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Each random death--John Belushi's, Andy Warhol's, Rock Hudson's--is tied to the generation's mental state and imbued with cultural and sociological significance. Belushi's taught the generation of the danger of drugs, Hudson's of the need to come together to fight AIDS. Previously, the deaths of '60s heros (the Kennedys and Martin Luther King) made the generation cynical...
...Harvard graduate with a major in French literature, Wylie drove a cab and communed with Andy Warhol before finding his calling as an agent. In 1980 he signed up author I.F. Stone after singing Homeric verse to him on the phone -- in Greek, of course. (Wylie later handled Stone's unlikely 1988 best seller, The Trial of Socrates.) Three years ago, Wylie persuaded British agents Gillon Aitken and Brian Stone to form a partnership. Wylie has brought Susan Sontag and other distinguished authors to the firm, yet many of the big names on his list are either one-shot autobiographers...
...ANDY WARHOL: A RETROSPECTIVE, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. The first comprehensive look since the artist's 1987 death at what made him the top of the Pops. Through...
...ANDY WARHOL: A RETROSPECTIVE, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. The first comprehensive look since the artist's 1987 death at what made him the top of the pops. Through...
...ANDY WARHOL: A RETROSPECTIVE, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. The first comprehensive look since the artist's 1987 death at what made him, for better or worse, the top of the pops. Through...