Legend to Get Fan Mail From Grave

Posted on Sep 13th 2007 7:00AM by David Sprague
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While we've never been prone to writing fan letters to celebrities who're still walking on this mortal coil, we can understand why some folks might choose to do so -- after all, there's always an off-chance that Courtney Love might send a half-smoked Pall Mall daubed with MAC Russian Red lipstick. But as far as communing with stars who've long since moved on to another plane of existence? We'd think it prudent to save our postage -- but , not surprisingly, Yoko Ono looks at things a little differently, and has decided that the city of Reykjavik, Iceland needs a special mailbox just to hold missives sent to her late husband, John Lennon.

The letter depository is actually part of a larger conceptual art project -- as far as we're concerned, so is everything else in life, but we digress -- centered around the Imagine Peace Tower, a 30-meter high structure to be stuffed with messages of peace and well wishes sent along by Lennon devotees. About the only thing missing from the project is a talking train to shuttle said followers back and forth -- which strikes us as a job for 'Shining Time Station' conductor Ringo Starr.

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