Word: lennons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frank Trippett points his Freudian finger at 15 world figures, ranging from Lee lacocca to John Lennon, and implies they could all self-destruct because of a "pathetic private weakness." Instead of self-destructing, they have made successful contributions to our world. Self-confidence helped them...
...Lennon 's killer pleads guilty...
...film intended to capitalize on the terrible events of recent months, in which sickened anonymity has struck out at the famous. Indeed, the distributors cannily evoke those tragedies by noting in the credits that The Fan is based on a 1977 novel and had finished production before the John Lennon murder -association by dissociation, as it were. But movies should not be judged on the manner of their promotion, and if this picture is not exactly high art, it is a well-made, quite intelligent piece of popular entertainment, containing a sensibly moral examination of how obsession with a celebrity...
...ideal probably had begun to fade when Norman Mailer published a hodgepodge of fiction and autobiography under the title Advertisements for Myself. In any case, windy self-advertisement became more and more popular in the years that followed. Said John Lennon at the peak of the Beatles' popularity: "We're more popular than Jesus Christ now." Said Heavyweight Boxer Muhammad Ali, in a typical flight: "It ain't no accident that I'm the greatest man in the world at this time in history." The same period at last produced an intellectual model for publicly saluting...
While more than 1000 people gathered for a candlelight vigil at the Boston Common, fans scrawled "Lennon Lives" on several Cambridge buildings and Harvard Square merchants set up makeshift shrines in their front windows to eulogize Lennon, who was shot and killed in front of his New York City apartment building on December...