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Article: Amy Fisher and the ethics of "headline" docudramas. (documentary-dramatic films; television programming)
- Article from:
- Journal of Popular Film & Television
- Article date:
- September 22, 1993
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The explosion of media coverage set off after Amy Fisher shot Mary Jo Buttafuoco meant the central question was not whether the story would be made into a docudrama but when.
On 19 May 1992, 17-year-old Amy Fisher met Peter Guagenti, a 21-year-old college dropout from Brooklyn, to get a .25-caliber handgun. Guagenti then drove Fisher to the home of Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of the man with whom Fisher was allegedly having an affair. There Fisher shot Mrs. Buttafuoco in the head; then, thinking she had killed her quarry, Fisher was driven back to her Long Island home by Guagenti. To Fisher's dismay, she had not killed Mary Jo Buttafuoco, although she had ...
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Article: Amy Fisher Promoting Sex Tape
AP Online;
January 4, 2008 ;
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...Former Long Island Lolita Amy Fisher is joining her husband in trying to market a sex tape, saying, I always wanted to be No. 1 at something, but I didn't think it...
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