Pop culture roundup: Twister! Miley Cyrus and the Flaming Lips! Beatles!

The Guardian explores the origins of "Twister."
Mel Taft, head of development at Milton Bradley, arranged to get the game played on The Johnny Carson Show. Carson was enticed on to the Twister board to play live with Eva Gabor, wearing a very low-cut gown. The next morning, Mel was standing in a queue 50 deep at Abercrombie & Fitch, which was rumoured to have Twister for sale. It became the game of 1966 and the royalties started rolling in.


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Here's an unexpected duo: Miley Cyrus and the Flaming Lips.




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There are a lot of Beatles-related commemorative magazines on the newsstands these days -- all focused on the 50th anniversary of the band's first American visit. Which mags are best? Beatles Examiner offers a handy guide here.


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More than 100 John Lennon manuscripts, many used in his 1960s books, are up for auction at Sotheby's.
The works are from the collection of Tom Maschler, who in the 1960s was the literary director of Jonathan Cape, Lennon’s British publisher. In the Beatles’ early years, it was widely known that Lennon had a comic literary side. He created a handmade magazine, “The Daily Howl,” during his elementary school years, and during the first flush of the Beatles’ success in Liverpool, he wrote several articles for a local music magazine, Mersey Beat. Mr. Maschler met with Lennon in 1963, and persuaded him to compile some of these pieces as a book.


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Booksteve unearths a rare, and rather unexpected, bit of Jack Kirby artwork.


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I could do this job! Man makes £4 a pop taking pics of tourists crossing the street in front of London's Abbey Road Studios, where the Beatles recorded nearly all their songs.



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Jon shares a wonderful assortment of vintage Captain Marvel house ads.


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