Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 01:42:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Judith Frederika Rodenbeck <jfr10-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: bootleg of suppressed movie
To: avant-garde-AT-world.std.com


Film by Tod Haynes and Cynthia Schneider, who is a lawyer now and lives 
on 4th street. I've never seen it, but I'm sure if you asked Ahwesh & co 
you'd find a copy. Isn't it the case that these kinds of suppressions 
relate to commercial screenings, not private ones?

-fido

On Fri, 7 Oct 1994, Gordon Fitch wrote:

> 
> I received the following message in my email recently.
> 
> | I wish I had seen _Superstar_, the Karen Carpenter
> | biographical movie done with Barbie doll (but not a joke --
> | one review said, in essence, "When you're watching a bunch
> | of Barbie dolls on screen and you're sitting there with
> | tears running down your face, you know you've really seen
> | something."), before Richard Carpenter had it legally
> | surpressed.  That was the first film by the filmmaker
> | whose second film _Poison_, a reworking of some Genet plays,
> | got the right-wing fundies all a-twitter a couple years ago.
> 
> Obviously it is urgently necessary for me to find this movie,
> and I am sure, if it was in circulation for a year or two,
> there are bootleg videos of it around.  Does anyone know
> know of one?  
> 
> 
> ><  Gordon Fitch  ><  gcf-AT-panix.com  ><
>