Minister, Sinister, Banisters and Canisters, Bishops, Fishops, Rabbis and Pop Eyes, Bye bye, Bye byes

Watch this trailer for The U.S. vs. John Lennon. [Crossing fingers that it comes to Abilene.] An interesting excerpt from a Hollywood Reporter piece interviewing the documentary's filmmakers, David Leaf and John Scheinfeld:

"He was willing to speak to power, to stand up to power, in a way that we'd never seen a pop personality do before. It may be that his greatest work of art was his campaign for peace in terms of his post-Beatles career. He spent years and years using his fame and fortune to actually try to make the world a better place. I don't think it had ever happened before. We live in a time where everything's a reality show. John and Yoko were essentially pioneers in that, but they weren't using it to promote an album. They weren't using it to promote a movie. They weren't doing it to promote anything except peace and that's what makes them heroic artists here. And then to have the courage to stand up to the power of the United States -- the presidency, the White House, the FBI and the INS -- (shows they were) courageous artists and courageous people."