George, Paul and Ringo

["Jeff House" <whocasa@hotmail.com>]

Here's a little gossip from today's news:
http://entertainment.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4459,3291835%255E7484%255E%255Enbv,00.html

Maybe we should cut Ringo (and partners) a little slack.  Their karma could 
use it.

Here's the text:

Beatles at Harrison's bedside
21 NOV 2001
By TONY BONNICI in New York, Daily Telegraph


FORMER Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr had an emotional reunion with 
George Harrison at the cancer-stricken guitarist's hospital bedside.
McCartney was said to have broken down in tears when the three surviving 
Beatles got together in New York last week.

The meeting happened at Staten Island University Hospital, where 58-year-old 
Harrison has been undergoing "last chance" radio therapy on a brain tumour.

He has since left the hospital following the end of his treatment and is at 
a secret location with his wife Olivia.

McCartney, 59, was in New York to promote Freedom, his single recorded to 
raise money for victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the city.

Starr, 61, was in the US to see his daughter, Lee Starkey, who is being 
treated in Boston for her second brain tumour in six years.

The stars, who arrived in separate limousines, spent several hours with 
Harrison.

"George's passing would be a major blow to all of them," a friend said 
yesterday.

"There are very few people who shared what these men shared while they were 
making music together.

"He is getting better nutrition now but for many weeks he had lost interest 
in eating. He still looks a little pale but he is feeling a lot better."

Harrison has been having "experimental" stereotactic radiosurgery treatment.

Unlike standard radiation therapy, this procedure targets only the diseased 
tissue, using much higher doses of radiation to attack cancerous cells. It 
is often used on patients who are too weak for surgery.

Harrison, who is said to be "enjoying the beauty of autumn"' with his family 
somewhere on Staten Island, began intensive treatment in Switzerland for a 
brain tumour in July, just four months after he had a cancerous growth 
removed from his lung.

Although at first he appeared to be responding well to therapy, the tumour 
returned and a few weeks ago sources close to the star said he had only a 
month to live.

This is his third bout with the disease.

Prior to this year's lung surgery, Harrison had a cancerous growth removed 
from his neck at Princess Margaret Hospital, in Windsor, in 1997.

Jeff