— who was ridiculed by comedians and gossip columnists for her flamboyant party girl lifestyle. But according to the people who knew her best, the truth about Smith was more complicated.
Because Smith was all over television in the 1990s, Macfarlane can tell her story mostly via old interview footage and home movies, supplemented with new insights from Smith’s friends and colleagues. The film traces Smith’s rise from a rough Texas childhood to a thriving career as a model, and then ultimately to her years as a tabloid staple, infamous for her drug problems and her unconventional relationships.
“You Don’t Know Me” doesn’t try to make the case that Smith was some great talent; and Macfarlane doesn’t ignore the sketchiness of her marriage to a sickly old oil tycoon. But neither does Macfarlane let the showbiz press off the hook for mocking Smith and feeding her insecurities, rather than appreciating her. This is an in-depth film about a person many presumed had no depth at all. It’s a cautionary tale — not just for future sex symbols, for those who write about them.
Who’s ready for some 2000s nostalgia? The documentary “Queenmaker: The Making of an It Girl” drops viewers back into the high-end New York social scene of 15 to 20 years ago, when young heiresses like Paris Hilton, Tinsley Mortimer and Olivia Palermo were being photographed at parties nearly every night and then written about the next day by bloggers who turned their lives into a soap opera.
The film’s primary focus is on the founder of the blog Park Avenue Peerage, who at the time was an Illinois college student, watching the glamorous people from afar. What happens to that blog’s author — who later had a tumultuous transition from male-identifying to female-identifying — marks a shift in tone for “Queenmaker,” which in its last half-hour documents the troubled times faced by some of the socialites and by fame-obsessed websites like Gawker.
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