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Crazy Love (Grade: A-)

In New York City in the late 1950s a beautiful woman named Linda Riss fought off the obsessive romantic advances of a man named Henry Pugach. In an undeniably imaginative retaliation he hired two men to throw acid in her face. She lost most of her vision while he cooled off at Tsing Tsing and - here's the real kicker - sixteen years later they got married and they've been together ever since. This juicy slice of pulp nonfiction is the subject of Crazy Love, a fascinating documentary directed by Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens. Linda and Henry talk at length about their cuckoo relationship, and some frighteningly timeworn friends and colleagues pitch in their memories of this tabloid sensation.