Word: sedgwicks
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...frenetic world of '60s sex and drugs makes for a kickier nightmare than Viet Nam or Watts or Kent State. It offers an escape into Hollywood melodrama, but with the frisson of real names and familiar faces. How else to explain the post-mortem celebrity of Edie Sedgwick? Once a footnote in any pop history of the decade, she is now the summer's hot number. Edie (Knopf; $16.95), a 450-page biography of her, is secure on the bestseller lists; and Ciao! Manhattan, a grotesquely autobiographical film she made eleven years ago, is being re-released...
...Edie Sedgwick? She was a strikingly pretty young woman with a genius for self-destruction. Her pedigree and her rap sheet conspire to prove that truth can be as compelling as the most lurid novel: daughter of a distinguished, disturbed New England family; evanescent superstar of Andy Warhol's underground movies; blitzed-out druggie; a careless suicide at 28. The glamour, the abuse, the aristocracy of decadence-my dear, it's just too delicious...
...humiliation stung him, and it seems no accident that when he married, into the wealthy and socially prominent Sedgwick family of Stockbridge, Mass., he found much to resent among his in-laws. His second wife came from a similar back ground, and neither marriage was successful. By the time' Marquand wrote The Late George Apley and H.M. Pulham, Esquire, he had earned his wry attitude to ward the well born...
...Ernst F. Sedgwick Hanfstaengl was a generous member of the Harvard Class of 1909 with a "perennial affection for Harvard, Boston and New England...
Borowitz brilliantly parodies Freudian psychology in the scene in which Sedgwick tries to brainwash Superman. Sedgwick accuses Superman of being "rejected as a child" and of craving "the adulation of millions." "Who told you we needed a Superman?" he barks at the cowed and cringing extra-terrestrial. He convinces Superman that normal people drive cars, rather than...