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On the Cusp of Superstars

On the Cusp of Superstars On the Cusp of Superstars Andy Warhol’s Silver Factory as Underground Kenneth King This is part two of Kenneth King’s recollections of his years around the Warhol Factory. Part 1 appeared in PAJ 108 in 2014. ndy Warhol is world famous today, but in 1964 he inhabited an underground scene populated by strange and unusual creatures. The infamous Jack Smith, a seminal New American Cinema filmmaker, had a big impact on Andy; he coined the euphemism “superstar,” meaning fabulous, beautiful, or outrageous. Jack was also in Gregory Markopoulos’s movie The Iliac Passion, playing Orpheus, poet of the Underworld. I entered this downtown scene while still a student at Antioch College, during my last work-study project. Just before I left Yellow Springs, Ohio, two student filmmakers told me Markopoulos needed actors for his movie and that I should look him up. I got the part of Adonis, paired with Tally Brown, a 350-pound chanteuse playing Venus. What I didn’t know was that Andy was also in Gregory’s movie as Poseidon. Markopoulos moved through the network of underground filmmakers and knew everyone. He was of medium height, trim, with a large head of curly hair, penetrating eyes, prototypical Greek features, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art MIT Press

On the Cusp of Superstars

King, Kenneth
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art , Volume 39 (2) – May 1, 2017
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© 2017 Performing Arts Journal, Inc.
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1520-281X
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1537-9477
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10.1162/PAJJ_a_00345
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On the Cusp of Superstars Andy Warhol’s Silver Factory as Underground Kenneth King This is part two of Kenneth King’s recollections of his years around the Warhol Factory. Part 1 appeared in PAJ 108 in 2014. ndy Warhol is world famous today, but in 1964 he inhabited an underground scene populated by strange and unusual creatures. The infamous Jack Smith, a seminal New American Cinema filmmaker, had a big impact on Andy; he coined the euphemism “superstar,” meaning fabulous, beautiful, or outrageous. Jack was also in Gregory Markopoulos’s movie The Iliac Passion, playing Orpheus, poet of the Underworld. I entered this downtown scene while still a student at Antioch College, during my last work-study project. Just before I left Yellow Springs, Ohio, two student filmmakers told me Markopoulos needed actors for his movie and that I should look him up. I got the part of Adonis, paired with Tally Brown, a 350-pound chanteuse playing Venus. What I didn’t know was that Andy was also in Gregory’s movie as Poseidon. Markopoulos moved through the network of underground filmmakers and knew everyone. He was of medium height, trim, with a large head of curly hair, penetrating eyes, prototypical Greek features,

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