Word: yoko
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ROLLING STONE: THE PHOTOGRAPHS (Simon & Schuster; $50). Nixon's helicopter lifting off after his final farewell, John curling up naked against Yoko, Brando posing in a wheatfield in bonnet and dress. If these photos touch a nostalgic nerve, you'll also love the 147 others, culled from 22 years of Rolling Stone, where celebrity photojournalism and portraiture mix with fascinating results...
...Ostin, chairman of Warner Bros. Records: "David is still incredibly tough and ambitious, but he softened considerably after the cancer scare. He's far more concerned about people than in his previous incarnation." Before long, Geffen signed up the likes of Elton John, Peter Gabriel and John Lennon and Yoko Ono. He branched into theatrical ventures, co-producing Cats, which still reaps $6 million a year in profits for Geffen. He scored with two other hit musicals: Little Shop of Horrors and Dreamgirls. Geffen's movie division produced the successful After Hours, directed by Martin Scorsese, and Risky Business, which...
Sadly, the answers Imagine offers are not satisfying. Considering that Yoko Ono not only gave Wolper and director Andrew Solt access to countless hours of previously unseen footage but also gave them creative control over the final product, Imagine could well have been the definitive film about John. Unfortunately much of the footage is ill-chosen, and at an hour and a half, the film is much too short. Still, while Imagine fails as a comprehensive biography, it may help neophytes understand Lennon's appeal, and fans may find Imagine a poignant and occasionally amusing exercise in nostalgia...
...problem with evidence suggests why Goldman wrote The Lives, rather than The Life, in his title. The complications do not end here. Those eyewitnesses to facets of Lennon's life who cooperated with Goldman tend to be granted credibility and gentle treatment; those who refused to talk, most notably Yoko, are in for some rough handling. And another, major obstacle faced the Lennon biographer-to-be: John's story from his birth up to the dissolution of the Beatles, toward the end of 1969, has been endlessly researched, told and repeated. Hence roughly half of Goldman's immense book deals...
...still does, of course; nothing can change the harsh reality of Lennon's death. But Albert Goldman's controversial new biography offers unsettling evidence of how thoroughly John and Yoko distorted the messy details of their lives for public consumption. Apparently the mythmaking machinery was working overtime during the fall of 1980. For one thing, the much heralded marriage was on the rocks and headed for worse. Yoko told a confidant of her plans to divorce her husband after the work on Double Fantasy was completed: "I need to free myself of the Lennon name." Her tender contributions to that...