Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills

After seeing the object of his obsession in this film, in which she appeared in bed with a male actor, Robert John Bardo decided there and then that actress Rebecca Schaeffer should die. After getting her home address in Los Angeles, Bardo showed up on her doorstep on July 18, 1989 with a .357 Magnum revolver and confronted the young actress. After getting her autograph, Bardo wandered off but returned an hour later. He rang her doorbell and when Schaeffer responded, Bardo shot her, point blank, in the chest. She screamed "why?!" before collapsing in a pool of blood. Her murder woke Hollywood up to the dangers of stalkers towards celebrities. Bardo is serving a life sentence, without the possibility of parole, for the murder. The Driver's Protection Privacy Act was subsequently enacted in 1994 because Bardo was able to pay a private investigator a small fee to obtain Schaeffer's address from the DMV.

After the introductory credits the following can be found: 'for L.B. who might have smiled'

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