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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...
...received the word from God, he said, and even repeated arguments from his defense lawyers could not dissuade him. So Mark David Chapman, 26, pleaded guilty in a Manhattan courtroom last week to the Dec. 8 murder of John Lennon. When Assistant District Attorney Allen Sullivan asked the defendant why he had used especially destructive hollow-point bullets in the shooting, Chapman laconically replied, "To ensure Lennon's death...
After the hearing, Sullivan revealed that Chapman had a "hit list" of other celebrities he had considered killing if he could not get to Lennon. The list reportedly included Johnny Carson and Jacqueline Onassis. "He did not intend to kill all of them," said Defense Attorney Jonathan Marks. "In the event he could not find A, he would kill B. He just intended to kill somebody...
...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...