Friday, January 18, 2013
Film Your Weekend 90's Nostalgia: Amy Fisher Film Extravaganza at Videology
Posted by Virginia K. Smith on Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:00 AM
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"There have been stories that have received more coverage with today’s 24-hour news cycle, basically anything that’s on Nancy Grace’s show," he went on, "but the Amy Fisher saga was the first tabloid story — and I’m pretty sure the last — to have all three major networks air their own made-for-TV movie."
Which leads us to the most obvious, important question here: which Amy is the best? "Noëlle Parker is the most realistic," he says. "She is also the most likeable, but that's partly because she stars in the movie that is based on the real Amy Fisher's version of events. In that one Joey is this evil manipulator who convinces Amy to become a prostitute, and Amy's father is a total creep, so you kind of feel sorry for her." Milano is also serviceable as "stalker" Amy, as is Barrymore as "middle" Amy.
Now that his Fisher opus has finally come to fruition, Kapelovitz may focus his efforts on a similar mashup of Fisher and Buttafuoco's respective "celebrity" sex tapes ("I'd have to show it in a theater that is equipped like the one in A Clockwork Orange," he notes), but isn't grasping too hard for an overarching moral to the saga. "I guess for Joey, I'd say that when a cop says, 'I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure they took the statutory sex laws off the books,' he's probably lying." Solid advice if ever there was.
Triple Fisher screens at 8 p.m. tonight at Videology on 308 Bedford Ave. Purchase tickets here.
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