Bird Lady
Yesterday Variety's Peter Bart bloggy-blogged about Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato's Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal, which will have its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on 6.26 and 6.28 (at the Crest and the Landmark, respectively). HBO airings will follow.
Heidi Fleiss, exotic bird.
I got to know Heidi somewhat during the Hollywood madam hoo-hah days of '93 and '94. I remember paying a visit at her home on Tower off Benedict Canyon, and Heidi asking me at one point if I was a cop. She's running a place called Dirty Laundry in Pahrump, Nevada, these days. She's a decent sort. She helped me in the '90s with this and that story. It's disconcerting to read in Bart's piece that she admits apparently in the Bailey-Barbato doc) that she "still has a meth problem." Jesus. As life isn't hard enough on its own terms.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on June 17, 2008 at 10:43 AM
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CinemaPhreek
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It's been 12 years since Nick Broomfield's doc, Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam, but did we really need another? Not to mention another directed by men?
There was an interesting interview with Sheila Nevins concerning this film (along with the slate of doc they have premiering every Monday this summer) and apparently the guys couldn't get a sit down interview with Fleiss so she had to step in and do it herself.
Sad creature, but in an economy like we have its really hard to work up sympathy for someone who was born with a silver dildo in her mouth yet threw it away for a jelly one.
Posted by CinemaPhreek
at June 17, 2008 11:57 AM
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K. Bowen
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It's been what, 20 years? Let it go.
Posted by K. Bowen
at June 17, 2008 2:45 PM
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Spacelamb
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The 'exotic bird' is an Australian cockatoo.
Posted by Spacelamb
at June 18, 2008 7:13 PM