1965
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Andy Warhol meets Edie Sedgwick and Ultra Violet. Joe Dallesandro hitchhikes. Mary Woronov meets Gerard Malanga. Launching the Dream Weapon takes place. Lester Persky hosts a Factory party. Andy Warhol gets a Norelco video camera. Andy Warhol retires. Andy Warhol records Ondine on speed. Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick at the I.C.A., Baby Jane Holzer leaves the Factory. Jonas Mekas' Expanded Cinema takes place. The Velvet Underground is named. The Velvet Underground play Bizarre. Edie Sedgwick appears in The Andy Warhol Story. Max's Kansas City opens. Andy Warhol films Vinyl, Drink, Horse, My Hustler, Paul Swan and Camp. Premieres of Poor Little Rich Girl, Screen Test No. 2 and Beauty No. 2.
JAN. 1965: ANDY WARHOL MEETS EDIE SEDGWICK.
LESTER PERSKY introduced Andy Warhol to EDIE SEDGWICK although she did not become a regular at the Factory until March when she was brought there by CHUCK WEIN. (L&D219)
Edie was part of the Harvard/Cambridge group - many of whom hung out at the San Remo. Edie studied sculpture "with LILY SWANN SAARINEN, the ex-wife of architect EERO SAARINEN, and living in a small studio on Brattle Street... She used to drive around town in her Mercedes to parties, lots of them given by her own brother. The two Sedgwicks were beautiful rich kids who knew how to have a good time in Cambridge.” (POP95)
Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick
at The Scene nightclub 1965JAN. 1965: LOU REED BECOMES A WARLOCK.
Lou ran into college friend Sterling Morrison on the D train in the New York subway. They formed a band with John Cale and Angus MacLise, calling themselves the Warlocks (occasionally calling themselves the Falling Spikes). (LR80-97/UT23)
JAN. 1965: ANDY WARHOL FILMS DRINK.
When Warhol ran into Emile de Antonio one afternoon on the street, they went to the Russian Tea Room for a drink. Andy suggested they make a movie together and "De" held up his drink, saying, "Okay Andy, I’ll do something for you that I’m sure nobody’s ever offered to do for you and you can film it: I’ll drink an entire quart of Scotch whiskey in twenty minutes ...” They went to the Factory to film it and "De" eventually passed out in a drunken stupor. Warhol called the seventy minute film DRINK to use as a trilogy with EAT and SLEEP. When Andy showed it at the Factory, De threatened to sue him if he ever showed it publicly. (POP89/90)
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1965: JOE DALLESANDRO HITCHHIKES TO L.A.
Joe and his and friend Stanley hitchhiked from Mexico to L.A. At the bus station in Los Angeles, Joe was approached by a man who asked Joe if he would like to do some modeling. During the three months he was in L.A. Joe modeled nude for muscle mail-order skin magazines and also worked at a pizza parlor as a dishwasher. When Joe was arrested for assault after a fight, the court bought him a ticket to New York to return to his father. He ended up getting a “crummy little apartment” on 10th Street and hanging out with the “denizens of Times Square, experimenting with drugs,” and at one point worked at a pizza parlor in Queens. His dream was to own his own pizza parlour. (JOE20)
Joe Dallesandro1965: ONDINE OPENS.
The disco Ondine (no relation to the person) opened on E. 59th Street. GERARD MALANGA picked up MARISA BERENSON there on her first modeling trip to New York and brought her to the Factory for a screen test. EDIE SEDGWICK (with her arm in a cast from her car accident ) went to Ondine often. Warhol described her dance moves - which people called "The Sedgwick" - as "sort of Egyptian, with her head and chin tilting in just the right beautiful way" whereas "everybody else was doing the jerk." (POP99)
1965: MARY WORONOV MEETS GERARD MALANGA.
Mary originally met Gerard through a friend of a friend named MURRAY at Cornell University. Gerard filmed her walking across a bridge and called the film, Mary on Triphammer Bridge. She met him again when her art class visited the Factory on a field trip. He told her that Andy was making SCREEN TESTS and suggested they do one of her. She stayed at the Factory while her classmates went back to Cornell without her. When she returned to Cornell, she started taking the Greyhound bus to New York as often as possible. She eventually left Cornell permanently when Andy invited her on a trip to California with other Factory regulars in 1966. (MW15)
1965: ANDY WARHOL MEETS ULTRA VIOLET.
