POPism (45 page)

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The superstars from the old Factory days didn't come around to the new Factory much. Some of them said they didn't feel comfortable with the whiteness of the place. When people called up looking for them (magazines doing stories or model agencies with jobs or just old friends of theirs who'd lost touch), we'd try to find out where they were staying and we'd leave messages around town for them. But things had changed.

By the end of '69, after the yes-no-maybes/it's on-it's offs from L.A. had dragged on for a whole year, we were restless to get started on another movie.

Paul was tired of drugs being glamorized, he told me—especially in the movies. He wanted to completely take the romanticism away from drug-taking—shoot a movie about a Lower East Side junkie and just call it
Trash
. It sounded like a good idea to me and I said sure, to go ahead.

The cast was a new, younger, post-Pop group of kids (like Jane Forth, a sixteen-year-old beauty with great shaved eyebrows and Wesson-oiled hair). All the morality and restrictions that the early superstars had rebelled against seemed so far away—as unreal as the Victorian era seems to everybody today. Pop wasn't an issue or an option for this new wave: it was all they'd ever known.

Some of those kids who were so special to us, who made our sixties scene what it was, died young in the seventies.

Edie stayed out in California, living quietly. She even got married. But she was in and out of hospitals and in 1971 she died of “acute barbital intoxication.”

One day little Andrea Feldman left some notes in the apartment where she lived with her family at Fifth Avenue and 12th Street. She said she was “heading for the Big Time” and then jumped out the fourteenth-floor window, clutching a Bible and a crucifix.

They found Eric Emerson one early morning in the middle of Hudson Street. Officially, he was labeled a hit-and-run victim, but we heard rumors that he'd overdosed and just been dumped there—in any case, the bicycle he'd been riding was intact.

Candy Darling never made it to Hollywood. Tennes see starred her in his off-Broadway play
Small Craft Warnings
, and that was the closest she ever came to regular show business. In 1974 she got cancer and lay dying for weeks at Columbus Hospital, just a few blocks from the Factory. Then she had the movie star's funeral she'd always wanted, uptown at Frank Campbell's.

One morning when we got to the Factory, the door to the darkroom at the back where Billy had locked himself in for two years was open and he was gone. The room smelled horrible.

There were literally thousands of cigarette butts in it and astrology-type charts all over the walls. We had the mess cleared out and the black walls painted white. A few weeks later we leased a copying machine and it became the Xerox room. About a year later someone told us they'd seen him in San Francisco, but I never saw or heard from him again after the note he'd tacked to the wall when he left that night. It said:

****,
272
,
291
,
317–18

a
,
362
,
363

Abagnalo, George,
368

Agnelli, Gianni,
46

Agnelli, Marella,
246–47

Allen, Peter,
151–52

Allen, Woody,
141

Amaya, Mario,
342
,
344
,
345

America, Paul,
94
,
157
,
158
,
323

American Ballet Theater,
72

Amos, Stanley,
67–69
,
74–75
,
197–201
,
250

Amram, David,
39

Andersen, Eric,
134–35

Andress, Ursula,
141

Animals,
88

Anthology Film Archives,
61

Antonio, Emile de (“De”),
3–7
,
11–15
,
26
,
30–31
,
37
,
38–39
,
60
,
61
,
110
,
112–14

Antonioni, Michelangelo,
267

Arbus, Diane,
335

Ari (Nico's son),
230–31

Arman,
179

Arthur (club),
144
,
153
,
181
,
237
,
238
,
241
,
242

Ashbery, John,
18

Ast, Pat,
354

Atlantic Monthly, The
,
119

Baby Jane.
See
Holzer, Baby Jane

Bacall, Lauren,
247

Baez, Joan,
277

Bailey, Alice,
365

Bailey, David,
35
,
75–76
,
102

Baker, Tom,
287
,
297
,
312
,
317

Balart, Waldo,
142–43
,
144

Baldwin, Billy,
246

Banana
,
204

Bananas,
317

Band, The,
137

Bankhead, Tallulah,
247

Bardot, Brigitte,
267–68

Barr, Alfred,
272

Barrow, Clyde,
245
,
313

Barzini, Benedetta,
222
,
259

Barzini, Luigi,
222

Battcock, Gregory,
41
,
89

Beach Boys,
121–22
,
296

Beatles,
36
,
75
,
76
,
88–89
,
101
,
112
,
168
,
175
,
258
,
262
,
286
,
299–300

Beaton, Cecil,
162
,
205
,
246
,
247

Beatty, Warren,
28
,
239
,
313

Beauty
film series,
137
,
157

Bellamy, Dick,
39
,
89

Bellamy, Ralph,
304

Bennett, Joan,
152

Benton, Robert,
245

Berenson, Marisa,
124

Bergen, Candice,
165

Berlin, Brigid,
129
.
See also
Polk, Brigid (Brigid Berlin)

