Dylan seemed to be in on the joke, posting an old black and white clip of himself saying “Good God, I must leave right away.”

Uecker turned his meager baseball career into humorous fodder covering games on TV and as a commercial pitchman.

A.J. Weberman sifted through the prophetic singer’s trash in search of meaning. He turned on him as a sellout and has spent decades trying to reclaim him for the counterculture.

The singer-songwriter was never only a creature of music. Our critic watched every film with him that she could find to better understand the artist.