(camera whirring)
(piano music playing)
Woman: My great, great, great...
great uncle was a signer of the Declaration of Independence,
and my mother's side started building New York before the Revolution.
You get the idea.
(cars honking)
I went to a party once and there was a palm reader there.
When she looked at my hand, she just...
she froze.
And I said to her, "I know.
My life line is broken.
I know I won't live past 30."
You know those photos of smiling families
you always see on a mantelpiece?
I can't even look at them,
because you never know what they're hiding.
A "Life Magazine" photographer came to our house
to photograph the "ideal American family."
We looked happy and pretty,
but underneath
it just wasn't that way at all.
('60s pop music playing)
~ I don't ever wanna see you crying... ~
Man: Looks like the country is disintegrating.
Lost all its hope.
There's always hope no matter what's happened before.
Yeah?
Where's the hope in that?
You know, when he first started painting everybody thought he was mad.
Can you imagine?
God, wouldn't it be wonderful to know that students
were looking at your work, analyzing it?
That depends on what they're saying.
(laughs)
I mean, people say he's a no-talent freak.
He's changing the way that we look at the world, isn't he?
I think people who manage to do that
must have the hardest time in life.
(students chattering)
Are you sure you'll be okay in New York?
I'll be fine. I've got Chuck to look after me.
Oh, Syd, why won't you come too?
My folks would kill me.
Where I come from, it's not easy to get a scholarship.
You know, I'm not so sure about Chuck.
He can be a real shit sometimes.
(laughs) Don't worry.
Edie!
- (laughs) - (camera clicks)
Chuckie, how can you want to go home? We're in Manhattan.
Edie's voice: To become an artist, I had to get out of that classroom.
And to me New York was Jackson Pollock sipping vodka
and dripping paint over a raw canvas.
There's so much to see, Chuck. Look where we are.
Yeah, taking New York by storm.
Two zombies.
Edie: Chuck and I had come down together from Cambridge.
You know, he was a flamboyant socialite
who carried a pocketful of calling cards.
He made me feel I wasn't alone.
- Can we play the game? - I don't want to.
- Come on. - All right, go.
- Lamb. - Chop.
- Pony. - Snout.
- Shy. - You.
- You think I'm shy? - Sometimes.
I guess I can be shy sometimes.
(church bell peals)
Man: Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.
Priest: What are your sins, my son?
Well, I have this friend Mark.
Well, he buys all these clothes from Bloomingdale's.
But because he's from London, everybody on the Cape
keeps talking about his "fabulous English look,"
which really is so good.
He was at a party up there last weekend
and Norman Mailer walked up and punched him in the stomach.
When Mark asked him why,
he just said it was "for wearing a pink coat."
I know I should have been happy for Mark
that Norman Mailer punched him,
but all I could think was, "Will Norman Mailer ever punch me?"
I don't even have a pink coat.
Or get invited to those glamorous kinds of parties.
Andy, why do you come to confession?
Well, because it's a sin not to.
('60s pop music playing)
~ Finding a job tomorrow morning ~
- ~ Got a little something... ~ - (sighs)
~ Gonna find something I can ride in ~
~ I take my girl datin' at the drive-in ~
~ Our love's gonna be written down in history... ~
(sighs)
~ Just like Romeo and Juliet... ~
Chuck: Edie, come on now.
It's going to be over by the time you're done.
You're not even going to meet him.
~ Just like Romeo and Juliet... ~
We're going to be late. Very late.
~ Just like Romeo and Juliet ~
~ Just like Romeo and Juliet. ~
(crowd chattering)
('60s pop music playing)
I just don't understand. Why are Jasper's selling and mine are not?
Andy, what do these people know about art?
They know how to buy it.
I wonder if Picasso knows who I am yet.
Who cares about these people?
They're so '50s. So boring.
Not very chic.
- Not very English. - I love the English, don't you?
Mick Jagger is so sexy.
I hear he has a really big cock.
- (chuckles) - What?
Andy, what are you doing here all by yourself?
Oh, I'm not by myself, Sam. I'm here with Lex and Molly.
