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I hope they're still working on Girl On Fire and it will be more than 30 minutes. That article may have meant they're showing clips of it and not the final documentary.
 
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Hey peeps - do any of you know about Edie's photos being in the public domain or not? I'd like to use a photo of her face on a course poster for a class I am teaching in which I'll be teaching her book but it needs to be copyright approved. Since some of you -Lupe?- seem to have access to a lot of images, I thought I'd ask. Cheers! :flower:
 
I kinda have a feeling that the Girl On Fire documentary is only half an hour long, because from the way the clip we saw was constructed (starting from the beginning of Edie's audio tape, to the montage at the end), it gave the effect of being already finished. However, Melissa Painter and David Weisman said work on Girl On Fire was on hiatus after that clip was released, so who knows?
 
Well, anyone who bought the Girl On Fire book has heard most of that audio and most of the footage is from Ciao Manhattan and the Ciao Manhattan outtakes so that would be really disappointing if that was all of it!
 
I was told by someone, that some of the funding for the documentary was spent on things unrelated to Girl on Fire, which is why the documentary hasn't been completed yet. According to the edienation myspace, Smoke & Wallow is said to have gone to points of interest related to Edie... (which I haven't seen in the 27 minute video). David Weisman should seriously address this situation on the Edienation website, which hasn't been updated in over two years.

This documentary is several years over due.

p.s. does anyone have the 27 minute video anywhere?
 
I downloaded the 27 minute "Girl on Fire," but it's in FLV format. So you might want to download a FLV player.

here's the link to download it. http://www.zshare.net/video/7962508907d7a2a0/

Not Plain Jane said:
Hey peeps - do any of you know about Edie's photos being in the public domain or not? I'd like to use a photo of her face on a course poster for a class I am teaching in which I'll be teaching her book but it needs to be copyright approved. Since some of you -Lupe?- seem to have access to a lot of images, I thought I'd ask. Cheers! :flower:
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I have no idea. All of the images and information that I find, I scour through tons of books and magazines and newspapers. It's funny to go to random places on the internet and see images that I've collected. But I scanned them for that purpose, and glad to see people using them.
 
I was reading about Nico/Jim Morrison and found some info that discusses Edie:

Andy Warhol wanted Nico and Jim Morrison t make a feature length film
together. He was bucked by the commercial success of The Chelsea
Girls and he knew that Nico had a lot to do with it. "He wanted
to me to make a film with Jim Morrison, though he pretended that it was my
idea. He wanted a pop star in his film. While I was at The Castle I
looked after Edie who had joined me. She told me to be careful of Andy
because he would use me to get more famous and then forget me when he
wanted. Well, I had already thought of that. I was not so dependent
on Andy as Edie, I mean not for my career. So Edie said that I should
do the film but with somebody else instead of Jim. So I did. Andy was
expecting Jim and instead I took Jim's friend, who was an actor
called Tom Baker. Andy could not chastise me, but he was annoyed.
This became the beginning of the end."

That was how Nico told the story. However, Jim Morrison had no desire
to make a film with Nico anyway, not even a photograph. Danny Fields
recalled that "I wanted him to do a photo session with Nico, but
he refused to do it. He'd never say no, but he'd never turn up.
Nico would be waiting at the location and Morrison was always nowhere to
be seen. He didn't want to pose with a woman, and I don't
blame him – his instincts were right. Posing with a woman would have diffused his
image, and he wanted to remain aloof." To save face, Nico took
Tom Baker, a kind of "next best thing" in her view, over to
Warhol, though this handsome Hollywood actor was probably a better performer
than Morrison. There is one other aspect to this that Nico confided
at the time to Tina Aumont but never mentioned again, She spent some
time with Edie and they had sex with each other. Nico's new film was called, I, A Man.
(page 189-190)

Has anyone read anything else about Edie and Nico sleeping together??
 
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I remember reading that somewhere before. In Nico Icon one of Nico's friends said that Nico would tell people she was a lesbian so that men would leave her alone.
 
^The music in the Ciao! Manhattan Tapes sounds very similar to the music used in the actual film, which was done by Gino Piserchio.

I found a quote about Edie from Danny Fields in Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk:

"Edie Sedgwick was close with all those people who were close to the Kennedys. Edie had affairs with a couple of them, didn't she? I think one would come in the front door and the other brother would go out the back. So it was at the same time, but not the same minute. Everyone knew that. I loved Bobby Kennedy. He was my political idol. Sometimes Edie would say about Bobby, "Oh, he was so cute and cuddly," but I wasn't going to ask her about him. I mean, what are you going to ask, "Does he have a big dick?"

Interesting, in Jean Stein's bio it's implied that Edie and Bobby never got to meet.
 
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