Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987)

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Wikidata Q7644185, film, IMDb tt0094075, TMDB 1387: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

Who talked about it

The Big Picture

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

I'm Not There: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (spiritual progenitor): Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story ⇒ I'm Not There (the host's read). Todd Haynes's first film, the Barbie-doll Karen Carpenter story, is the progenitor of I'm Not There's foregrounded cliches.
    “a movie that's kind of the spiritual progenitor if I'm not there, which is Superstar, which is the 1st thing Todd Haynes ever made”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:11:55 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)

Connected to

I'm Not There: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (spiritual progenitor): I'm Not There → Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story. Todd Haynes's first film, the Barbie-doll Karen Carpenter story, is the progenitor of I'm Not There's foregrounded cliches.
    “a movie that's kind of the spiritual progenitor if I'm not there, which is Superstar, which is the 1st thing Todd Haynes ever made”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:11:55 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (spiritual progenitor): I'm Not There → Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story. Todd Haynes's first film, the Barbie-doll Karen Carpenter story, is the progenitor of I'm Not There's foregrounded cliches.
    “a movie that's kind of the spiritual progenitor if I'm not there, which is Superstar, which is the 1st thing Todd Haynes ever made”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:11:55 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story: Todd Haynes's first film uses Barbie dolls to tell Karen Carpenter's story; the Carpenter estate was not happy.
    “The Karen Carpenter estate was not happy with that movie, right?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:12:08 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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