Friday, February 27, 2009
Candy Darling
Transgender star recalled as muse
Friday, February 27, 2009 3:10 AM
By Colin Moynihan
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
Posted by De Sube at 2/27/2009 07:08:00 PM
http://destrantalk.blogspot.com/http://dispatch.com/live/content/life/stories/2009/02/27/2_DARLING_MUSIC.ART_ART_02-27-09_D6_H8D23J4.html?sid=101She was baptized James Lawrence Slattery in 1944 but reinvented herself as Candy Darling in the late 1960s after leaving suburban Long Island for the streets of New York's West Village.
She hung out with artists such as Andy Warhol and crossed paths with musicians such as David Bowie. Filmmaker Paul Morrissey put her in two movies. Lou Reed wrote the Velvet Underground song Candy Says with her in mind and included a verse about her in his Walk on the Wild Side.
