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I think I saw that movie a long time ago. I think I rented it from Blockbuster one night, but I don't remember it very well. Regardless, he was definitely hounded by the U.S. govt. from what I remember.
Are there any larger issues that you can see, as far as what it may say about us as a culture, as a race?
Well, I don't think I quite understand this question.
But I was at work (graveyard shift) when I learned of his death. I was quite shocked. Shocked, angry, very sad. I thought Lennon was one of the most superb songwriters of our time. (I also preferred his singing over Paul's.) I admired his guts to stand by Yoko (in spite of some mighty poor business decisions), raise fine well-adjusted sons, and still be happily married when his life ended so soon.
His "Imagine" album is still a masterpiece, and I love "Double Fantasy", which so embodies the love in his life.
When I went to NYC last year I made sure to see the Dakota Apts where he lived, then cross over to Central Park to enjoy the Strawberry Fields Memorial.
John contributed so much to the music world. He died at the hands of a mad man, plain and simple. Can't say that it necessarily says anything for the rest of us. Mark David Chapman robbed the world of more great music to come and I hope he rots in Hell for it.
I lived in the same neighborhood as Lennon, around the corner and a couple of blocks up the street. In the decades I had lived there the Upper West Side had gone from having a vast, rundown, dangerous Latino neighborhood to being a Yuppie paradise. People at work used to be shocked that I lived in "such a dangerous place." It seemed incredibly ironic that it was at this point of Yuppification there was slaughter in the street. My first thought was, "My god, a fourth one!" (The other ones being the two Kennedys and ML King, of course.) I could not imagine what the U.S. had turned into when public figures of all sorts could be butchered at will.
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John Lennon (aka Dr. Winston O'Boogie)
