Peter Asher to Perform at Club Cafe; ‘Little Women’ Continues on Local Screens (Thurs., 1/09/20)

January 7, 2020/Rick Handler

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Peter Asher to Perform at Club Cafe; \'Little Women\' Continues on Local Screens (Thurs., 1/09/20)

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1) Peter Asher hosts a delightful program on SiriusXM’s Beatles Channel titled “From Me to You.” He sounds as much a fan as any Beatlemaniac, and it’s arguably easy to forget his own remarkable career. He was one half of the pop duo Peter and Gordon with the late Gordon Waller. Their biggest hit was 1964’s “A World Without Love,” credited Lennon-McCartney but really written by Paul McCartney. (McCartney was dating Asher’s sister, Jane, at the time.) Peter Asher ran the A&R department at Apple Records, which the Beatles founded in 1968. He signed James Taylor and later was Taylor’s manager. Asher is also a successful producer. His credits include many Linda Ronstadt albums, two of which (1977’s Simple Dreams and 1989’s Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind) earned him Grammys for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical. He’ll talk about his career and perform music during Peter Asher: A Musical Memoir of the ’60s and Beyond at Club Cafe. 8 p.m. 56-58 S. 12th St., South Side. (CM)

2) Including two silent films, Little Women has been produced for the silver screen seven times, not to mention Broadway and West End dramatic stagings, radio dramas and a BBC serial. Greta Gerwig has now written and directed the eighth version. Starring Saoirse Ronan (who Gerwig directed in 2017’s Academy Award nominated Ladybird,) Emma Watson, Laura Dern, Timothée Chalamet and Meryl Streep, Little Women is the American classic novel, by Louisa May Alcott, which follows the dreams and longings of the March sisters, four young women who eek out family life in a New England town during the waning years of the Civil War. Ronan plays Jo, the tomboyish writer who serves as Alcott’s alter-ego and the narrator of the story. Gerwig’s adaptation for 2019 promises to shed a more liberating light on the character differences that have enthralled readers for more than 150 years. (P.Orr)