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‘Darling’ holds a mirror to life as avant-garde diva

Started by Shana A, May 06, 2011, 09:02:18 AM

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Shana A

May 06, 2011, 09:02:18 AM
Beautiful Darling
'Darling' holds a mirror to life as avant-garde diva

By Loren King
Globe Correspondent / May 6, 2011

http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2011/05/06/darling_holds_a_mirror_to_life_as_avant_garde_diva/

Candy Darling, one of Andy Warhol's Factory "superstars,'' was played by Stephen Dorff in Mary Harron's 1996 movie "I Shot Andy Warhol.'' More recently, she's glimpsed in HBO's "Cinema Verite,'' as Lance Loud touts Candy's appeal to his mother at a performance of the off-Broadway drag musical "Vain Victory.'' Like fellow Factory figures Edie Sedgwick and Jackie Curtis, Darling now gets her own documentary, and proves a more than worthy subject.

Born James Slattery in 1944 on Long Island (Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side'' pays tribute with lyrics that begin, "Candy came from out on the Island . . .''), the future transsexual icon nurtured an infatuation with Kim Novak and transformed himself into his fantasy of a Hollywood goddess when barely out of his teens.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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