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KATHERINE

After her heartbreaking turn in Terence Malick's Badlands and before achieving icon status in Brain DePalma's Carrie, Sissy Spacek (who early in her career had recorded a novelty song about the shamefulness of Yoko Ono and John Lennon's nudity on the cover of Two Virgins) played the title role in this made-for-TV movie about a wealthy debutante who heads down a self-destructive spiral of drugs and dire circumstances as she embraces the revolutionary counterculture of her time.

In additon to Spacek, the film stars Art Carney (known mainly as the sidekick on the Honeymooners, but in fact a terrific actor), a pre-Fonzie Henry Winkler, Julie Kavner (a star on the show Rhoda at the time and later the voice of Marge Simpson) and Jane Wyatt (Lost Horizon, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home).
Director Jeremy Kagan would go on to somewhat lighter fare, including the noir comedy The Big Fix, the Hassidic drama the Chosen, the sequel to the Sting and childhood favorite the Journey of Natty Gann.