Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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 Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 2:50 am Post subject: Man blinds & disfigures girl. Marries her 14 years later |
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True story. Love story? Interesting.
Meet the Pugachs
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When a lawyer paid thugs to blind his girlfriend it made headline news in the Fifties. After 14 years in prison, he persuaded her to marry him. Now, a film has been made of their life story, they tell Marianne Macdonald
Tolstoy writes in his journals about the ambiguity that inhabits all literary characters, and his words float back to me as I sit in Burt and Linda Pugach's half-dark living room in Rego Park, Queens. Net curtains block almost all the white sunlight, Linda's paintings hang a little skewwhiff on the walls and the spongy orange furniture points in opposite directions. The front door is of grey metal, one in a forbidding line down a detergent-smelling corridor, and you have the overwhelming sense, standing outside it, of a prison or a mental hospital. Is this, you wonder, the emotional landscape inside? Because in June 1959 Burt hired two men who threw acid in Linda's face, blinding, balding and disfiguring her. Later, after 14 years in jail, he proposed marriage to her and she accepted. They have been living here for 33 years - ever since. Having spoken to Burt on the phone, I have taken an intense dislike to him already. Creepy man. |
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