Word: warholism
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...titillated by "Live From New York: An Uncensored History of 'Saturday Night Live'" by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller (Little, Brown; October 7). "This oral history of NBC's 'Saturday Night Live' is the juiciest treasure trove of backstage gossip, sex and drugs since 'The Andy Warhol Diaries'...FORECAST: Little, Brown editor Geoff Shandler got the buzz going on this book at BookExpo in May, and a first serial in this month's issue of Vanity Fair has heightened the buzz to a roar. Ubiquitous media coverage and rave reviews should rocket this one onto bestseller lists...
...them, the band was also flaunted on a giant video screen, a reflection of their colossal egos. When the screen wasn’t showing close-ups of Jagger or Richards, it displayed various images and the group’s logo, the huge red tongue created by Andy Warhol. A secondary stage in the middle of the arena, left tantalizingly empty until the latter part of the show, let the Stones get right in the middle of the crowd. Flashy special effects and pyrotechnics were kept to a minimum in the indoor show, but the Rolling Stones still knew...
...Communists didn't acknowledge Warhol and his art either, and so the relatives were left wondering. "I knew he was a painter, but I thought he worked as a house decorator," says Jan Zavacky, 57, a Warhol cousin. In fact, the relatives put so little stock in the value of Julia's correspondence, sketches and even Warhol's famous shoe designs that came in the mail a few times that, at one point, they threw them in the river...
Such doubts were dispelled just after Warhol's death in 1987 when his older brother John visited Medzilaborce. With his help, the museum opened in 1991 and survived initial protests - 1,700 signed a petition against it - and a fair share of financing and operating problems: it took the town nine years to fix the museum's leaky roof that at times would flood the exhibition halls...
...there is a Penzion Andy across the street from the museum, itself on A. Warhola Street. A mineral water company has put Warhol's Red Lenin, Marilyn and Elvis on its labels. And a gallery called Endi (Andy written phonetically in Slovak) was opened by an occasional Warhol impersonator last year in a nearby village. All this probably wouldn't have pleased Warhol, who used to say he came from "nowhere." But the locals feel he is definitely from Medzilaborce...