"Geraldine Smith (actress) Geraldine Smith (born February 11, 1949) is an American actress. Smith was born in Brooklyn, New York. She was discovered by Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey at Max's Kansas City, a New York nightclub, in the mid-1960s, and was one of the Warhol superstars. She co-starred with Joe Dallesandro in Morrissey's 1968 movie, ""Flesh"", but turned down his next film ""Trash"", reportedly because she did not approve of the title. She later starred in such Morrissey films as ""Mixed Blood"" (1985) and ""Spike of Bensonhurst"" (1988). In 1980, she played the minor role of Janet in Martin"
"Andy Warhol Garrick Theatre and 55th Street Playhouse) of the 1960s, revealing Warhol's connections to a diverse range of artistic scenes during this time. Less well known was his support and collaboration with several teen-agers during this era, who would achieve prominence later in life including writer David Dalton, photographer Stephen Shore and artist Bibbe Hansen (mother of pop musician Beck). On June 3, 1968, radical feminist writer Valerie Solanas shot Warhol and Mario Amaya, art critic and curator, at Warhol's studio. Before the shooting, Solanas had been a marginal figure in the Factory scene. She authored in 1967 the"
"England and became the assistant editor of the Royal Opera House magazine ""About the House"" from 1962 to 1968, and while still in England became the founding editor of Art and Artists magazine from 1965 to 1968. Amaya also wrote books on art, such as ""Pop As Art: A Survey of the New Super Realism"" (1965), ""Art Nouveau"" (1966), and ""Tiffany Glass"" (1967). On June 3, 1968, Amaya was in Andy Warhol’s office when radical feminist Valerie Solanas opened fire and shot both Amaya and Warhol. Amaya, 34 at the time, was discharged from the hospital after receiving treatment of"
"desk. There was a pile of typewritten pages beside her. What she was writing and what happened to the manuscript remain a mystery."" Her mother burned all her belongings posthumously. Solanas's life has been the focus of numerous performances, films, musical compositions, and publications. In 1996, actress Lili Taylor played Solanas in the film ""I Shot Andy Warhol"", which focused on Solanas's assassination attempt on Warhol (played by Jared Harris). Taylor won Special Recognition for Outstanding Performance at the Sundance Film Festival for her role. The film's director, Mary Harron, requested permission to use songs by The Velvet Underground, but"
"obscenity, and the theater manager, projectionist, and ticket-seller at the New Andy Warhol Garrick Theatre arrested for possession of obscene materials. Viva was on the phone with Andy Warhol when he was shot by Valerie Solanas in 1968. Following Solanas' attempt on Warhol's life, Viva developed a close, personal friendship with Warhol's mother, Julia Warhola. Returning from the hospital, however, Andy accused Viva of utilizing his absence to spy on his work and his mother, creating a rift in a relationship that was never repaired. Viva never saw Mrs. Warhola again after that. Viva's first starring role in a non-Warhol"
"""I, a Man"", paying her $25. In 1967, Solanas began self-publishing the ""SCUM Manifesto"". Olympia Press owner Maurice Girodias offered to publish Solanas's future writings, and she understood the contract to mean that Girodias would own her writing. Convinced that Girodias and Warhol were conspiring to steal her work, Solanas purchased a gun in early 1968. On June 3, 1968, she went to The Factory, where she found Warhol. She shot at Warhol three times, the first two shots missing and the third wounding Warhol. She also shot art critic Mario Amaya and attempted to shoot Warhol's manager, Fred Hughes,"
"originally going to be directed by Roman Polanski for United Artists in 1969, with Polanski writing the script. However, while Polanski was in London, England, looking for filming locations in August 1969, his pregnant wife, the actress Sharon Tate, was murdered in their Beverly Hills home by disciples of Charles Manson. Polanski returned to the United States and abandoned the project. The following year it was announced Franklin Schaffner would make the movie for the Mirisch Corporation. These plans were frustrated and Joseph Levine ended up buying the project from United Artists for Mike Nichols. The film was mostly shot"
"steal her work. On May 31, 1968, Solanas went to writer Paul Krassner to ask him for $50, which he loaned to her. Krassner later speculated that Solanas could have used the money to buy the gun she used to shoot Warhol, as the shooting was only three days later. According to an unquoted source in ""The Outlaw Bible of American Literature"", on June 3, 1968, at 9:00 am, Solanas arrived at the Chelsea Hotel, where Girodias lived. She asked for him at the desk but was told he was gone for the weekend. She remained for three hours before"
