Jen and Tim contextualize the band that ruled Nixon’s America, The Carpenters, for Todd Haynes’s early dollhouse biopic, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story.
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Watch the film on the Internet Archive, but don’t tell Richard Carpenter you did!
Entertainment Weekly took a look back at the film in the aftermath of the unstoppable cultural juggernaut that was the Barbie movie.
Friend of Todd Haynes and producer Christine Vachon spilled some info on the restoration of Superstar in 2023.
