Wednesday 27 July 2011

13

film 13: tabloid


this was the oddest story that should've been a fairy tale but in fact was reality. the documentary was written around the media hoopla in the late seventies, when an american beauty queen called joyce mckinney falls in love with a kirk, a mormon. he moves to england (supposedly without telling her, even though they were planning to get married), so she assumes he's been kidnapped... and then it gets really weird. joyce is the prime interviewee, with a supporting cast of journalists from the period - it is such a deliciously strange story. kirk, the manacled mormon, refused to comment. boo to him.

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