Letters to the Editor
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Men with three names
As much as crime fiction (fails) to titillate me, I try to leave other's entertainments up to others. But assassins and terrorists, demented or not, I think should be dealt with carefully.
Here's what I like to do. I erase their names. Talk about the events if we must to try to understand what happened, but to me the man who shot John is nameless. I think he had three of them though.
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Jared Leto as Mark David Chapman
I do not even know him, but Jared Leto spoke beautifully about this movie and his role in it. On the issue of MDC, I am one of those uber-sensitive Lennon fans, but Leto and the interviewer explains it so that I am in complete union with them on exploring this subject in the way the movie does.
I also particularly agree with his collective consciousness vent. Yes.
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No Lennon fan likes --
any of this.
But perhaps the most central distortion, projection, in the inexpliable madness of the whole of it was that Chapman was a phony -- pretending to be Holden Caulfield (trying to be anyone but himself) -- who murdered Lennon because Lennon was (allegedly) a phony.
One feels dirty, sordid, as disgusting as Chapmen clearly felt about himself, in even knowing about any of this. Millions of us miss John -- what otherwise would have been during the last twenty-eight (28) years?
Is it really 28 years since?
And all we "get" from those 28 years is not songs from John, but only Chapman as a sort of dirty epilogue to the unfinished.
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One, Two, Three
Haven't seen it but it needs a quick re-edit. If at end of movie, Lindsay Lohan could be told Lennon did not get proper Christian burial, she could say, "then he's going to hell." This, and exiting with title crawl to "Instant Karma" would be like punch in the gut for audience.
A fix would require a Kubrick-style redo about "The Ballad of John and Yoko" protracted deportation struggle and the hit sprung out of "YMCA" by a Bible beating rump thumper at the dawn of the city on the hill of the Reagan Era. Telling the story true would just angry up audiences. No theatre would show "Chapter and Verse: The Story Of Mark." I'm still waiting for "The Life of Brian" to turn up on my TIVO.
Be he in heaven or be he in hell;
Air Force has to tell a story to sell;
Tho Curtis LeMay may not have been God;
John Lennon's killer was certainly odd.
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Why Was The Interview Cut?
It stops abruptly right in the middle of an interesting question. What's up with that?