LENNON'S SISTER "BORROWS" IDEAS FOR BOOK & FILM FROM BEATLES AUTHOR GIULIANO

Nowhere Boy, the biopic about Lennon's childhood that's being directed by artist Sam Taylor-Wood, may be shelved because a Lennon biographer says material from one of his books is being used without his permission.Geoffrey Giuliano says Lennon's half-sister, Julia Baird, took material from the John Lennon, My Brother biography she wrote with Giuliano in 1989 and used it in another memoir titled Imagine This: Growing Up With My Brother John Lennon, according to the Click Liverpool website.

Giuliano says Baird did this without his permission, but he decided not to take legal action then. Nowhere Boy apparently draws "heavily" from Imagine This, and Giuliano now says he wants to sue. "Everything that was additional information in Imagine This was uncovered by me in my original research for John Lennon, My Brother," he says, according to the website. "I was restricted by Julia from including a lot of very interesting information that I learned in the course of my research, including the relationship between Mimi and Julia Lennon, and the fight over where John would live, because Mimi and other older members of the family were still alive at the time."But all that 'new' material was my research, part of the work that Julia Baird and I were 50/50 partners in."There’s only one reason she did it, and that's to screw me out of my share."