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Andy Warhol's Bad
''Bad'', also known as ''Andy Warhol's Bad'', is a 1977 comedy film directed by Jed Johnson and starring Carroll Baker, Perry King, and Susan Tyrrell. It was written by Pat Hackett and George Abagnalo, and was the last film produced by Andy Warhol before his death in 1987. Tyrrell won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. Plot Hazel Aiken (Caroll Baker) runs an electrolysis service out of her home. She also provides a service for clients who need some kind of crime performed, usually murder. She only uses females for these criminal assignments, and she sometimes rents out rooms in her house to the girls. Also living in the house are Hazel's husband (Gordon Oas-Heim), her elderly mother (Mary Boylan), and her daughter-in-law, Mary (Susan Tyrrell), who has a small baby and is constantly awaiting the return of her absentee husband. Hazel doesn't use men for her hit jobs, but makes an exception when she accepts "L.T." (Perry King) to perform a job ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jed Johnson (designer)
Jed Johnson (December 30, 1948 – July 17, 1996) was an American interior designer and film director. ''The'' ''New York Times'' hailed Johnson as "one of the most celebrated interior designers of our time." In 1968, Johnson arrived in New York from California and was hired to perform odd jobs at Andy Warhol's Factory. After Warhol survived an assassination attempt, Johnson moved in with him to aid in his recovery, and they had a romantic partnership for 12 years. At the Factory, Johnson rose through the ranks from assisting Warhol and director Paul Morrissey to directing his own film, '' Bad'' (1977). He edited several films, including '' Trash'' (1970), ''Heat'' (1972), '' Flesh for Frankenstein'' (1973), and '' Blood for Dracula'' (1974). Following Warhol's death, Johnson was a founding member of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board. After decorating the townhouse he shared with Warhol, Johnson began collecting antiques and started a decorating business. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brigid Berlin
Brigid Emmett Berlin (September 6, 1939 – July 17, 2020), also known as Brigid Polk, was an American artist and Warhol superstar. Life and career Early years Berlin was born on September 6, 1939, in Manhattan in New York City. She was the eldest of three daughters born to socialite parents, Muriel (Johnson) "Honey" Berlin and Richard E. Berlin. Her father was chairman of the Hearst media empire for 32 years. As a child, Berlin regularly mixed with celebrities and the powerful: I would pick up the phone and it would be Richard Nixon. My parents entertained Lyndon Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover, and there were lots of Hollywood people because of San Simeon – Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Dorothy Kilgallen... I have a box of letters, written to my parents in the late 1940s and 1950s from the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Her socialite mother frequently worried about Brigid's weight and constantly attempted to get her to lose it through any means, from giving her cash for ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Dallesandro
Joseph Angelo D'Allesandro III (born December 31, 1948) is an American actor and Warhol superstar. He was a sex symbol of gay subculture in the 1960s and 1970s, and of several American underground films before going mainstream. Dallesandro starred as a male prostitute in The Factory film ''Flesh (1968 film), Flesh'' (1968), produced by Andy Warhol and directed by Paul Morrissey. ''Rolling Stone magazine, Rolling Stone'' magazine declared Dallesandro's subsequent lead in ''Trash (1970 film), Trash'' (1970) as the "Best Film of the Year", making him a celebrity of youth culture and the sexual revolution. Dallesandro proceeded to star in ''Heat (1972 film), Heat'' (1972), ''Andy Warhol's Frankenstein'' (1973), and ''Andy Warhol's Dracula'' (1974). After appearing in European genre fiction, genre and art films for several years, he crossed into the mainstream as mobster Lucky Luciano in the 1984 film ''The Cotton Club (film), The Cotton Club''. Early life Joe Dallessandro was bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Morrissey
Paul Joseph Morrissey (February 23, 1938 – October 28, 2024) was an American film director, known for his early association with Andy Warhol. His most famous films include ''Flesh (1968 film), Flesh'' (1968), ''Trash (1970 film), Trash'' (1970), ''Heat (1972 film), Heat'' (1972), ''Flesh for Frankenstein'' (1973), and ''Blood for Dracula'' (1974), all starring Joe Dallesandro, 1971's ''Women in Revolt'' and the 1980s New York trilogy ''Forty Deuce'' (1982), ''Mixed Blood (1984 film), Mixed Blood'' (1984), and ''Spike of Bensonhurst'' (1988). From 1965 to 1973, Morrissey ran the publicity and filmmaking activity for Warhol at The Factory (first at 231 E. 47th St. and then at 33 Union Square (Manhattan), Union Square West in New York City). Additionally, between 1966 and 1967, he managed the Velvet Underground and Nico and co-conceived and named Warhol's traveling multi-media Happening the Exploding Plastic Inevitable. In 1969, alongside Warhol and publisher John Wilcock, Morris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivian Vance
Vivian Vance (born Vivian Roberta Jones; July 26, 1909 – August 17, 1979) was an American actress best known for playing landlady Ethel Mertz on the sitcom ''I Love Lucy'' (1951–1957), for which she won the 1953 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress, among other accolades. She also starred alongside Lucille Ball in ''The Lucy Show'' from 1962 until she left the series at the end of its third season in 1965. In 1991, she posthumously received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She is most commonly identified as Lucille Ball’s longtime comedic foil from 1951 until her death in 1979. Early life Vance was born in Cherryvale, Kansas, the second of six children of Robert Andrew Jones, Sr., and Euphemia Mae (Ragan) Jones. When she was six, her family moved to Independence, Kansas, where she eventually began her dramatic studies at Independence High School (Kansas), Independence High Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Brant
