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...when videos of John Smeaton, a Glaswegian baggage handler, began appearing on the web, it was clear that the public had found its hero. Smeaton, on a cigarette break at the time of the attack, tackled one of the men who exited the fiery Jeep and helped wrestle him into police control. Smeaton's post-attack interviews with TV journalists have become wildly popular on YouTube, appreciation societies have sprung up on Facebook, and there is even a website set up by an IT project manager in Glasgow: johnsmeaton.com, which has raked in a million views and over...
...generation--my parents'." Beatlemania II might amount to little more than a geriatric palpitation for a Boomer Brigade that has no Lawrence Welk to usher them into their twilight years. What are the Beatles to the kids of the mid-'90s? Last month Anthology video director Bob Smeaton had Ringo on the editing screen as a 19-year-old watched. "I said to him, 'Who's that?'" Smeaton recalls, "and he says, 'Ah, that's Paul...
...could write a novel about what you imagined to be inside John Lennon. And then he had the rock star's karma to die violently. Now he's in the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist, and McCartney isn't. "Since John's death," says Smeaton, "Paul has faded into the background. It has become very much 'John Lennon and the Beatles.' And I think Paul wanted to put his side of the story across...
...survivors agreed to play a little new music and reminisce for the camera--a decision that could be as much a career move (there have been reports that Starr and Harrison could actually use the money) as it is a clearing of emotional sinuses. Doing the interviews, says Smeaton, "we felt we were scratching at wounds that had almost healed. But this is an exorcising. You carry this stuff for so many years, and then you think, 'Sod it, let's tell...
Wild Blue Yonder. In Milwaukee, police looked for William Ferguson, lecturer (at $1 a head) on the wonders of Mars, after he 1) tried to sell Policewoman Mary Smeaton a brain-relaxing helmet and other souvenirs he said he brought back from his trip to the planet in 1947; 2) told her she would return to her home planet Saturn after 14,000 more years; 3) rhapsodized about Martian food, which the body absorbs without the need for elimination, and Martian water, which can be swum in without getting...