Special Report: Randy Schmidt on Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Mike talks with writer Randy Schmidt about his biography on Karen Carpenter and the 2023 documentary, Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Shut it off.
0:25.7	Turn it off.
0:27.6	Turn it off.
0:31.6	Okay.
0:32.3	Okay. Karen's voice is one of those voices that just goes right to your soul.
0:46.4	It's arguably the most beautiful voice that anybody will ever hear.
0:51.3	And that voice, you know, that voice.
0:55.0	Perfection is just about impossible, but that's always in my mind, you know.
1:03.0	There was a very loving, happy part to her, and then there was a kind of a, a darkness there. There's no way to be able to handle that kind of a darkness there.
1:14.8	There's no way to be able to handle that kind of success.
1:18.0	There was something about her that she didn't like about herself.
1:20.6	I had no idea that I could do a blasted thing.
1:23.0	She definitely battled her self-image.
1:27.0	She never had a successful romantic relationship. Love is something that I think everybody in this world has to have, and without it, you're not worth anything.
1:35.3	She was a very sensitive human being, and she was incredibly injured.
1:39.3	No one really knew a lot about anorexia back then.
1:43.3	It wasn't something that was really talked about
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