Link: Full Cast and Crew for Factory Girl (2006).
It is hard to know how accurate to consider this, the casting for Brigid Berlin, for example, contradicts other reports. Sadly, the extras to be learned don't make Factory Girl seem any more promising.
I am not at all amused at the inclusion of Mary Kate Ashley Crack-Ho-Olsen, even if she does appear to be playing a fictionalised character.
It's curious who of the Warholites they have chosen to portray directly and who is disguised. Looking at this I'm imagining that Billy Quinn is a version of Bob Dylan. Others, Our Lady of the Bitchslap, Ondine; the Velvet Underground and fashion amazon Diana Vreeland are played 'by name'.
The presence of Julia Warhola and a character called 'Andys Priest' have piqued just a little curiosity. How does Julia fit in? Perhaps they are going to ignore that Andy all but kept Julia chained up in the attic- she was hardly a regular habitue of the Factory. Otherwise, the film is going to have to include scenes of Andy and Julia alone. How does that fit with the Edie story?
A Priest might suggest that Andy's deep Christian convictions get an airing but I have a feeling that his film isn't the kind to be exploring aspects of Warhol's career that are only now being consiered by art scholars.
The character that interests most is 'Junkie at the Chelsea Hotel'. Undoubtedly another stealth marketing plan for the Hotel masterminded by Stanley 'diamond' Bard, Hotel Magnate and capitalist swine. One might have thought that his crypto-propaganda website was sufficient to be going on with.
They might just as well send the reel cans out stuffed full of selected faecal samples and save the extra celluloid.
Lou Reed's disparaging comments on the screenplay seem to have been quite accurate.
Andy didn't kill Edie. Edie killed Edie with a lot of help from psychiatrists and their 'treatments'. Can we just accept that and move on?
george michael is in trouble again. couldn't happen to a more deserving ponce! After all the shit he has given Boy George for being 'too gay' over the years I'd be happy to see his career destroyed. There is, IMO, absolutely no excuse for public sex of this kind in this day and age. As Boy so wisely observed-- 'can't he use a computer'?
why do banks take 48 hours to process a payment TO a credit card while they can deduct money instantaneously?
can anybody explain the difference between an incursion and an invasion? if a tank rolled into my neighborhood i think the semantics would become secondary.
who made that hotel what it was! Pretty soon the only people staying there will be rich boring tourists or Britney Spears.
I am My Own Wife is headed my way in the original production. This review from the .au press has a major spoiler- be careful.
Still depressed at the idea that CBGBs will be gone forever. An example of what happens when one becomes a parody of one's self.
Second Life is an overwhelmingly expansive and conceptually dense virtual world allegedly taking the world by storm. It's worth a look. I suspect that I'm a bit too old to grasp the paradigm.
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