Word: halberstadt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feature to begin. But in the Los Angeles area these past few months, theater screens have been carrying a new kind of trailer: a cinematic twist on the old mail-order-bride pitch. In the clip, titled What Do You Think of My Face?, a man named Marc Halberstadt fills the silver screen. Explains the 36-year-old former furniture salesman, who scraped together $1,200 to produce the film as a gimmick to find a wife: "I wanted to create the most significant mating call in the history of the human race...
...some 1,000 people have responded to the trailer. Most (but not all) were women who dialed Halberstadt's home telephone number; it flashes 19 times during the trailer. However, his cinematic mating calls have gone the way his preliminary interview for the Johnny Carson show went. "They rejected me," Halberstadt glumly reports. "It's nothing...
...Halberstadt Dallas...