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January 25, 2008

I Met the Walrus: teenager who infiltrated John Lennon’s hotel in 1969 earns an Oscar nomination for it in 2008...

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Jerry Levitan woke up this morning and learned that he was nominated for a Best Animated Short Academy Award, vindicating John Lennon for the decision not to call security when a 14-year-old Levitan snuck into the King Edward Hotel on May 26, 1969.

The five-minute animated short depicting the experience, I Met the Walrus, was produced by Levitan for $50,000 — about half of which came from Bravo!FACT, a foundation supported by revenues from the cable channel. Director and animator Josh Raskin and two illustrators in their mid-20s supplied a sepia-toned swirl of images to complement a five-minute excerpt of Levitan’s audience with Lennon.

Now, given the Oscar nod, the decision to grant time to a young teenage infiltrator who ran the gauntlet of grown-up reporters is now the most enduring part of John and Yoko’s local stopover on their notorious honeymoon “Bed-In.”


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#1 Me, That's Who... says:

Maybe that photographer that got the crap kicked out of them by Bjork will make a movie about their experience someday also.

#2 eggman says:

the Walrus was Paul

#3 Me, That's Who... says:

Good point.

"Here's another clue for you all. The Walrus was Paul."
-Glass Onion, as sung by John Lennon

#4 You're not the eggman says:

John was the Walrus. You probably thought Paul was dead too.


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