As a voraicious Beatles fan, I am still wrestling with whether or not to see “Across the Universe”. Jona’s review mentions that the film is laden with hidden references, which is definitely a mark in the pro column for me.

This piece contains numerous Beatles’ references - in fact, there is little that isn’t a tip of the hat to the Fab Four.

Can you find them all?

(This Bird Has Flown)
Though no one ever noticed it, there was something in her that was blatantly a Beatles’ song And sometimes, in her lesser moments, she would look out from under her bangs ‘round the table, like George over the St. Pancras church fence July 1968, to see if anyone had heard jai guru deva in the way she had just lifted her paper cup
No one ever did, but then, neither did Pete Best

She didn’t rise for breakfast, but rather to greet the masses she was sure were pressed behind the train door – But there were no faintings, no black and white film, only overpriced bagels her eyes making all the hasty cuts

Lennon born October 9 Meet Brian Epstein November 9 “paul is dead” November 9 Ed Sullivan February the 9th nine letters in Liverpool But try explaining that to Sharon Tate and everything gets complicated and she was sick of the old complications, sick of being taller than Jesus, sick of explaining that a son’s picture of Lucy can really just be a son’s picture of Lucy and so she counted the train stops on her fingers, pressing them together like feathers
her hand looking first like a paw,
changing then to a wing

and so she slept with her crown against the box window, going from water to water, neither one a coast

The smart one The cute one The quiet one The sad one In anonymity, she shambled off the second train, desperately signaling for boats, a scarf tied through all her days