According to Andy, he met Ultra Violet “when she walked into the Factory in a pink Chanel suit and bought a big Flowers painting that was still wet for five hundred dollars.” (POP211)
Andy Warhol on Ultra Violet (via Pat Hackett in Popism):
“She was past a certain age, but she was still beautiful; she looked a lot like Vivien Leigh... Ultra would do almost anything for publicity. She’d go on talk shows ‘representing the underground,’ and it was hilarious because she was as big a mystery to us as she was to everybody else... She’d tell journalists, ‘I collect art and love’. But what she really collected were press clippings.” (POP211)
1965: ANDY WARHOL GOES INTERNATIONAL.
Warhol had one-man exhibitions in Europe throughout the year, including Paris, Milan, Turin, Essen, Stockholm, Buenos Aires and Toronto. (BC28)
MARCH 1965: ANDY WARHOL FILMS HORSE.
Ronald Tavel wrote the scenario for Horse. It starred Larry Latreille, Gregory Battcock, Daniel Cassidy, Jr, with short non-speaking appearances by Warhol, Ondine and Edie Sedgwick - her first appearance in a Warhol film.
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MARCH 1965: ANDY WARHOL FILMS VINYL.
EDIE SEDGWICK appeared in VINYL with an otherwise all male cast, including GERARD MALANGA, JOHN MCDERMOTT and ONDINE. 70 minutes, B&W, general concept by playwright RONALD TAVEL. (UV208) VINYL was Andy’s “interpretation of A Clockwork Orange with Gerard as a juvenile delinquent in leather saying lines like ‘Yeah, I’m a J.D. - so what.’” (POP124) Warhol had paid $3,000 for the rights to the book. (AWM51) VINYL was first shown to the public on June 4th at Jonas Mekas' Cinematheque. (L&D219)
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Billy Name with light meter (left) helps Andy Warhol
prepare a shot for Vinyl with Gerard Malanga
and Edie Sedgwick (seated)MARCH 19, 1965: UNDERGROUND CLOTHES IN LIFE
The article "Underground Clothes" appeared in Life magazine with photographs by Howell Conant, featuring some of Andy Warhol's superstars in a fashion spread - including the model Imu who Warhol filmed for a Screen Test and Imu and Son. The fashion editor of LIfe at the time was Sally Kirkland, Sr., the mother of Sally Kirkland whose Screen Test was included in The Thirteen Most Beautiful Women. (AD109)
MARCH 19/20/21, 1965: COUCH EXCERPT IS SHOWN AT ST. MARKS CHURCH.
An excerpt from Couch featuring Gerard Malanga and Piero Heliczer was shown at the church, along with work by George Peters, Bob Cowan, and Alfred Leslie among others.
MARCH 22, 1965: CASTRO OPENS.
Warhol's film, The Life of Juanita Castro premiered at the Film-Makers Cinematheque. (DB217) It was filmed at WALDO BALART’s apartment on West 10th Street. RONALD TAVEL wrote the script, inspired by Waldo who also appeared in the film and whose sister had been married to FIDEL CASTRO. Fidel had divorced her just before he became Premier. (POP111)
SPRING 1965: LESTER PERSKY HAS A PARTY.
Lester gave a party at the Factory for The Fifty Most Beautiful People - a party which lasted until 5:00 pm the following day. JUDY GARLAND arrived from the elevator carried by five boys on their shoulders. DAVID WHITNEY danced by “in the arms of RUDOLPH NUREYEV while TENNESSEE WILLIAMS danced by in the arms of MARIE MENKEN. EDIE spent a lot of time “laughing” with BRIAN JONES. Also at the party were ALLEN GINSBERG, WILLIAM BURROUGHS and MONTGOMERY CLIFT (POP101-3) GERARD MALANGA said that “it was at ‘The Fifty Most Beautiful People’ party that the stars went out and the superstars came in, that there were more people staring at Edie than at Judy.” (POP105)
Edie Sedgwick and
Gerard Malanga (ca. 1965)
(photo: David McCabe)SPRING 1965: THE DREAM WEAPON IS LAUNCHED.
