Too bad this "One Laptop Per Child" ad came out after our article about dead guy pimpage. And although it's for a good cause, we're sure it's a cold comfort to Yoko Ono that her and her husband's vision of peace is now being used to give children in need laptops. Oh wait, she's the one who okay'd the commercial. Carry on then.
Lennon may be dead and buried, but that doesn't mean Sir Paul McCartney can't tie up his galoshes and start stomping around on the memory of his former band mate. His current petty "clarification" involved telling reporters how he was actually the Beatle who told everyone about Vietnam being sucky. That poncer John would have been singing "I wanna hold your hand" forever if it hadn't been for him!
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Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono have had their squabbles in the past, but the musical legends are in agreement about one thing: author Philip Norman's gone too far.
Norman's new book, John Lennon: The Life, claims Lennon wanted to have sex with both his own mother and McCartney. And Ono and McCartney are pissed:
As we first reported six days ago, Yoko Ono (of "I broke up the Beatles" fame) has accused her former chauffeur, Karol Karson, of blackmailing her with private tapes and pictures, and yesterday Ono officially indicted Karson on charges of attempted extortion.
Far from admitting to any wrongdoing, however, Karson fired back through his attorney, pleading not guilty and countering that Ono, "abused him," and "pressured him to do immoral and illegal acts." Karson's lawyer went on to assert that the "people's case" rests on Yoko Ono's credibility, then proceeded to undermine said credibility by painting the Beatle-wrecker as a "paranoid" nut-job of a boss who insisted on being "tucked into bed at night."
Though Ono's publicist was unavailable for comment, the always available to blabber Judith Regan added, "Paranoid nut-job of a boss?' Huh, I thought I'd trademarked that."
Trying to blackmail Yoko Ono? That's a Yoko NoNo. The Beatles breaker-upper went to police after her driver Koral Karson allegedly tried to use "highly embarrassing" tapes of her to extort $2 million. If she paid up, the tapes would disappear, or so the story goes. We had nearly forgotten Yoko shares Elliot Mintz, Paris Hilton's publicist, who's been handling the media frenzy. Though in the end, we're still quite mystified by what "highly embarrassing" actually constitutes. Are we talking "CNN anchor Kyra Phillips mic remaining on in the bathroom" levels of shame, or is this more of a "rapper Eve getting ramrodded with a dildo" point of chagrin?
