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Fleiss on Film

Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey's documentary Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal, which screens June 26 and 28 at the Los Angeles Film Festival (and airs on HBO July 21), is, says Gabriel Snyder in his "Wonder Boys" piece on the filmmakers in the new W magazine, "a character study of a person who has been vilified in the public eye. It doesn’t shy away from Fleiss’s unsavory side: Her narcissistic attachment to her tabloid persona is front and center, as is her apparent drug abuse, but so is her humanity. In fact, the film is surprisingly sympathetic; one memorable scene shows Fleiss befriending an elderly woman in a nursing home." (W via Defamer; photo at left: Sian Kennedy)

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