1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: Disgraceland as a production of Double Elvis. The stories about 2 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:18,040 Speaker 1: Andy Warhol are insane. He was the first artist to 3 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 1: achieve rock star status. He was rescued by firefighters when 4 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 1: a mob of obsessed fans threatened to crush him. His 5 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: work in play space the Factory was a regular target 6 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:34,479 Speaker 1: for the NYPD. The factory scene attracted people of all ages, 7 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:40,479 Speaker 1: rich and poor, straight and gay, sane and not so sane. 8 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 1: He was almost killed by a strung out junkie with 9 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:46,959 Speaker 1: a loaded pistol. He was shot and critically wounded by 10 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,600 Speaker 1: a would be assassin. He died on an operating table 11 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: before dramatically being brought back to life. Andy Warhol's second 12 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: life began the moment his heart started to beat again, 13 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 1: and in that second life he became a true cultural icon, 14 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 1: bigger than his paintings, or his polaroids, or his experimental films, 15 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:13,399 Speaker 1: and bigger than life itself. Andy Warhol was great art. 16 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 1: Unlike that clip I played for you at the top 17 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 1: of the show. That wasn't great art. That was a 18 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:25,679 Speaker 1: preset loop from my melotron called three Sheets Swing MK. One. 19 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: I played you that clip because I can't afford the 20 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 1: rights to a clip from Hang On Sloopy by the McCoys, 21 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:36,319 Speaker 1: And why would I play you that specific slice of 22 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 1: Ohio State Marching band Cheese? Could I afford it? Because 23 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:45,680 Speaker 1: that was the number one song in America on October eighth, 24 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty five, and that was the day that Andy 25 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 1: Warhol debuted his first ever museum show at the Institute 26 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 1: of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, a turning point not only 27 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 1: in the world of art, but in the culture at large. 28 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: On this episode, artists as rock stars, strung out junkies 29 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: would be Assassin's quit thinking surgeons the factory in Andy Warhol. 30 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 1: I'm Jake Brennan and this is Disgraceland. Nineteen eighty five, 31 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 1: New York City. The Smiths on their first real tour 32 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 1: of the United States. The Manchester Band's lead singer Marcy 33 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: on stage at the Beacon Theater, blue jeans, button up shirt, 34 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:58,919 Speaker 1: casually unbuttoned, flowers in his back pocket, arrogant, dismissive begging, 35 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 1: Please please please let me get what I want this time. 36 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 1: Not a man so much as a persona a creation, 37 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 1: a work of art. Marssy holds an outstretched hand to 38 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: the thousands there to see him. The kids who just 39 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:17,840 Speaker 1: hours ago were beating on the windows of the car 40 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:21,520 Speaker 1: he was riding in, the same kids who screened with delight. 41 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 1: When Johnny marr rang out the opening lick of this 42 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 1: charming man on his guitar, it's all a bit surreal 43 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:30,799 Speaker 1: to Marssy, and he tries hard to make it look 44 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 1: like he doesn't really care, not like Johnny fawning over 45 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: Mick Jagger backstage, that wrinkly old fuck. But then Marssey 46 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: sees someone out in the crowd, that shock of white hair, 47 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:50,119 Speaker 1: the glasses. Andy Warhol stops Marssy in his tracks. Like Marssey, 48 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: Andy is a put on a persona. But Andy did 49 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 1: it first. Andy walked so that Marrissy could run Marssy, 50 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 1: doling out that youthful, erotic energy that Andy fails to 51 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 1: possess and frankly really never had, but which fascinates and 52 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: turns him on nonetheless. But Morrissy, like Andy, Warhol markets 53 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: himself not as a sexual icon, but as asexual. Whether 54 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:20,840 Speaker 1: or not you believe that, whether it's actually true, that's 55 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:24,599 Speaker 1: all part of the process, the process that is intentional 56 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:28,480 Speaker 1: and precise. Like the image the Smiths chose for the 57 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 1: cover of their self titled debut album. A man shirtless 58 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:36,840 Speaker 1: head hanging down an image from a nineteen sixty eight 59 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:42,359 Speaker 1: film called Flesh, directed by another Morsy, Paul Morrissey and 60 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 1: produced by one Andy Warhol. Right out of the gate, 61 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:49,720 Speaker 1: the Smiths owed a debt of gratitude to the man 62 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 1: in the white wig, who is now standing in the 63 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 1: middle of the Beacon crowd. And they owed him not 64 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:56,839 Speaker 1: just for stealing a photo from a movie of his, 65 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 1: but for the very concept of a modern rock and 66 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:03,720 Speaker 1: roll con the light show, the iconography of a superstar, 67 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:06,599 Speaker 1: whether on a stage or in a silk screen painting, 68 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:12,599 Speaker 1: It's all Warhol. Warhol is here at the Beacon witnessing 69 