Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...celebrities like Viva, Baby Jane Holzer and Jerry Hall. Warholian scholars, if there is such a category, might want to read this book to decide once and for all whether Truman Capote liked Bob better than Andy. Others should be warned: the only thing worse than reading about the Velvet Underground's evenings at clubs is to have been there. Drugs and drink were in large supply; wit and conversation were...
Hills refused to comment on Sato's remarks, but her staff noted that she is known as the Velvet Crowbar...
...REED AND JOHN CALE: SONGS FOR DRELLA (Warner Bros.). Part biography of Andy Warhol, part autobiography of Reed and Cale (who were members of the Warhol-corralled Velvet Underground), part song cycle, with a little art criticism on the side. Far from hagiography and close to greatness...
...Civic Forum, the coalition opposition group, managed the nowdubbed Velvet Revolution from, of all places, a theatre called the "Magic Lantern." Ash brilliantly juxtaposes the gravity of the political situation with the ironic humor of Havel and his band of writers, artists, economists and politicians. He tells of how his press credentials bore Havel's personal stamp--"a beaming pussy cat with the word 'Smile' across his chest!" A second credential bears a stamp with a beaming green frog and the words tres bien...
...unreasonable. He needed to find a screen character that he, and the audience, could live with comfortably over the length of an entire movie. For he was essentially a sketch artist, creator on TV's Saturday Night Live of marvelous and curiously healing parodies of racial stereotypes: Tyrone Green, Velvet Jones, the glorious Buckwheat. His best early movies, 48 Hrs. and Trading Places, permitted him the freedom to do variations on these characters, but he didn't have to carry these pictures alone. He had strong co-stars in well-developed roles sharing his burdens...