Of course you are. Sorry, ladies.
- May I steal him away? - Of course.
Sam: How's the movie business?
Oh, well, it's busy, but I wouldn't call it a business.
I haven't made any money off of it yet.
(laughs) Of course you haven't, Andy.
The movie business is the most fickle in the world.
- You know that. - Oh.
Listen, I have met the most remarkable lady.
- Oh. - Old money... very old.
Oh good, does she want to buy a painting? Who is she?
Oh, thank you. Oh!
That's her. That's Edie Sedgwick.
Oh.
What good manners. Chuckie, pay attention to these gentlemen.
You just might learn something.
Oh, wow. She's so beautiful.
Edie: It's like a morgue in here. Please.
Her father struck oil out west.
She escaped to art school in Cambridge or somewhere.
Made her way down here last year.
She's done some modeling.
Tried to get into a gallery,
but no one has ever seen anything she's done.
When you said "old money," you made her sound 50.
(music continues)
- Is that the Andy Warhol? - Mm-hmm.
- Want to meet him? - Of course.
Edie, this is Andy.
Hi.
Oh, it's just amazing to meet you.
- I think you're just a genius. - Oh.
No one is doing anything like you right now
and that in itself is a sign of brilliance, don't you think?
- Sam: I'll leave you two alone. - (gasps)
Well there's four olives.
Is that really bad?
Well, not if you eat them because I just couldn't bear the thought.
Oh, well, I don't really like olives.
But I'd love you to be in one of my movies.
(laughs) I would love for you to eat my olives.
- Oh! - (laughs)
And what would I have to do in one of your movies?
Just be yourself.
Well which one?
(both laugh)
Well, you talk to Chuckie 'cause he handles all the little details.
You're the boss, applesauce.
What did I tell you? Is she a star or what?
I would sure love to work with her.
I've never seen a girl with so many problems.
(both chuckle)
Andy, in your films, what are you hoping to do?
We're just trying to make it so bad,
but doing it well.
You know, where you get the most scratches you can on a film.
Or all the dirt you can get on a film.
Or zooming badly,
where you zoom and you hit the most important...
miss the most important thing.
And, uh...
your camera jiggles
so that everybody knows you're watching a film.
Interviewer: How do you work with your actors then?
What do you tell them?
Well, I don't like to tell them what to do.
I mean, I just think people are so interesting.
Some say your work is pornographic.
Oh, yeah.
Isn't that great?
So...
do you work in hay?
Oh yeah, we're making a cowboy movie.
(opera music playing)
(laughs)
(horse whinnies)
Who are all these people?
Oh.
- That's Rotten Rita. - Now turn for me.
And Silver George, Debbie Dropout,
the Turtle.
I don't know who that is.
- Who's that? - (Edie laughs)
Andy: This is Ondine and Brigid.
- This is Chuck and Edie. - Hello.
Andy, I got a new book to draw in.
It said on the front, "The Topical Bible."
I didn't know what the theme should be, so I thought,
"What rhymes with topical?" And then I started rhyming.
Topical, bopical... and then I got to "C."
Cockical. I mean, it's perfect, right? An entire book about cocks.
Yeah, that's great.
Ondine: Her last book was called "Scars,"
but "Cocks" has a nicer ring to it, don't you think?
- Hmm. - Like a cock ring.
- I wish my phone had a cock ring. - Yeah.
Uh, so who's gonna be in your book? Anyone famous?
Ooh, maybe we can get the President's.
Oh yeah, Johnson's johnson.
Brigid, you got to call your father.
Are you insane, Andy? You know what my father would say to me?
- Maybe he'd want to be in the book. - Yeah.
Brigid's father has an empire. He's very rich.
Oh, you should do your cock for the book too.
This one is mine right here.
Brig, what if the cops come here?
Where's the sign? Who took the sign down?
Hey, Andy, we're ready.
Oh, we're gonna do the movie. You want to see?
- (horse whinnies) - I can give him a tranquilizer.
Cowboy: Tranquilizer? I'll take one of those, Mary.
Will you put the microphone in lower
so we can see it? Yeah, neat.
