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^Yeah, they got that one right but a lot of the dresses in the movie i've never seen Edie wear. And Edie didn't wear boots and a hat with that dress eaither.
What I don't get is that the director of Factory Girl did the documentary Mayor of the Sunset Strip. It's a really good documentary, so i don't get why the guy didn't just make a REALLY good documentary about Edie. That way everyone could see what she was really like and how she really dressed and see lots a rare footage and pictures.
What I don't get is that the director of Factory Girl did the documentary Mayor of the Sunset Strip. It's a really good documentary, so i don't get why the guy didn't just make a REALLY good documentary about Edie. That way everyone could see what she was really like and how she really dressed and see lots a rare footage and pictures.
yes! I would love for someone to make a docu about her. I hope the rumors are true and that Sofia Coppola is going to do a film about her 
Wooosh...sienna looks kinda trampy in the edie outfit. The four inch heels were a bad addition imo.
I hope they use the snap dresses or the ones with the reeeally long sleeves!.... idk i'm not that impressed with the wardrobe so far...
Wooosh...sienna looks kinda trampy in the edie outfit. The four inch heels were a bad addition imo.
I hope they use the snap dresses or the ones with the reeeally long sleeves!.... idk i'm not that impressed with the wardrobe so far...rocketqueen707
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This is the summary of Factory Girl from one of Sienna's sites. It gets me kinda mad being that it's all completely made up. This is not how Edie's story should be portrayed it's all fallacies created by some half-***ed screenwriter. I hope that I'm wrong and that it comes out good but I'm praying for the day that someone can adapt her real life onto the screen it doesn't even matter if it gets all this huge exposure as long as it gets exposure for all the right reasons. Well here's the link to the summary.http://www.sienna-online.org/sienna/films/factorygirl.php
And I've made an account on photobucket and now you guys can see all the pictures that I've collected of Edie.
hope you like ithttp://photobucket.com/albums/c248/Poor_Little_Rich_Girl/Edie%20Sedgwick/
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Rocketqueen how very nice of you to share your pics, thanks so much! I actually haven't seen most of them!
I forgot what a great pair of legs Edie had, and for such a petite girl... And I've never understood people who say Sienna was miscast- in some of those pics of Edie I had to look again to make sure it wasn't Sienna!!
Maybe the real Edie story is judged as being too heavy...? It's kind of like "Gia", just not any fun to see...I don't know, but I keep hoping it will be a decent movie, at least, even if it is fanciful...
I forgot what a great pair of legs Edie had, and for such a petite girl... And I've never understood people who say Sienna was miscast- in some of those pics of Edie I had to look again to make sure it wasn't Sienna!!
Maybe the real Edie story is judged as being too heavy...? It's kind of like "Gia", just not any fun to see...I don't know, but I keep hoping it will be a decent movie, at least, even if it is fanciful...
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You can do it with a gif animator.
Here's a link to a NYTimes article about Edie and "Factory Girl":
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/movies/19moer.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/movies/19moer.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Link found on Imdb.com
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Could you tell us briefly what that article says?I do not want to register there just to read it......please?
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Thank you GuessGirl.
I think that New York Times article has allready been posted.
I think that New York Times article has allready been posted.
Re: Times Article
I have an even better idea: Beat the Times at it's own game!!
Here you go:
February 19, 2006 NY Freakin' Times (It didn't really say that...)
Ciao, Edie: Warhol Girl Gets 15 More Minutes
By CHRISTIAN MOERK
IN life, when she provoked Princess Di-size press gaggles as the embodiment of the mid-60's youthquake, New York-style, Edie Sedgwick had all the ingredients for tabloid stardom. She came from money but seemed not to care, had looks that almost made people forget about her wholesome doppelgänger Audrey Hepburn and, most important, nobody really knew anything about the socialite-turned-Warhol girl, though many thought they did.
Uncertainties still linger as the first feature film treatment of her heady life, "Factory Girl," directed by George Hickenlooper, is wrapping up its shoot on location in Shreveport, La. Film industry giants like Warren Beatty and Mike Nichols have been circling Sedgwick's story for more than a decade, but the makers of "Factory," which will be distributed by the Weinstein Company, have chosen to tell the tale largely by retracing her steps and ignoring the books about her life and her world. In the process, they learned that their fascination had much to do with trying to answer why she was a star at all.
"Why make the movie?" Mr. Hickenlooper, reached by telephone on location, asked rhetorically. When first presented last year with a script written by Captain Mauzner, the co-screenwriter of "Wonderland" (about the p*rn star John Holmes), the last thing he wanted to do was a biopic.
