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  1. Jul 21, 2016 · Agnes Carpenter, Karen and Richard’s strong-willed and hateful mother (among her many other winning qualities, she was very demonstratively not a fan of African-Americans or Jews), emerges as...

  2. Jul 30, 2010 · Morrow, who was working on a TV movie about Karen Carpenter, spent an hour interviewing Agnes Carpenter that day, but he found she was too "defensive" to give him the full story. Morrow...

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  3. Jul 3, 2011 · In the 1989 TV movie “A Song for You: The Karen Carpenter Story,” Agnes Carpenter first emerged as a darkly fascinating, fearsome mother dearest. In that version, Agnes finally tells her daughter that she loves her only a few hours before Karen’s starved heart stops beating.

  4. Dec 6, 2023 · Agnes Carpenter likely assumed she was helping her 17-year-old daughter when she took her to a diet doctor. “You could argue that was the beginning of Karen’s obsession with counting calories ...

  5. Mar 19, 2023 · Karen Carpenter was known as the bright and humorous girl with the distinctive, velvet voice. She made the whole world stop and listen to soft rock classics such as “(They Long To Be) Close To You” and “Top of the World,” but there was a side to her no one knew.

  6. Nov 11, 2021 · In 1969, the brother-sister duo Karen and Richard Carpenter took the world by storm with their classy style of soft rock that brought Karen's stunning but melancholic voice to the front.

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  8. Sep 1, 2011 · Exhibit A on that front is filmmaker Todd Haynes’ 1987 short film, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, which is a roughly 45-minute examination of Carpenter’s life told using Barbie dolls.