SUPERSTAR: THE KAREN CARPENTER STORY
Todd Haynes | 1987 | USA | 43 min | VHS

With Barbie dolls as the principal actors, “Superstar” portrays the life of Karen Carpenter and her battle with anorexia. Haynes never secured the rights to the Carpenters’ music he used in the movie, and Richard Carpenter filed an injunction that kept “Superstar” from public release. Even without Carpenter’s court order, the film would probably have been stopped by the notoriously litigious Mattel, the makers of Barbie.
Used without permission. Thanks to Illegal Art and Polyester Books.

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