Then he started reading. "I related to Edie," said Mr. Hickenlooper, who previously directed "Mayor of the Sunset Strip" about the iconoclastic rock impresario Rodney Bingenheimer. "In my eyes, she was a metaphor, a quintessential definition of being famous for 15 minutes. I could connect to it on a visceral level."
In the shooting script, the life of Sedgwick — an offspring of the Massachusetts upper crust who enjoyed a remarkably brief moment as Manhattan's favorite party girl and underground film star — isn't portrayed in a linear fashion, from youth through death. (Sedgwick died of a barbiturate intoxication in 1971 at 28.) Rather, the film focuses on the short time around 1965 when her furiously chronicled pas de deux with Andy Warhol resulted in fame and a rapid flameout.
She is presented, Mr. Hickenlooper said, as "this young, sweet girl who wanted to be loved, and came to New York, met the wrong guy, who ate her up and spat her out." Throughout, the fictionalized Edie, played by the British actress Sienna Miller, is unable to stem the tide of fame that grabs her, elevates her and precipitates her demise. Warhol, played by the Australian actor Guy Pearce, passive-aggressively toys with her before losing interest.
With the extremely popular 1982 Jean Stein oral history "Edie: An American Biography" looming over the project, the filmmakers opted instead to interview as many of Sedgwick's old contacts as they could, and build the story on what they found. The script is populated by a myriad of composite characters, most notably one who's an amalgamation of Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger. The film promises to be interpretative, not literal.
Holly Wiersma — who is producing the film with the heads of the Louisiana Institute of Film Technology, J. Malcolm Petal and Kimberly C. Anderson — stumbled onto Edie's story by accident a couple of years ago. "To be honest, I was sitting in my hair salon reading Beverly Hills 213," she said, referring to a free magazine devoted to the rich and famous. What caught her eye was an article written by a pair of gossip columnists, Richard and Robert Dupont, about another Warholite, Brigid Berlin. Like Sedgwick, Ms. Berlin was a wayward socialite, a type that seemed to appeal to Warhol.
Ms. Berlin, the subject of the often harrowing 2000 documentary "Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story," was one of the more integral occupants of Warhol's creative Factory, and Ms. Wiersma decided to investigate Sedgwick's life through Ms. Berlin's. Soon, Ms. Wiersma, the Duponts and Mr. Mauzner were talking to Ms. Berlin and her sister, Richie, as well as other Factory intimates like Gerard Malanga.
Mr. Mauzner began to write a first draft of the script. Ms. Wiersma said that was when the trouble started. A rights holder to "Ciao, Manhattan" — the 1972 film starring Sedgwick as a doomed starlet, a thinly veiled docudrama of the era she had by then nearly left behind — contacted her and wanted to be included in the new production. Ms. Wiersma refused.
(Earlier this month, Sony Pictures' entertainment unit filed suit against Ms. Wiersma and the production, claiming that Sony had a signed agreement under which it was the film's distributor. In an e-mailed statement by Ms. Wiersma's publicist, Ms. Wiersma said she wasn't responsible for choosing the film's distributor, but added: "I hoped to have a distributor that believed in the movie as much as I did and Harvey Weinstein is that person.")
Fearing additional legal stumbling blocks if she went anywhere near the Jean Stein book for material, Ms. Wiersma, along with Mr. Mauzner and Mr. Hickenlooper, penetrated Edie's world exclusively through sit-downs with old friends and acquaintances. But among people who survived the 1960's, the most heavily medicated era in American history, clear facts — even from those who knew Sedgwick — were hard to come by.
Mr. Mauzner didn't respond to the Edie mystique until he watched "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and came to see Sedgwick, in his words, as "Audrey Hepburn turned inside out."
Like Mr. Hickenlooper, Mr. Mauzner has been pondering the currency of a movie about someone who was famous, but essentially unknown. "We're living in the time of the 'It' girl, and today, because of the technology, they're spat out much faster than before," he said.
One person who remembers unequivocally what the real Sedgwick was like — and knows why she continues to mesmerize today — is Michael Post, her husband at the time of her death. Reached by phone at the "Factory Girl" production office, where he's a consultant (he has a bit part in the film), Mr. Post, a 55-year-old Postal Service employee, took a long moment to think before answering.
"I've spent about five years counseling guys with alcohol or drug problems," said Mr. Post, who met his wife in Santa Barbara, Calif., during a 1969 stint in rehab. "They have this hopeless look in their eyes, encouraging me to give them some hope. I saw some of that in Edie's eyes as she met her demise."
Having watched Ms. Miller on the set, Mr. Post said he had no doubt that her performance would help audiences to overcome any lack of knowledge about Sedgwick. Just recently, he sat offstage listening to Ms. Miller doing a scene, thinking it was a taped version of Edie. "I couldn't tell the difference with my eyes closed," he says. "It was like watching Edie go to work."
