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Brigid Berlin
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In 1975, Brigid Berlin began work as a permanent employee for Andy Warhol's Interview magazine, a position that she held until well after Warhol's death. Berlin would transcribe interviews and knit and needlepoint under the desk. Patricia Hearst (a close friend of Berlin's who began work at Interview in 1988) would observe "On my first day at work, I noticed two small pugs who seemed to have the run of the castle. They belonged to a woman who sat behind the front desk every day from 9:00 to 5:00, but who never seemed to answer the phone. Instead, she compulsively knitted, ate bags of candy and tended lovingly to the dogs."
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Brigid Berlin gets to first when Warholock shortstop Paul America drops the playable ball. Viva draws a walk. Andrea Feldman hits an RBI-single to leftfield scoring Berlin. Ultra Violet hits an RBI-single to leftfield scoring Viva. Valerie Solanis hits the third consecutive single to leftfield scoring Feldman. Sedgwiccas lead, 3-0.
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Brigid Berlin was born on September 6, 1939. Her parents were Richard E. Berlin, the chairman of the Hearst media empire for 52 years, and socialite "Honey" Berlin, whose real name was Muriel. Richard was 22 years older than Honey who was 21 at the time of their marriage. Brigid was born approximately nine months later. Brigid's sister, Richie, was born after Brigid, followed by another sister, Christina, and then a brother, Richard. Richie, who was named after her father, sometimes hung out with Brigid in New York and ... appeared briefly in the non-Warhol film, Ciao Manhattan.
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Brigid was infamous for her telephone calls - some were featured in Warhol's film The Chelsea Girls. In 1968 she performed a "mixed media" event - at the Bouwerie Lane Theatre called Bridget Polk Strikes! Her Satanic Majesty in Person, in which she made phone calls to friends from the stage and broadcasted the live conversations to the audience, without telling the person she was talking to over the phone - which included Huntington Hartford and her parents. (Ibid)
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It was Brigid's sister, Chrissy Berlin who played the role of the elegant debutante. Christina was instrumental in engineering the defection of Russian ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov. The third sister, Richie, was a boi, and the roommate of Warhol Films's "It Girl" and superstar Edie Sedgwick.
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Berlin, an obese child, was constantly berated by her socialite mother, Honey, who sent her away to crackpot fat farms for regimens of fasting and diet pill-popping. As the wife of a successful conservative publisher and a family friend of Richard Nixon, Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover, Honey wanted her daughter to be perfect.
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