On the Line With Ono

This weekend, So This Is Xmas, an exhibit of John Lennon’s artwork, goes on display at the Hotel InterContinental. The paintings were handpicked – and some of them hand-colored – by Yoko Ono, who I got to talk to for this Night & Day blurb about the art show.

I would have posted the interview as an MP3, but I’m afraid that Ono’s people might put a hit out on me. Just before she patched me through to Ono in Brazil, I asked Ono’s assistant – a snippy woman who reserved the right to revoke my interviewing privileges at any time – if I could stream the interview at Pitch.com. She freaked out and scolded me for not asking about that in my original interview request. (OK, I should have.) Then she kept yammering nervously as if she were afraid I might just post the audio file anyway. You never can trust those rascally reporters.