- Andy: Have you used one before? - Chuck: No.
It's easy. Why don't you turn it on?
- Yeah? - Yeah.
Andy Warhol's "Horse."
(claps)
Which one of you has a gun?
- Which one of you has a gun? - (phone ringing)
Frank: Look at the size of it.
- Ooh, look at that gun. - (all laughing)
- I want to ride it on the prairie. - I bet you do.
- You've seen bigger, yeah? - No, of course not.
- Except once or twice. - Andy: Hello?
Andy: We're doing a movie.
- Easy, horsie. - Whoa.
- Cowboy: Whoa, easy there, boy. - Cowboy #2: Oh my.
- (horse whinnies) - Andy: All right.
Cowboy: Oh, shit!
Shh.
(nickers)
Andy: What do you think of The Factory?
Do you like it here?
Of course.
I think it's always good to get beyond your experiences, you know?
And I hate it when people take themselves too seriously.
- Don't you? - Oh, yeah.
I read somewhere
that you were born in California. Is that true?
Yes, but we were from back East originally.
Well, Fuzzy got sick.
And so he wanted to move to a warmer climate,
and he bought a ranch in Santa Barbara, California.
And that's where I was born.
Who's Fuzzy?
- Oh, Fuzzy's my father. - Oh.
My father. Mm-hmm.
And is Chuck your best friend?
(laughs)
He's my best girlfriend.
(both laughing)
Who's your best boyfriend?
Oh, that's easy. That would...
actually, it's not that easy.
I would have to say my brother Minty.
Oh, well, you should bring him over.
I can't. I wish I could.
(lighter clicks)
He's dead.
Who is the first boy you made it with?
The first boy I made it with was at Silver Hill.
- Andy: The hospital? - Edie: Mm-hmm.
Andy: Oh, I hear it's very chic.
Didn't Cornelia Vanderbilt go there?
- (woman moaning) - Edie: All I had to do was walk in
on Fuzzy fucking our neighbor.
And then when I told my mother,
well, Fuzzy said that I was imagining it.
There has to be another way.
Edie: But even after all the pills that he pumped me up with,
I knew what I saw.
And so he sent me off to Silver Hill
just like he did with with my brothers Minty and Bobby.
It was sort of the Sedgwick way.
Andy: Who was the first boy you ever kissed?
Fuzzy.
(phone ringing)
Operator: Silver Hill.
I can't take it anymore.
I want to die.
Why do you want to die?
Because my credit's no good at Bonwit Teller.
Because I just stole $30 worth of underwear from Bergdorf's,
and I think I might do it again.
(laughs)
Is that you, Edie?
I thought you might be Ionely on the watch.
Don't lie to Wanda.
- I've known you for too long. - But really, Wanda,
everything is just super.
I met the most fantastic people.
I went to this gallery.
You know, Roy Lichtenstein and Jasper Johns
and Andy Warhol. I may get a show there.
Somebody asked me to be in a movie, Wand.
Wouldn't you love to be in a movie?
Wanda: Are you still seeing a doctor?
(laughs)
(shouting on TV)
TV anchor: In today's news,
rioting continued in Alabama
as civil rights demonstrators converged on the courthouse steps
in downtown Selma.
Announcer: Who could grant any wish.
Edie's voice: Andy was a little boy
who needed to be taken care of.
(humming)
I mean, his mother moved in with him when he was 22.
As a child, he had this horrible nervous condition.
- It made him feel like an outsider. - Thanks, Mama.
(speaking Slovakian)
I like your Sunday personality better.
(rock music playing)
(phone rings)
Hello?
- Andy: Hello? - Hello.
Hello. How are you, dear?
Well, Andy, I'm just about ready to flip my lid.
Henry Winthorpe III just left The Factory.
Oh, the toothpaste heir? How were his teeth?
Brigid: Oh, I didn't notice, but his cock was beautiful.
- Was it big? - Listen.
(moaning)
(moaning continues)
- Did he know you were taping him? - He insisted.
Andy, I'm getting such good tapes.
