edie sedgwick discusses party.

[circethesorceress]

she's a swan. i <3 edie in every possible way.

[MowgliX]

Imagine Edie in Barbarella? I mean Jane Fonda did a fine job, but Edie is Edie...

[desertshore]

@MowgliX ahhh that woulda been awesome, she coulda rocked those tiny space costumes. wonder how often her name crossed the studio heads' lips, before they quashed the idea of casting her, due to the warhol association? madonna said warren beatty, @ the time, crossed paths w/Edie.

[MowgliX]

@desertshore Well, imagine Edie is super tight sci-fi costumes!!! By 1968, Edie was more of less a real space alien anyway. But she is so adorable in this clip from 1965.

[MowgliX]

@desertshore Yeah, Warren said to Madonna that Edie once turned up in a see-through raincoat, and nothing on under it. :) Hard to believe, though. But she did wear a fur coat and just leotards and a bra underneath sometimes... Whey you are that dazzlingly beautiful, you can get away with that sort of behavior.

[xXPinkGoddessXx]

@MowgliX Have you ever thought about Edie as Holly in Breakfast At Tiffany's? The film version doesn't remind me much of her, but it's astonishing how much Capote's original Holly has in common with Edie, even down to her age and physical appearance. I think in some ways the 'Poor Little Rich Girl Saga' was Warhol's adaptation of Breakfast At Tiffany's.

[MowgliX]

@xXPinkGoddessXx I happened to see Breakfast At Tiffany's, the 1961 movie, about two months ago. That's a real classic, and very very elegant. Audrey Hepburn had the same level of refinement as Edie, and it's more than likely Edie and Andy were influenced by it. But Edie was a lot more decadent and rebellious than Audrey, who was a proper English-Dutch lady. Edie had a very similar townhouse at 16 East 63rd Street as Audrey's character, but was too heavily into drugs to really function.

[xXPinkGoddessXx]

@MowgliX I agree in respect to Audrey's portrayal, which why I said it is Capote's Holly (who herself was very rebellious and considered improper) who shares many parallels to Edie. Unlike the film version, the book has Holly running away as a 'wild thing' and leaving New York and its inhabitants forever mystified.

[MowgliX]

Every single thought that goes through her mind is instantly reflected as a facial expression or some body movement. Super sensitive! I adore her, I think she was beyond belief. She could have been a major star if she hadn't been so terribly inundated by heavy drugs. But it is doubtful she would have survived in Hollywood anyway. After all, other sensitive people like Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Judy Garland and James Dean didn't really manage very well.

[xXPinkGoddessXx]

@MowgliX "Every single thought that goes through her mind is instantly reflected as a facial expression or some body movement."

That's a fantastic way of putting it! Reminds me of Andy saying that anything Edie did, even just a movement inside her eye, was fascinating to watch. For all of the problems Edie was cursed with, she sure was blessed in some respects. It's just a shame she couldn't really appreciate any of it.

[desertshore]

@xXPinkGoddessXx i think she could appreciate her gifts, but couldn't "harness" them.

[xXPinkGoddessXx]

I've always gotten the impression that Edie enjoyed the benefits of her qualities, but had only a superficial appreciation of them. I mean, there are people who would give their right arm to be half as desirable, attention-grabbing, and lovable as Edie and try madly to attain it, but to her it was just fun. I guess that's the downside of living for the moment, there's just no time to analyse the beauty of your experiences. But it also shows that Edie had a realism about the transience of life.

[MowgliX]

@xXPinkGoddessXx Andy Warhol wrote that he could never figure out if so many things happened in the 1960s because everybody were on speed, and rarely slept, or if people took speed because so many things were happening all the time and they needed to stay up... Everything happened so fast and was over so quickly. But I was only 4 years old when the 1960s were over, so what do I know?

[xXPinkGoddessXx]

@MowgliX Haha, I wasn't four years old until about three decades later, so I can't comment based on experience either! I agree the fact that Edie's rise and fall was so quick and fleeting has a lot do with our fascination of her.

