Edie Sedgwick

  • I was always intimidated and self-conscious when I talked to her or was in her presence because she was like art. I mean, she was an object that had been very strongly, effectively created. (Robert Rauschenberg, Edie: An American Biography, 1982) George Plimpton did an excellent job editing all the interviews Jean Stein gathered for

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  • Factory Girl

    How different would Factory Girl have been if Andy Warhol were still alive? Would he have threatened to sue like Bob Dylan?  Or would have cursed it out like Lou Reed? He called it, “one of the most disgusting, foul things I’ve seen — by any illiterate retard — in a long time. There’s no

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