Then, out of the blue, an e-mail to a friend that seemed to explain everything. Because she was really unhappy with Sean. Saud, Joy’s friend: No, she would not run off without her kids.Jill, Joy’s friend: That’s the whole reason she was sticking around-towards the end. Especially, as she hadn’t said a word to them. But this way? It didn’t sound like Joy at all. They knew she’d had some problems with Sean. His junior wife had run off to Europe with a boyfriend, had abandoned him and their two sons. Sean Goff, the San Diego youth minister and polygamist, was an emotional wreck. You know?Īnd far away in the desert, that strange monument guarded its mystery. You know-unless she’s having a problem and she’s talking about it. Morrison: Always happy?Joy’s friend: Always happy. They took romantic trips and went out dining and dancing often. While Joy, with her bubbly personality, was Sean’s “public” wife. Sheila stayed at home-rarely going out with her husband. Because (Laughs) Joy was Sean’s favorite. How did Joy feel about Sheila-Jill: Joy never would have been jealous of Sheila. I mean I’m sure underneath there has to be some part of her that didn’t appreciate what was going on. Was there jealousy there? Saudiya, Joy's friend: Well, Sheila didn’t seem jealous. There was already wife number one Sheila. Joy and Shelia were happy and obedient co-wives. And everyone loved him, he was the greatest guy that just happened to be married to someone else. And she told me that he was her youth pastor and that her mom gave her blessing. (Laughs) That, you know, she had met someone and she was all in love with him. Keith Morrison, Dateline correspondent: How did she explain it to you?Jill, Joy's friend: Just like that. But it was Biblically sound, he told her, and as Joy told her friends. And in the summer of 1997, three years after they met he “married” Joy. Married, yes - to Sheila - but by then had become interested in “Christian Polygamy,” which claimed to be based on the patriarchs of the old testament. That’s how he met Joy Risker, then just 16. Sean Goff: handsome, engaging, persuasive, and deeply religious. They shared the childcare, housework, cooking.Īnd they also shared the husband. It turns out later he's not a very reliable witness.It was a fine arrangement. We are told by one witness that sex with the Madonna character is intense. All of the paraphernalia and lore of S & M sexuality are here, but none of the passion or even enjoyment. When it comes to eroticism, "Body of Evidence" is like Madonna's new book. What does she dedicate her life to? She answers that question in one of the movie's funniest lines, which unfortunately cannot be printed here. We are asked to believe that Madonna lives on a luxury houseboat, where she parades in front of the windows naked at all hours, yet somehow doesn't attract a crowd, not even of appreciative lobstermen. There's all kinds of murky plot debris involving nasal spray with cocaine in it, ghosts from the past, bizarre sex, and lots of nudity. What about the story here? It has to be seen to be believed - something I do not advise. She's just an extra trying to grab some extra business.īut enough on the technical side. We in the audience are alerted that the movie is establishing her for a later payoff. One example: Dafoe is addressing his opening remarks to the jury, and the camera pulls focus so that we see an attractive young female juror sitting in the front row. I don't know whether to blame the director, the cinematographer or the editor for some of the inept choices in this movie. That's a typical exchange in the courtroom scenes, which involve Dafoe being reprimanded by the judge for just about every breath he draws. a city small enough, Madonna volunteers from the witness stand, that she once dated a guy who dated a girl who dated Mantegna. Willem Dafoe plays the defense attorney who firmly believes Madonna is innocent, or in any event very sexy, and Joe Mantegna has the Hamilton Burger role. But she's innocent, she protests - and indeed there is another obvious suspect, the millionaire's private secretary ( Anne Archer), who is also his spurned former lover.
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