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 1: the Smiths, just like he was at the Cafe Bazaar 70 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: some twenty years prior witnessing The Velvet Underground. He is 71 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 1: everywhere in New York, or so it seems. Liz Taylor's 72 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 1: birthday party at Studio fifty four, the cock Ring on 73 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 1: Christopher Street, where guys cruised the bathroom as an amyl 74 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: nitrate hot wire as the dance floor, the Anvil over 75 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 1: on West Fourteenth where the hypnotic repetition of a man 76 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:40,599 Speaker 1: removing fifty pairs of jockey shorts from his pelvis is 77 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: just as much a work of art as Andy's thirty 78 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 1: two Campbell's soup cans, clam chowder, chicken noodle, cream of vegetable, 79 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:53,480 Speaker 1: green pea repetition in real life in art, and in 80 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 1: the process split pea, cream of mushroom, onion, chili beef. 81 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 1: Andy one ask the Velvet Undergrounds, Lou read, how many 82 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 1: songs you've written that day? Five? You told him five? 83 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: Andy said, what's wrong with you? Why are you so lazy? 84 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 1: Andy Warhol despised laziness when it came to work, just 85 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:19,440 Speaker 1: like he despised anything that wasn't new. That's why he 86 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 1: was drawn to the Velvet Underground and now to the Smiths, 87 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 1: the newness of Stephen Patrick Morrissey, who dropped his first 88 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:30,159 Speaker 1: in middle names to become something completely different, just like 89 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:34,839 Speaker 1: Andy leaving Scrownny Little Andrew Warhala in the past, just 90 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 1: another working class Pittsburgh kid with a face that disgusted him, 91 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:41,000 Speaker 1: in a way of carrying himself that betrayed all the 92 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:44,280 Speaker 1: ways in which he was different from John Q. Hetero. 93 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 1: It was fine, though, as an adult, Andy Warhol had 94 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:51,279 Speaker 1: concealer to remake his face and wigs to hide his 95 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 1: rapidly disappearing hair. He needed those things just like he 96 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 1: needed to make great art, just like he needed to 97 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:03,240 Speaker 1: be famous, but more than your garden variety celebrity, not 98 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 1: some fifteen minute flip. He wanted to be as famous 99 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 1: as the Queen of England, as iconic as a meticulous 100 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 1: artwork inside the Byzantine Catholic church of his youth, which 101 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 1: transported him away from dreary Pittsburgh somewhere far down the 102 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 1: road the future. And he did this, and he got 103 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 1: there by becoming something in someone that no one had 104 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 1: ever seen before. September nineteen sixty three, half a year 105 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: until the Beatles would land on us Soil. Mere months 106 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 1: before JFK's motorcade made that fateful turn into Dealey Plaza, 107 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 1: thirty five year old Andy Warhol laid on a mattress 108 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:46,680 Speaker 1: in the back of a Ford Falcon next to his 109 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 1: assistant Gerard Malanga. They flipped through magazines while their friends 110 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 1: Winning Chamberlain and Taylor Meade sat up front and piloted 111 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:58,160 Speaker 1: the station wagon through Middle America as if they were 112 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: in a Kerouac novel. But that sal paradise and Dean 113 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 1: Moriarty jive was old news a few years was an eternity. 114 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 1: At least Andy on the Road was in the past. 115 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,240 Speaker 1: Andy and his friends weren't emulating the past. They were 116 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: doing their own thing, chartering this honk of Detroit Steele 117 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:24,680 Speaker 1: in a haze of marijuana, smoke and speed. They left 118 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 1: New York City in the dust back where andy silkscreens 119 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 1: of Marilyn Monroe had recently shifted the tectonic plates of 120 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: the art world's crusty underpinnings, ever so slightly. Fifty Marylands, 121 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 1: each one the same, but each one different, just like 122 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 1: Andy doling out altered versions of himself to each new 123 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 1: person he met, like those waiting for him in Los Angeles, 124 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:49,720 Speaker 1: where he was headed now, where his second gallery show 125 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 1: was just days away. Twenty three canvases of Elvis Presley 126 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 1: pistol drawn eyes looking up and to the left, the 127 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:04,079 Speaker 1: same Elvis, overlapping, over and over Elvi. Andy hoped these 128 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 1: twenty three Elvis's would send the City of Angels into 129 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 1: another tizzy. His first La show, the aforementioned Campbell's Soup Cans, 130 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 1: really pissed off the so called connoisseurs tastemakers who didn't 131 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:20,679 Speaker 1: realize their time was up. Andy was hated as much 132 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 1: as he was loved. That's the mark of true fame. 133 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 1: In Kansas, they pulled the forward into a truck stop, 134 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 1: real salt of the Earth. The kind of people whose 135 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 1: definition of art was that picture of Jesus hanging on 136 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:37,320 Speaker 1: their wall at home. They didn't know Andy Warhol, and 137 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 1: that he made a name for himself in his adopted 138 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:43,599 Speaker 1: city of New York, first with commercial work illustrations in 139 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 1: Harper's Bazaar, Town and Country, ads and sports, illustrated drug 140 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 1: company propaganda and the like, all while sketching his friend's 141 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:55,559 Speaker 1: cox on the side, Or that he parlayed department store 142 00:09:55,559 --> 00:10:01,200 Speaker 1: window dressings into gallery installations. Low art made high. All 143 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:05,600 Speaker 1: they knew was that he looked different, walked different, dressed different. 