Little Tiny said:
I have an even better idea: Beat the Times at it's own game!!
Here you go:
February 19, 2006 NY Freakin' Times (It didn't really say that...)
Ciao, Edie: Warhol Girl Gets 15 More Minutes
By CHRISTIAN MOERK
IN life, when she provoked Princess Di-size press gaggles as the embodiment of the mid-60's youthquake, New York-style, Edie Sedgwick had all the ingredients for tabloid stardom. She came from money but seemed not to care, had looks that almost made people forget about her wholesome doppelgänger Audrey Hepburn and, most important, nobody really knew anything about the socialite-turned-Warhol girl, though many thought they did.
Uncertainties still linger as the first feature film treatment of her heady life, "Factory Girl," directed by George Hickenlooper, is wrapping up its shoot on location in Shreveport, La. Film industry giants like Warren Beatty and Mike Nichols have been circling Sedgwick's story for more than a decade, but the makers of "Factory," which will be distributed by the Weinstein Company, have chosen to tell the tale largely by retracing her steps and ignoring the books about her life and her world. In the process, they learned that their fascination had much to do with trying to answer why she was a star at all.
"Why make the movie?" Mr. Hickenlooper, reached by telephone on location, asked rhetorically. When first presented last year with a script written by Captain Mauzner, the co-screenwriter of "Wonderland" (about the p*rn star John Holmes), the last thing he wanted to do was a biopic.
Then he started reading. "I related to Edie," said Mr. Hickenlooper, who previously directed "Mayor of the Sunset Strip" about the iconoclastic rock impresario Rodney Bingenheimer. "In my eyes, she was a metaphor, a quintessential definition of being famous for 15 minutes. I could connect to it on a visceral level."
In the shooting script, the life of Sedgwick — an offspring of the Massachusetts upper crust who enjoyed a remarkably brief moment as Manhattan's favorite party girl and underground film star — isn't portrayed in a linear fashion, from youth through death. (Sedgwick died of a barbiturate intoxication in 1971 at 28.) Rather, the film focuses on the short time around 1965 when her furiously chronicled pas de deux with Andy Warhol resulted in fame and a rapid flameout.
She is presented, Mr. Hickenlooper said, as "this young, sweet girl who wanted to be loved, and came to New York, met the wrong guy, who ate her up and spat her out." Throughout, the fictionalized Edie, played by the British actress Sienna Miller, is unable to stem the tide of fame that grabs her, elevates her and precipitates her demise. Warhol, played by the Australian actor Guy Pearce, passive-aggressively toys with her before losing interest.
With the extremely popular 1982 Jean Stein oral history "Edie: An American Biography" looming over the project, the filmmakers opted instead to interview as many of Sedgwick's old contacts as they could, and build the story on what they found. The script is populated by a myriad of composite characters, most notably one who's an amalgamation of Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger. The film promises to be interpretative, not literal.
Holly Wiersma — who is producing the film with the heads of the Louisiana Institute of Film Technology, J. Malcolm Petal and Kimberly C. Anderson — stumbled onto Edie's story by accident a couple of years ago. "To be honest, I was sitting in my hair salon reading Beverly Hills 213," she said, referring to a free magazine devoted to the rich and famous. What caught her eye was an article written by a pair of gossip columnists, Richard and Robert Dupont, about another Warholite, Brigid Berlin. Like Sedgwick, Ms. Berlin was a wayward socialite, a type that seemed to appeal to Warhol.
Ms. Berlin, the subject of the often harrowing 2000 documentary "Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story," was one of the more integral occupants of Warhol's creative Factory, and Ms. Wiersma decided to investigate Sedgwick's life through Ms. Berlin's. Soon, Ms. Wiersma, the Duponts and Mr. Mauzner were talking to Ms. Berlin and her sister, Richie, as well as other Factory intimates like Gerard Malanga.
Mr. Mauzner began to write a first draft of the script. Ms. Wiersma said that was when the trouble started. A rights holder to "Ciao, Manhattan" — the 1972 film starring Sedgwick as a doomed starlet, a thinly veiled docudrama of the era she had by then nearly left behind — contacted her and wanted to be included in the new production. Ms. Wiersma refused.
(Earlier this month, Sony Pictures' entertainment unit filed suit against Ms. Wiersma and the production, claiming that Sony had a signed agreement under which it was the film's distributor. In an e-mailed statement by Ms. Wiersma's publicist, Ms. Wiersma said she wasn't responsible for choosing the film's distributor, but added: "I hoped to have a distributor that believed in the movie as much as I did and Harvey Weinstein is that person.")
