Popcorn & Candy: We Want Candy
DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week.
http://dcist.com/2010/10/popcorn_candy_75.phpFew of the protégés of Andy Warhol became anything other than fleeting cult stars, but Candy Darling was one of the handful who actually flirted with more mainstream fame. She was in a number of Hollywood films, was hand-picked by Tennessee Williams to be in one of his plays and both the Rolling Stones and Lou Reed wrote songs about her. Okay, so that last one probably holds more significance in retrospect than it did at the time, when the Velvets were still fairly obscure, but still. What would have been truly remarkable about Darling's rise to fame had it gone farther (she died of leukemia in 1974, just 29 years old), was that she was born James Slattery; it's difficult enough for a transgendered performer to reach wide fame today, let alone in the 60s and 70s. This film, the first feature for director James Rasin, tells Darling's story using many of her own words, with Chloë Sevingy serving as Darling's voice in readings from Darling's diaries that soundtrack much of the film.