144 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 1: He had that New York stink on him, but something 145 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:13,760 Speaker 1: about him was tilted. The tuft of white hair on 146 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 1: his head, sunglasses so dark you couldn't tell if there 147 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:22,200 Speaker 1: were actually eyes behind them. Andy hung back on the fringes, listening, 148 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:25,520 Speaker 1: observing the leader of a pack, who also happened to 149 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:29,440 Speaker 1: be a loner. Heads turned as Andy and his friends 150 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 1: looked around for something to eat. A hush fell over 151 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 1: the place. This alien in their midst art fuck future 152 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 1: boy in his limp wristed queens. The locals fascination quickly 153 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 1: turned into menace. Andy Gerard wind Tailor that could all 154 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:48,560 Speaker 1: feel it, the eyes staring at him, the threat that 155 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 1: didn't need to be spoken to be heard. Andy Warhol 156 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,960 Speaker 1: didn't let it bother him. These people were stuck in 157 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:59,319 Speaker 1: the past. Andy was thinking about the future, about a 158 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:02,160 Speaker 1: few more days down the road, where his La Gallery 159 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: show would take one step closer to the fame he craved. 160 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 1: He would get there on time and in one piece. 161 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 1: Andy Warhol was not going to die, not today, not 162 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:19,280 Speaker 1: inside a Kansas truck stop, not anywhere. Andy Warhol was 163 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 1: going to live forever. Philadelphia, nineteen sixty five. The roughnecks 164 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 1: standing outside the Institute of Contemporary Art fondled their switch plades. 165 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 1: Their leather jackets provided relief against the cool autumn breeze, 166 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 1: and they waited for Andy Warhol to step out into 167 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 1: the night. That's when they'd jump him. They didn't give 168 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 1: a shit about his art, or any art for that matter. 169 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 1: They just hated Andy Warhol, his sexual orientation, his stupid 170 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 1: Brillo boxes. His fame didn't matter. They hated that they 171 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 1: had to read about him in the paper and see 172 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:23,240 Speaker 1: his screwed up little face on TV. Tonight he'd get 173 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:28,080 Speaker 1: what was coming to him. Inside, Andy Warhol was surrounded 174 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 1: swarmed by adoring fans as if he was a beetle. 175 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:35,400 Speaker 1: But Andy didn't do beetlesuits. Andy wore a black shirt, 176 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 1: black jacket, Levi denim wrap around sunglasses, the coolest thing 177 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:43,720 Speaker 1: that Philly had ever seen, so cool it could only 178 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 1: be seen at night. Nine pm was the stark time 179 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 1: for Andy's first ever museum show. Flashbulbs, flash autograph hounds, 180 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:56,720 Speaker 1: Hounded hands reached out to touch the hem of his garment, 181 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:59,320 Speaker 1: just like the hands that would pound the window of 182 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 1: Stephen Patrick Morrissey's car decades later. The cops did their 183 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 1: best to keep this particular scene calm, but Andy's scene 184 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:12,439 Speaker 1: could not be contained. Every one of the more than 185 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:15,240 Speaker 1: sixteen hundred people attending the show were as much a 186 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:17,680 Speaker 1: part of the art as the silk screens hanging on 187 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:22,120 Speaker 1: the walls. Artists didn't have fan clubs and entourages. Not 188 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty five. Andy Warhol changed all that. The 189 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 1: moment he stepped into the museum with Edie Seddric on 190 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:33,320 Speaker 1: his arm. Seventeen years Andy's junior, all dawled up in 191 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 1: a pink floor, lank jersey tube and earrings that dangled 192 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 1: to her collarbone, living on her inheritance while also living 193 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:41,720 Speaker 1: as a part of the growing community at the Factory. 