Film About John Lennon’s Murder Can’t Capture Distribution
“Chapter 27,” the controversial film starring Lindsay Lohan and Jared Leto as Mark David Chapman, the man who gunned down former Beatle John Lennon in front of his New York home in 1980, joins “Hound Dog” as a Sundance Film Festival flick that has yet to snag studio distribution willing to put the film in theaters..
“Chapter,” has reportedly ended the friendship between star Lindsay Lohan and J.L’s son Sean Lennon:
“Lindsay was my friend. I don’t want to hurt her feelings by talking about it in public, but I think it’s a bit of a tacky idea,” the younger Lennon told “The Insider.”
The film is being threatened with a boycott if it ever does reach theaters.
An online petition has more than two thousand signatures from John Lennon fans pledging not to see the film:
“It fulfills Chapman’s own prophecy of becoming famous through murdering Lennon,” the petition says.
“I think it’s nonsense,” executive producer John Flock told New York City gossip mongers Rush and Molloy of the boycott. “The people who are calling for a boycott more likely than not haven’t seen it. It’s not a sympathetic portrayal. He comes off as a monster in the end.
“And I think it was the single best individual performance at Sundance. I think he’s going to be nominated for an Academy Award.”
He also claims that distributors are “swarming.”
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On February 13th 2007, Salvador Astucia wrote:
People are beginning to question the official story, that Chapman was the murderer. Try this.
“The Astucia Report: John Lennon’s Security on the Night he was Murdered”
To listen to program, go to
http://www.jfkmontreal.com
and click “Astucia Report” in the upper left corner.
Anyone who runs a radio station is welcome to include the 90 minute
talk show in their programming.
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The Astucia Report: John Lennon’s Security on the Night he was
Murdered
Hosted by Salvador Astucia
Tue. Febuary 6, 2007:
90 minutes
Synopsis of Show:
Salvador Astucia talks, via telephone, with the communications director of Manhattan real estate management firm, Brown, Harris and Stevens, the company that managed the Dakota condominium complex where John Lennon lived and was murdered on Dec. 8, 1980. Astucia also calls and speaks with a vice-president of the Wackenhut Corporation because he suspects Lennon’s true killer, Jose Joaquin Sanjenis Perdomo, was placed by Wackenhut as a security guard (or doorman) at the Dakota. Astucia asks the following questions to officials at Brown, Harris and Stevens and Wackenhut:
- Describe the nature of any business dealings between Wackenhut and Brown, Harris and Stevens, particularly those that may have occurred in December 1980(?)
- Provide all you know about the security guard/doorman on duty at the Dakota condominium complex when John Lennon was murdered? (Dec. 8, 1980 at 10:50 pm)
- How does Wackenhut respond to the allegation (made by many people) that the firm is responsible for the murder of union activist and nuclear plant whistleblower Karen Silkwood?
- What was the nature of Wackenhut’s business relationship with the late William Casey, former CIA director during the Reagan administration?
At the close of the show, Astucia explains how he determined that Jose Joaquin Sanjenis Perdomo was Lennon’s true killer. Astucia also evokes the 1966 landmark Supreme Court decision of Miranda vs. Arizona which addressed the problem of police using coercion to extract false confessions from suspects. Astucia compares Mark David Chapman to other people who gave false confessions, like John Mark Karr, the man who recently confessed to the murder of JonBenet Ramsey, but prosecutors declined to prosecute Karr because his explanation of the crime did not match known details of the case. Astucia also cites he
case of the Central Park Jogger, where four teenage boys confessed to raping and everely beating a 28-year-old Caucasian female investment banker jogging in Manhattan’s Central Park, in 1989, only to have the true rapist confess years later. (Five boys were convicted of the crime, but only one denied any involvement.) Astucia notes the irony of the Central Park Jogger case because it was botched by the NYPD and Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, the same people who sent Chapman to prison for killing Lennon.
END