Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story is a 45 minute telling of the superstar's tragic life and death told with Barbie dolls. It's been totally disowned by the Carpenter family and with its unauthorised use of Carpenter material is unreleased and only available on flickery from-VHS YouTube recordings.
And yet even watching this hazy distortion you can see that it not only works, but is actually really quite moving - try listening to 'Rainy days and Mondays get me down' amidst a tale of family and music industry pressure and anorexia and endless laxatives and not be moved.
It was Haynes' college project.
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