Seems Uncle Sam Used Maxwell’S Silver Hammer

Call it paranoia. Call it political awareness. Call it whatever you want. Sean Lennon believes that his father, the late John Lennon, was assassinated by the U.S. government.

“He was a countercultural revolutionary, and the government takes that kind of (stuff) really seriously historically,” Lennon, 22, told The New Yorker.

The elder Lennon was shot to death in December 1980. Mark David Chapman admitted to the crime.

But Lennon’s younger son (by Yoko Ono) said that anyone who thinks Chapman was “just some crazy guy who killed my dad for his personal interests is insane, I think, or very naive, or hasn’t thought about it clearly.” His point: “These pacifist revolutionaries are historically killed by the government.”

Loose talk

Boy George on fellow singer George Michael following Michael’s arrest for allegedly performing a “lewd act” in a Beverly Hills, Calif., public restroom (in the London Express): “I wish him strength at this time, because when push comes to shove, we are sisters under the skin.”

He’s the one who looks like Matthew Broderick

Jon Cryer turns 33 today.

Seems she mistook them for Mick, Keith and those boys

Margaret Trudeau Kemper, ex-wife of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, is being treated in the psych ward of St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver for an alleged obsession with Princes William and Harry. Seems the 49-year-old Canadian political legend became despondent when she wasn’t allowed near the boys.

Too bad Tiny Tim isn’t still around

Among those scheduled to lead Chicago Cub crowds in seventh-inning sing-alongs of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” are such diverse celebrities as Eddie Vedder (of Pearl Jam), Jay Leno, Roger Ebert, Dennis Franz, Chris O’Donnell, Lou Rawls, and Caray’s widow, Dutchie Caray.

Dear Ginger: Thanks for oversharing

This just in: in their forthcoming biography, “Real Life: The Official Story by the Spice Girls,” Ginger Spice reveals that she “caught nits once and had to have all my hair cut off.” More later

And wasn’t Kim Basinger’s character a, er, prostitute?

Novelist James Ellroy (“L.A. Confidential”) doesn’t create the usual noir-type female characters. “I dislike that misogynistic trapping of noir literature and noir film,” he told US magazine. “Who has perpetrated most of the violence in 20th-century America?” he said. “I’ll give you a clue: It ain’t women.”

But whom is she dating? Inquiring minds want to know

It’s just beginning for her, but Calista Flockhart (“Ally McBeal”) is already tired of the gossip trade. “Gossip has been around since the beginning of time,” she told US magazine. “It kind of gives people a common ground. So there must be some value in it, right? But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities’ lives.”