PIERO HELICZER and ANGUS MACLISE organized a multimedia happening at the old Cinematheque called Launching the Dream Weapon. Lou Reed, John Cale, Angus MacLise and Sterling Morrison performed music behind a movie screen that Piero's films were being projected on. (UT25)
Piero had lived next door to Reed and Cale in their apartment building on Ludlow Street, but had moved to a fifth floor walk-up at 450 Grand. Angus also lived in the same building on Ludlow Street.
Musician Tony Conrad had also lived with John Cale in the apartment building on Ludlow Street:
"A lot of people went through that building on Ludlow Street. Mario Montez... lived downstairs, Angus (MacLise) was living upstairs. John (Cale) and I were there and Piero Heliczer... had the apartment next door." (UT24)
MAY 1965: ANDY WARHOL RETIRES.
ANDY, EDIE, GERARD and CHUCK WEIN flew to Paris for Andy’s Flowers show at ILEANA SONNABEND’s gallery at 37 Quai des Grandes-Augustins, going to nightclubs like Castel’s and Regine’s club - New Jimmy’s. According to Warhol, they had just filmed What’s New Pussycat at Castel’s and “it seemed like the whole town was popping with stars....” (POP112) In Paris Andy announced that he was going to retire from painting in order to spend more time making movies. (POP113)
JOHN ASHBERY reviews the exhibition for the international edition of the New York Herald Tribune (May 17, 1965), referring to Warhol's visit as "the biggest transatlantic fuss since Oscar Wilde brought culture to Buffalo in the nineties." (AD33)
After Paris, Warhol and entourage traveled to London, visiting art dealer ROBERT FRASER, attending a poetry reading by ALLEN GINSBERG and posing for photographs by DAVID BAILEY and MICHAEL COOPER. After London they flew to Madrid, then on to Tangier which Andy thought “smelled everywhere like piss and shit, but naturally everyone thought it was great because of all the drugs.” (POP114)
Gerard Malanga and Andy Warhol
in their Paris hotel
May 8, 1965JUNE 19/20, 1965: POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL PREMIERES AT ASTOR PLACE PLAYHOUSE.
POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL premiered at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque on a double bill with VINYL. The venue used by the "cinematheque" was the Astor Place Playhouse.
GERARD MALANGA brought PAUL MORRISSEY to see VINYL. Paul started hanging out at the Factory while they were shooting films - at first just sweeping the floor or looking through slides and photos. He wanted to shoot sound movies himself but didn’t have the money to rent all the sound equipment and was often asking Andy’s sound man, BUDDY WIRTSCHAFTER lots of questions. (POP181)
JUNE 12, 1965: SCREEN TEST #2 OPENS.
SCEEN TEST NO. 2, starring Mario Montez, premiered at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque at the Astor Place Playhouse. (DB217)
JULY 17, 1965: BEAUTY #2 OPENS.
BEAUTY NO. 2, starring Edie Sedgwick and Gino Piserchio, premiered at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque at the Astor Place Playhouse. (DB217)
JULY 1965: ANDY WARHOL GETS A VIDEO CAMERA.
Norelco loaned a video camera to Andy Warhol for promotional purposes. Andy used it to videotape BILLY NAME giving EDIE SEDGWICK a haircut out on the fire escape of the Factory. (POP119)
Warhol also used the video equipment for OUTER AND INNER SPACE starring Edie Sedgwick. Edie appeared smoking and talking, seated next to a television monitor on which her image also appeared. (Unfortunately the sound on Outer and Inner Space was so distorted that Edie's monologue was mostly unintelligible.)
JULY 26, 1965: EDIE SEDGWICK APPEARS IN THE N.Y. TIMES. (AF199)
JULY 30, 1965: ANDY WARHOL RECORDS ONDINE.
