Sounds Like a Case of Long-Distance Stockholm Syndrome
As it turns out, Linda wasn’t a fan of the documentary. Why? Because it made her sound like “a broad from the Bronx,” she said with her cigarette-laced, heavily-accented voice. She may look and sound like a stereotypical granny from the Bronx, but Linda Pugach was blind (partially at first, after the attack, then fully in 1990).
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Nevertheless, the landscape paintings she made before she lost her sight were exhibited in a Manhattan gallery, along with several letters Burt wrote her from prison (in which he tells her she will never find a better man). But at least they have money… lots of it.