Trivia re: the Midnight Cowboy party scene. Warhol himself was first asked to play the underground filmmaker in it; he suggested they use Viva instead. Viva was talking to Andy on the phone about her prepping for the scene at the moment Andy was shot by Valerie Solanis.
― Josefa, Monday, 10 July 2017 14:44 (six years ago) link
think i probably voted Hello Dolly just out of drunken silliness btw
― ramen play on 10 (Noodle Vague), Monday, 10 July 2017 14:48 (six years ago) link
Josefa: thought for sure I'd read he was against the scene...maybe it was just the finished film he didn't like. (Who is Viva's sidekick--the guy who hands out the flier at the diner?)
― clemenza, Monday, 10 July 2017 14:55 (six years ago) link
I did too! But then I reread the relevant sections of Warhol's Popism and he says, "I felt like I was missing a big party, lying there in the hospital like that." In other words, he would've liked to hang around the set even if he weren't in the cast. But then when the film came out he admits he was "so jealous." He thought, "Why didn't they give us the money to do […} Midnight Cowboy? We would have done it so real for them."
― Josefa, Monday, 10 July 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link
I think Viva's sidekick was Gastone Rossilli
― Josefa, Monday, 10 July 2017 15:26 (six years ago) link
I like these, hope you guys do '77 and '78 soon
― Wet Pelican would provide the soundtrack (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 10 July 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
Kind of surprised I haven't done '77 yet tbh. I'll make that the next one.
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Monday, 10 July 2017 16:37 (six years ago) link
Jean-Louis Trintignant in Z is like the ultimate hero in any movie and he spends half of it milling around in the background.
― Wes Brodicus, Saturday, 26 August 2017 18:10 (six years ago) link