Edie (65 page)

GEOFFREY GATES:
 “I was Edie’s puzzled but intrigued neighbor and casual friend. During the Sixties, I was working on Wall Street, becoming involved in some work with the Indians in the Southwest and generally trying to be a little too hip. After leaving Wall Street for some ventures in films, oil, and real estate, I am now back in the securities business managing investments for several people who probably appear in this book, among others. More importantly, I am the father of two boys and married to the writer Wende Devlin.”

HENRY GELDZAHLER:
 “I was a friend and counselor of Edie’s. During the Sixties I was the curator of Twentieth Century Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I remained a curator and, in 1978, became Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for the City of New York.”

ALLEN GINSBERG
, one of the principal poets of the Beat literary movement, is the author of Howl;
Kaddish; Planet News; The Fall of America: Poems of These States; Mind Breaths,
and Plutonian
Ode.
A member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters to which he was elected in 1973, he won the National Book Award in 1974, and is co-director of the Poetics School at Naropa Institute, Boulder.

THOMAS C. GOODWIN:
 I was a good friend of Edie’s and a professional associate (chauffeur and companion when her leg was broken). In the sixties my life-style evolved from psychedelic preppy pop to Marin county country hip. I worked as a hospital E.W. orderly, New York bartender, West Indies charter boat mate and skipper before graduating from Harvard. After work as assistant camera and assistant editor on
Ciao!Manhattan
, I moved to California and have worked in film and television since, now in Washington, D.C.”

JOHN P. GRABLE:
 “As I don’t wish to divulge my life history to the public, just tell ’em, ‘Mad John is alive and well In Isla Vista.’ God Bless Edie!!!”

SAM GREEN:
 “I was Edie’s audience, accomplice, and friend. As director of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia during the Sixties, I spent every waking moment there aching to be in New York, and when I got there I spent every moment not missing anything. I’m stI’ll living in New York—not missing anything.”

HELEN HARRINGTON:
 “My relationship to Edie was men and bars. During the Sixties I was occupied with men, water, and painting; silver, velvet, and cold lofts, cold, very cold lofts with some tropical release sailing across the Atlantic. Since then continuing the plot and adding babies. I like bats—mostly fruit bats, also Victorian diamond bats.”

EDMUND HENNESSY:
 “I think it was in 1963, at the beginning of my senior year at Harvard that I met Edie in Cambridge. I was living in Paris the next year, when Edie arrived with Andy Warhol and her two white mink coats. I liked Edie’s acquisitive new friends, and later in New York I became a ‘Factory person’ for a while and acted in a few of Andy’s and Paul’s movies. In the late Sixties I started working in a rare book shop and spent ten quiet and industrious years there. During that time I assembled the best Max Beerbohm collection in private hands. Tiring of dirty and dangerous New York, I moved to San Francisco a few years ago. Tiring of clean and safe San Francisco, I have recently moved back East and plan to return to New York, which I miss terribly—dirt, muggings, porno shops, sales tax, Moonies, and all.”

MART BETH HOFFMAN:
 “I lived in Paris from 1967 to 1979. A son was born to me in ’75 and a daughter in ’79. Am presently living in Aspen, Colorado, with my husband, Robert E. Fulton, and two children. We make films (experimental) on perception and fly bush planes—needless to say, we hike and ski.”

CHARLES HOLLISTER
 was a childhood friend of the Sedgwick children. He is currently the dean of Graduate Studies at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and a senior scientist there in Geology and Geophysics. He is working on “high energy benthic boundary layer experiments—the effects of chepsal cements and radioactive waste disposal on the deep sea floor.”

JASPER JOHNS
 was born in Augusta, Georgia, and lived in South Carolina during his childhood with his grandparents and other relatives. After studying at the University of South Carolina, he went to New York in 1949 and attended art school for a short time before being drafted into the Army. He then lived in downtown New York, supporting himself by working in a bookstore and making displays for stores, including Tiffany & Co. His work has been exhibited in Museums and galleries in the Americas, Europe, and Japan, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Tate Gallery. Jasper Johns is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. At present he lives in the country outside New York City and in St Martin, French West Indies.

BETSEY JOHNSON
: “Edie was my first fitting model in 1965 when I designed clothes for Paraphernalia. I did lots of ‘silvers’ (jerseys and plastics) for Edie
and did her clothes fox
Ciao!Manhattan.
Now I’m designing velvet and satin collar cuffs for dresses II”

IVAN KARP
: “I was a wincing acquaintance of Edie’s. During the Sixties I was observing in wonderment, as always.”

ALEXANDRA (SANDY) KIRKLAND:
 “I was Edie’s friend. In the Sixties, I was going to school. Now I am a housewife.”

GEORGE KLAUBER
: “I am president of Klauber/Roberts, a graphic design firm and adjunct professor of Graphic Design at Pratt Institute. The rest of the time I spend pursuing multifarious interests and avoiding as much as possible the invidious responsibilities of landlording my brownstone in Brooklyn Heights.”

KENNETH JAY LANE:
 “I was Edie’s friend and a friend of her family, as well as an old friend of the Andy Warhol set (particularly Andy). In 1963 I invented costume jewelry for the beautiful people—was lionized by them and became one of the most splendidly beautiful of them—a genuine Sixties character! Handsome, tall, thin . . . sitting in the back of my vintage Rolls (and matching driver) wearing either my floor-length leopard—or monkey—or unicorn, coat—all of which have disappeared. Today I am the same—only less lionized—less beautiful and less splendid. I am now a genuine Eighties character.”

WENDY LARSEN:
 “My family—also a large one of seven children—lived on a ranch in Santa Ynez, a few canyons over from the Sedgwicks as the crow flies. We were all friends with the younger Sedgwicks—Edie, Kate, Minty, and Jonathan.”

