"Don Scardino" is an American television director and television producer/producer and a former actor.

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People hated him for leaving the Beatles or for falling in love with Yoko ... they wanted him to be a Beatle and he fought that all his life.

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Edgar asked me, 'Do you know anything about John Lennon,' ... I said, 'I know everything about John Lennon.' And he told me, 'If you can come up with a concept, you can come to the meeting.' So I had three days to think of something, and my starting point was, what would I, as a die-hard John Lennon fan, want to see?

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It's tough; John Lennon is a huge icon now ... everybody has their own expectation of how to present the story of John Lennon.

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