"The Factory The Factory was Andy Warhol's New York City studio, which had three different locations between 1962 and 1984. The original Factory was on the fifth floor at 231 East 47th Street, in Midtown Manhattan. The rent was one hundred dollars per year. Warhol left in 1967 when the building was scheduled to be torn down to make way for an apartment building. He then relocated his studio to the sixth floor of the Decker Building at 33 Union Square West near the corner of East 16th Street, where he was shot in 1968 by Valerie Solanas. The Factory"
"to be a great artist. Valerie, infuriated, is escorted off the set. Valerie prostitutes herself in the back of a parked car and the man shorts her $5 of her $10 fee. She later asks a store clerk how many bullets $5 can buy and informs him that she seeks to kill Warhol. Valerie returns to The Factory and follows Andy back to the set. She misses her first two shots but the third hits Warhol in the stomach. A news report unveils that Meadow has been identified as the shooter and Ally (Sarah Paulson) has been arrested. Harrison (Billy"
"was denied by Lou Reed, who feared that Solanas would be glorified in the film. Six years before the film's release, Reed and John Cale included a song about Solanas, ""I Believe"", on their concept album about Warhol, ""Songs for Drella"" (1990). In ""I Believe"", Reed sings, ""I believe life's serious enough for retribution... I believe being sick is no excuse. And I believe I would've pulled the switch on her myself."" Reed believed Solanas was to blame for Warhol's death from a gallbladder infection 20 years after she shot him. Solanas's life has inspired three plays. ""Valerie Shoots Andy"""
"explains her interest in Solanas' life: While Solanas was never able to produce her play, Harron was able to make her movie and was able to tell Solanas' story. ""I Shot Andy Warhol"" does not glorify Valerie Solanas; it pleads her case by showing that she was the product of a larger system of cruelty, and was not a lunatic, but a frustrated member of society. Harron's second film, ""American Psycho"", released in 2000, is based on the book of the same title by Bret Easton Ellis, which is notorious for its graphic descriptions of torture and murder. The protagonist,"
"(1972) and ""Honi Soit"" in 1981. One of Warhol's last works was a portrait of Aretha Franklin for the cover of her 1986 gold album ""Aretha"", which was done in the style of the ""Reigning Queens"" series he had completed the year before. Warhol strongly influenced the new wave/punk rock band Devo, as well as David Bowie. Bowie recorded a song called ""Andy Warhol"" for his 1971 album ""Hunky Dory"". Lou Reed wrote the song ""Andy's Chest"", about Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Warhol, in 1968. He recorded it with the Velvet Underground, and this version was released on"
"was at this time that Harron became interested in the life of Valerie Solanas, the woman who attempted to kill Andy Warhol. Harron suggested making a documentary about Solanas to her producers, who in turn encouraged her to develop the project into what would be her first feature film. Harron says she owes her success with her first film to Andy who helped to sell the controversial focus on the attempted murderess, Solanas. Harron's feature film directorial debut, ""I Shot Andy Warhol"", released in 1996, is the partially imagined story of Valerie Solanas' failed assassination attempt on Andy Warhol. She"
"such as wars, amongst them Biafra in 1968, and victims of the African AIDS epidemic. His hard-hitting coverage of the Vietnam War and the Northern Ireland conflict is particularly highly regarded. He also took the photographs of Maryon Park in London which were used in Michelangelo Antonioni's film ""Blowup"", In 1968, his Nikon camera stopped a bullet intended for him. Also in 1968, on 28 July, he was invited to photograph the Beatles, then at the height of their fame and in the midst of recording ""The White Album"". These sessions, made at several London locations, have become known as"
"theater, a renovated neo-gothic cathedral at 110 McAllister St. in San Francisco. In 1999, Coates became the first to acquire the rights to Valerie Solanas' long-lost work ""Up Your Ass"", which had been lost by Andy Warhol (for which Solanas shot him) and discovered at the Andy Warhol Museum thirty years later. The production, which was retitled ""Up Your A$$"" by Coates and made its world premiere in 2000 at his San Francisco theater, was regarded one of the raunchiest and most controversial shows around, with an all-female cast, many of which were dressed in drag. The play was mounted"
"""S.C.U.M. Manifesto"", a separatist feminist tract that advocated the elimination of men; and appeared in the 1968 Warhol film ""I, a Man"". Earlier on the day of the attack, Solanas had been turned away from the Factory after asking for the return of a script she had given to Warhol. The script had apparently been misplaced. Amaya received only minor injuries and was released from the hospital later the same day. Warhol was seriously wounded by the attack and barely survived: surgeons opened his chest and massaged his heart to help stimulate its movement again. He suffered physical effects for"
