Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession Page #3

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Anne checked herself into

a hospital when Jerry was gone.

And I believe that she was

waiting for him to come back.

She had left a suicide tape...

that was her talking to Jerry

while she died, explaining...

everything that had transpired

in her life...

that led to this decision.

She was really his anchor...

and not only did she go mad,

but now she was gone.

And he came back

to have this happen.

And by the time I saw him,

he was crazy.

I had never seen him so crazy.

We got married pretty quickly

after that.

We got married

in February 1978.

Part of what was really

attractive about it...

at the time...

was that we had already been

having this affair...

but then he was just so

vulnerable in reaching out.

And so I blamed...

the things that I saw that

seemed dark and scary to me...

I blamed on the fact

that he was in mourning...

over his sister...

and assumed that

my loving him...

would make those things go away

and be better.

We were still

very close friends...

but we weren't really

partners in activity.

We didn't write anything

together after that.

We never did.

At the time there was

only Select TV, and On TV...

as cable sources in the area

that I lived.

We had gotten Select TV.

And in the middle

of the night...

he would wake me up

yelling at the television...

because the programming sucked.

And at some point in time,

I just said...

"If you hate it so much...

"either don't watch it

or write a letter."

And so he wrote

a letter to them...

telling them what was wrong

with the programming.

And they called him, and said...

"How do you know so much,

and who are you?"

And, "We want to talk to you."

And Jerry had said

he had found these movies that...

since we were playing eclectic

things, here's some...

wanted to show me something.

Greece withdraws from NATO.

The third guarantor power,

Britain...

with air force and troops

on the spot...

sticks to her policy of

strict non-involvement.

It was a documentary...

about the invasion

of Greece by the Turks...

and political content.

It was an interesting movie.

It had just been this guy

who'd written in this letter...

who was reading the reaction

and was like...

"Well, that didn't get them,

so let me try one more"...

and I think it was like

a Laura Antonelli film...

who I had never seen before,

who was staggeringly gorgeous.

And I thought anybody who could

go to these kind of...

those poles...

to the utter, pure documentary,

political documentary to sex...

is worth having,

so I hired him.

And so that sort of set Jerry

on his path...

which seemed really hopeful...

because then

there was something...

that really was

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