194 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:45,960 Speaker 1: Andy's work and play space in Midtown Manhattan, four flights 195 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 1: up and one of the oldest elevators in New York 196 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 1: to a space forty feet wide by seventy five feet deep, 197 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:54,960 Speaker 1: wires sticking out of the ceiling, the concrete floor dinged 198 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 1: with so many imperfections it could have been Andy's blemish 199 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:02,720 Speaker 1: face with The factory was growing along with Andy's renown, 200 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 1: not just Gerard and Wynn and Taylor, but Billy named 201 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 1: Paul Morrissey, Robert Olivier, to name a few. Bibby Hanson, 202 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:13,559 Speaker 1: daughter of an avant garde artist, and at fourteen years old, 203 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 1: one of the youngest factory hangers on, later described the 204 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 1: collective as quote drag queens and queers, children, street hustlers 205 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:25,160 Speaker 1: and rough trade, dropouts and runaways, drug dealers, and psychiatric 206 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:30,120 Speaker 1: basket cases. We were all outside, our insiders at the factory, unquote, 207 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 1: and they all did the things outsider insiders do. Gerard 208 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 1: made silk screens with Andy, while Billy snorted and fetamine 209 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 1: hydrochloride and got ready for his first three minutes of 210 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 1: fame in front of the camera. One of the hundreds 211 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:47,800 Speaker 1: of human subjects for Andy's so called screen tests silent films, 212 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 1: one take shot on a black and white bolex. Robert 213 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 1: Olivio meanwhile shot speed anidie cedric mainline barbiturates and acid 214 00:14:57,840 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 1: while trying to blot out the first twenty years of 215 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 1: for life, her abusive father, her brother who hanged himself 216 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 1: at a hospital where he had been sent to be 217 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 1: cured of homosexuality at the Ica in Philly. Though Edie 218 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: had her shit together for one night, at least she 219 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 1: looked incredible. The press said she was Andy's girlfriend, which was, 220 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 1: of course, by design, all part of the act Andy's creation. 221 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:27,400 Speaker 1: The two of them looked down at the rapturous crowd 222 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 1: from up on the wrought iron staircase, where just moments 223 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 1: earlier the cops had escorted them for the protection. There 224 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 1: were simply too many people here, and they were shouting 225 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 1: Andy's name. They tried to tear his clothes off of him. 226 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:41,400 Speaker 1: Who knew what they would do if they actually get 227 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 1: a hold of him. Andy's newfound fame, the thing he 228 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 1: wanted more than anything, was beginning to turn on him 229 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:51,800 Speaker 1: and devour room hole. He began to panic. He looked 230 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:54,720 Speaker 1: up and there was nowhere else to go. The staircase 231 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 1: he was standing on led to nothing, just the ceiling. 232 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 1: He and Yedie were trapped, but the cops noticed a 233 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 1: potential escape, a trap door at the top of the 234 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 1: stairs that had been sealed up long ago. Philly firefighters 235 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:11,680 Speaker 1: wrenched it open with crowbars and told Andy and Edy 236 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:15,640 Speaker 1: through to another floor, away from the obsessive throngs. From there, 237 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 1: they had to move fast. Andy grabbed Edie's hand, they 238 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 1: raced through the empty room like George and Ringo, racing 239 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 1: through a train station, over to a window and a 240 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 1: fire escape. The gang of leather clad roughnecks waiting to 241 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 1: do Andy harm had long since folded up their switch 242 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 1: blades and gone home instead. Andy and Edie ducked their 243 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 1: heads as they slipped into a waiting police cruiser, which 244 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: now whisked them away to safety, then back to the 245 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 1: confines of the factory East forty seventh Street, four flights up, 246 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 1: where the cops would soon show up again, but this 247 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:51,040 Speaker 1: time not to save Andy Warhol from over Zela's fans. 248 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 1: The NYPD heard all about what was going on at 249 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 1: the factory, and I'm not talking about the assembly line 250 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 1: of artwork and films that were being produced, Films like Couch, 251 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:07,639 Speaker 1: which was nearly an hour of people literally fucking on 252 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:11,720 Speaker 1: a couch. That was the film that was it in 253 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:15,720 Speaker 1: the mid sixties, that was not simply taboo but highly illegal. 254 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 1: The constant influx of new people into Andy Warhol's factory 255 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:24,440 Speaker 1: scene was totally unsupervised, and an unsupervised scene of again 256 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 1: to paraphrase, maybe Hanson, drug dealers, street hustlers, rough trade, etc. 257 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 1: Will undoubtedly bring with it a ced criminal element. And 258 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 1: that criminal element was what the cops were there for. 259 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:42,200 Speaker 1: Amen sure, for amphetamie men, addicts who were always looking 260 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 1: for a fix, mole people aka the ones so strung 261 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 1: out they had to hide the ocular evidence behind a 262 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:53,199 Speaker 1: pair of shades. The police arrived unannounced and tossed the 263 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:56,040 Speaker 1: place from top to bottom. They hunted down every trace 264 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: of paraphernalia they could find. They kicked people out, They 265 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:02,640 Speaker 1: shut down parties. Police pressure on the factory became such 266 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:06,440 Speaker 1: an issue that Andy required all drug use to happen elsewhere. 