The Museum of the Moving Image has an Edie Sedgwick film festival of sorts going on right now, featuring "Poor Little Rich Girl," "Restaurant," "Vinyl," "Space," "Outer and Inner Space," "Kitchen," "Afternoon," "Beauty No.2," "Horse" and what would be her final work, "Ciao! Manhattan" (finished posthumously). As Andy Warhol's muse and New York's "It girl" of 1965, Sedgwick appeared in nearly all of Warhol’s films that year. "Edie was incredible on camera -- just the way she moved," said Warhol. "She was all energy. She didn't know what to do with it when it came to living her life, but it was wonderful to film."
The venue being in Queens coupled with all of the screenings being held on the weekend (when I work) means it's unlikely I will get to see any of these, although I'd kill to finally see "Beauty No. 2." The Web site calls says: "In her most complex, playful performance, Sedgwick flirts in bed with Gino Piserchio -- and the camera -- while responding to jealous insults from an off-screen Chuck Wein; Gerard Malanga looms by the bed, watching." But my understanding is that Warhol goaded Edie's art-school pal Wein into asking her about the sexual abuse she was subjected to by her father, which elicits a raw response that makes today's "reality" television look like a well-oiled Broadway show. (Official site)
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I was thinking Katie Couric - The College Years.
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