Selected documentaries from Frameline 34, week 1
Published 06/17/2010
by David Lamble
http://www.ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=film&article=765Beautiful Darling: The Life and Times of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar "Candy fit in perfectly because she was like a real movie star from MGM, only in a world that was filled with LSD and speed." – John Waters.
Perhaps the most poignant and fleeting stab at stardom from the Warhol crowd belonged to a young man, James Slattery, fated to grow up with a girlish countenance and an obsession to follow in the stylish footsteps of Jimmy Stewart's frequent co-star Kim Novak. Raised just off the Babylon line of the Long Island Rail Road (the train that NYC cops getting off the Midnight shift ride), Candy Darling plopped herself down inside Manhattan precincts where a man in makeup, let alone a dress, risked arrest and worse. Crashing the hothouse world of Warhol's movie factory in the mid-60s along with a handful of starstruck chicks with dicks, Candy Darling quickly established a reputation as perhaps the one boy actress who had the aura of a young Marilyn Monroe. Starring in Warhol's feminist parody/homage Women in Revolt, which miraculously garnered her a Hollywood opening, Candy's career would peak and crash as drugs and fashions adjusted for the yuppie 70s.