Andy Warhol gave Ondine four Obetrol pills (pharmaceutical "speed") and tape recorded him for 24 hours for a: a novel, which was later published in 1968. (PS440)
Andy Warhol records Ondine
in the Factory bathroom
for a: a novel
(photo: Stephen Shore)AUGUST 28/29, 1965: HORSE and SCREEN TEST NO. 2 PLAY ASTOR PLACE.
The Astor Place Playhouse was a cinema being used by the Film-Makers' Cinematheque at the time to show underground films. (X1)
LABOR DAY WEEKEND 1965: ANDY WARHOL FILMS MY HUSTLER.
Warhol and entourage shot MY HUSTLER on Fire Island - a film which, according to David Bourdon, cost only $500 to make. (DB265) STEPHEN SHORE, who was part of Warhol's entourage, said that the orange juice they drank one morning was secretly laced with LSD.
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AUTUMN 1965: ANDY WARHOL SHOOTS PAUL SWAN.
Swan was once known as "the most beautiful man in the world".
AUTUMN 1965: NAT FINKELSTEIN SHOOTS THE FACTORY.
Freelance photographer, NAT FINKELSTEIN, associated with the Black Star Photo Agency, went to the Factory to take pictures for a week and stayed for two years. (UT38)
SEPT. 5, 1965: EDIE SEDGWICK APPEARS IN THE N.Y. POST.
(AF200)
OCT. 7 - NOV. 21, 1965: THE ICA EXHIBIT.
Andy Warhol had his first American museum exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. The place was mobbed by college students. Warhol's entourage included SAM GREEN, EDIE SEDGWICK, BABY JANE HOLZER, KENNY LANE, ISABEL EBERSTADT, TAYLOR MEAD and GERARD MALANGA. Sam Green (who Candy Darling would later move in with) had actually taken down all the paintings before the opening because he feared that they would be damaged by the expected mob. (EDIE252)
ca. NOVEMBER 1965: BABY JANE HOLZER LEAVES THE FACTORY.
Holzer left the Warhol crowd after filming her last movie, CAMP. She had become disillusioned with the amount of drug taking at the Factory and the people who were hanging out there. After leaving the Factory crowd, she continued to amass wealth by investing in real estate, later opening an ice cream shop in Palm Beach, Florida called Sweet Baby Jane's. (UW47). She also became a successful producer of plays and movies including The Kiss of the Spider Woman. (UV245) She stayed in touch with Warhol throughout the eighties and they would often attend the same social events.
NOV. 22 - 23, 1965: ANDY WARHOL EXPANDS CINEMA.
ANDY WARHOL presented split screen projections and a rock group at Jonas Mekas' Expanded Cinema festival at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque. Other participants in the festival included Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, Nam June Paik, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Jack Smith.
David Bourdon: "The various presentations explored the uses of multiple screens, multiple projectors, hand-held projectors, interrelated screen and live images, moving slide projections, kinetic sculpture, balloon screens, video projections, and many light and sound improvisations." (DB218)
NOV. 26, 1965: EDIE SEDGWICK APPEARS IN LIFE MAGAZINE. (AF199)
NOV. 1965: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND IS NAMED.
LOU REED's band changed its name to the VELVET UNDERGROUND after the title of a "cheap paperback about suburban sex."
Rock journalist ALFRED G. ARONOWITZ offered to manage The Velvet Underground and they accepted. He arranged for them to open for another group he managed, Myddle Class, on December 11 at the Summit High School in Summit, New Jersey for which they were paid $75.00. This was the first time they used the name The Velvet Underground. They played after a band called 40 Fingers and before The Myddle Class. They opened with 'There She Goes Again', then played 'Venus in Furs' and ended with 'Heroin'. (UT28-29).
Angus quit the group before then, after learning that he would "have to show up at a certain time-and start playing-and then end," at a certain time which he couldn't handle. He was replaced a few days before the gig by MAUREEN (MO) TUCKER, the sister of Lou's Syracuse college friend, Jim Tucker. Jim Tucker had been Sterling Morrison's roommate at Syracuse University in a room at Sadler Hall on the floor beneath Lou Reed's own room. (LR98-9/UT19)
NOV. 22, 1965: HORSE PREMIERES.
HORSE, starring Tosh Carillo, LARRY LATREILLE and GREGORY BATTCOCK premiered at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque. (DB217)
DEC. 10, 1965: HARLOT PREMIERES.
