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In 1970, Art and Diane Linkletter won the 1970 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Recording for their record "We Love You, Call Collect". The record, which was released in November 1969—just a few weeks after her death—sold 275,000 copies in eight weeks, peaking at #42 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Linkletter claimed that her death was drug-related because she was on, or having a flashback from, an LSD trip (toxicology tests later determined there were no drugs in Diane's system at the time of her death). [25] After Diane's death, Linkletter spoke out against drugs to prevent children from straying into a drug habit.
Diane had made regular appearances on her father's show during the 1968–69 season. The elder Linkletter attributed the death to his daughter's use of the hallucinogenic drug LSD , and told reporters, "It wasn't suicide, because she wasn't herself.
This improvised film is based on the 1969 suicide of TV personality Art Linkletter's daughter, Diane. In the film, Mr. and Mrs. Linkletter fret about their daughter's recent behavior, which includes taking drugs and dating a lowlife named Jim. Eventually, the parents confront Diane, which results in her suicide under the influence of LSD.
The Academy Film Archive restored Waters’ first five films — including “Eat Your Makeup,” “Mondo Trasho” and “The Diane Linkletter Story” — and though rights issues make them ...
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