Word: fisher
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...Mary Jo Buttafuoco, a Long Island, N.Y., housewife, casually answered her door and unwittingly stepped into one of the most sensational crimes of the decade. Standing on her front porch, Mary Jo was shot in the face by Amy Fisher, her husband Joey's 17-year-old mistress. Fisher, quickly dubbed the "Long Island Lolita" by the New York tabloids, ended up serving nearly seven years in prison for reckless assault. Joey, a 36-year-old auto-bodyshop owner, went to jail for four months for statutory rape...
...TIME: Why have you written a book now, after so many years? Mary Jo Buttafuoco: Two years ago, I was complaining about the latest stunt that [Joey] had pulled, which was being out with Amy Fisher on a date and walking all over Central Park. I just was shaking my head for the umpteenth time, going, "Why does he do this stuff?" And Paul, our son, very matter-of-factly said to me, "He'll never get it, Mom. He's a sociopath." And that word - I didn't like it. I thought it just sounded like a crazy, murderous...
...that Amy and I had on the porch. There was absolutely no indication in my mind, nor has there ever been in all these years, that she was there to try to kill me. I never got that vibe at all. (Read TIME's 1992 coverage of the Amy Fisher story...
...Visit RottenTomatoes.com to read about The Amy Fisher Story starring Drew Barrymore...
...cars haven't exactly taken the world by storm. Reva - which has received venture capital from Draper Fisher Jurveston, the Global Environment Fund and Mellon HBV Master Global Event Drive Fund - has sold only 3,000 cars over the past eight years. Half of those have been exported to Europe, mainly to London...