Diary of a Mad Housewife

…showcased in the 1970 film Diary of a Mad Housewife before the band decamped for Detroit. They honed their music under the direction of producer Bob Ezrin, and their third album, Love It to Death (1971), found an audience and yielded the hit single “I’m Eighteen.” The follow-up, Killer (1971),…

…greatest success may have been Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970), a chilling black comedy (adapted by Eleanor from the novel by Sue Kaufman) about the inexorable descent of a suburban mother (the Oscar-nominated Carrie Snodgress) whose self-centred husband (Richard Benjamin) and ungrateful children drive her into the arms of…