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    ‘Long Island Lolita’ (Pt 1): Amy Fisher Becomes a Trope

    ‘Long Island Lolita’ (Pt 1): Amy Fisher Becomes a Trope

    FromIn Retrospect with Susie Banikarim and Jessica Bennett

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    ‘Long Island Lolita’ (Pt 1): Amy Fisher Becomes a Trope

    FromIn Retrospect with Susie Banikarim and Jessica Bennett

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    Length:
    49 minutes
    Released:
    Nov 3, 2023
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    In 1992, Amy Fisher, a teen girl from Long Island became a tabloid sensation almost overnight – when she shot Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of her much older “boyfriend” Joey Buttafuoco. Within days, the New York Daily News would splash a picture of Amy across its front page with a headline that would follow her forever: The Long Island Lolita. In this episode, Susie and Jess interrogate the way Amy Fisher was covered and examine why her story gripped the nation.
    Guests:

    Amy Pagnozzi, former and longtime New York Post columnist who covered the Amy Fisher trial

    FOR MORE:

    Long Island Lolita (Daily News, 1992)
    Treachery in the Suburbs (People, 1992)
    Inside Edition Flashback: Amy Fisher Sentencing (YouTube)
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    Released:
    Nov 3, 2023
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Titles in the series (38)

    Is there a cultural moment from your past that looks different in retrospect? Maybe it’s a scandalous tabloid story seared into your teenage brain or a political punchline that just feels wrong now. It might be a very specific red swimsuit that inspired a decade of plastic surgery (see: “Baywatch”) or the inescapable smell of an entire generation of prepubescent boys (Axe body spray, anyone?). Each week on IN RETROSPECT, Emmy-winning journalist Susie Banikarim and New York Times editor Jessica Bennett revisit a pop culture moment from the 80s and 90s that shaped them — to try to understand what it taught us about the world, and a woman’s place in it. Talk to us at @inretropod, @susiebnyc and @jessicabennett on Instagram. New episodes each Friday.