HARLOT, starring MARIO MONTEZ, premiered at the Cafe Au Go Go on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village. (DB217)
DEC. 15, 1965: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND PLAY BIZARRE.
The VELVET UNDERGROUND began a two week run at Cafe Bizarre, "a relatively dead club on West 3rd Street just east of Macdougal Street in the heart of Greenwich Village" - where Andy Warhol saw them perform.
The residency was arranged by their new manager Alfred Aronowitz to give The Velvet Underground some experience and "to acquire some chops". In addition to doing some of their own material, The Velvet Underground also played cover versions of songs such as 'Carol' and 'Little Queenie'. The owner of Cafe Bizarre refused to let them use drums ('too loud') so drummer Maureen Tucker played the tambourine instead.(UT29/31)
The band was fired two days after Warhol saw them. They were fed up at having been forced to work on Christmas Day "and wanted to get fired, so when the manager told them that if they played 'The Black Angel's Death Song' one more time they'd be asked to leave, they cranked out their best version ever." (UT31)
Andy Warhol was looking for a band to manage for a nightclub which he had been asked to host by impresario MICHAEL MYERBERG - who had brought Beckett's play Waiting for Godot to the USA in 1956. (LR101) Warhol had previously tried to put together a rock and roll band in 1963 with LA MONTE YOUNG and WALTER DE MARIA. (LR105)
Mary Woronov: "It was like bang! They [Velvet Underground] were with Andy and Andy was with them and they backed him absolutely. They would have walked to the end of the earth for him. And that happened in one day!" (LR113)
Myerberg's interest in the project cooled off after he saw the band performing with Warhol's films at the Cinematheque during the second week of February 1966. (UT36)
DEC. 1965: EDIE SEDGWICK MAKES HER LAST ANDY WARHOL FILM (SORT OF).
Edie Sedgwick's last "official" Andy Warhol film was LUPE. She had become increasingly convinced that everybody in New York was laughing at her because of her Warhol roles. After befriending Bob Dylan she was under the impression that Dylan's manager was going to offer her a contract. (POP123) (According to some references, Warhol also filmed Edie in THE ANDY WARHOL STORY in November 1966 - although the footage for this may have been lost/destroyed).
Andy filmed Lupe in Panna Grady’s apartment in the Dakota on Central Park West and 72nd Street.
Andy Warhol (via Pat Hackett in Popism):
“Panna was a hostess of the sixties who put uptown intellectuals together with Lower East Side types - she seemed to adore the drug-related writers in particular.” (POP)
Lupe was based on Lupe Velez, the “Mexican Spitfire who lived in a Mexican-style palazzo in Hollywood” and decided to commit “the most beautiful” suicide ever, “complete with an altar and burning candles. So she set it all up and then took poison and lay down to wait for this beautiful death to overtake her, but then at the last minute she started to vomit and died with her head wrapped around the toilet bowl.” (POP127)
DEC. 6, 1965: MICKEY RUSKIN OPENS MAX'S KANSAS CITY.
Max's Kansas City opened at 213 Park Avenue South, between 17th and 18th Streets off Union Square. (HR/IAP32) The legendary bar/restaurant became a hangout for Andy Warhol and his entourage as well as many of Manhattan's other artists, musicians, actors, authors and drug addicts - finally closing fifteen years later in 1981.
DEC. 31, 1965: WALTER CRONKITE PRESENTS THE VELVETS.
The Making of an Underground Film was broadcast on the Walter Cronkite Show, CBS. Cronkite reported on the making of a Piero Heliczer film about The Velvet Underground named after their song, Venus in Furs. The Velvet Underground performed Heroin in the CBS report which was narrated by Walter Cronkite. Piero Heliczer joined the band on saxophone.
(www.members.aol.com/olandem3/tv.html)Andy Warhol, The Velvets, Edie Sedgwick (wearing her leopard skin fur coat), Donald Lyons and Gerard Malanga went to see James Brown at the Apollo Theater in Harlem on the same night as the broadcast and then took Edie's limo to Danny Field's apartment to watch it. (UT32)
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