What's A Warhol?

September, 1969

"I want to make an orgy movie," Andy Warhol said recently. "The orgy is what's happening now."In the folklore of the Sixties, Andy Warhol is our hip Jay Gatsby: a shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister host with albino-chalk skin, silver hair, dark sunglasses and black-leather motorcycle jacket, who presides over a melange of kinky sex, drugs and smoking revolvers."The blond guru of a nightmare world, photographing depravity and calling it truth," was how Time chara...

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