bottle of bourbon when a police car glides ominously past.
The best explanation for the name Beatles can be traced directly to the music that influenced Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Sutcliffe at the time and to their music idol, Buddy Holly.
In rock 'n' roll's first decade, songwriters like Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly established its song forms and subject matter: the lives, loves, and modest rebellions of newly enfranchised teens.