Fearing additional legal stumbling blocks if she went anywhere near the Jean Stein book for material, Ms. Wiersma, along with Mr. Mauzner and Mr. Hickenlooper, penetrated Edie's world exclusively through sit-downs with old friends and acquaintances. But among people who survived the 1960's, the most heavily medicated era in American history, clear facts — even from those who knew Sedgwick — were hard to come by.
Mr. Mauzner didn't respond to the Edie mystique until he watched "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and came to see Sedgwick, in his words, as "Audrey Hepburn turned inside out."
Like Mr. Hickenlooper, Mr. Mauzner has been pondering the currency of a movie about someone who was famous, but essentially unknown. "We're living in the time of the 'It' girl, and today, because of the technology, they're spat out much faster than before," he said.
One person who remembers unequivocally what the real Sedgwick was like — and knows why she continues to mesmerize today — is Michael Post, her husband at the time of her death. Reached by phone at the "Factory Girl" production office, where he's a consultant (he has a bit part in the film), Mr. Post, a 55-year-old Postal Service employee, took a long moment to think before answering.
"I've spent about five years counseling guys with alcohol or drug problems," said Mr. Post, who met his wife in Santa Barbara, Calif., during a 1969 stint in rehab. "They have this hopeless look in their eyes, encouraging me to give them some hope. I saw some of that in Edie's eyes as she met her demise."
Having watched Ms. Miller on the set, Mr. Post said he had no doubt that her performance would help audiences to overcome any lack of knowledge about Sedgwick. Just recently, he sat offstage listening to Ms. Miller doing a scene, thinking it was a taped version of Edie. "I couldn't tell the difference with my eyes closed," he says. "It was like watching Edie go to work."
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THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH BOOMER!!!!!!
yea,I did read that somewhere else........but thank you for letting me be sure.
This movie is really getting me down,I cant wait for it to come out and be over with.
yea,I did read that somewhere else........but thank you for letting me be sure.
This movie is really getting me down,I cant wait for it to come out and be over with.
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What's with all the Mr's and Ms's in that NY Times article. George peckerloopen--whatever, really went about it the wrong way. Mr. Post consulting gives me a ray of hope that maybe this movie can be good. But when it comes to whose opinion has more weight, I think Lou Reed (He called everyone involved with the movie 'whores' or something like that) has a better knowledge of how Edie was during the time slot that this movie is being made about. I really never questioned the way Sienna would play her, because it's not like I know yet nor do I know how the finishing product of the movie will come out. I desperately hope this movie comes out to prove me wrong, like Little Tiny said 'to get it over with'. 'It' being the hype and our illusions and disillusions about Factory Girl. There's really nothing wrong with biopics if you ask me. I've suddenly had a change of heart and I want this movie to come out good, I just hope Scorscese or some other great director will write this down, biopics get apraisal, good biopics get oscars-- no wait they already do know that (The Aviator, Walk the Line (Pending), Ray). Please lets all pray that Sienna, George, the writers, and just Factory Girl in general does Edie justice and give us a great idea of how her life was. Well enough about that. I need to shut up about Factory Girl, eh?
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No, Rocket baby, rock on... But I wish I could get HBOs "Gia" from a couple of years ago out of my head... It was well done (and is worth finding if you haven't seen it), pretty much started Angelina Jolie's whole career but was so heavy and disturbing (and by all accounts, pretty true to life) it was almost too painful to watch...very sad and very much like Edie's saga. I just hope this isn't another big downer that everyone is sorry they ever made...
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When GIA was first happening noone thought Angelina nailed and really if you read Gia's story the movie doesnt stick to it.Gia's friends from back in the day also complained about Angie playing her,including Janice.This just happens every time a movie is done on a true life-
now Angie is a star and GIA is one of her important roles,Sienna may get the same with Factory Girl.The way the stories are being told sounds about the same.
When GIA was first happening noone thought Angelina nailed and really if you read Gia's story the movie doesnt stick to it.Gia's friends from back in the day also complained about Angie playing her,including Janice.This just happens every time a movie is done on a true life-
now Angie is a star and GIA is one of her important roles,Sienna may get the same with Factory Girl.The way the stories are being told sounds about the same.
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big.mui said:
When it was first published it was Edie: An American Biography. Later, they renamed it Edie: American Girl. They probably thought that it sounded more fun and apealing that way.
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I thought Gia was a good movie, it just wasn't good for being based on the real Gia. That's how i think the Edie movie will be. Basically suck for that reason.
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yea,i agree-I like the movie GIA even though I had read the book and it wasnt too factual.I just dont want the Edie movie to be simple and make Edie look like nothing but a rich brat-like paris hilton.Edie had alot of magic and she was very different for her time and most people say she was adorable.
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Does anyone have a larger version of this picture? I don't think i've seen it before.
http://www.livejournal.com/userpic/42114973/9480743
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