Some Really Bad Karma Going Down at Berwick Academy

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<p>Yoko blocks premiere of film on Lennon</p>

<p>SOUTH BERWICK, Maine - The world premiere of “Three Days in the Life,” a documentary about John Lennon, was canceled after lawyers for the slain Beatle’s widow, Yoko Ono, warned that she had not authorized any public viewing of the film.</p>

<p>The documentary was to have been screened Tuesday night at the Berwick Academy, a private school in southern Maine.</p>

<p>Hap Ridgway, the school’s headmaster, said he went from worrying about an overflow crowd to wondering if the documentary will ever be shown at all following a flurry of calls and e-mails from Ono’s lawyers Monday evening.</p>

<p>“We certainly hope the two sides will get together,” he said Tuesday. “What we’ve learned since it all broke loose is that it’s a long-running dispute.”</p>

<p>Ray Thomas, the documentary’s executive producer, culled raw footage that was shot inside Lennon’s apartment down to a two-hour film covering a pivotal time in Lennon’s career. The footage was shot by Ono’s former husband, Tony Cox, over a three-day period in February 1970, two months before the breakup of the Beatles.</p>

<p>Thomas and his partner, John Fallon, were unable to get an artist release from Ono, whose lawyers contend has a copyright interest in the film. That’s why they chose to do free screenings at high schools and colleges, starting with Berwick Academy.</p>

<p>But Ono’s lawyers said even that was forbidden, which led Berwick Academy to scrap the screening.</p>

<p>Cox’s unfinished documentary was sold in 2000 for $1 million to Fallon, Thomas and Providence businessman Bob Grenier.</p>

<p>Among other things, Lennon is seen composing songs, touring his 100-acre estate and rehearsing for a BBC show in which he performed “Instant Karma” for the first time publicly.</p>

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<p>Imagine…if Yoko wasn’t so controlling…</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEOkxRLzBf0[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEOkxRLzBf0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Here’s some Instant Karma for you:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3URLhMam-o[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3URLhMam-o&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;