Day: May 14, 2005

Yoko Ono is plenty mad over a plan by British television network CHANNEL 4 to air a documentary featuring Mark Chapman, her late husbands killer.

JOHN LENNON’s widow YOKO ONO has attacked British television network CHANNEL 4 for planning to broadcast an interview with the late BEATLE’s crazed killer MARK CHAPMAN on the 25th anniversary of Lennon’s death.

The Japanese artist is devastated at the proposal and has warned TV bosses of the pain they will cause by airing the documentary.

Ono fumes, “I think it’s horrible of Channel 4 to do this. It shows a lack of understanding of the painful memories of what happened to John’s beautiful life.

“Myself, John’s family and so many fans will be hurt by the showing of such a programme.”

The interviews have been handed over to the network by journalist JACK JONES, who quizzed Chapman on three separate occasions for his book LET ME TAKE YOU DOWN – published in America in 1995. The title of the controversial tome is a chilling play on the first line of psychedelic BEATLES classic STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER.

But Channel 4 insist the subject will be treated with sensitivity – and claim the programme is more about investigating the psyche of a killer, than about the deceased singer.

A spokeswoman says, “It’s very much a serious documentary and will be handled accordingly,

“Neither Mark Chapman nor his family have received payment. The programme looks into Chapman’s psychology. It is about the mind of the murderer rather than about John Lennon.”

Yeah, so she broke up the Beatles. Yeah, so she can’t sing and when she does it drives dogs to commit suicide. Yeah, so she made a pansy out of her son Sean. Who cares…it’s all about JOHN anyway right? Did he ask to take a bullet from that freak Chapman? No way.

He’s dead, and that’s a drag.

Give a bonus to the public relations person who fed this story to the media, and fire the person at the editorial desk who thought this puff piece was newsworthy.

‘Mass Hysteria’ For Hillary Clinton At Commence Day Speech

“Everyone was screaming and jumping up and down. It was mass hysteria,” claims a graduate of a women’s liberal arts college in Decatur, GA, site of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s commencement day address this weekend.

With her presidential potential adding to the pomp and circumstance of commencement day, Sen. Hillary Clinton on Saturday urged graduates of Agnes Scott College to spread the cause of women’s rights and education around the world.

The ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION reports on Sunday: Clinton, a New York Democrat who has made two visits to Iraq and Afghanistan as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said she is “very proud of our country” for standing with the women of those nations. She said it is “absolutely essential to our national security and the furtherance of peace and democracy around the world” for that commitment to continue.

“You cannot have democracy if half the people are shut out,” the senator and former first lady said. “You cannot have freedom if half the people are told they are inferior. You cannot have peace when half the people can . . . decide how the other half lives.”

She said she hopes more young women will “contribute to that great struggle abroad.”

Although I don’t have $50 million dollars (and I probably never will), I can some how relate to “pulling a Flinstone”.

Dave Chappelle Found! Talks Exclusively with TIME Magazine in South Africa

“I figured, Let me just cut myself off from everybody, take a minute and pull a Flintstone-stop a speeding car by using my feet as the brakes. I am surprised at what I would do for $50 million. I am surprised at what people around me would do for me to have $50 million,” Dave Chappelle tells TIME’s Christopher John Farley in an exclusive interview.

CHAPPELLE tells TIME he’s not in mental hospital or drug rehab, debunking earlier reports in ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY and elsewhere.