Ah, the good old days — when people who hijacked planes were romantic heroes fighting the evils of colonialism! John Grimonprez’ “DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y” is a documentary of the revolutionary impulse and how television covered it in the ’60s and ’70s. Check out the trailer — the last segment is priceless.

From the same company: I’ve been meaning for years to track down a copy of The Rainbow Man/John 3:16, the doc about Rollen Stewart, the guy who used to wear a rainbow wig and hold up those “John 3:16” signs at football games in the ’80s. He didn’t turn out well. Trailer here.

Actually, if you’ve got the bandwidth, check out all the DVDs from Other Cinema. They’re great — I love this one.

30 June 2004



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30 June | 10:57  |  tom

If you can track it down, ESPN did a feature story about him a few months ago. Interesting story, and very sad that he did not accept the deal the court offered him.

26 November | 9:34  |  George Winter

I've known Rollen Stewart, the Rainbow Man, "John 3:16" since 1980. I reconnected with him last year. Check out my blog on him at
http://therainbowman.blogspot.com/

He wants to start up his banner campaign at sporting events.

George Winter



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