Preceding Bill Maher on HBO there will be a program "One to One John and Yoko"
Although built around two performances Lennon gave at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 30, 1972his first and last full-scale concert appearances after the breakup of the BeatlesOne to One is much more a movie about a cultural moment. In the early 70s, Lennon and wife Yoko Ono were living in Greenwich Village (their Bank Street apartment was recreated for the film), becoming New Yorkers and fighting Lennons deportationostensibly for a pot bust in England, but more about politics. They were also, we are told, watching a lot of TV.
The concerts feature the Plastic Ono Band, Elephants Memory, Allen Ginsberg and Phil Spector; the shows were performed on behalf of the Willowbrook State School for disabled children, which had been the subject of a recent exposé by Geraldo Rivera.
But the rest of the documentary is a flip-book of 70s televised pop-cultural ephemera: car ads; Billy Graham; Vietnam battles; Mary Tyler Moore; the Attica prison revolt; Tupperware; the bank robbery that inspired Dog Day Afternoon; George Wallace; Umbertos Clam House, cordoned off with police tape after the murder of mobster Joey Gallo. And, again, Nixon.
It may sound funny, but its all lovely in its way. Lennons music and political activism would have been the focus of most other filmmakers whod gotten their hands on the One to One concert footage. But Mr. Macdonald (Marley, Whitney and the Oscar-winning One Day in September) brings in the wider world and by doing so creates a rather tender portrait of Lennons political naiveté coupled with his impulse to, some way, somehow, better the world. Among the several phone conversations Mr. Macdonald includes, heard behind a blacked-out screen, is one between the great drummer Jim Keltner and Lennon. Basically, Mr. Keltner asks if Lennon doesnt fear political assassination. Lennon responds that hes a revolutionary artist. Eight years later, hed be shot by a lunatic carrying The Catcher in the Rye.
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As for Bill Maher, Rhiannon12866, again provides the info
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220804158
The real one. Not the pathetic imitation that lists Caligula, Hitler and Stalin as the guests and DUers swallow this.