I'll slit my fucking wrists if I have to read another goddamned post in the "My Never Ending War .... " thread.
So, here goes with a new direction:
Who was your favorite Superstar and why? By Superstar, I really mean anyone of his entourage / hangers-on who was made famous by association.
OK, you go first. I know my answer.
So, here goes with a new direction:
Who was your favorite Superstar and why? By Superstar, I really mean anyone of his entourage / hangers-on who was made famous by association.
OK, you go first. I know my answer.
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Re: Favorite Warhol Superstar
Thu, January 8, 2004 - 12:40 PMThats a tough one, for now I'm saying Basqiat. (sp?) But I confess, I've got kind of a soft spot for Valerie, though, just because she was SO crazy. My husband and I were Valerie and Andy for halloween one year, I had a gun and everything, but nobody knew who I was, everybody just thought I was a regular Dyke! -
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Thu, January 8, 2004 - 2:06 PMPat Ast is a little piece of semi-heaven. Is that so unbelievable to believe? Points off for her '80s schlock film career (as wonderful as she was in "Reform School Girls", I gotta have SOME standards here...).
I'm torn between Candy Darling and Jackie Curtis, because they're both so brilliant in "Women in Revolt", so I'll just say they're so fab that they cancel each other out.
Nico? Legendary, but too easy a choice. Same with Edie. Same with Little Joe.
Hmmmm...I think my fave Warhol superstar is Sylvia Miles. Her performance in Heat is BEYOND. Even schlock film roles and wacky Warhol seance publicity stunts can't tarnish Auntie Syl's leathery transcendence in Heat. -
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Thu, January 8, 2004 - 2:23 PMI'm going to have to pick Harold Ajzenberg a/k/a Holly Woodlawn. After watching her dumpster dive in "Trash", I was always transfixed by these little facial expressions that seemed to creep in to her scenes and leave as quickly, almost unnoticed. From the infamous beer bottle to becoming the Bowery drunk in "Women In Revolt", Woodlawn was always a bigger than life persona. The wit and hauteur made her unforgettable. -
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Thu, January 8, 2004 - 2:32 PMHolly's facial expressions did seem to have a life of their own, didn't they? -
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Thu, January 8, 2004 - 2:45 PM...though my FAVORITE Warhol tribe superstar is Jack A., for coming up with an interesting topic to divert us from the seemingly bottomless "I Would Have Shot Andy Warhol" thread. -
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Thu, January 8, 2004 - 2:58 PMAmen Christopher! Jack A. for President! -
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Thu, January 8, 2004 - 3:27 PMI agree. I should have ignored that whole thing, nothing there that I hadn't heard before. -
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Thu, January 8, 2004 - 4:31 PMY'all are 2 sweet, really ...
So, here's my answer:
(though I totally used to love Holly for those facial expressions, which, I should add, she did when I saw her perform a few months back)
My favorite Warhol Superstar is ........
Brigit Polk/Berlin. Not the most beautiful or outrageous (however she's the only one who's still alive and kicking.) The reason why I like her the best is that, from what I understand, she's the one that really invented the whole Warhol "style" of talking and writing. She and Bob Colacello ghost-wrote "Philosophy," which I think is actually Warhol's greatest work.
The best chapter in the book is the one that's all about her cleaning, too.
And "Pie in the Sky" is a documentary about her that's a must-see for sure. Listening to her talk, you'll see what I mean. She's also still totally compulsive and still struggling with her weight (one of the best parts of Warhol's "Diaries" was how ever few months, he'd say, "I saw The Dutchess today and she's skinny." Or "I saw The Dutchess, and she's totally a fat cow again."
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Wed, December 22, 2004 - 10:38 PMTied: Edie for the glamour, drama, and beauty. Ondine for the character, depth, and personality. He's underrated, but fascinating. -
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Thu, December 30, 2004 - 7:24 PMNumber 1:
Edie Sedgwick the most beautiful member of the factory.