"was published in 1968, the same year that Solanas, who had spent time in Andy Warhol's ""Factory"", shot and nearly killed him. It also has sections that address art ideas. Solanas spent her last years as a street prostitute and died in 1988. It is a document of just over 11,000 words. Its tone and basic theme are evident from the title, but it is not quite as clear cut as it seems and some women are admitted to be as bad as men (women artists, for example). SCUM wants to ""destroy all useless and harmful objects — cars, store"
"of the same name and declared that revolutionary art should be ""an integral part of life, as in primitive society, and not an appendage to wealth"". In May 1968, Black Mask changed its name and went underground. Their new name, Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers, came from a poem by Amiri Baraka. Abbie Hoffman characterized them as ""the middle-class nightmare... an anti-media media phenomenon simply because their name could not be printed"". Valerie Solanas, a radical feminist and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol, was friends with Morea and associated with the Motherfuckers. In the film ""I Shot Andy Warhol"", the"
"the documentary, The Changing Face of Liza Minnelli, 2012, from the BBC series, ""The ... Face of."" Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol because Solanas believed that the publicity that she would receive from the shooting would convince Margo Feiden to produce her play. In her 2014 biography, ""Valerie Solanas"", Breanne Fahs states that Solanas was at the Actor's Studio that morning looking for Lee Strasberg, asking to leave her play for him. Sylvia Miles states that she told Solanas that Strasberg would not be in until the afternoon, and accepted a copy of the play from Solanas. Fahs records that"
"become entrenched to pursue a rock tour and planning of their second album: ""White Light/White Heat"". Andy Warhol was shot by radical feminist Valerie Solanas, immediately after the split, and only narrowly survived the ordeal. Reed’s song was written in sympathy and in thanks to Warhol. The title indicates to the substantial scar across Warhol’s chest (the shot went through both lungs, spleen, stomach, liver, and esophagus) and also refers to Warhol’s factory, a fantastic menagerie of bizarre, wonderful and precarious characters that the songs surreal lyrics describe. Andy's Chest ""Andy's Chest"" is a song written by Lou Reed, inspired"
"The Chicago 8 The Chicago 8 is a 2010 American drama film written and directed by Pinchas Perry and starring Philip Baker Hall, Gary Cole, Steven Culp and Mayim Bialik. The film is based on actual court transcripts from the Chicago Seven trial. In 1968, America was divided over the Vietnam War. Due to the growing anti-war movement, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that he would not run for re-election. Democrat Robert Kennedy, the Presidential hopeful, was assassinated that summer. The Democratic National Convention was held in Chicago where leaders of the anti-war movement planned a protest. During the protest,"
"a fire at his New York apartment on April 30, 1970. In 1975, Johnson was posthumously honored for his work in films by being elected to the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. A 1931 bust of Johnson by Minna Harkavy was shown at an exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Western Art and was bought by the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. In 1934, the Philadelphia Academy of Music recognized Johnson with an honorary doctorate. Johnson's photograph, taken by Sidney Cowell in 1960, is included in the National Portrait Gallery of the United States. Hall Johnson Francis Hall Johnson (March 12,"
"(1965) and Marie-Pierre (1969). In the late 1960s, his art took a more somber turn, affected by the deaths of both his parents and some of his friends. He memorialized his father in ""La mort du père"" (""Death of the father"", 1968), and his mother's death from breast cancer in ""L'Agonie de la mère"" (""Agony of the mother"", 1968). The theme of mortality became more prominent in his work. In November 1974, he learned via telephone that his 10-year-old daughter Céline had died suddenly, a brutal shock which caused him to abandon work for a time. At his death in"
"the art world consider Warhol's work completed after his 1968 shooting—which occurred the day before the Bobby Kennedy assassination—to be less significant than that done before it. The best-remembered Warhol Campbell's Soup can works are from the first phase. Warhol is further regarded for his iconic serial celebrity silkscreens of such people as Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Liz Taylor, produced during his 1962–1964 silkscreening phase. His most commonly repeated painting subjects are Taylor, Monroe, Presley, Jackie Kennedy and similar celebrities. In addition to being a notable fine artist, Warhol was a renowned cinematographer, author, and commercial illustrator. Posthumously, he"
