Call Sheet: Baby, Baby, Oh Baby...We Love Superstar

Omg! Omg! A hat tip and a big fat kiss to ModFab for unearthing one of our favorite underground, heretofore unseen by the masses, cult fav movies. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story is Todd (Velvet Goldmine) Haynes' 43 minute epic retelling of the rise and fall of Karen Carpenter...with Barbie dolls. It's up on Google video (until it's snatched down) and must be seen.

Watching it again brings back memories...oh, we were young, malleable, unschooled in the ways of the world. We had just arrived on Martha's Vineyard for an internship. We were crashing on the couch of the theatre's box office manager. After plying us with some extremely potent weed, he popped a bootleg of said movie into the VCR (this was back in the old days, kids) and it blew our minds. The fact that it's extremely sympathetic to Carpenter and still evokes a visceral response from us is a testament to Haynes' skill as a filmmaker.

Also, Richard Carpenter--total fag.

Watch it here.

Supertar: The Karen Carpenter Story [wikipedia]