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completely unbiased and not reveal his feelings about his now estranged relationship with the Olmsteads. But near the end of the interview, he finally betrays a little bit of anger. "I think there's a tendency to kind of use Marla as a human shield, in a way," he says of her parents' defensiveness. "It's a little hypocritical to enter the public arena and then to say, 'Hey, don't criticize our little girl here, there's a little girl here.' Well, that little girl didn't ask to be on 60 Minutes, and she didn't ask to sell her paintings for $25,000. And that's all I can say about that."

Trying to pin down his true feelings about the authenticity of Marla's artwork, someone asks him if he'd be willing to buy one of her paintings. He hesitates for a long time. "I couldn't afford a painting of hers. I do have two drawings that she made me, which I took home and put one on my fridge, and one on my office filing cabinet, rendering them instantly value-less. But," he says, "they're of more value to me as something as a kid made that reminds me of fun times I had with that kid than something I'm looking at as an investment or, you know, a piece of art...I think a lot about what will happen to Marla. But not to the degree that I'm going to do a follow-up," he laughs. "I hope that if Marla sees the film in twenty years, she'll feel that it was accurate."

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