Peter Mark Brant Sr. (born March 1, 1947) is an American industrialist and art collector. He is married to model Stephanie Seymour. He was also a magazine publisher until 2018 and a film producer. Early life and education Brant was raised in Jamaica Estates, Queens, the son of Lily and Murray Brant. Both parents were Jewish immigrants from Bulgaria. Brant's father co-founded the paper converter (primarily converting paper into newsprint) ''Brant-Allen Industries'' with his brother-in-law (father of H. Joseph Allen). He has one sister, Irene Brant Zelinsky. Brant was a childhood friend of U.S. president Donald Trump. He attended the University of Colorado but did not graduate; rather, he left school to work for his father's company. Career Newsprint Brant went to work at Brant-Allen Industries, a paper conversion company co-founded by his father. In the early 1970s, Brant and his cousin, H. Joseph Allen — the son of Murray Brant's business partner — led the compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick W
Frederick may refer to: People * Frederick (given name), the name Given name Nobility = Anhalt-Harzgerode = * Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode (1613–1670) = Austria = * Frederick I, Duke of Austria (Babenberg), Duke of Austria from 1195 to 1198 * Frederick II, Duke of Austria (1219–1246), last Duke of Austria from the Babenberg dynasty * Frederick the Fair (Frederick I of Austria (Habsburg), 1286–1330), Duke of Austria and King of the Romans = Baden = * Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden (1826–1907), Grand Duke of Baden * Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden (1857–1928), Grand Duke of Baden = Bohemia = * Frederick, Duke of Bohemia (died 1189), Duke of Olomouc and Bohemia = Britain = * Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707–1751), eldest son of King George II of Great Britain = Brandenburg/Prussia = * Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (1371–1440), also known as Frederick VI, Burgrave of Nuremberg * Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg (1413–1470), Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Colacello
Bob Colacello (born May 8, 1947) is an American writer. He began his career writing for ''The'' ''Village Voice'' before becoming an editor for pop artist Andy Warhol's ''Interview'' magazine from 1970 to 1983. His roles at ''Interview'' included special contributing editor, managing editor, and executive editor. He collaborated with Warhol on the books ''The Philosophy of Andy Warhol'' (1975) and '' Exposures'' (1979). In 1984, Colacello became a contributing editor for ''Vanity Fair'', and since 1993, he has served as a special correspondent. Life and career Robert Colaciello was born to John and Libby Colaciello in Bensonhurst, New York on May 8, 1947. He and his two sisters, Barbara and Suzanne, were raised in Plainview, Long Island. He graduated from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1969 and has an MFA in film criticism from Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts. Colacello began his writing career around 1969, when he b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interview (magazine)
''Interview'' is an American magazine founded by pop artist Andy Warhol and journalist John Wilcock in 1969. The magazine, nicknamed "The Crystal Ball of Pop," features interviews of and by celebrities. Background In 1965, pop artist Andy Warhol announced his retirement from painting to focus on filmmaking. After he survived an assassination attempt in 1968, he began to concentrate on building a business enterprise. When Warhol tried to obtain press permits for the New York Film Festival, he was denied. Therefore, having a formal method for obtaining press passes was one of the reasons he founded ''inter/VIEW: A Monthly Film Journal'' with British journalist John Wilcock in 1969. The magazine, which was headquartered at Warhol's Factory, started as a film review before shifting its emphasis to pop culture. "I felt there was a need for an easygoing, conversational magazine,' said Warhol. "Every other paper is full of bad news, but we publish only good." ''Interview'' was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Warhol's Frankenstein
''Flesh for Frankenstein'' is a 1973 horror film written and directed by Paul Morrissey. It stars Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro, Monique van Vooren and Arno Juerging. In West Germany and the United States, the film was released as ''Andy Warhol's Frankenstein'' and was presented in the Space-Vision 3D process in premiere engagements. It was rated X by the MPAA due to its explicit sexuality, nudity and violence. In the 1970s, a 3-D version played in London and Stockholm. A 3-D version also played in Australia in 1986, along with '' Blood for Dracula''. The gruesomeness of the action was intensified in the original release by the use of 3D. Plot Baron von Frankenstein neglects his duties towards his wife/sister Katrin, as he is obsessed with creating a perfect Serbian race to obey his commands, beginning by assembling a perfect male and female from parts of corpses. The doctor's sublimation of his sexual urges by his powerful urge for domination is shown when he utilizes th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Stigwood
Robert Colin Stigwood (16 April 1934 – 4 January 2016) was an Australian-born British-resident music entrepreneur, film producer, and impresario, best known for managing musicians such as Cream, Andy Gibb, and the Bee Gees; theatrical productions such as ''Hair'' and ''Jesus Christ Superstar''; and film productions, including '' Grease'' and ''Saturday Night Fever''. Early life and education Robert Colin Stigwood was born on 16 April 1934 in Port Pirie, South Australia, the son of Gwendolyn (Burrows) and Gordon Stigwood. He was educated at Sacred Heart College in Adelaide. Career Stigwood hitchhiked to England in 1955. Among various early jobs, he worked at an institution for "backward teenage boys" in East Anglia. He worked briefly for Hector Ross at the New Theatre Royal in Portsmouth, Hampshire, before Ross left and the theatre closed. 1960s pop management He then met businessman Stephen Komlosy with whom he founded Robert Stigwood Associates Ltd, a small theat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles McGregor
Charles McGregor (September 1, 1922August 11, 1996) was an American actor, best known for his role as Fat Freddie in '' Super Fly''. McGregor served twenty-eight years in a number of state prisons for two murders.Pasts Imperfect '''' (October 14, 1987) During the 1970s, he became an actor and played supporting roles in several films. After his film career, he toured the United States and went to junior high schools and high schools, counseling children on the dangers of crime, drugs and prison. In 1980, he married Carolyn Pryor. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
