Our man in Australia has agreed to provide us with some interesting factoids once in a while. He's an expert on the Warhol era and has an extensive library of resources about Warhol and various Hotel Chelsea artists. Plus, he has bigger plans in store for the blog in the coming year.
Carrie Bedsore's Curious Chelsea Factoids
Before releasing Chelsea Girls, Andy Warhol was required by force of threatened law-suit to remove any reference to specific room numbers from the film. Owner and manager of the Hotel, Stanley Bard, sought the changes out of concern for the impact that the film might have on perceptions of the Hotel.
Baird admits to having been apprehensive about having Andy Warhol and his Superstars making a film on the premises but relented because of an affection and respect for Warhol. After several months of filming, the crew were asked to leave the Hotel. The reason for this eviction remains unknown. Final scenes for the film were shot in ‘faked up’ Hotel Chelsea rooms.
“I took a lot of abuse on that film”, recalls Bard. “it depicted the hotel as being a wild establishment. Some of my stockholders were a little upset. A lot of people saw it and I really can’t tell whether people thought it was a real-life situation of that it was a fantasy… In retrospect, it never harmed the Hotel.”
source Guiles, FL: Loner at the Ball. The Life of Andy Warhol. Bantam Press. London. 1989. (Photo: Nico Trims her Bangs)
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