[MowgliX]

@xXPinkGoddessXx My mother is almost the same age as Edie: mom was born on March 22, 1942 and Edie on April 20, 1943. I wonder what Sigmund Freud would have to say about my fascination for Edie! :D

[desertshore]

@MowgliX Hollywood REALLY dropped the ball when they belittled her during interviews. imagine if she had had the opportunity to do a few "BIG" movies ("Rosemary's Baby" woulda been perfect for her i.m.o.) - of course she woulda had to put her "friends" on hold, which i tseems she wasn't willing to do @ the time :(

[MowgliX]

@desertshore She was no dummy, that's for sure. But very confused at times, and mentally unstable. What interviews are you referring to? Or do you mean Andy's films? Edie didn't have any acting experience. She wouldn't have been able do to Rosemary's Baby just like that. (It's my favorite film by the way.) Not without training. But yeah, that would have been most interesting. Mia Farrow's haircut by Vidal Sassoon in that movie was popularized by Edie two or maybe three years earlier, in 1965...

[MowgliX]

@desertshore That's been on my mind for some time also: Edie Sedgwick as Rosemary and Jack Nicholson as Guy. But it would have been a different, even more disturbing movie, but perhaps with less mainstream appeal, more like Easy Rider, but set in a posh Central Park West apartment... But that's impossible, at least in the universe we're living in now, in this time bubble.

[MowgliX]

@desertshore Yeahhh! Rosemary's Baby, my all time favorite! Just imagine Edie in that one...

[gisterino]

edie style ..... i love her

[Moniqueee15]

Amazing video, it really captures her glamour.

[desertshore]

.. it flies off her like sparks *.*

[menchiiscute1]

what are they listening to

[adriantrench]

the shirelles - everybody loves a lover

[tdp6]

Interesting life, yes. Fascinating person, definitely. Did she help others? Did she do anything for anyone Definitely NO! Strikes me as a completely self-centred person.

[desertshore]

she inspired & dazzled several generations *.*

[crayolachipmunk1024]

And she always will.

[jadebrush]

Self-centred yes, that's true - but you have to understand the world she came from. She had no concept of reality. And certainly she was very loving to those she cared for -from Bob Dylan -who cruelly led her to believe they had a relationship - and then got married in secret, to her brothers Minty and Bobby - who both died suddenly. She was broken. It really isn't fair to judge. Nobody could recover from an upbringing like hers. A mixture of unbelievable privilege and unbelievable abuse.

[xXPinkGoddessXx]

The reason Edie didn't help others is that she couldn't even help herself. Selfishness in her case resulted from the total lack of stability that she grew up with and maintained throughout her whole life. It's true that Edie for the most part was oblivious to those around her, but for the same reason she was without malice or vindictiveness in her, and very trusting according to those who knew her.

[donnybrooklads]

what happened to Edie borders on human cruelty

[parkerphil20]

yeah she could never get out of her past,and got stuck up in the fame thing,btw did she always have that scar on the nose bridge

[sakara18235]

i have this "movie" (a village voice writer of a couple years ago thinks they're closer to reality tv shows, since they are ad lib). music playing just pops up off screen, for no reason. it's a shame "warhol" (he really didn't make most of "his" movies) didn't put edie into a real movie. john waters treated his own, ugly, edie, ten years later, better.

[dRuss8706]

i love her behavior. as if there weren't even a camera in the room.

[desertshore]

VERY chillaxed onscreen *.*!

[DntYouJustLOVERobbie]

wish the music wasnt so loud, its hard to hear her :(

[desertshore]

i know. the music is wayyy harsh....

[chattychar]

i like how the color changes as her emotion changes. maybe that was on purpose, maybe it wasn't. but i like it.

[zz0mmbbiiee]

I LOOOVE HER!

totally.

(L)

[angelinakitty]

great clip. never saw this before. thanks

[scwomanchangeling2]

Hey Sweety how are you? I love Edie Too!

[Tron1276]

"poor little rich girl" is such an amazing movie...

[desertshore]

mesmerizing...shame the first half hour iz completely outta focus tho :(

[shatterdwing]

i mean no wrong,,i guess i was wrong lol

[shatterdwing]

again marvelous! Damn you can do know wrong