(moaning continues)
Man: I don't care if she is wearing a wig. It's a movie about boys.
- It's supposed to be an all-male cast. - But Edie looks like a boy.
- Like a beautiful boy. - And I think she's fantastic.
But she shouldn't be in this. It throws off the whole concept.
It's supposed to be about thugs and J.D. S and hooligans.
Oh, I know. I know.
Is she gonna say anything,
or is she just gonna sit there like a mannequin?
I just don't think she's cut out for this.
Well, Gerard, maybe Edie doesn't think you're cut out for it either.
Brigid: "Vinyl," a film by Andy Warhol
starring Gerard Malanga.
Gerard: I'm a troublemaker. A hooligan.
A real motherfucker.
So if you got a problem,
I can stick it where I can put it whether you want it or not.
~ Nowhere to run to, baby ~
~ Nowhere to hide ~
~ Got nowhere to run to, baby ~
~ Nowhere to hide ~
~ It's not love I'm running from ~
~ It's the heartbreak I know will come... ~
(grunts)
~'Cause I know you're no good for me... ~
(groans)
Why is he doing that?
Why doesn't he stop?
~ Nowhere to run to, baby ~
~ Nowhere to hide ~
~ I got nowhere to run to, baby ~
~ Nowhere to hide... ~
Edie's voice: In The Factory you were accepted
and encouraged
and even expected to be different.
Andy made me feel comfortable,
and I believe that he felt comfortable with me.
Andy: No, I'm serious. Let's say you're on a TV show like "Steve Allen"
and he says, "So, Edie, any plans for getting married?"
(laughs) Okay, fine.
But I could only marry four... maybe three people.
Who?
The future Earl of Litchfield, but he'll have to be the last, I think.
- Oh. - And Mick Jagger.
Oh, yeah. I hear he has a really big cock.
(laughs)
- And then who? - Nureyev.
But I don't think he likes women.
(laughs) Are you allowed to say that on television?
Oh, Andy, we couldn't say anything on television.
They'd have to tape our mouths shut.
(laughs)
It's so much more fun in New York
since you showed up.
(rock music playing)
~ When you move in right up close to me ~
~ That's when I get the chills all over me... ~
Edie's voice: Those were really the happiest days of my life.
When we were experiencing life on our own terms.
What better way to say goodbye
to Edith Minturn Sedgwick, the Mayflower girl.
~ Shaking all over... ~
Andy, what do you think of Edie's new look?
It'll be great. I can't wait to see it.
~ Just the way you say good night to me... ~
Edie's voice: Andy took ordinary objects and made them iconic.
I always thought that he was throwing America back in its face...
you know, turning the assembly line into a punchline.
~ Quivers down my backbone ~
~ I got the shakes in my thighbone ~
~ I got the shivers in my knee bone... ~
- (phone rings) - Andy: Hello?
Andy.
When are you going to show me your drawings?
You've showed them to Gerard and Brigid.
I want them to be the right ones.
Well just put anything together. We'll make a show.
Ileana Sonnabend is coming to New York next month. I'll introduce you.
Really?
I will. This weekend I'Il...
Oh no, not this weekend. We're supposed to go to Fire Island, remember?
Well when am I supposed to get it done?
It'll happen. I wouldn't worry about it.
That's easy for you to say. You have nothing to worry about.
Oh, that's not true.
The Sculls cancelled a whole order of Brillo boxes.
Andy, I know plenty of people in New York
who are looking to buy great art.
Edie, I just think it will clash terribly
with the Biedermeier chairs.
Well you can just say whatever color you want.
I just picked up a new blue from Pearl that's fantastic.
Well, Mrs. Shingle, just so you know,
my mother had one done last month,
and she was so happy with it she ordered three more.
Wow, your mother always did have excellent taste.
Taupe I think would work best.
~ Shakin' all over ~
~ Oh! ~
~ Yeah... ~
I wonder if people are gonna remember us.
Edie: What, when we're dead?
Andy: Yeah.
I think people will talk about how you changed the world.
I wonder what they'll say about you
in your obituary. I like that word.
(laughs) Nothing nice, I don't think.
