Romero
Her royal court joker
I have just watched a very interesting documentary about something that indeed is crazy. It's one love story that is stranger than fiction.
I'm kind of speechless so I'll let reviews do the talk.
Quoting NY Times:
Tragedy, Too, Is in the Eye of the Beholder
Love is blind, and so too is Linda Pugach, one of the loony-tuners in the somewhat sickening, mildly gonzo documentary “Crazy Love.” In 1959, when she was 22, and known as Linda Riss, Mrs. Pugach opened the door of her Bronx apartment to a thug who claimed to have an engagement present for her and instead threw liquid lye in her face. Screaming tabloid headlines ensued, along with a sensational trial, a suicide attempt, an insanity diagnosis and finally the conviction of a jilted boyfriend, Burton Pugach, a Bronx lawyer turned Bellevue-certified nut job, who after the assault promised to buy Ms. Riss a seeing-eye dog for Christmas. Fifteen years later they were married. Crazy love? Try demented.
The couple had met two years before the assault, when Mr. Pugach, then 30, was chasing ambulances, raking in the dough and throwing his money around. Once he spotted her, he locked her firmly in his sights. She was young and lovely, if not exactly the Elizabeth Taylor look-alike claimed in the movie, with a coquette’s knowing smile and a virgin’s skittish caution. She liked the good times he gave her, the nights out at the clubs, the drives in his convertible. He met her for breakfast, for lunch, for dinner, blasting her with attention. There was talk of marriage, but there was also a wife and a child, escalating melodrama and finally a wake-up call. Ms. Riss looked elsewhere; Mr. Pugach looked nowhere else.
--End quote. Click the headline link above for the rest of the NY Times' review.
Article on Crazy Love at Wikipedia.
Linda was truly an eyeful:
For more pictures from the film, go to imdb.com.
Now to the discussion part.
What do you think about this?
I think death penalty is for animals like Burt, but if he died Linda would not be happy in the end. I almost fell to the floor when Linda accepted Burt's proposal some time after he got out of prison.
I'm still almost at a loss of words.
I'm kind of speechless so I'll let reviews do the talk.
Quoting NY Times:
Tragedy, Too, Is in the Eye of the Beholder
Love is blind, and so too is Linda Pugach, one of the loony-tuners in the somewhat sickening, mildly gonzo documentary “Crazy Love.” In 1959, when she was 22, and known as Linda Riss, Mrs. Pugach opened the door of her Bronx apartment to a thug who claimed to have an engagement present for her and instead threw liquid lye in her face. Screaming tabloid headlines ensued, along with a sensational trial, a suicide attempt, an insanity diagnosis and finally the conviction of a jilted boyfriend, Burton Pugach, a Bronx lawyer turned Bellevue-certified nut job, who after the assault promised to buy Ms. Riss a seeing-eye dog for Christmas. Fifteen years later they were married. Crazy love? Try demented.
The couple had met two years before the assault, when Mr. Pugach, then 30, was chasing ambulances, raking in the dough and throwing his money around. Once he spotted her, he locked her firmly in his sights. She was young and lovely, if not exactly the Elizabeth Taylor look-alike claimed in the movie, with a coquette’s knowing smile and a virgin’s skittish caution. She liked the good times he gave her, the nights out at the clubs, the drives in his convertible. He met her for breakfast, for lunch, for dinner, blasting her with attention. There was talk of marriage, but there was also a wife and a child, escalating melodrama and finally a wake-up call. Ms. Riss looked elsewhere; Mr. Pugach looked nowhere else.
--End quote. Click the headline link above for the rest of the NY Times' review.
Article on Crazy Love at Wikipedia.
Linda was truly an eyeful:
For more pictures from the film, go to imdb.com.
Now to the discussion part.
What do you think about this?
I think death penalty is for animals like Burt, but if he died Linda would not be happy in the end. I almost fell to the floor when Linda accepted Burt's proposal some time after he got out of prison.
I'm still almost at a loss of words.
