TARZAN AND JANE REGAINED... SORT OF

back to EARLY OCTOBER 1963

Tarzan featured Taylor Mead as Tarzan and Naomi Levine as Jane. Naomi had made her own way to Los Angeles to raise money for Jonas Mekas’ Film-Makers’ Co-op, although Gerard Malanga and Taylor claimed that she had flown out because she was in love with Andy.

Taylor Mead edited Tarzan when they returned to New York. It was screened in Jerome Hill’s suite in the Algonquin Hotel. Jerome was the the wealthy grandson of a railroad magnate who supported the arts through his private foundation and also made his own 16mm films (sometimes starring Taylor Mead). (POP43-6)

Jerome Hill and his "companion" Charles Rydell would later become financial backers of Interview magazine. Andy Warhol also asked Charles Rydell to be the subject of his movie Blow Job. Although Rydell did initially agree, he thought Andy was only joking and never appeared for the shoot.