This just in! Swaggering
$3 million man and
new Yoko Ono lawsuit target Ben Stein responds to his latest nemesis
via press release: "So
Yoko Ono is suing over the brief Constitutionally protected use of a song that wants us to 'Imagine no possessions'? Maybe instead of wasting everyone's time trying to silence a documentary she should give the song to the world for free? After all, 'imagine all the people sharing all the world...You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the World can live as one.'" No doubt a fitting rejoinder from a man who once
provided legal counsel to Richard Nixon. Good luck, Ben! [
Movie City Indie]
tell it to the judge
As one might have expected following the
opening-weekend success of his anti-Darwinism documentary
Expelled: No Intelligence Required, everybody in town wants a piece of
Ben Stein. Among them:
Yoko Ono, a
huuuuuge Stein fan from back in his Nixon speechwriting days who nevertheless bristled at the part of the film that featured "Imagine"
without the John Lennon estate's permission:
In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan, Ono accuses the producers of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed of suggesting to viewers that those who guard John Lennon's legacy somehow authorized or sponsored the film.
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