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According to Imagine producer David Wolper, camera-wielding fans and interviewers made John Lennon the most filmed personage in history. His records and interviews revealed his most personal thoughts and feelings to a public that came to think it was on a first-name basis with him. How, then, do you make a documentary on a man's life whose most obscure details are universally known, especially when you have thousands of hours of footage from which to choose...
...gallery the Nautilus center of the soul. But in Movieland, the heat of egotism creates a desire for equal screen credit. Where else would a museum herald a show of Picasso sculptures, as LACMA did a couple of years ago, with a crimson banner on its facade: THE WOLPER PICASSOS, as though the schlockmeister of the Statue of Liberty had helped make them by buying them...
Fervor--the very word is anathema to mainstream politicians. But, yes, Americans dig it. Pat Robertson knows that because his job is to get the holy to roll in the aisles. Tommy Walker and David Wolper know that, and all they did was create a gigantic celebration honoring an iron lady...
...closing gala that night, Wolper will stage a kind of macro-Ed Sullivan show. The production calls for a 20-tier stage, waterfalls, lasers and a cast of 12,000, not counting the thousands in the audience who will participate in a flashlight stunt. Performers include the Statue of Liberty All-American Marching Band, a 476-member consortium from 92 colleges and universities that will have 40 sousaphones and 76 trombones; 300 banjo and fiddle players; an 800-voice chorus; a 250-voice gospel choir; an 850-member drill team; 300 jazzercize dancers; 200 square dancers and 300 tap dancers...
...Wolper insists that "not one cent" of the statue's restoration funds is paying for Liberty Weekend. "All of the costs are being covered by the sale of television rights and tickets," he says. But many of the tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies are unsold. Of the total of 58,000 tickets, 9,000 remain, most of them in the $100 and $200 category. ABC, however, is not worried; the network bought the broadcast rights for $10 million, and has already sold $30 million worth of commercials...