Candy and friend/roomate Jeremiah Newton 1971
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Candy and friend/roomate Jeremiah Newton 1971 |
"Hollywood is taking too long to get in touch with us. We'll make films with Warhol. If you are a Warhol Superstar, you have it made. He is the biggest thing since Cecil B. DeMille"
Candy
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"I don't think the sunrise is as good as the moonlight."
Candy
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Unfortuniately many of Candy's personal papers and drawings were destroyed by her family after her death. Candy's friends Francesca Passalacqua, Jeremiah Newton did manage to save a few and published them for us to enjoy. What remains is a glimmer of the real Candy, a wonderfully romantic and beautiful lady. The first time I read these two books it brought tears to my eyes to think that the world is somehow not quite as glamorous without her.
A collection of her diaries, drawings, thoughts and many fabulous colour and black and white photos. Candy's friends Francesca Passalacqua and Jeremiah Newton were the editors of this book. A must read for all Candy fans.
Candy gives us insight not only of herself but a picture of life of New York's GBLT and art community in the 60's and 70's. As with "My Face for the World to See", I am sure Candy never expected this very private and personal look into her life to be published. This book has four black and white photos. If you would like to read more about Candy I would suggest, "A Low Life In High Heels", Holly Woodlawn's autobiography and "I Survived Andy Warhol, A Walk On The Wild Side with the Legendary Holly Woodlawn" by Tom Garretson. "There is one thing I must tell you because I just found it to be a truth . . . You must always be yourself no matter what the price. It is the highest form of morality."
"I've had small parts in big movies
"I am a star because I have always felt so alienated
Warhol Factory Superstars, Mary Woronov and Ondine along with Candy Darling star in this film. Silent Night, Bloody Night is a movie of an escaped madman who terrorizes a New England town and the inhabitants of an old mansion which is up for sale. Candy is in a flashback, portraying a glamorous party guest in 1935. Here she's right at home playing a blonde bombshell living the high life, only to be done away with like the rest of the guests. There's something very sad about seeing her in this role, probably the role she was born to play. Not as a man portraying a woman, just a woman at a party. She would die shortly after, although she certainly left her mark on the world in the short time she was alive. This movie was re-released on VHS in 1984 and on DVD as a two discs set as "Evil Places in 2002.
Three girls from different walks of life, Candy Darling from high society, Jackie Curtis from the middle class, and Holly Woodlawn from the gutter, have different problems relating to men. With Candy, it's incest, Jackie is frigid, and Holly, a nymphomaniac. When Jackie feels that the group needs independence, she organizes meetings to enlist her friends in the newly fashionable Women's Lib Movement. They decide to give up men, become lesbians and attempt careers, only to end up either exploited, derelict or abandoned. Jackie Curtis wrote the screenplay and Paul Morrissey directed, Women in Revolt.
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