267 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 1: If you wanted to get high, you had to go 268 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 1: to the park down the street near the United Nations building, 269 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 1: step out onto a fire escape, or head to the roof. 270 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 1: For his part, Andy popped and fetamines only to help 271 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:20,960 Speaker 1: him work longer and later, never just to have a 272 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:24,960 Speaker 1: good time. At least that's what he told himself. Besides, 273 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:27,520 Speaker 1: he wasn't so much interested in drugs at the moment 274 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 1: as he was interested in Danny. Danny Williams was a 275 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 1: sound man, an editor, an electrician and a gaffer, and 276 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:38,960 Speaker 1: upon his arrival in New York with Edie Sedgwick in 277 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:41,800 Speaker 1: sixty five, he quickly became a crucial part of the 278 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:45,479 Speaker 1: factory's technical team. He also became a crucial part of 279 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:49,159 Speaker 1: Andy Warhol's life. He dressed like Andy. He moved in 280 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 1: with Andy at his row house on Lexington Avenue. Andy's 281 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 1: romantic relationship with Danny was very private, in the way 282 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:58,360 Speaker 1: that his non romantic relationship with Edie was very public. 283 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:02,159 Speaker 1: But Andy's idea of a romance was good food and 284 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:06,800 Speaker 1: glamorous friends. Danny wanted more. He fought for it, and 285 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:11,159 Speaker 1: Andy argued with him out for an intimate dinner at 286 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 1: a Greenwich Village restaurant. Danny couldn't take it anymore. He 287 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:19,119 Speaker 1: was frustrated, confused, hurt. He lashed out at Andy. He 288 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:22,119 Speaker 1: wanted to humiliate him, make Andy feel the way he felt. 289 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 1: He jumped from his seat and grabbed Andy's silver wig, 290 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 1: ripping it off his head. Andy's face went flush. Everyone 291 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 1: in the restaurant was staring at him, staring at the 292 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 1: real Andy Warhol, the pimply bald, working class kid who 293 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 1: couldn't stand his original skin. Andrew wore halla. No one 294 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:46,399 Speaker 1: was supposed to see him. He was supposed to be 295 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 1: dead and buried in the dust of the past. Andy 296 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:54,160 Speaker 1: kicked Danny out of his row house soon after that, 297 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:56,480 Speaker 1: but he didn't have the heart to completely cut his 298 00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 1: ex lover loose. Danny went on tour with the Factory's 299 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 1: great rock band, The Velvet Underground. He was the mastermind 300 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:06,400 Speaker 1: of the group's seminal lighting show, which would change rock 301 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:11,159 Speaker 1: and roll forever. But Danny was changed too. He was 302 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 1: now addicted an ahead, a mole person, a speed freak 303 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:19,680 Speaker 1: who showered once a week, In July nineteen sixty six, 304 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:22,720 Speaker 1: he went back to his parents' home in Massachusetts, where 305 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:24,920 Speaker 1: he borrowed his mother's car and drove it out to 306 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,880 Speaker 1: a rocky cove along the ocean, and no one ever 307 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:30,879 Speaker 1: saw him again. They just found the car, along with 308 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,359 Speaker 1: his clothes, folded up in a pile by the water. 309 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 1: Danny Williams's family was despondent. His mother rang the factory. 310 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:42,760 Speaker 1: Andy refused to come to the phone. I don't care 311 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:46,679 Speaker 1: where he is, was Andy's reasoning. He's just an amphetamine addict. 312 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 1: Danny Williams was now like Andrew Warhaala, dead stuck in 313 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,600 Speaker 1: the one place. Andy would never allow himself to be 314 00:20:55,720 --> 00:21:03,800 Speaker 1: caught the past. We'll be right back after this word, 315 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:16,680 Speaker 1: word word. November nineteen sixty seven, Andy Warhol was expanding 316 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:22,280 Speaker 1: beyond art, beyond film, and now into music. He had 317 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 1: his sight set even higher on the culture at large, 318 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:28,920 Speaker 1: where the real immortality was at But all the money 319 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,800 Speaker 1: he was now sinking into music In the Lou Reed's band, 320 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:35,639 Speaker 1: The Velvet Underground, the gear, the rehearsal space, the tour, 321 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 1: Andy has seeing very little return on his investment. The 322 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:43,680 Speaker 1: band's debut album was a commercial dud. But the failure 323 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:46,199 Speaker 1: of the velvet Underground. The chart wasn't what was on 324 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 1: and Andy's mind today. Today he was thinking about the factory, 325 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 1: the workspace and freak scene he had established and lorded 326 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:56,880 Speaker 1: over for the last four years. Their month to month 327 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 1: lease was being terminated. The building was slated for demolition 328 00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 1: within weeks. The factory would be rubble. Andy needed to 329 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 1: find a new space and fast, but the machine aspect 330 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:12,560 Speaker 1: of the factory had to carry on. In meantime, Andy 331 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:15,680 Speaker 1: kept printing screens and making art, kept calling the press 332 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 1: agent he had on payroll with any and all news 333 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:20,679 Speaker 1: about the factory, which the agent would then pitch to 334 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 1: the media, drumming up more recognition, thus making Andy Warhol 335 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:28,520 Speaker 1: more famous. The boost in Andy's profile brought more people 336 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 