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Edie Sedgwick
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Edie Sedgwick is not the doomed Warhol starlet. Edie Sedgwick is the glam-fuelled, trash-slut-tastic, drag fetish reinvention/reincarnation of one Justin Moyer (could it get any better than this?), formerly a musician of some repute with Antelope and El Guapo. But no matter for the past, Moyer is dead (can a Moyer ever truly die though?), and in his place stands the fifty-foot queenie of Edie Sedwick, makeup, shoes and outfit totally immaculate, and it goes without saying, gorgeous. We stand at a strange temporal crossroads in underground/electronic music now, a rift in the space/time continuum has caused the spirit of departed divas to inhabit the bodies of outsider musicians -- at the moment we have another Donna Summer, a new Josephine Baker and now Edie Sedgwick! Something must be amiss? Yes, that something is Her Love Is Real�.
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Edie Sedgwick was America's first wild child. She was a poor little rich girl, Andy Warhol's muse and the drug-addled queen of underground film in New York. She was the first celebrity to become famous for being famous, making newspaper headlines as "the girl with the black tights" and appearing in Vogue for being a "youthquaker" during the pop-fashion era of the '60s.
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Edie Sedgwick met Warhol at the age of 22 and became a part of the Factory scene. She gained fame through starring in several of Andy Warhol's unusual films such as Beauty II and Vinyl. This fascinating book takes a look at the Sedgwick family starting with Edie's great, great, great grandfather Judge Theodore Sedgwick and ending with her tragic death at the age of 28. Through firsthand accounts of Edie's siblings, cousins, and friends, Edie: American Girl thoroughly analyzes Edie's family and her life as she grew up. Also, it explicitly examines the time Edie spent with Warhol and their friends at the Factory. A family tree and an abundance of black and white photographs compliment this comprehensive book.
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Despite her 1971 death from a drug overdose, Andy Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick is still the center of attention. Earlier this month, Katie Holmes ditched a role as Sedgwick in the biopic Factory Girl, allegedly due to a raunchy script (her publicist says the Batman Begins star was never actually attached). It wasn't the first personnel issue: Original Sedgwick Sienna Miller left in mid-May amid reports that she'd been dumped for a bigger name. But Factory director George Hickenlooper says both deals fell apart due to nothing more exotic than. . .scheduling, with Miller committed to a play. And Holmes?
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On April 30, 1965, Warhol took Sedgwick, Chuck Wein and Gerard Malanga to the opening of his exhibit at the Sonnabend Gallery in Paris. Upon returning to New York City, Warhol asked his scriptwriter, Ron Tavel, to write a script for Sedgwick. The result was Kitchen, starring Sedgwick, Rene Ricard, Roger Trudeau, Donald Lyons and Elecktrah. After Kitchen, Chuck Wein replaced Ron Tavel as writer and assistant director for the filming of Beauty No. 2, in which Sedgwick appeared with Gino Piserchio. Beauty No. 2 premiered at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque at the Astor Place Playhouse on July 17.
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Edie was in Gracie Square Hospital at the time of her father's death. When she came out, she moved in with L.M. Kit Carson who had written a film he wanted Edie to be in. They had an affair and moved into the Warwick hotel posing as man and wife. Unable to cope with her drug addiction and erratic behaviour, Carson moved out. Several days later Edie was committed to Bellevue Hospital. After contacting her private physician she was let out of Bellevue, but was later committed to the Manhattan State Hospital after a drug overdose.
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