Come on. It would say...
"Edith Minturn Sedgwick,
beautiful artist and actress..."
"And all-around loon."
"Remembered for setting the world on fire..."
"And escaping the clutches of her terrifying family."
"Made friends with everybody and anybody..."
"By creating chaos and uproar wherever she went.
Divorced as many times as she married,
she leaves only good wishes behind."
(laughs)
That's nice, isn't it?
Well, I hope I die first,
because I would be too sad if you died before me.
Andy: Tell me other places you lived after that.
Edie: I lived in Paris when I studied art.
The French, they're just so good looking.
Andy, we should go.
Actually, when I say it it makes sense for you to be there right now.
But I didn't think they liked new art anymore.
You just take some of the flower paintings and the movies,
and they'd appreciate you so much more than they do here.
You know, here people don't really know why you do what you do.
But in Paris, they don't care.
So you're free to express it however you want.
Well, they only care that you know why.
Oh, well I just do it because I'm ugly
and there's nothing else for me to do.
You're not ugly, Andy.
- Andy: Well, I do have my good days. - (Edie laughs)
Edie: Three shrimp cocktails,
extra lemon, extra cocktail.
And then I'll have the salmon grilled. Is it fresh?
- Oh yes, ma'am. - No butter, but extra parsley.
- Ooh, and lots of Russian dressing. - Andy: $200?
Waiter: And you?
Oh, I'll just have a peanut butter sandwich.
I'll see what I can do.
- Put everybody on my tab. - Waiter: Yes, ma'am.
I don't understand. These are all your bills?
I know, they're huge. You might have to start paying me.
Either that or I'll have to move into a one-bedroom or a studio.
Oh God, where would I keep all my clothes in a studio, Andy?
- What should I do? - Oh, nothing.
I just think what you're doing right now is so glamorous.
- Really? - Yeah.
(sighs)
Darling, where did you get that blouse? It's simply divine.
- It's Donald Brooks. - Hmm.
Here, try it on. We're about the same size.
Chuck: There I was in the midst of hara-kiri
when it hit me...
24 hours in the life of Edie.
One day. One movie.
You are so much fun. How come you don't spend more time with us?
- Because of my lips. - Your lips?
They have a hard time kissing Andy Warhol's ass.
- Yeah, that's great. - Yeah?
- Yeah. - Right?
How well do you and Edie speak French?
So, Andy wants to take us to Paris with him.
Oh, fabulous. Let me settle the check.
Waiter! Everybody, we're leaving.
Darling, we're leaving now. Would you charge it to my account?
If you can wait here for just a minute.
A minute? Why that's a complete lifetime.
I mean, there are things that are born, live and die in a minute.
Don't ask me what, dear, because I couldn't tell you.
But I have to go to Paris.
You just tell Mr. What's-his-name to send me the bill.
- Oh, how's my hair? - Stunning, madame.
(rock music playing)
(man singing in French)
Well, I don't know. I guess I'm bored with it.
So I'm just going to quit painting
and we're going to make movies now.
Make Edie a big star.
Edie: Well, I'm not going.
I have nothing to wear.
Chuck: Why don't you just try on some clothes?
I don't feel like trying on... Why do I have to try on clothes?
Chuck: You have a whole closetful.
Do I look different?
I ran into an old friend who said every time I saw him
I looked so different he hardly knew who I was.
Well, do you think that's true?
Huh?
Chuck: Edie Sedgwick
in Andy Warhol's "Poor Little Rich Girl."
Man: Bravo!
(laughs)
Oh, that's so nice.
(speaking French)
I just love that he doesn't speak any English.
Aru, I want to touch your cock.
- Oui, Andy. Oui. - Oui. Isn't he great?
I can't tell what he's saying, but he keeps talking about Edie.
(Aru continues speaking French)
Just take your pants down.
Reporter: Andy, critics may love you in France,
but here they say your work is superficial
and that you wouldn't be where you are without Edie.
I don't pay attention to what they write.
- I just measure it in inches. - (all laugh)
Edie, I understand you're an artist too.
That was a very long time ago.