RICKY LEACOCK:
 “MY relationship to Edie was worshipful. In the Sixties I was discovering and delighting in the new
cinéma-vérité
film technique as well as making film projections for sarah Caldwell’s Opera Company of Boston. I am now teaching and making films at MIT.”

ROY LICHTENSTEIN
 was born in New York City in 1933. He gained international prominence in the early 1960s with his comic-strip paintings. He has had numerous one-man shows, including retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Tate Gallery in London.

LANCE LOUD
 is living in New York and goes to a school for video art with the intention of becoming a television producer. “I do a hundred jumping jacks a day and juice two pounds of spinach and two pounds of carrots daily. I don’t do windows.”

MOLLY MCGREEVY:
 “It is so weird to look back on what I now perceive as a trendy life of Caligulan excess. what was I doing in the Sixties? Entertaining. Playing can-you-top-this. Being stoned. Wearing the shortest minis. Owning the Popest Art. Producing tasteful but unsuccessful movies. Acting in tasteless but successful plays in Kansas City. Having a formal sit-down dinner for twelve in Halls store window to promote something or other. And laying the
ground for divorce, near-breakdown, conversion. I thought the Vietnamese War was a miniseries on TVI How did I manage to remain eighteen for so long? I now think I’m being granted a brief period of adulthood before I lapse into senility. I have gone back to school and am getting my master’s in theology at General Seminary. Some of my friends are waiting for this activity to pass, sending me get well cards in the meantime.”

THOMAS JAMES MCGBEEVY
: “I was a friend of Edie’s brother, Bob. In the Sixties I was collecting kinetic art in New York. Now I’m eating enchiladas in Santa Fe.”

NORMAN MAILER
, author, playwright, filmmaker, mayoral candidate, actor, has twice won the Pulitzer Prize—in 1969 for The
Armies of the Night
(for which he also won the National Book Award) and in 1980 for
The Executioner’s Song.

GERARD MALANGA
: “I was a close friend and confidant of Edie and associate to Andy Warhol in silk screening and filmmaking. In the Sixties, I also was writing and publishing poems and producing my own films. I continue to publish books of poems with Black Sparrow Press; travel extensively giving poetry readings at universities and colleges; using the photography medium to meet people and create works of art. I like to think of myself as having escaped from the Dionysius, which had long claws, articulated hands, and may have been warm-blooded. I see myself as a life-long anti-establishment man. I divide my time between New York City and Millbrook, in upper New York State.”

JEAN MARGOULEFF
: I served as Mayor of great Neck Estates from 1969 to 1973”

BOBERT MARGOULEFF
 is a record producer and recording engineer whose records include four platinum albums, eight gold albums, ten gold singles, three Grammy nominations, and a Grammy Award for engineering Stevie Wonder’s
Innervisions.
As an engineer specializing in acoustic construction, he has built or improved world-class recording facilities and nightclubs. He is also a musician and pioneer in synthesizers who has performed on many albums for other artists and also performs his own work with Malcolm Cecil under the name Tonto’s Expanding Headband.

JOHN P. MARQUAND, JR.
: “Edie’s grandfather and my grandfather were brothers. In the Sixties, I had my shoulder to the wheel and I lived on West Fifty-seventh Street in Manhattan. Now I live on West Fifty-fourth Street, three blocks farther downtown, with my shoulder closer to the wheel.”

TAYLOR MEAD
: “I was an acquaintance of Edie’s and made numerous films with Andy Warhol, Including
Lonesome Cowboys; Nude Restaurant,
and
Imitation of Christ.
Other films include
The Red Bobbins
with Kenneth Koch; John Schlesinger’s Midnight
Cowboy,
and more recently Eric Mitchell’s
Underground USA.
I have been working on films with Michel Auder, Gary Indiana, and John Chamberlain; giving poetry readings and writing.”

HELEN STOKES MERRILL
 is a first cousin of Francis Sedgwick and lives in New York and Bedford Hills.

DUANE STEVEN MICHALS
 was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, in 1932 and received his B.A. from the University of Denver. Mr. Michals is a photographer whose work has appeared in
Vogue, Esquire
, the
New York Times,
and other periodicals. He is also represented in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Chicago Art Institute, and the George Eastman House. He is the author of the following books of photography:
Sequences;
The
Journey of the Spirit After Death; Things are Queer; Take One and See Mt. Fujiyama
, and
Real Dreams.

DE. JOHN MILLET
 worked as a physician for the Austen Riggs Foundation In Stockbridge, Massachusetts, when he met Francis Sedgwick. He was a founder and the medical director of the Silver HI’ll Foundation in the Thirties. In the early 1940s, Dr. millet was affiliated with the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine and was one of the founders of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research—the first psychoanalytic institute in this country affiliated with a university. Dr. Millet contributed to research on allergic disturbances, peripheral vascular disorders, and psychosomatic medicine. In the Sixties he was the assistant dean at the New York School of Psychiatry. He was a chairman of the executive committee of the World Federation for Mental Health and a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Millet died February 18, 1976, at the age of eighty-seven in Nyack, New York.

PAUL MORRISSEY
 was born in New York City and received his college education at Fordham University. After serving in the Army, Mr. Morrissey worked for an insurance company and the Department of Public Welfare. He was involved in independent film production for four years prior to working with Andy Warhol on such films as
Chelsea Girls; Four Stars; Bike Boy; Nude Restaurant; Lonesome Cowboys; Blue Movie; L’Amour; Women in Revolt.
His pictures include
Flesh; Trash; Heat; Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein
, and
Andy Warhol’s Dracula.

BILLT NAME
: “Edie and I were amico. In the Sixties I was a lighting designer and photographer. . . . I lived like a comet, and since the Sixties have been doing the planetary canon.”