cotton Wrote:
did anyone see what Lou Reed was saying about this movie?
something about illiterate retards. i smiled.
here ya go:
"Factory" Film on Warhol no Work of Art says Reed
Sienna Miller, Hayden Christensen and Guy Pearce just started filming " Factory Girl," in which Miller plays Andy Warhol's drug-addled muse Edie Sedgwick.
But Lou Reed has already formed his opinion of director George Hickenlooper and his cast.
"They're all a bunch of whores," the rock god tells us.
Reed knew Sedgwick, and his band, The Velvet Underground, provided the jagged soundtrack to her 1960s scene. In "Factory Girl," The Velvets are played by the highly regarded indie rockers Weezer. Hickenlooper says that guitarist Brian Bell, as Reed, does a terrific cover of "Heroin."
But Reed is far from flattered.
"I read that script," Reed said the other night at a party for his new photo shows at the Hermès boutique and the Steven Kasher Gallery. "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."
Reed was asked at one point to get involved with the project.
"I wouldn't be part of that," said the rocker. "Just like I wouldn't be part of 'I Shot Andy Warhol,' " Mary Harron's 1996 film about Valerie Solanas' assassination attempt on the artist. "They tried to turn Valerie Solanas into a heroine. They're all a bunch of whores."
Reached on his set in Louisiana, Hickenlooper questioned whether Reed had read the latest script by "Wonderland" writer Captain Mauzner.
"There've been several Edie screenplays over the years," said Hickenlooper. "I adore Lou Reed. I love him for hating my project, which can only bring it more attention. But nobody is making big money on it. We're all working for scale to tell a complex story about a wonderful young woman.
"Lou will be making some money, since we've licensed his song."
Also at the party for Reed's book, "Lou Reed's New York," was Moby (who turned down a part in "Factory Girl" as a speed freak, "only because I can't act"), Julian Schnabel, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, and Reed's girlfriend, performance artist Laurie Anderson, who may have more in common with last weekend's Miss America contestants than anyone knew.
"When I was growing up in the Midwest, I was a maniac enthusiast for entering beauty contests," she told Webster Hall's Baird Jones. "At 18, I even won the big one, Junior Miss Illinois. That's my horrible secret. It still makes me hang my head."
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