1: to the factory store, people who wanted something a fix, 337 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,119 Speaker 1: a fuck, a place to crash, or some cash for 338 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 1: a sandwich. Andy Warhol had money. He took in the 339 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 1: less fortunate, the down and ounce, the outsider insiders. This 340 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:47,879 Speaker 1: was the thinking that drove a guy known around the 341 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:51,119 Speaker 1: neighborhood as Sammy the Italian to make his way up 342 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 1: to the factory with a loaded gun. In reality, Sammy 343 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:58,240 Speaker 1: was having a hard time thinking at all. He was 344 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:01,920 Speaker 1: strung out and he needed to but first he needed 345 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:03,679 Speaker 1: to settle a drug debt that he owed to some 346 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 1: guys downtown. He figured, like many before him, that Andy 347 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:12,520 Speaker 1: Wreol was good for it. The elevator door and the 348 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:16,480 Speaker 1: fourth floor opened, and Sammy stepped into the factory pistol 349 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 1: in hand, where Andy, Paul Morrissey Taylor Mead, Billy Name, 350 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,879 Speaker 1: and Nico the Velvet Underground soon to be former lead singer, 351 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:27,160 Speaker 1: were hanging around. Sammy waved around his gun and told 352 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 1: him to all get on the couch, and they did 353 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 1: as they were told. Then Sammy told him that one 354 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:32,879 Speaker 1: of them was going to have to give him some 355 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:36,800 Speaker 1: dough right now. Andy was in shock. Nico, on the 356 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 1: other hand, was laughing. That thing's not even loaded, she said. 357 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 1: Sammy was insulted, and he fired the gun at the ceiling. 358 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:50,320 Speaker 1: Sammy's piece was loaded all right, and he wasn't fucking around. 359 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 1: He needed cash, so he opened the gun's cylinder and 360 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:58,520 Speaker 1: emptied out all the bullets, but won. Then he snapped 361 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,679 Speaker 1: the cylinder shot in the barrel at Andy Warhol and 362 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 1: the others on the couch, and he pulled the trigger, 363 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:07,440 Speaker 1: said he was going to keep pulling the trigger until 364 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:11,280 Speaker 1: someone paid him. Everyone started to frantically digging into their pockets, 365 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 1: pulling out dollar bills, change whatever they could find here. 366 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:18,199 Speaker 1: Sammy take it. Just don't fucking pull the trick. Fuck Sammy, 367 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 1: Fuck Jesus Christ. Suddenly a wave of regret came over 368 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 1: Sammy's face. Only now did he realize what he was doing. 369 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,400 Speaker 1: He didn't want to hurt anybody. He really did need 370 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:32,320 Speaker 1: the money, though, or else someone was going to hurt him. 371 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:37,240 Speaker 1: That's all Andy for one breathed a sigh of relief. 372 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:42,679 Speaker 1: He dodged a bullet literally Seven months later, however, he 373 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:51,119 Speaker 1: wouldn't be so lucky. June third, nineteen sixty eight, the 374 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 1: elevator bell rang out not on the fourth floor of 375 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,600 Speaker 1: the building on East forty seventh Street, but the sixth 376 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,360 Speaker 1: floor of a Victorian on the west side of Union Square, 377 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,639 Speaker 1: where Andy Warhol's factory now made his home. This time 378 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 1: it wasn't Sammy the Italian coming for Andy, but someone else, 379 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 1: another character on the factory's fringes who also wanted something. 380 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:17,359 Speaker 1: Valerie Solanis said she lived nowhere, that she was no one, 381 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:22,160 Speaker 1: but she clearly wanted to be someone like Andy Warhol. 382 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:28,400 Speaker 1: She wanted to be famous, but Andy Warhol didn't want 383 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,479 Speaker 1: to help her with that. He didn't care about her 384 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 1: self published pamphlet The Scum Manifesto, A scum as in 385 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,920 Speaker 1: the Society for Cutting up Men, the one that called 386 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 1: for overthrowing the government and eliminating the male sex. Andy 387 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,440 Speaker 1: was no feminist, and just because he'd let her act 388 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:47,840 Speaker 1: in one of his shitty movies, that wasn't gonna change 389 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 1: anything he asked her to do. That not the other 390 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:54,320 Speaker 1: way around, because when she asked for something, she got buckus. 391 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:56,760 Speaker 1: Andy wasn't gonna turn the script she gave him into 392 00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:59,359 Speaker 1: a movie. That was clear to her now. It was 393 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,359 Speaker 1: also clear that Andy hadn't even read the fucking thing 394 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,840 Speaker 1: on an asshole. Andy didn't care about other artists. He 395 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:09,040 Speaker 1: just cared about himself. And if Andy Warhol wasn't gonna 396 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 1: help Valerie Salanis become famous by shooting her script, then 397 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:19,880 Speaker 1: she would become famous by shooting Andy Warhol. The first 398 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,359 Speaker 1: two rounds from Valerie's beretta sent the people in the 399 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:26,000 Speaker 1: factory scattering. Someone yelled, hit the floor, and Andy duck 400 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:30,119 Speaker 1: behind a desk. Valerie found him easily cowering there in 401 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:33,159 