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Bloody hell! My tape recorder is losing power in the middle of an interview with John Lydon. Surprisingly, Lydon volunteers to help out. "Does anyone have some double-A batteries for a rather large vibrator?" he bellows to startled young assistants and executives down the hall. Adding to the embarrassment, we're doing the interview at the offices of the kiddie cable channel Nickelodeon...
...Johnny Rotten is alive and well. The aging lead screecher of U.K. punk pioneers the Sex Pistols, Lydon still uses his old stage name and hasn't lost his sarcastic sneer--even if his spiky orange hair and Day-Glo togs make him look more like a Rugrat these days than a rebel. Lydon is ensconced in Nickelodeon's editing room finishing the second episode of Rotten Television, his new series for Nick's sister channel, VH1. A free-form zeitgeist diatribe, it has no script, a shoestring budget and zero structure. "What's the fun in having a format...
Brace yourself for a Rotten renaissance. "The past couple of years I just sat back and did nothing," says Lydon, 43. "I was building up my reserves." Last seen in 1996 on a money-grubbing Sex Pistols "reunion" tour, he is now host of a four-hour weekly webcast on eYada.com occasionally pops up on ABC's Politically Incorrect, and backed The Filth and the Fury, a documentary that aims to tell the definitive Pistols story...
...false premise is a road to ruin. My mission is to correct people when they perceive things wrongly," snarls Lydon, hoping the film finally clarifies the group's twin-barreled assault on the music industry and Britain's class system. (Ironically, at test screenings, some teens thought it was fiction.) In Filth's strangest, most poignant moment, he breaks down crying while discussing Sid Vicious, the bandmate he lost to heroin. "I care about anyone dying a stupid death," he says, though he fought to snip his sobbing from the final cut. Says director Julien Temple: "I argued that this...
...National Book Foundation and the Boston Public Library Present: A Conversation with National Book Award finalist Cynthia Ozick, author of The Puttermesser Papers, with Christopher Lydon, host of "The Connection." Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library, Copley Square. 536-5400. 6 p.m. FREE...