Edie's too beautiful to be an artist.
- I think artists should be ugly. - (all laugh)
No, Edie's a superstar.
Superstar.
(phone ringing)
Gerard: That's crazy.
There's one more thing on the sidewalk.
Look at that.
Edie: Oh, that's what he said.
I got it.
It's like a madhouse in here. Andy, this is my mother, Alice!
She just flew into town to help me furnish.
Oh, hi. You're so beautiful.
It's so nice to meet you.
No no! Put it over there.
Edie: Careful with that box, love. It's Waterford.
Betsy Johnson... I know, isn't she fabulous?
She asked me to be her first model.
Anyway, I've got to go. Ciao.
- Brigid: I'm a mad hatter. - Edie: Oh, he's here.
Oh, you made it. Isn't he beautiful?
His name is Wallow and I got him at Abercrombie's.
Hello. Did you have a nice trip over?
Oh, Mum-mum aren't you proud
Pretty soon money will be falling off trees.
- I won't need any help at all. - There's a novel idea.
But, Mom, don't you think that Fuzzy would get a kick out of all of this?
Oh, please. Your father's so square he doesn't pee in the shower.
- (phone ringing) - Mum-mum!
Hello?
I think your daughter is going to be super famous.
And what would be the value in that, Mr. Warhol?
Oh, well, I think everybody wants to be famous.
Well, I had much higher hopes for Edith.
Oh.
(drum beating)
Edie's voice: You know, I used to dance twice a day.
I'd do this jazz ballet.
And I'd wear leotards and black tights
and I was too lazy to take them off.
And I decided to go with it.
Divine one,
I am entirely superficial and I intend to stay that way.
But you, my dear, you are the real thing.
America's next "It" girl.
We'll put you under contract.
People started to notice and it sort of caught on.
~ Sets the summer sun on fire... ~
You know, the earrings, the thick black eyelashes...
it was all a part of the show.
~ I want candy ~
~ I want candy... ~
This is Andrea Romando with the BBC.
I'm here with Edie Sedgwick at the infamous Factory.
She is known as Andy Warhol's superstar.
And in New York, she has been dubbed Queen of Underground Cinema.
Edie, how does your family feel about you having this title?
They hate it.
They hated the idea of my doing any modeling
to make my own way.
As soon as I started all of this, they're sending telegrams
saying, "Oh, you've got to go model, please."
Female reporter: At an Andy Warhol art exhibition...
Male reporter: The glamorous Miss Edie Sedgwick unraveled her long white...
Female reporter: The Plymouth Rock princess and her commoner companion...
Male reporter: In town last night, at Max's Kansas City...
Female reporter: ...Hollywood legends...
Male reporter: The former window dresser and commercial artist...
Female reporter: ...the first girl to bring sex appeal
to American high society.
I'll have a porterhouse, she'll do the sirloin.
Actually, I think I'll try the chicken tonight.
Coq au vin, please.
- Miss Sedgwick? - Why don't you have the grilled fish?
No butter. We don't want you blowing up now, do we, honey?
You game for a steak, Warhol?
You sure look like you could use one.
The Met is thinking of buying some of Andy's work.
- Oh, lovely. - How about this?
I've just been commissioned for a 30-foot bronze stallion
in downtown Santa Barbara.
Oh, Edie does horses too.
Well, where do you think she learned that?
Has Edie told you about my studio?
Yeah.
I've seen some of your work, Warhol.
You're really more of a printmaker than an artist.
What's your family do?
Well, my father was in a coal mine.
Andy and I are thinking about making some more movies together.
If you can call them that.
Andy: You can call them whatever you want.
- Like Dorothy, or... - Ondine. (giggles)
Andy: Hillary.
This whole time I'm thinking,
"Who is this guy who has my little girl all turned around?
He must be some kind of a man."
Then I talk to you for two minutes,
and I have to smile, because I don't have a thing to worry about, do I?
You're a full-blown queer.
Andy, we can go now.
Edith...
don't you dare make a scene.
Minty had been...
I guess an embarrassment to the family
because he was different. He was...
he was a homosexual.
