I find this gossip article sort of interesting. Yoko way overreacted at the photographer. I understand seeing her out having lunch with a man 2 months after her husband was killed might look a little odd to some, but even widows are allowed to have lunch and laugh. It was the day before her birthday. All she had to say to the photographer was that she was having a birthday lunch with a friend and that she is handling grief the best she could. I think her actions made things look worse than if she just played it as a friendly lunch. Did she really expect to be out at the Tavern on the Green and NOT be seen?
Pictures Storm for Yoko and Her Mr. X
By Paul Connew
Daily Record
February 17, 1981
Yoko Ono was not amused when she was photographed with this mystery man yesterday. John Lennon's widow, normally ice-cool, blew her top and rushed 20 yards down the road at New York Central Park, demanding, "Give me your film. You've got no right to take my picture. People will get the wrong impression."
The row flared after Yoko and the dark-haired mystery man had laughed and chatted over a leisurely lunch at the fashionable Tavern on the Green in Central Park, not far from the Dakota apartment building, where Yoko lives and where her husband was killed by a crazed assassin's gun.
The handsome Mr. X rushed to Yoko's aid as she tried to grab freelance photographer Ted Leyson, 32. A crowd of astonished passersby gathered as Yoko demanded the film. Leyson, a Chinese-Hawaiian, refused. Later, Leyson said, "I've never been more scared in my life!"
Meanwhile, the great Beatles reunion mystery deepened still further. Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney got together in a recording studio on the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat, but widespread reports that George Harrison will soon fly out to join them to record a Lennon Memorial album were being denied last night.
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