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@ThePearlofeire Because he conducted hundreds of interviews with Karen's high school friends from Downey, with her friends in the industry (Olivia Newton-John, Itchy Ramone, Dionne Warwick,....) and most importantly with her best friend Frenda Franklin and with Evelyn Wallace, the Carpenters long...

@greenwich1754 Read "Little Girl Blue" if you get the chance. it lays it all out. Richard's "blessings" came after Karen had begged him for over six months to please let her do her album. She did not 'decide" not to release it. Herb Alpert and the boys told her that it was "unreleasable" and Rich...

@metronomic1 It's an inaccurate movie. So fuck you.

@MRJELLYJ2 Randy Schmidt, in "Little Girl Blue," lays out pretty clearly how Karen's family ignored her and treated her poorly. He spoke to dozens of Karen's closest friends and many of her acquaintances. They were unequivocal in saying that she was considered to be Richard's "back up" by Agnes,...

@rematpac I am so a writer. And yes, I know of the tricks. But Randy got a lot of his quotes from other sources (such as the first Carpenters book written by Ray Coleman.)

Brittany's favorite band. Rest in please, lovely.

@arfies Not quite. In about 1975 or so, when Karen had her first big weight loss, Richard told a costume designer to "do something about those hips." He was referring to the fact that Karen's hip bones could be seen jutting out through the fabric of the costume.

No man who met her ever thought t...

Too bad Karen had to waste her enormous gifts on pap like this song. Brutally cheesy live show, as well.

@Larissa1973 whatnot. Richard and her mother held her back, owned her, in a sense. He called her solo album "shit" and never supported her. He even took her away from the drums, which she loved more than anything. He is heavily responsible for what happened to her, and he is aware of this, I beli...

@vmuto1 Karen had far more self-esteem than people believed. Look at her in photos and videos. This woman knew that she was attractive. The issue is her getting removed from the drums and trying to show her family what might happen if they didn't start showing her some love and affection.

Agnes w...

@vmuto1 Well, he's back on book tours and receiving great reviews again, sorry to say.

@RegaLPleX08 Fuck you right back. You're the skank. Hope you choke on your hate.

You're an asshole. And you can't spell, which makes you doubly pathetic.

Not a cocaine overdose. Do your research and don't make such a moronic "tribute" to somebody you claim to respect.

What is this slurring which some are referring to? I don't hear it. Brittany did not have a bad reputation in Hollywood: she wasn't a party girl. She's clever and witty and having a lot of fun here, as she always did. She's not out of it, acting out, or getting naked, as others have.

@MeinKleinTier She was never labelled fat. Do your research and read articles about her. See her described as "pretty," "sexy," "foxy." Sorry to disappoint you, but nobody ever described Karen as anything but lovely. Her voice doesn't put anybody off, either. Happy trolling.

I find it interesting that as time went on, Karen seemed to like fewer and fewer of the songs they recorded . ("Solitaire," "The Rainbow Connection," a couple of others which they never wound up recording.) She was trying so hard to break away by this point and no longer seemed as willing to let ...

Karen did indeed leave behind her friends and scholarships in the move to Downey, but she was NOT bullied or called fat in school. she was extraordinarily popular, was chosen first for sports teams, and would defend Richard against bullies. She had a lot of friends, but until the book "Little Gir...

@Davallew That may be, but he never listened to Karen's opinions, nor did he want her to do anything with any other artists, despite the fact that she was contacted by many to guest on albums and such. It's easy to be "the brains" and "the driving force" when you dominate the other person so who...

@ritter89 I think her album was so superior to Carpenters last stuff. Richard would have stopped anything that Karen did on her own. He was afraid of her branching out on her own.

@anitabreakone She was definitely intelligent (more so than the average person) but she was not given any choices when it came to her music. It wasn't up to her which songs she drummed on or not. Richard made every decision. Karen said in an interview that not playing the drums "almost killed h...

@vmuto1 Television shows have scripts, you know. He's "in this" because he's been a foremost Carpenters historian for years and wrote "Yesterday Once More."

@vmuto1 Cousin will fill in the blanks for us, though, won't you, cuz?

@vmuto1 Hey Vic. How's Florida?

@ritter89 I've got serious problems with Richard myself. He's done a lot of censoring over the years ("The Karen Carpenter Story" went through 4 or more revisions before it was deemed "right.") He just didn't want Karen doing her own projects because he was afraid of losing her; she was very much...

@vmuto1 You got something right!