Pultizer Prize-winning American columnist Jimmy Breslin wrote a front page feature story on Melanie Cane the author of Poisoned Love. Click on the icon to read Jimmy Breslin's cover story:
The Film Crazy Love
Crazy Love is a 2007 documentary film which explores the bizarre true story of pathological love, possession and maiming, between a New York City attorney and his much younger mistress. In Crazy Love, the woman was initially impressed with the man’s money and style, but when she found out he was married, she broke up with him. After she broke it off, the man threatened and stalked her before hiring criminals to throw lye in her face and blinding her. The man said if he couldn’t have her, then nobody could. The poisoning in my book, Poisoned Love, occurred around the same time the lye incident occurred that the movie Crazy Love is based on.
The reason it’s called Crazy Love is that the man, who was an attorney, blinded the woman he supposedly loved and the blinded woman married him after he completed his 15 year prison sentence. Then they went on the talk show circuit, where everyone started talking about Crazy Love and asking what is the craziest thing you’d do for love? In my book, Poisoned Love, I too did something crazy under the guise of love.
Dan Klores, publicist turned filmmaker, wrote, produced and directed Crazy Love. He says “It’s about all the embarrassing things we do when we have our hearts broken.” As in his other films, including Boys of 2nd Street Park ,Viva Baselball, and Ring of Fire, Klores blended talking heads interviews, archival footage and digitally manipulated photographs. But while Crazy Love is very much about infamy and the elicitation of publicity, Klores does not feel inclined to make a connection between his former career as a publicist.
A salt-of –the- earth cast of interviewees thoughtfully processes the couple’s strange relationship. The film is less about “crazy love” than about a private, unknowable resolution between two people. The relationship in Crazy Love tested the limits of human forgiveness. Klores says the film is less about “crazy love” than it is about what people are willing to do not to be alone. This could also said to be one of the themes in my book, Poisoned Love.
According to one reviewer of Crazy Love, “Obsession isn’t supposed to fun, or particularly romantic. It’s usually kind of creepy. But Crazy Loves manages to be all of the above, often at the same time.” He goes on to say, “This is a love story, no matter how twisted. Crazy Love takes a tailor made for sensationalist treatment and sculptures it into a riveting three act drama.”
Jimmy Breslin wrote the original article in New York News Day about the story around which Crazy Love is based. Jimmy Bresline also wrote the story in New York Newsday around which my book, Poisoned Love, is based.
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