Beatles hiding anonymously at the poetry event symbolically fused pop and underground scenes

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Rumor had it that one of the Beatles was there, hiding in a box trying desperately not to be recognized,” wrote Peter Whitehead, whose Wholly Communion, a thirty-three-minute documentary of the event—slapdash immediacy heightened by Whitehead’s improvisational technique—made the movie a planetary news bulletin. Barbara Rubin was filming as well. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 724

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• CANDY: A Beatle allegedly hiding in a box at a poetry reading is a fun anecdote in itself.