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"SOMETHING" ABOUT HARRISON Friday, November 30 2001 George Harrison, who succumbed to cancer in Los Angeles Thursday at the age of 58, became a principal force behind the revival of the British film industry in the 1980s. In 1978, he and his former manager, Denis O'Brien, launched HandMade Films, and immediately registered success with their first feature, Monty Python's The Life of Brian, released in 1979. The company went on to produce 23 films during the following decade, including The Long Good (more) HARRISON UNDERGOING "LAST CHANCE" CANCER TREATMENT Thursday, November 8 2001 
Former
Beatle
George
Harrison
has
entered
Staten
Island
University
Hospital
in
New
York
to
undergo
a
new
cancer
treatment,
sterotactic
radiosurgery,
during
which
tumors
can
be
targeted
with
high
doses
of
radiation
while
leaving
surrounding
tissue
untouched,
the
London
Daily
Telegraph
reported
today
(Thursday).
The
hospital
declined
to
confirm
that
Harrison
had
been
admitted.
A
source
told
the
newspaper
that
he
looked
"frail
and
gaunt"
when
he
entered.
"The
word
around
the
hospital
is
that
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Martin Scorsese, who appears to enjoy making documentaries about celebrated musicians as much as he does dramas about the underworld, is planning to direct a film about George Harrison, the former Beatle who died in 2001, Daily Variety reported today (Thursday). His widow, Olivia, told the trade publication, "It would have given George great joy to know that Martin Scorsese has agreed to tell his story." She said that Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the two surviving Beatles, had agreed to participate in the project and that Apple Records will permit use of the Beatles' music. Scorsese has previously produced documentaries about The Band (The Last Waltz), Bob Dylan (No Direction Home) and the Rolling Stones (the upcoming Shine a Light).
