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...Brave by the 51st Highland Brigade. That was the wake-up song beamed up by NASA on the morning the ship was supposed to return to earth. The day before it had been Shalom Lach Eretz Nehederet, for Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon. Thursday morning it had been John Lennon's Imagine. Scotland the Brave was for mission specialist Laurel Clark, Scottish by extraction...
...lined up across the stage, protected by nothing but smiles and goose pimples. "It was a staggeringly inventive piece of theater at the time," says one of its twelve writers, Director Robert Benton (Places in the Heart). "It was truly shocking and erotic." (Some of the other writers: John Lennon, Sam Shepard and Jules Feiffer...
...month ago, it was announced that Mark Lindsay would play John Lennon in Imagine: The Story of John and Yoko, a three-hour NBC-TV movie. Then it turned out that his real name was Mark Chapman, the same as that of the late singer's assassin, and out went Chapman. Now new auditions have turned up Mark McGann, 24, who portrayed the Beatle in the 1981 Liverpool production of the stage musical Lennon. "I wept when I got the role," says McGann. "I grew up in Liverpool just a few miles from where he was born. It's almost...
...have great opportunity to forge and change the future,” she said, urging students to remember the works and dreams of leading humanitarians in our history like Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lennon. She reminded her audience that, in spite of their passings, the dreams of these influential figures have not been forgotten...
...into his familiar role - the hugely effective Chancellor and loyal soldier who marches along while Blair leads the parade. The Blair-Brown relationship would be fascinating even if there weren't so much at stake; the Irish rock star Bono wryly compares their creative tensions to those of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. According to one version of their history, Brown's patience was first tested back in 1994 after the unexpected death of Labour leader John Smith. Brown and Blair, rising stars on the modernizing wing of the party, recognized that they risked splitting that vote and ushering...