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Edie Sedgwick: Cult
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In case you aren't familiar with Edie Sedgwick, she helped put the "pop" in "Pop Art." She didn't sing, she didn't dance, and, depending on how you view Warhol's film catalog and Ciao! Manhattan, she didn't act either. But, on screen and in photographs, she was absolutely luminous. It wouldn't be stretching it to say that her face helped launch the boats of '60s cultural excess. Her backstory as a blueblood rebelling against her family further added to the mystique, but she didn't make her wealth the core of her public presentation, unlike certain other "celebutantes" of today.
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If Edie has become a muse, David J isn’t the first musician to be led by her, Several musicians and bands from The Velvet Underground to The Cult have paid homage to this tragic figure. It remains to be seen if the ghost of Edie has steered David J’s first foray into musical theater towards success, or if her siren call from beyond the grave will instead dash this creative venture on the rocks.
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Although she appeared in magazines, Sedgwick never became an accepted part of the fashion industry. People were really terrified by it. So unless it involved very important artists or musicians, we played it cool as much as we could - drugs had done so much damage to young, creative, brilliant people that we were just anti that scene as a policy."[11] However, editor-in-chief of Vogue, Diana Vreeland, called her an exemplar of the era's youth culture.[12]
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Sedgwick seems particularly inspired by popular culture. “Especially the addiction cycles endured by Robert Downey Jr., the controversial adoption proclivities of Angelina Jolie, and the lesbian subtext of James Cameron's Aliens, the sequel to Ridley Scott's Alien,” she says.
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