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{{quote|''"In the future, [[Fifteen Minutes of Fame|everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.]]"''|'''Andy Warhol'''}}
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Born in 1928, in Pittsburgh, Andy Warhol was a sickly child and often hospitalized. He developed a [[Chekhov's Gun|phobia of hospitals]] and was pathologically shy. Interested in drawing, he had a lot of time to practice. He went to art school and moved to New York. He started in commercial art illustration, but radically changed his style. Andy became famous for his hyper-saturated representations of everyday items, adhering to the concept that the everyday is beautiful. Famous pieces include ''Campbell's Soup Cans'', ''Marilyn Diptych'' and ''Elvis''.
Andy founded [[Eccentric Townsfolk|The Factory]]: a menagerie of his friends, drag queens, musicians, sexual radicals, models, drug dealers, free-thinkers and other oddities. Many of the "Warhol Superstars" including Edie Sedgwick, Betsey Johnson and Gerard Malanga went on to become stars in their individual fields. Other Factory regulars included Salvador Dalí, Allen Ginsberg, [[William S. Burroughs|William Burroughs]], [[The Rolling Stones|Mick Jagger]], Truman Capote and [[Velvet Underground|The Velvet Underground]].
Things changed when [[Straw Feminist|Valerie Solanas]] shot Warhol. Warhol survived the shooting but the event had a permanent effect on his life and work. He said of the shooting, [[All Just a Dream|"Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life]]. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. [[Reality Is Unrealistic|The movies make emotions look so strong and real]], whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything. [[Tear Jerker|Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television."]]
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* ''54'' - 1998
* ''Factory Girl''<ref>notably, Lou Reed lambasted the movie for portraying him completely wrong</ref> - 2007
* ''[[Watchmen (
* ''[[Men in Black (
== [[Literature]] ==
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* [[Collector of the Strange]]: Cookie jars, wigs, and other various items.
* [[Erotic Eating]]: He did an entire film of a drag queen eating a banana. It can be seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSEYQvEplbo here].
* [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Freud Was Right]]: The cover he made for ''The Velvet Underground & Nico''.
** The cover of [[The Rolling Stones]]' ''Sticky Fingers'' was even more blatant.
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* [[Mad Artist]]: Read a biography on Andy Warhol. ANY biography.
* [[The Muse]]: Most consider his to have been Edie Sedgwick.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: In the Preston & Child novels, [[
* [[Post Modernism]]: Was one of the primary influences.
* [[Take That]]: The film ''Taylor Mead's Ass'' was made after a critic said of another one of Andy's films that "... people don't want to see an hour and a half of Taylor Mead's ass". ''Taylor Mead's Ass'' was exactly that.
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