"with film director Ted V. Mikels in such films as ""The Astro-Zombies"" (1968), and ""The Doll Squad"" (1973). After making Mikels' ""The Doll Squad"" in 1973, Satana was shot by a former lover. She later found employment in a hospital, a position she kept for four years. She had studied nursing at Firmin Desloge Hospital. She was then briefly employed as a dispatcher for the Los Angeles Police Department. In 1981, her back was broken in a car accident. She spent the next two years in and out of hospitals, having two major operations and approximately fifteen others. In 2002,"
"superstar status. Many of the superstars were celebrated in Lou Reed's song, Walk on the Wild Side Warhol significantly reduced his public accessibility after being shot by Valerie Solanas in 1968. The age of the Warhol superstar soon faded. ""Chelsea Girls"" (a film about life amongst the superstars at Hotel Chelsea) was the only film to achieve success beyond the confines of artistic New York. The later Warhol/Morrissey collaborations ""Flesh"", ""Trash"", ""Heat"" and ""Women in Revolt"", into which Warhol had little input, are more frequently seen. Warhol superstars Warhol superstars were a clique of New York City personalities promoted by"
"classified."" Long out of print, ""The Paper Snake"" was re-printed by Siglio Press in 2014. On June 3, 1968 - the same day that Andy Warhol was shot by Valerie Solanas with a gun she'd stored under May Wilson's bed – Johnson was mugged at knifepoint. Two days later, Robert Kennedy was assassinated. Severely shaken, Johnson moved to Glen Cove, Long Island, and the next year bought a house in nearby Locust Valley, where Richard Lippold and his family resided. He began to live in a state of increasing reclusion in what he called a ""small white farmhouse with a"
"film was screened in the ""Un Certain Regard"" section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Teddy Awards, the film was selected to be shown at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2016. The film opens moments after the shooting, quickly followed by a scene with Valerie Solanas in custody for shooting Andy Warhol. The film then uses flashbacks to when Valerie is living in New York making a living as a sex worker, then to her difficult childhood, then to her success in studying psychology at college. Here, Valerie discovers that"
"""When Angels Fall"". The couple were married in 1959 and divorced in 1961. Polanski met rising actress Sharon Tate while filming ""The Fearless Vampire Killers"", and during the production, the two of them began dating. On 1968, Polanski married Tate in London. In August 1969, while Polanski was in Europe working on a film, Tate was murdered along with four of their friends at their home in Los Angeles by members of Charles Manson's 'family,' a group of young, mostly female followers. Tate was pregnant at the time of her murder. Manson, along with members of his 'family', was arrested"
"the rest of his life, including being required to wear a surgical corset. The shooting had a profound effect on Warhol's life and art. Solanas was arrested the day after the assault, after turning herself in to police. By way of explanation, she said that Warhol ""had too much control over my life."" She was subsequently diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and eventually sentenced to three years under the control of the Department of Corrections. After the shooting, the Factory scene heavily increased security, and for many the ""Factory 60s"" ended. Warhol had this to say about the attack: ""Before I"
"demanded money for the lost manuscript. Instead, Warhol paid her $25 to appear in his film ""I, a Man"". In her role in ""I, a Man"", she leaves the film's title character (played by Tom Baker) to fend for himself, explaining ""I gotta go beat my meat"" as she exits the scene. Solanas was satisfied with her experience working with Warhol and her performance in the film, and brought Maurice Girodias to see the film. Girodias described her as being ""very relaxed and friendly with Warhol."" Solanas also had a nonspeaking role in Warhol's film ""Bikeboy"", in 1967. In 1967,"
"an actress. The ""Daily News"" changed the headline in its later edition and added a quote from Solanas stating ""I'm a writer, not an actress."" At her arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court she denied shooting Warhol because he wouldn't produce her play but said ""it was for the opposite reason"", that ""he has a legal claim on my works."" Solanas told the judge that ""it's not often that I shoot somebody. I didn't do it for nothing. Warhol had tied me up, lock, stock, and barrel. He was going to do something to me which would have ruined me."" She"