Entertainment
Karen Carpenter: Starving For Perfection
A documentary tells the Carpenters singer’s story in her own voice.
“Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection” is an AMS Pictures documentary from director Randy Martin and producer and writer Randy Schmidt, author of “Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter.”
Forty years after her death, the film looks at the Carpenters singer’s life, her music and her struggle with anorexia nervosa, using never-before-released recordings.
Related: The Life and Times of Karen Carpenter with Randy Schmidt
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Transcript
Fred: Why should people watch “Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection”?
Randy Schmidt: I think this is such a balanced look at both her life and music. A lot of times, we just get one or the other. We either get an all-music documentary and don’t learn that much about Karen as a person, or we get something that is so far in the other direction that it’s sensationalized and exploitive in terms of her eating disorder and that sort of thing.
So I think, and I hope, that it shines through in the documentary that this is a balanced look at who Karen was as an artist and as a person, and both the triumphs and the tragedies.
This transcript was generated from the video’s captions and has been lightly edited for clarity.
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