The Velvet Forum

sars wrote:I dunno. Everywhere I turn, I see CBCG tshirts.

That's because CBGB is actively merchandising for itself! Just go their website and they are hawking tons of CBGB crap.

Andy Warhol was very intentionally MAINSTREAM about everything he did. Hell, don't you remember his interview show on MTV? The Factory itself will never go mainstream...well...no more so than any other Catholic/Amphetamine/Homosexual cultural crossroads ever have.

He was dead on with the 15 minutes of fame remark....look at all these realty shows on TV.

I don't think that Full on Film picked a good girl to play Nico. She looks to young, and her face is too harsh. ultimately, I hope that these two movies never get made. call me shelfish, but I don't want the VU and Nico to go mainstream. Mainstream can not appreciate these two artists.

I think this mainstream discussion is pretty funny... The VU has for years been the band that everyone says is "underrated" and "underground" although pretty much everybody knows (about) them or has at least heard of them and all kinds of people are into the first album, not just rock fans...

Honestly, I would think the VU are one of the best known '60s rock bands these days.

This is from the Times Online, August 28th, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 82,00.html



Swinton lands Nico film role
SHE was the original supermodel whose decadent lifestyle saw her hailed as the siren of the Swinging Sixties. Now the life of Nico, the muse of Andy Warhol, the artist, and the lover of Mick Jagger, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, is to be re-created on screen by Tilda Swinton, the Scottish actress.

Nairn-based Swinton, the wife of artist and playwright John Byrne, has been chosen to play the German model who was part of the Velvet Underground with Lou Reed.

David Mackenzie, the Scots director whose erotically charged version of Young Adam with Ewan McGregor and Swinton earned him international fame, is expected to begin shooting the film next year.

For Swinton, who has starred opposite Keanu Reeves in Constantine and Bill Murray in the acclaimed Broken Flowers, it caps a remarkable year. In December her first blockbuster role as Jadis, the White Queen in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe will have its premiere.

In Nico, which will be shot on location in London, Paris, Munich, New York and Manchester, Swinton will have to age from 22 to 50.

The ?10m American-French co-production marks Mackenzie?s debut working in the United States.

The script has been written by Jane and David People, the husband-and-wife team who penned the classic sci-fi drama Blade Runner.

?This is a very exciting time for David [Mackenzie]. Young Adam raised his profile enormously,? said Sean Gascoigne, the director?s agent. ?David has been a fan of the Velvet Underground and Nico?s music for a long time. He loved the book and script and when the opportunity to make a film came along, he jumped at it.?

The 39-year-old director, who was born in Corbridge, is the brother of Alastair who played Archie, the young laird of Glenbogle in the BBC?s Monarch of the Glen. He also starred in his brother?s first feature film, The Last Great Wilderness.[/url]