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Fri Nov 14, 2025, 07:41 PM Friday

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, 1972—his first and last full-scale concert appearances after the breakup of the Beatles—“One 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 Lennon’s deportation—ostensibly 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, Elephant’s 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 it’s all lovely in its way. Lennon’s music and political activism would have been the focus of most other filmmakers who’d 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 Lennon’s 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 doesn’t fear political assassination. Lennon responds that he’s a “revolutionary artist.” Eight years later, he’d be shot by a lunatic carrying “The Catcher in the Rye.”

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/television/one-to-one-john-and-yoko-review-a-couple-and-a-culture-e3231412?st=Bqj4KX&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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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.



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Preceding Bill Maher on HBO there will be a program "One to One John and Yoko" (Original Post) question everything Friday OP
Will definitely record. Watch Maher most weeks, cringes, laughs, and all. Usually learn something too. Silent Type Friday #1

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1. Will definitely record. Watch Maher most weeks, cringes, laughs, and all. Usually learn something too.
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 08:35 PM
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