Superstar The Karen Carpenter Story Book Released

[Rick Henry]

On October 1, 2008 a new book on the cult movie "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story" was released. This is the movie which was produced, written and directed by Todd Haynes and used Barbie dolls to portray all the characters.

This book is a study on the underground cult film and was published by author Glyn Davis a lecturer at the Glasgow School of Art.

Who would have ever thought that this movie would warrant a literary study. I find this very interesting. At first I was so against the movie... but I finally watched it and I like it quite a bit. Todd Haynes obviously likes the Carpenters (especially Karen). His movie is not a negative portrayal or even disrespectful. He is just telling the story as best as he was able to with all the information he had on the group. I think he came very close to the truth. The use of Barbie dolls is actually quite clever.

Here's a link to the book...


Click Here to see Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

[Ming]

I remembered watching this movie online. At first, I found it strange to use Barbie dolls to represent the characters. However, using Barbie dolls was actually very clever because he didn't need to find actors and we won't compare the looks with Karen and Richard. We will focus on the content.

For the content, I think he likes Karen and only portrays facts in the movie.

Ming