Speaker 1: his black leather jacket like a rat. She pushed the 402 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 1: hot barrel of her bretta into Andy's side and pulled 403 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,679 Speaker 1: the trigger again. The bullet went straight through him and 404 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:43,360 Speaker 1: lodged into the hardwood floor below, and Andy screamed out 405 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 1: in pain. Valerie then turned her gun on Mary Amaya, 406 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,199 Speaker 1: a London curator and critic in town to talk with 407 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:54,359 Speaker 1: Andy about a suitcan show in the UK. Amaya suffered 408 00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:56,720 Speaker 1: a minor flesh wound and managed to scurry off to 409 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,879 Speaker 1: a better hiding place. Valerie would have also shot a 410 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:03,160 Speaker 1: third person if her gun hadn't jammed, or so goes 411 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:06,919 Speaker 1: one telling of the story. Within minutes, Valerie Solanis was 412 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,960 Speaker 1: gone and Andy Warhol was left dying on the floor 413 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 1: of his studio. Everyone wanted something from Andy, even the 414 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,920 Speaker 1: ambulance driver who transported Andy six blocks down the street 415 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:22,879 Speaker 1: to Columbus Hospital. He told Mary o'mio was fifteen bucks 416 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 1: to turn the siren on, or so goes another telling 417 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 1: of the story. The doctors at Columbus were more sympathetic. 418 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 1: When Andy Warhol's unconscious body arrived in the er, he 419 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 1: was pronounced clinically dead. The bullet from Valerie's gun had 420 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:40,960 Speaker 1: punctured his stomach, his liver, his spleen, his esophagus, and 421 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:44,439 Speaker 1: both of his lungs. The surgeon on duty had one option, 422 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:51,840 Speaker 1: a miracle. Meanwhile, in Times Square, Valerie Solanis walked up 423 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 1: to a rookie cop and turned herself in. Being arrested 424 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,480 Speaker 1: for murdering Andy Warhol. Thrust her in the right direction, 425 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:06,200 Speaker 1: toward a radio station, microphone and one step closer to fame. Valerie, 426 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:09,280 Speaker 1: why did you do this? He's a piece of garbage? 427 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:14,640 Speaker 1: You know he may die? God? Do you mean that? Yeah? 428 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:18,080 Speaker 1: I do. Why do you hate him so much? Because 429 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:20,320 Speaker 1: he's huh? What do you think is going to happen 430 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 1: to me? Now? I have no idea. I don't care. 431 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,080 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna throw it to going to jail because 432 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:30,160 Speaker 1: there's nothing out here but through garbage. Valerie Solanis had 433 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,000 Speaker 1: no patience for garbage. For the things she tried to 434 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:37,960 Speaker 1: kill and leave behind. Andy Warhol was dead, dead like 435 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 1: Andrew warhola and Danny Williams and on the road and 436 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,280 Speaker 1: pictures of Jesus and living rooms and any creative thought 437 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,480 Speaker 1: that wasn't in the service of the new but Andy 438 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:52,840 Speaker 1: Warhol was also alive, the future Andy Warhol, the one 439 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 1: who was resurrected on an operating table. The attending surgeon 440 00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,600 Speaker 1: at Columbus Hospital cut open Andy's chest and massaged his 441 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:05,600 Speaker 1: heart hand. Slowly, Andy's pulse returned. He took a deep breath. 442 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:09,160 Speaker 1: He was the same, but different, just like one of 443 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 1: his fifty Marilands or twenty three elviss and also just 444 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:18,400 Speaker 1: like Marilyn and Elvis. Andy Warhol, the impossible survivor of 445 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:22,320 Speaker 1: an assassination attempt, had finally achieved fame at a level 446 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 1: that someone like Valerie Salanis could only dream of, the 447 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:48,280 Speaker 1: kind that can never be taken away. Andy Warhol turned 448 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,520 Speaker 1: forty years old right after he was released from the 449 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 1: hospital in the summer of nineteen sixty eight, but he 450 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:58,000 Speaker 1: looked and felt much older, and he was frightened. The 451 00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 1: memory of the hospital, so cold, so empty, were life 452 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:05,520 Speaker 1: hung in the balance. The image of his Frankenstein body, 453 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:08,960 Speaker 1: all that scarred flesh wrapped tight with a surgical course 454 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:12,520 Speaker 1: to hold the stitched up organs in place. The sound 455 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:17,160 Speaker 1: of gunshots echoing inside the factory. Those things haunted him, 456 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:21,440 Speaker 1: and they never went away, and needed at Valerie's salonis, 457 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:28,440 Speaker 1: at least not at first. Just months later, around Christmas 458 00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 1: that same year, Valerie was released from lock up while 459 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:36,480 Speaker 1: awaiting trial. Some scum sympathizer that's again, the Society for 460 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:39,480 Speaker 1: Cutting Up Men scum put up the ten grand to 461 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,960 Speaker 1: bail her out. Valerie immediately called the factory and Paul 462 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:47,160 Speaker 1: Morrissey answered. Valerie wanted to talk to Andy. Paul told 463 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:50,400 Speaker 1: her that that wasn't gonna happen. Valerie said she needed 464 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,600 Speaker 1: twenty thousand dollars for her legal defense and she wanted 465 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 1: Andy to give it to her. Let me repeat that. 466 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:01,400 Speaker 1: The woman who shot and nearly killed Andy Warhol called 467 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:05,160 Speaker 1: Andy Warhol just months later to ask him to pay 468 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:09,479 Speaker 1: for her legal defense. But that wasn't all She wanted. 