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Thu, December 30, 2004 - 10:31 PMlou reed
and 2nd it would nico
and 3rd it would andys wiggs
then edies sedwick but she was a total burn out,
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Thu, December 30, 2004 - 10:50 PMYes yes yes,
I love Lou
I love Nico...german model/erie singer...the velvets and nico...classic.
And no doubt Edie was fried, but she's still an idol in my eyes.
God bless the days of the amphetamine.
P.S. Nice call out on the wigs...would've never thought to include em
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Sun, October 30, 2005 - 8:26 PMTHANK YOU!!!!!!!!! i went on this thread and almost fucking threw up my toast with vegan spread.
EDIE WAS THE ONLY FUCKING SUPERSTAR.................................PERIOD. -
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Mon, December 19, 2005 - 9:58 AMI went into a mental war when I read this topic...WHO the fuck was a REAL WARHOL SUPERSTAR!!!!!!!! CANDY DARLING was the only real superstar..She was a walking, breathing, singing danceing, cocksucking illusionist....That my dear is what stars are ...They are illusions, They don't really exist.... -
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Wed, December 21, 2005 - 12:48 PMAn illusion exists as much as anything darling, although I see what you were thinking when you wrote that...Warhol Superstars? Out of the many spiral arms of them that there is, Mark Whalberg sprang to mind.I happened to be listenening to 'Good Vibrations' by 'Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch', follow that to 'Three Kings' and beyond and you have but one example of the thousands of Warhol Superstars out there, all be it bastards...some brighter...some not so...but in my illusion that is real...very Andrew...x -
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Mon, December 26, 2005 - 6:33 AMreality... Is never a issue.... To a fairytale creature..... -
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Fri, January 13, 2006 - 12:00 PMAmerican clitoris
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Mon, July 18, 2005 - 1:48 PMEasy one for me. I am from Pittsburgh, Warhol's home town. My uncle went to Carnegie Mellon with Warhol and when I was in high school he talked about Andy's success and the strange underground films he was making.
When I was in senior high school in 1971 I snuck out to see Warhol's FLESH (1968) which was screening at the university. There is a scene where transvestites Jackie Curtis and Candy Darling sit on a couch discussing a movie magazine while right in front of them stripper Geri Miller gives hunky Joe Dallesandro a blowjob! I was hooked. This was the scene I wanted to be a part of, these were my people! I was already making my own films in high school and from that moment was determined to go to New York to NYU film school and meet the Warhol crowd... and that is exactly what happened!
Two days after my dad dropped me off at the dorm on Washington Square I met Jackie Curtis. We became friends and through Jackie I met Andy Warhol, Candy Darling, Holly Woodlawn, and many of the others and hung around with them at Max's Kansas City. For the next 13 years I recorded Jackie's plays, poetry and perfomances on videotape and film... the beginning of my 2004 documentary, and now 2005 book/DVD "Superstar in a Housedress" - which is loaded with Warhol stories.
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Tue, April 4, 2006 - 8:22 AMMy fav I think would be Edie, I guess because she was the epitome of cool,, vulnerability and devil may care attitude... Nico would be a close second, when I listen to her music I can feel her misery and uniqueness, she was very cool but selfish as hell from what I have read.... drugs... who fucking needs 'em -
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Mon, May 29, 2006 - 7:09 PMWay cool, Craig!
I've always been kinda partial to Eric Emerson myself, that balletic, priapic, and generally way out there guy. From the sound of it he was an acid casualty, but quite the entertaining one.
And also Ondine, just on principle.
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Tue, May 30, 2006 - 6:36 AMCANDY DARLING - someone I would have been proud to have gone shopping/clubbing with!
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Fri, November 24, 2006 - 6:45 PMANDREA "Whips" FELDMAN.
In a class by herself.
that voice!
"Is-it-Acid?-"Is-it-Acid?-"Is-it-Acid?"
LOVE JANE FORTH and VIVA tooo!!
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