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...quote in context goes as follows: "Lennon: I've heard a few people say it's an amazing work. Mailer: Well, it's amazing. I mean, chapter by chapter, there's extraordinary stuff in it. The question is whether it will hold up." (Italics mine...
Most of the 48 songs are versions of American rockers or renditions of early Beatles smashes performed in styles that never stray far from the records. There is, however, a Beatles version of an obscure Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas single, a Lennon-McCartney composition titled I'll Be on My Way. It is the sweetest surprise of the package. With a chorus that sounds as simple and sentimental as a child's school rhyme ("As the June light/ Turns to moonlight/ I'll be on my way"), the song shows the Beatles at their most...
...brandy, as did De Niro's character. "I don't know what's gonna happen this year," Hinckley said on the tape. "It's just gonna be insanity if I even make it through the first few days." After lamenting the murder of Beatle John Lennon earlier that December, Hinckley continued: "Jodie is the only thing that matters now. Anything that I might do in 1981 would be solely for Jodie Foster's sake, and I mean that sincerely. I want to make some kind of statement or something on her behalf. Just tell...
...prove more of a boon to the prosecution or the defense. Among the items agents found were a black plastic toy pistol and a Band-Aid box with a note inside reading "This plane has been hijacked!" There were also magazine and newspaper clips on the deaths of John Lennon and Elvis Presley and the shooting of former Alabama Governor George Wallace. Among Hinckley's books was The Fan, the story of a deranged youth who stalks an actress. Inside was an unmailed postcard with portraits of Ronald and Nancy Reagan on one side. On the reverse...
...college, went to Hollywood seeking instant success as a songwriter, created a mythical group called the American Front Organization. He became obsessed with the film Taxi Driver, the story of a loner who stalks a presidential candidate; Foster was featured as a child prostitute. After the murder of Lennon, Hinckley visited the Dakota apartment building in New York City and stood with a pistol in his pocket in the place where the former Beatle was killed...