Forty years ago today John Lennon was assassinated. He was my favorite Beatle.
I remember reading that there was going to be a (made-for-TV?) movie about John Lennon and his assassination. They had to fire the original actor playing John Lennon because he had the same name as his assassin!
At least, that's what I remember.
i remembered it as the main character in Great American Hero sitcom having the same name as the assassin
The actor was Mark Lindsay, and he was under serious consideration until it was discovered that his birth name was Mark Lindsay Chapman. Yoko said the casting would be bad karma, so he lost out on the movie, JOHN AND YOKO: A LOVE STORY.
And, of course, we all have a copy of the blu-Ray of that TV movie!