And Fuzzy knew it.
And when Minty came clean, Fuzzy called him a faggot.
You know, he just...
he broke him.
And when they closed the casket lid on my brother Minty...
I remember Fuzzy just standing there.
No reaction, just...
standing there...
like a stone.
For days the whole family just sat around the ranch
as though nothing had happened.
And at his funeral, no one cried.
No one.
Not even my brother Jonathan.
And I ran at him and I pounded my fists on his chest...
and he didn't cry.
L...
I had to cry for all of them.
(rock music playing)
Andy: Oh, you made it. That's great. Oh, hi.
Look who's here, everybody. Hi.
Hey, Mick, how are you?
Oh, it's great to have you here. I love the album.
- Jesus, Richie. - The tissue's hardened, Brig.
You got to really push.
Hey, Brig. What are you girls up to?
Cocktails, darling.
Adderall, Digoxin and Dextromethamphetamine.
Has certainly more kick than a martini, no?
You go to med school, Brig?
My parents have had me doped up on diet pills since I was 10.
Well, my parents plopped me in the bins before I could drive.
You're an Aquarius, aren't you?
No, I'm an Aries.
I know an Aquarius when I see one.
I just adore Aquariuses.
You thirsty for a poke? It's divine.
Ooh.
(music continues)
- Mark. - (claps)
Edie, why don't you tell us a story?
Oh, tell us about Arthur Bainbridge.
Charles, I do not want to tell that story.
- It's so sad. - Oh, I've read about him.
His mothers family made a fortune out of real estate.
That's him. (laughs)
Well, we went out a few times.
Nothing chic, but all very fun.
Well, one night we were all set for this date at Tavern on the Green,
only Chuck and I got into this very deep and long conversation
about the Tarot and I Ching
and all this completely fascinating stuff.
And Arthur shows up and he's just so possessive.
And I didn't want to hurt his feelings,
I knew he'd be furious if he knew Chuck was there
so I had him hide in the closet.
And Arthur got down on one knee just like in the movies
and asked me to marry him.
He'd bought this ring from Tiffany's.
And he kept going on about children and Connecticut.
- I mean, could you imagine? - Andy: Could you?
No. No.
But he was in tears.
A boy who has everything in the world
was just reduced to absolutely nothing.
And then...
and then Chuck jumped out of my closet
laughing hysterically.
Arthur was just mortified.
Chuck: Oh, he was boring.
Yes, but he was sweet.
I mean, Chuck... Chuck, you really are completely ruthless.
(rock music playing)
I'll get you right.
(laughs)
Hey, Rich, did you see my mother's face when she met Andy?
I thought she was gonna burst.
I know, my mother's horrified.
Brig keeps threatening to invite him to Christmas dinner
if she doesn't up our allowances.
Well, no wonder you never run out of money.
Edie.
Syd! What are you doing here?
(smacks)
- I've been sent to find you. - Oh, that sounds mysterious.
- Who sent you, the Red Chinese? - No, but...
I am working for someone pretty big.
- Rockefeller? - Bigger.
Bigger than Rockefeller and the Red Chinese?
Well, pray tell, who?
Why don't you come with me and I'll show you.
Who's that?
- Taxi! - Oh, darling, I landed straight down
on my Margaret Jarrold pumps.
Thank God I didn't break an ankle.
- You know, when I came to New York... - Second Avenue and Fifth, please.
(both speaking French)
Edie: Oh, it's windows, dear, windows.
Andy realized that I wasn't an artist, but who was I, a model?
That didn't seem to fit either.
That'll be 85бщ, please.
- Shit, I don't have any cash. - You've got to be kidding me.
- I never carry any either. - What?
- Here, take this. - What's that?
That is a beautiful ring just for you.
(laughs) Are you coming?
You're still sculpting, I hope.
That was just my great escape. Do you remember that time
when we went to that restaurant... oh, what was it called?
Durgin Park in Faneuil Hall.
And all the waiters were so crusty, and... oh!
Watch it. Watch it! Jesus.
And then I was dancing on the tables, do you remember?