469 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:12,480 Speaker 1: More than money, She wanted Andy to use his connections 470 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,280 Speaker 1: to get her on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. 471 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: Of course, Andy Warhol did not give Valerie Solanas anything. Still, 472 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 1: she stayed with him for the rest of his life. 473 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:28,000 Speaker 1: Her bullet caused permanent damage and incision during his initial 474 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,480 Speaker 1: life saving surgery caused a major hernia. Eating was a 475 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:35,920 Speaker 1: chore and valume was necessary so much value that Andy 476 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 1: Warhol was constipated and required a daily enema. His gallbladder 477 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:44,560 Speaker 1: became inflamed, but he ignored it because he couldn't do hospitals, 478 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 1: not since the shooting. He survived once on the inside, 479 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,240 Speaker 1: and he wasn't about to chance it again. And that 480 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,840 Speaker 1: was Andy's thinking, so he turned to crystals to heal 481 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:58,240 Speaker 1: him again. Andy sinking this time wished for bordering on delusional. 482 00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:02,800 Speaker 1: His gallbladder became more diseased, gang greened even and when 483 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,960 Speaker 1: it was finally removed in nineteen eighty seven, it was 484 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:10,600 Speaker 1: too late. The night after the surgery, Andy's heart stopped. 485 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:17,160 Speaker 1: He was fifty eight. Andy Warhol died in the future. 486 00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,320 Speaker 1: He was busy creating. But the crazy thing is that 487 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,360 Speaker 1: he never got to witness the future that his art 488 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:27,880 Speaker 1: had always envisioned. Let me explain. In the two decades 489 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,400 Speaker 1: between the shooting in nineteen sixty eight and his death 490 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:34,360 Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty seven, Andy Warhol kept reinventing himself and 491 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,760 Speaker 1: what it meant to be an artist. He put a 492 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,520 Speaker 1: working zipper on the cover of a Rolling Stones album. 493 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,720 Speaker 1: He became a male model. He commissioned portraits of the 494 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:47,959 Speaker 1: upper crust shahs and princesses, and empresses, Diana Ross, Bridget Bardoux, 495 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:52,360 Speaker 1: Mick Jagger. He launched Interview Magazine. He started his own 496 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,200 Speaker 1: cable access show in the MTV Age with guests like 497 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,920 Speaker 1: Duran Durant, The Cars and Debbie Harry. He courted the 498 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:02,320 Speaker 1: New School, all that youthful, erotic energy that he never 499 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:07,920 Speaker 1: possessed but so desperately craved Basquiat, Keith Haring, Stephen Patrick Morrissey. 500 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,000 Speaker 1: Only now in the twenty first century is it obvious 501 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:15,840 Speaker 1: that we are living in Andy Warhol's creation. No one 502 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,760 Speaker 1: knew it at the time, but Andy's greatest work of art. 503 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,479 Speaker 1: Who's not a Campbell soup can or a Brillo box 504 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:25,080 Speaker 1: or even the deliberately constructed image of himself, but rather 505 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:29,760 Speaker 1: the reality that we are living in right this very minute. 506 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:34,680 Speaker 1: And yes, it's flawed, it's weird, it's dangerous, It nearly 507 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:38,160 Speaker 1: kills us. It revolves around some of the worst aspects 508 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:43,360 Speaker 1: of people, vanity, greed, viral videos, everyone getting their fifteen minutes. 509 00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:47,840 Speaker 1: But it's undeniable. The selfie you took last night, the 510 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:50,560 Speaker 1: video you shot on your phone, is some monotonous slice 511 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,800 Speaker 1: of everyday life. The live stream that I am filming 512 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:57,600 Speaker 1: right now as I record this podcast, they're all just 513 00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:02,160 Speaker 1: screen tests. They're Andy even podcasts. Like I said, especially 514 00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,880 Speaker 1: this podcast, which Don't Forget, is produced by a company 515 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:10,800 Speaker 1: named after in Andy Warhol Painting. Double Elvis, the creative 516 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:12,719 Speaker 1: device that I use at the top of my show, 517 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:14,520 Speaker 1: as well as the one that you know is coming 518 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:17,000 Speaker 1: in just a minute. It's my clam chowder, it's my 519 00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:21,000 Speaker 1: chicken noodle, my cream of vegetable. It's all repetition, all 520 00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:26,960 Speaker 1: Andy Warhol. We're all factory kids, some of us up, 521 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:30,279 Speaker 1: some of us down. Some are candies or Billy's or 522 00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:33,120 Speaker 1: EV's or girards. But we're all free to be who 523 00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:36,560 Speaker 1: we want to be, to create that which resonates with us. 524 00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:41,840 Speaker 1: We are are in art is us. We live together 525 00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:45,799 Speaker 1: in one nation, one world, one future, not under God, 526 00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:51,680 Speaker 1: but under Andy Warhol. Amen. I'm Jake Brennan, and this 527 00:34:52,400 --> 00:35:18,400 Speaker 1: is disgrace Land. 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