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Sorry if there happens to be a thread regarding this,

George Hickenlooper is working on a documentary involving Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick, and it looks like that Lou Reed has given us his opinion and publicly told the NY times "I read that script. It's one of the most disgusting, foul things I've seen - by any illiterate retard - in a long time. There's no limit to how low some people will go to write something to make money", as well as "They're all a bunch of whores."

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Post by LCB »

Is this the project w/ Sienna Miller as La Sedgewick?
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Yes , and I found this:

Snap, crackle and Pop Art with Andy Warhol...

Who do you talk to if you?ve signed up to play pop-culture king Andy Warhol? If you?re Guy Pearce, who plays the bewigged artist in Factory Girl, you get on the blower to Stephen Dorff.

?Guy called me up to talk about (Warhol?s studio) The Factory,? explains Dorff, who played transvestite Candy Darling in Mary Harron?s I Shot Andy Warhol. ?Not that our films cover the same ground...? Indeed. Factory Girl is less a movie about the prince of soup-tin painting than it is about his beautiful muse Edie Sedgwick. Enter Brit starlet Sienna Miller for her first title role and her chewiest acting proposition to date, as party girl Edie drops out of Harvard to gatecrash the hedonistic blur of ?60s New York with Warhol. ?It?s the role of a lifetime,? explains Miller. Having won back the part after being ditched by the studio, Sedgwick?s is clearly a story Miller is keen to tell.
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I just saw a commercial on VH1 for EdieFactoryGirl, and Lou was in one of the photos in the commercial. No big deal...just thought I'd say it!
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This is the place where she lay her head when she went to bed at night....
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Post by taxine »

A trailer from the Factory Girl :

http://www.warholstars.org/news/factorygirl.html
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Post by sars »

Here's the Velvet Underground a la Factory Girl:

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and here's Nico (+Andy):

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Wikipedia's Trivia section for this film:


* Weezer's guitarist/singer Brian Bell and drummer Patrick Wilson covered the Velvet Underground song "Heroin" for this film. They also appear in the movie, with Bell playing Lou Reed and Wilson playing John Cale.

* Katie Holmes was set to take the starring role after Miller backed out, but it was reported Tom Cruise convinced Holmes not to do it because it would be bad for her image. Regarding the rumors, Holmes said, "I declined the role in Factory Girl based on my own decisions about the movie." [3] The role then went back to Miller.

* This is the first movie that Mary-Kate Olsen will appear in without her twin sister.

* Because the post production schedule was so delayed, Director George Hickenlooper continued to sound edit the film after it's initial release in Los Angeles on December 29th, 2006. [4]

* Warhol associates Gerard Malanga, Brigid Berlin, Sam Green, Richard Dupont, Robert Dupont in addition to Edie's brother, Jonathan Sedgwick, all licensed their life rights to the producers of the film. Edie's cousin, John Sedgwick, author of the forthcoming Sedgwick family biography "In My Blood: Six Generations of Madness and Desire in an American Family" served as an advisor to the film. [5] Edie's best friend, Danny Fields, was also an advisor to the film.
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Katie Holmes was set to take the starring role after Miller backed out, but it was reported Tom Cruise convinced Holmes not to do it because it would be bad for her image. Regarding the rumors, Holmes said, "I declined the role in Factory Girl based on my own decisions about the movie." [3] The role then went back to Miller.

says all you need to know about those two actors really...[/b][/i]
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Post by GroovyMusic »

That woman doesn't resemble Nico at all
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