And I think that they thought that I stole something,
when really I only meant to borrow it.
Oh no, it wasn't you!
I don't know what you're talking about.
It was Don-Don. And Chuckie was there.
- Edie. - I nearly died laughing.
Edie, I have somebody that I want you to meet.
This is Edie Sedgwick.
Photographer: Edie, how about a picture?
Well, hello.
Photographer: Why don't you put your arm around her?
Photographer: Hey, how about one shot? One shot, Miss Sedgwick?
I got to go to work, sweetheart.
(crowd cheering)
(harmonica playing)
Well, I wasn't interested in him because he was famous.
It wasn't as if he was the first famous person I'd ever met.
But he was so different.
(laughing)
We caught a couple of your films last week at the Cinemateque.
You did? And?
And, uh... they were good.
No no, they were good.
We just... well, we didn't really understand they were...
I don't know, what they meant.
I don't know if they're supposed to mean...
l... it's just sort of like,
I don't know, watching a Henry Moore sculpture
but a little bit out of focus, you know?
- (laughing) - Pretty pretentious.
I don't know if it clears it up for us.
Sounds very pretentious.
- That clear it up for us. - Could... could...
could I get a little milk for my coffee?
What about you?
Your songs are pretty... pretty profound.
What are you trying to say?
I'm not... I'm not trying to say anything.
I just write them.
I don't know, I guess I write about what I see.
That's really good.
It's a doodle. It's not...
No no no, that's...
that's a good drawing.
Wow.
So you're an artist.
Oh no, not really anymore.
What? You're not drawing anymore? Why?
It's just it's hard to find the time to sit down and be alone.
I just find it hard to sit still.
Seriously...
you got to, you know, you got to find the time to do this.
The music was just hypnotic.
- I just think he's so maximal. - Isn't he?
And he just has that power. You know people who have that power.
- Like Superman? - You can't really explain why it is.
It just is.
Well, what do you say to someone like that? I mean, he's just so famous.
- We didn't really talk, you know. - Oh, you didn't?
It was just nice to meet him. Andy, what do you think of this?
Tres chic or tres fou?
Oh, tres chic, definitely.
Well, I have to watch my spending. Especially on clothes.
You know, I already stopped wearing underwear.
Shit, what other sacrifices do I have to make?
Who do you think you are?
Your family is so rich.
I mean, you're living on Easy Street.
Oh!
Oh, Mama would love this.
I can buy it for you.
Oh no, you need to watch your spending.
So, tell me more things. Who else was he there with?
I don't really remember that, you know?
But it was just something about those lyrics.
What he was saying was really poignant.
Like he really had something to say.
What?
I was just saying that he really had something to say.
- How much is this? - Vendor: Seven.
- $7? - $7.
Oh no, that's too much.
Well, I could give you $4.
What do you think?
I think you look beautiful.
(laughs)
Oh, I don't know if he...
this, uh...
What's wrong? Is this about that Syd character?
Have you ever analyzed things to the degree
where you can't really remember the difference
between what's real and what you've created in your head?
I know that I'm real.
And I know that you're real.
- (knocking on door) - And I know that's real.
(laughs)
I don't know. I just wish life could be more simple,
you know, sometimes.
James, dear, what are you doing here so early?
- I... - Sit down.
We had an appointment at my office at noon, Miss Sedgwick. It's 2:30.
You've known me since I was three, James. Call me Edie.
Your...
spending, Miss Sedgwick.
You're going to be bankrupt soon.
James, you take life too seriously.
How could I possibly be bankrupt?
My grandfather invented the elevator.
Then you should be familiar with the concept of up and down.
When you got here, your trust fund...
thank you.
Your trust fund was up.
After a year and a half, it's almost in the basement.
- Oh shit. - What, what, what?
Well, what about all the money that I'm making?
Well, you keep spending it.
Your father is very upset with you
cavorting with drug addicts
and fringe elements.
You tell Fuzzy for me that those are some very talented people.
If you don't change your friends,
you'll get nothing from him.
Rich, will you make sure the oven's off?
I'm sorry, I have to go.