Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brown--Chapman 1 3-3 5; Erickson 5 0-0 10; McCarthy 8 4-4 20; Samson 5 0-0 10; Stanley 3 0-0 6; James 4 0-0 8; Total...
Still, after all is said about the brilliance of the performances and the direction and Michael Chapman's cinematography, one can only be left with the gravest reservations about Scorsese's purpose. Raging Bull is not a movie about people, it is a movie about beasts. This conception of man, too obsessive to allow any alternative notion or any modification, would seem to be as limited at one extreme as Rocky was at the other. Now, it's perfectly all right to believe that we are nothing but animals; but if you really believe it, go live in a barn...
...Chapman flew to the mainland in November and spent two days in Atlanta before returning to Honolulu. Earlier this month he came back to Manhattan with at least 2,000 borrowed dollars for his fateful rendezvous outside the Dakota...
Psychiatrists believe that the best clue to what went wrong in Chapman's head is his signing of Lennon's name in the logbook last October. That act, they say, may indicate that he was losing what little remained of an obviously fragile sense of identity. "He had a superidentification with Lennon, but he was also in competition with him," says Manhattan Psychiatrist David Abrahamsen, who examined David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer. "His murder of Lennon was a substitution for his own suicide...
...sure, the parallels that Chapman established between his own life and Lennon's were startling: both loved music as adolescents, both were in rock groups, both loved children, both were devoted to helping others, and both married Asian women who were older than themselves (Lennon's wife by seven years, Chapman's by four). "There's very strong evidence that Chapman very much wanted to be Lennon," says Stuart Berger, a New York forensic psychiatrist. "He slowly became delusional and incorporated Lennon into his sense of self. The only obstacle that stood...