May 26, 2005

HARD-LUCK CASE by Steve Nadis

How's this for bad luck? You're engaged to one of the richest girls in America. Then a band of leftist revolutionary cultists busts into your apartment, beats you up, and kidnaps your fiance. Then she's brainwashed and falls in love with one of her captors. Losing your girl to a guy named "Cujo" must be particularly hard to take. She's with this cult for nearly two years, during which time you see her on TV brandishing a rifle and robbing banks. Then she's captured and spends another almost two years in jail. When your gal emerges from that nightmare, she ends up marrying her bodyguard. All this happened to Steven Weed 30-some years ago. He came ever so close to having it made, when it all went south on him--in the most spectacular way.

(Source: "Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Heart," which aired on PBS two nights ago.)

Posted by Snake at 09:36:19 | Permanent Link | Comments (3) |
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1 - Almost the same thing happened to me once (except for the richness, kidnapping, brainwashing, jailing and subsequent marriage)but you don't hear me complaining about it. (Comment this)

Written by: Little Red Ride-Up at 2005/05/26 - 16:01:12
2 - I don't know if Weed is complaining or not, but he did write a book on the subject: My Search for Patty Hearst. (Comment this)

Written by: Snake at 2005/05/26 - 17:50:43
3 - Ummm.....you should fix the spelling from "Heart" to "Hearst." (Comment this)

Written by: Windfall Woman at 2005/10/20 - 00:09:43
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