Word: lennon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Joffe would also have been better off to let the movie speak for itself, rather than imposing a sappily obvious soundtrack. As Pran escapes through a Cambodian countryside literally littered with bodies, the gloomy music almost turns the horror into self-parody. Puccinni and John Lennon do not belong in the same movie, ever...
...than one half of one percent [of those arrested] avoided the criminal justice system for mental health reasons ... less than 2 percent of this tiny portion successfully plead insanity." None of those who assassinated, or attempted to assassinate, Robert F. Kennedy '48, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lennon, President Gerald Ford or George Wallace, were acquitted by reason of insanity. John Hinckley was the highly publicized exception to a little used rule...
...Regards to Broad Street, a musical rock-fantasy feature film that he wrote and produced. But while it's getting better all the time for McCartney, the singer is still irked that he does not own the copyrights to most of the tunes he wrote with John Lennon, including some of those in the movie, due to a complicated legal battle they lost 15 years ago. McCartney is currently bidding to buy them back, though hardly for a song. Starting price: $30 million...
...originally intended as a gift for his wife's 50th birthday, but John Lennon never got to begin work on a collection of Yoko Ono songs recorded by other artists. The idea, however, lived on, and with a little help from her friends, Ono, 51, finally finished the album. Every Man Has a Woman features twelve songs performed by such divergent talents as Harry Nilsson, Elvis Costello, Eddie Money, Rosanne Cash, Roberta Flack and a young lad more or less new to the business, Sean Ono Lennon, 8, who sings It's Alright. Next Tuesday the musicians will...
Gaye's sudden death is perhaps most disturbing seen against the sudden rebirth of his career. Like John Lennon, Gaye seemed to be beginning a third decade of musical influence. He translated "Let's Get it On" into "Sexual Healing," with the eighties touch apparent in the lyric, "Whenever blue teardrops are falling and my emotional stability is leaving me/There is someting I can do. I can get on the telephone and call you up baby." He added the strength of his new religion in the song "My Love is Waiting," and a sense of Third World struggles in "Third...