Berlin, Richard E.,
129–30

Berlin, Richie,
130
,
200

Bernhardt, Sarah,
268

Big Brother and the Holding Company,
218–19

Bike Boy
,
297
,
304
,
312

Billie (DJ at Ondine),
239

Billy.
See
Name, Billy

Binghamton Birdie,
79
,
96
,
97
,
150–51

Black, Karen,
205

Blackburn, Paul,
65

Black Panthers,
293

Blow Job
,
64–65
,
100
,
204

Blow-Up
,
256
,
267

Blue Movie
,
371–72

Blum, Irving,
27–28

Bonnie and Clyde
,
245
,
261–62
,
313

Bono, Sonny and Cher,
210

Boom
,
128
,
362

Bottomly, Susan.
See
International Velvet (Susan Bottomly)

Bourdon, David,
24–25
,
28–30
,
41
,
66
,
78
,
111–12
,
167
,
168–69
,
249–50

Brakhage, Stan,
61

Brandt, Jerry,
270

Brice, Fanny,
151

Brigante, Luis,
255

Brigid.
See
Polk, Brigid (Brigid Berlin)

Bringing It All Back Home
,
135

Brothers, Joyce,
310

Brown, Tally,
317

Browne, Jackson,
230
,
261

Bruce, Lenny,
157

Buckley, Tim,
230
,
261

Buffalo Springfield,
239

Burroughs, Julian,
327

Burroughs, William,
129
,
327

Byrds,
146
,
180
,
210

Café Bizarre,
93
,
180–81

Café Figaro,
93
,
134
,
194
,
196
,
298

Café La Mama,
67

Café Le Metro,
65
,
114

Café Nicholson,
131–32
,
162

Café Rienzi,
134

Café Winslow,
68

Caffe Cino,
67
,
93
,
308

Cage, John,
4
,
274

Cahiers du Cinéna
,
341

Cale, John,
181
,
185
,
189
,
194
,
198
,
225
,
230
,
242
,
250
,
286–87

Callas, Maria,
82
,
93
,
164

Camel, Donald,
141

Camp
,
204

Campbell's Soup Company,
163

Canby, Vincent,
256

Candy
,
340

Cannes Film Festival,
265–67
,
341

Capote, Truman,
235
,
243–48

Cappucine,
141

Cardin, Pierre,
216–17

Carey, Ted,
7–8

Carlisle, Kitty,
59

Carmichael, Stokely,
263

Carpenter, Scott,
144

Carpetbaggers, The
,
47
,
52

Carson, Johnny,
360

Cass, Mama,
210
,
304

Cassen, Jackie,
195–96

Cassini, Igor,
46

Castelli, Leo,
9
,
10
,
25–27
,
141
,
248
.
See also
Leo Castelli Gallery

Castel's (club),
141
,
142

Castro, Fidel,
142–43

Castro, Raul,
142–43

CBS,
38

Cedar bar,
15
,
16–18
,
90

Cerf, Phyllis and Bennett,
246

Chagall, Marc,
143

Chamberlain, Elaine,
55

Chamberlain, John,
55
,
91
,
289
,
327–28

Chamberlain, Wynn,
35–36
,
40
,
43
,
44
,
45
,
47
,
50
,
51
,
54
,
55

Cheetah (club),
207–8
,
223
,
263

Cheetah
magazine,
304

Chelsea Girls
,
33
,
209
,
226–28
,
232–33
,
252
,
255–56
,
259–60
,
264–67
,
291–92
,
303
,
304
,
309
,
341

Chelsea Hotel,
220–21
,
226–28
,
341–42

Christopher, Jordan,
181

Christopher, Sybil Burton,
144

Chrysler, Walter,
94

Church (discotheque),
30–31

Churchill, Winston,
190

Ciao Manhattan
,
289

Cinemathèque,
147
,
155
,
179–80
,
182
,
185
,
191
,
232–33
,
317–18

Cino, Joe,
67

Clanton, Jimmy,
240

Clark, Dick,
240

Clarke, Shirley,
60
,
255

Clift, Montgomery,
131

Clockwork Orange, A
,
101
,
157

Close, Patrick Tilden,
303–4
,
305
,
317

Club
82
,
202

Cohen, Leonard,
103
,
261

Collin-Dufresne, Isabelle,
264
.
See also
Ultra Violet (Isabelle Collin-Dufresne)

Collins, Judy,
182

Collins, Rufus,
89

Columbia Pictures,
373–74

Commentary
magazine,
60

Cooke, Hope,
51

Cooper, Gary,
152

Cooper, Gloria Vanderbilt,
247

Cooper, Maria,
152