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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

SPR is offering everyone some ‘Help!’

Dan Webster

Anytime you have a hard day's night, what's the thing you most need? Help, of course, which is something The Beatles knew well enough.

And so does Spokane Public Radio. Following last year's sold-out event, "SPR Goes to the Movies: 'A Hard Day's Night,' " the radio station decided to follow up with another Beatles movie extravaganza. This time it involves Richard Lester's 1965 Beatles film "Help!" which had a national U.S. opening on Aug. 25, 1965.

"Help!" will screen at the Bing Crosby Theater at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Unlike the "Hard Day's Night" screening, this event will not involve a live-taping of the "Movies 101" show. But "Movies 101" co-host Nathan Weinbender, along with longtime SPR personality Leonard Oakland, will be on hand to introduce the film.

Tickets to the screening are $10 (plus Bing operating fees) and are being sold through TickestWest. They also should be available at the Bing's box office (but as I wrote above, the "Hard Day's Night" screening sold out so …)

Anyway, I'd be there but I'm out of town. Poor me.

I can always use some … uh, "Help!"