Andy Warhol & The Factory
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Here is another review of the book. Mine wasn't very descriptive. 
Mary Woronov casts a cool eye over her time at Andy Warhol's Factory in Swimming Underground
A doctor might make a great deal of Mary Woronov's reminiscences, her refusal to have sex, her so-called experiments in which she encouraged female friends to sleep with the men she desired, her copious drug-taking, her apparent self-hatred - unless the doctor were her own stepfather.
One of Woronov's most incredible assertions is that her parents (one of whom was an eminent surgeon) were not aware she was a drug addict. As a speed freak who watched the man she loved inject himself in his eyeball and whose best friend was given heroin in a casual act of malice, the teenage Woronov would stumble home after several days' absence to devour half the contents of her parents' fridge, wolfing down entire cakes before sleeping for 36 hours only to disappear again, incoherent and full of rage. In the face of this behaviour, such ignorance seems as implausible as Woronov's statement that she did not use make-up. Each of Billy Name's photographs reveal her to be wearing something suspiciously like eyeliner and lipstick.
In the 13 years since the death of Andy Warhol the Factory has maintained a different production line; namely, a series of memoirs from most of Warhol's considerable entourage. Woronov's slender autobiography does not shed any new light on an artist about whom we have already learnt all it is possible to know. Instead, she has taken up a Warhol suggestion - 'If you really believe in nothing you can write a book about it' - and made it riveting.
Woronov was a Cornell student when she attended a screen test at the Factory. Once there she never left, going on to star in several of Warhol's films, including Chelsea Girls. With shafts of cool, self-deprecating humour, Woronov mocks her work and her vanity: 'Couldn't [my mother] see that I was a great actress? Why, just last week I met Tennessee Williams at the Factory, and although he was too drunk to know who I was, I knew who he was.'
Woronov is at her most venomous and most compelling describing the futility and desperation of the Warhol camp. Their drug-induced jealousies, paranoia and sheer viciousness create a siege mentality where they are hostages to their own addictions. Woronov's bleak, dry wit is a cathartic relief in the face of nightmare tales.
She describes her own stalker, the detested Vera Cruz, as 'a bottomless pit, ugly too, short with a turd-shaped body one could only imagine floating dead in a porcelain bowl.' Cruz was born without a vagina, 'a deformity that made her instantly famous in my crowd'. And in any, one would imagine. Cruz eventually had a vagina built and, post op, invited several men, including a willing John Cale, into her bed.
This book is obscenely interesting: absurd, lurid, and grandiose.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/warhol/story/0,,637642,00.html#article_continue
Mary Woronov casts a cool eye over her time at Andy Warhol's Factory in Swimming Underground
A doctor might make a great deal of Mary Woronov's reminiscences, her refusal to have sex, her so-called experiments in which she encouraged female friends to sleep with the men she desired, her copious drug-taking, her apparent self-hatred - unless the doctor were her own stepfather.
One of Woronov's most incredible assertions is that her parents (one of whom was an eminent surgeon) were not aware she was a drug addict. As a speed freak who watched the man she loved inject himself in his eyeball and whose best friend was given heroin in a casual act of malice, the teenage Woronov would stumble home after several days' absence to devour half the contents of her parents' fridge, wolfing down entire cakes before sleeping for 36 hours only to disappear again, incoherent and full of rage. In the face of this behaviour, such ignorance seems as implausible as Woronov's statement that she did not use make-up. Each of Billy Name's photographs reveal her to be wearing something suspiciously like eyeliner and lipstick.
In the 13 years since the death of Andy Warhol the Factory has maintained a different production line; namely, a series of memoirs from most of Warhol's considerable entourage. Woronov's slender autobiography does not shed any new light on an artist about whom we have already learnt all it is possible to know. Instead, she has taken up a Warhol suggestion - 'If you really believe in nothing you can write a book about it' - and made it riveting.
Woronov was a Cornell student when she attended a screen test at the Factory. Once there she never left, going on to star in several of Warhol's films, including Chelsea Girls. With shafts of cool, self-deprecating humour, Woronov mocks her work and her vanity: 'Couldn't [my mother] see that I was a great actress? Why, just last week I met Tennessee Williams at the Factory, and although he was too drunk to know who I was, I knew who he was.'
Woronov is at her most venomous and most compelling describing the futility and desperation of the Warhol camp. Their drug-induced jealousies, paranoia and sheer viciousness create a siege mentality where they are hostages to their own addictions. Woronov's bleak, dry wit is a cathartic relief in the face of nightmare tales.
