Patty Revisited; Documentary Looks Back at Hearst Kidnapping
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The film uses old TV footage, some from outtakes found in a Marin County storage locker, and audiotapes that the SLA released. After the fiery rhetoric (e.g., "Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the American people") and demands (e.g., that [Patty Hearst]'s father, Randolph, stage a mammoth food giveaway for the poor) comes Patty's flat little voice reassuring her parents that she's OK. The food giveaway takes place amidst general mayhem. And Patty's voice takes on increasing conviction as she accepts the SLA's platform, becoming "Tania," enshrined in the public's perception in a photograph in which she holds a machine gun against the background of the SLA's seven-headed serpent symbol. Declaring her erstwhile fiancé to be a "sexist, ageist pig," Tania sent the pundits scrambling for their dictionaries once again. "Ageist? Huh?"
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Patty Revisited; Documentary Looks Back at Hearst Kidnapping
While it never rivaled the horror of the Kennedy and King murders of the '60s, the 1974 kidnapping of heiress Patricia Hearst was the first in a series of late-century shockers that included Water...
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