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Crazy Love (2007 film)

2007 American film

Crazy Love
Original poster
Directed by	Dan Klores Fisher Stevens
Written by	Dan Klores
Produced by	Dan Klores
Cinematography	Wolfgang Held
Edited by	David Zieff
Music by	Douglas J. Cuomo
Production company	Shoot the Moon Productions
Distributed by	Magnolia Pictures
Release date	June 1, 2007 (2007-06-01)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$300,372

Crazy Love is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens. The screenplay by Klores explores the troubled relationship between New York City attorney Burt Pugach and his ten-years-younger girlfriend Linda Riss, who was blinded and permanently scarred when career criminals hired by Pugach threw lye in her face.

Production notes

The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was shown at the Seattle International Film Festival before going into limited release in the US. It later was shown at the Reykjavik Internat

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Dancing in the Dark

Crazy Love (Magnolia Pictures) is a poisoned Valentine of a documentary, an ode to undying passion that sometimes comes across as an apologia for pathological abuse. Like Capturing the Friedmans, the 2003 documentary about a child-molestation scandal on Long Island, N.Y., Crazy Love retells a well-known tabloid story from the point of view of the principals involved. But whereas Friedmans provided enough multiple perspectives to leave the viewer in an epistemological house of mirrors, Crazy Love remains narrowly focused on the tawdry biographical details: not he said/she said, but the New York Mirror said. Still, those tawdry details are jaw-dropping enough to make for one hell of a sideshow attraction.

Burton Pugach, now 79, is a Bronx-bred lawyer who made a fortune in the 1950s from dubious negligence suits. More than an ambulance chaser, he was an ambulance summoner, sometimes going so far as to stage minor accidents in order to wrangle huge settlements. In 1957, at the age of 30, he met Linda Riss, a 20-year-old beauty, and began wooing he

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Linda Pugach dies at 75; disfigured by lye, she married attacker

“It’s me and Burt against the world.”

-- Linda Pugach, 2007

With those words, Linda Pugach explained, perhaps as well as anyone could, an unfathomable chain of events.

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In 1959, she was Linda Riss, a 22-year-old dark-haired beauty with a creamy complexion, a sassy mouth and curves in all the right places. She fell for a successful older man named Burton Pugach, who wined and dined her--until she found out about his wife.

Then she dumped him.

Then he hired a goon to throw lye in her face and went to prison for 14 years.

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When he got out, she married him.

The marriage dumbfounded some who knew her and many who didn’t. But it lasted almost 39 years, long enough, she once told the New York Times, to become “sort of dull, like anyone else’s life,” though clearly it wasn’t.

Pugach, who had a history of cardiac problems, died of heart failure Tuesday in a New York City hospital, said her husband, who is her sole survivor. She was 75.