Pete Shotton the storyline of "Eleanor Rigby" (he suggested that the two lonely people in the song meet, but too late). Shotton also recalls Lennon squinting at the words of a Victorian-era poster for Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal that hung in Lennon's music room at Kenwood while he worked out the tune for "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!". According to writer Stan Williams, Shotton's wife Beth is the "pretty nurse" selling poppies mentioned in the lyrics of "Penny Lane". After the Beatles became famous, Lennon and George Harrison bought a supermarket on Hayling Island, and gave it to Shotton to
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger of 46% based on reviews from 129 critics, with an average score of 5.4 out of 10. Its consensus states: "It's sporadically amusing, and typically well-cast, but "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" isn't one of Woody Allen's more inspired late-period efforts." Metacritic, which assigns a rating of 0-100 of top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 51% based on 28 reviews. Kirk Honeycutt of "The Hollywood Reporter" described it as "A serviceable Woody Allen comedy that trifles with its characters rather than engaging with them." A. O. Scott called Allen the "great champion of cosmic