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Thursday, September 14, 2006 12:00 AM

Beyond the Multiplex

A fascinating look back at the right wing's sordid attempt to deport John Lennon. Plus: Al Franken! Juliette Lewis! Orlando Bloom!
By Andrew O'Hehir

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  • Thursday, September 14, 2006 08:19 AM

    two corrections

    I've fixed two factual errors in the Lennon piece: The Emerson-Lennon meeting did not occur at the New York Times office, as I originally said. And Strom Thurmond was indeed from South Carolina, not Mississippi. (I suppose I was channeling his good buddy Trent Lott.)

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