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...Life is what happens when you're off making other plans."--John "The Walrus" Lennon, singer, prophet, painter...
Cobain was at the center of it all, the John Lennon of the swinging Northwest, a songwriter with a gift for searing lyrics as well as seductive hooks, a performer with a play of facial expressions so edgy and complicated that they rivaled Jack Nicholson...
Yoko Ono mourns John Lennon in a sweet if silly musical...
...ARTIST, YOKO ONO IS BEST known for marrying well. Although she has explored at least a dozen art forms and won plaudits in several -- in 1981, for example, she shared a Grammy with John Lennon for their album Double Fantasy, and in 1989 the Whitney Museum mounted a retrospective of her conceptual art -- her creative endeavors are overshadowed by her status as Lennon's widow. Ono seems reconciled to that reality. Indeed, she embraces it in New York Rock, an off-Broadway musical about coming to terms with the death of a loved...
...scenes -- a boy dealing with the slaughter of his mother, that boy grown up into a loving musician who is shot down, another boy coping with his father's grim disappearance -- are adapted from the Lennon saga. The parallels lend sporadic power to a sketchy plot with underdrawn characters and a maudlin message: the first act climaxes in a plea for universal brotherhood, the second in a ritual surrender of weapons by a multicultural array of street toughs...