She describes her own stalker, the detested Vera Cruz, as 'a bottomless pit, ugly too, short with a turd-shaped body one could only imagine floating dead in a porcelain bowl.' Cruz was born without a vagina, 'a deformity that made her instantly famous in my crowd'. And in any, one would imagine. Cruz eventually had a vagina built and, post op, invited several men, including a willing John Cale, into her bed.
This book is obscenely interesting: absurd, lurid, and grandiose.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/warhol/story/0,,637642,00.html#article_continue
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The Factory people were reunited for December Art issue of Vanity Fair with Brad Pitt(i think on the cover)!!!!
Does anyone have it?Scans of the pictures and article would be sooooo appreciated!
Here is the video of the shoot: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/video/2006/12/warhol_video200612
Does anyone have it?Scans of the pictures and article would be sooooo appreciated!
Here is the video of the shoot: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/video/2006/12/warhol_video200612
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Emil said:
That was great
I had a hard time identifying everyone though
It would be nice to see the photos
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^^Hahah me too.
OMG Holy not in drag that was surprising and Jane still looks gorgeus and her hair is so beautiful.
I would love to read the article,hopefuly someone will scan it.
OMG Holy not in drag
that was surprising and Jane still looks gorgeus and her hair is so beautiful. I would love to read the article,hopefuly someone will scan it.
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Oh wow! as Andy would say. Marvelous. I'm reading Ultra Violet's book now. Looks great
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60swildchild said:
I'm reading it now too
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Ohh yes please do...thank you!fairyx said:
And yes it was defiently hard to identify them!
I was so disappointed when I saw what was in Vanity Fair... I thought it would be a big article, but it was one picture, over 1½ pages, I hate when pictures get cut up like that... and there was a little text on the side.
Half of the people I didn´t even recognize...
anyway... here´s the scans
http://hem.passagen.se/fairyx/Articles/factory1.JPG
http://hem.passagen.se/fairyx/Articles/factory2.JPG
Half of the people I didn´t even recognize...
anyway... here´s the scans
http://hem.passagen.se/fairyx/Articles/factory1.JPG
http://hem.passagen.se/fairyx/Articles/factory2.JPG
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^^WOW thats it?
You are right that is very disappointing,i mean this was a great platfrom for a excellent article and all they do is that?
Thanks a lot for the scans. 
You are right that is very disappointing,i mean this was a great platfrom for a excellent article and all they do is that?
Thanks a lot for the scans.
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fairyx said:
Me either
Thanks for scanning that article.
Funny they talk about the divine Joe Dallasandro in LA. I had a friend who met him earlier in the year and he was living in a seedy hotel in LA. He stole money from her to buy drugs. She was very disappointed with her encounter with him.
I saw a Gap ad he did with Kate Moss a few years ago and he looked good, now not so great
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That is so sad.IcePrincess said:Funny they talk about the divine Joe Dallasandro in LA. I had a friend who met him earlier in the year and he was living in a seedy hotel in LA. He stole money from her to buy drugs. She was very disappointed with her encounter with him.
I saw a Gap ad he did with Kate Moss a few years ago and he looked good, now not so great
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I really wanted to see Gerard Malanga. IcePrincess, are finishd reading Ultra Violet's book? I'm almost there. I Shot Andy Warhol was on cable the other night. Highly recommended just for Lili Taylor's performance and the music score.
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60swildchild said:
Almost done
I got screwed over on my DVD order of Brigid Berlin's 'Pie in the Sky'
I have wrote several e-mails to them and never got a response.Don't ever buy anything from digitaleyesnet</SPAN>
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What a fascinating group of people... were all the members of the factory poor little rich kids though? It seems like it.
I don't think there will ever be another time in history like the sixties and seventies... if the war in Iraq continues, however, I do think we could see the beginnings of another era of enraged youth releasing their anger and creativity in a very artistic fashion. Only with less drugs.
I don't think there will ever be another time in history like the sixties and seventies... if the war in Iraq continues, however, I do think we could see the beginnings of another era of enraged youth releasing their anger and creativity in a very artistic fashion. Only with less drugs.
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So 'Pie in the Sky' is a movie?I thought its a book?!?!
What kind of movie is it?Warhol/Morissey?
What kind of movie is it?Warhol/Morissey?
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KhaoticKharma said:What a fascinating group of people... were all the members of the factory poor little rich kids though? It seems like it.
I don't think there will ever be another time in history like the sixties and seventies... if the war in Iraq continues, however, I do think we could see the beginnings of another era of enraged youth releasing their anger and creativity in a very artistic fashion. Only with less drugs.
gosh, wow that makes so more sense, you seem really intelligent..i would love another factory era
xx KhaoticKharma who was your favourite member of the factory?xx
