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I never read a book like this Swimming Underground. Mary Woronov is alive born in 43 grew up in Brooklyn (my hometown) with brother mother and stepfather a cancer surgeon. While a student at Cornell she met Gerard Malanga who was the first Assistant to Warhol Andy due to his knowledge of silk screen print. Eventually Mary met him again and he was the source of many people who came to Warhol's place Silver Factory in new york city. he was more into women than men and yet there were both interests. He brought in most of the women and he was drop dead gorgeous.
This book is about Mary not about Gerard tho she was connected to him.
Its interesting to me that she wrote this or it was published in 95 and it was about her life in mid sixties. Did she keep a diary? Malanga did
After an innocent beginning this book enters a sphere that is really horrific. Mary became one of the Mole People at the Warhol Silver Factory severely drug addicted. That group within the whole Warhol group was led by two men - Rotten Rita the drug dealer and Ondine who was revered for his wisdom by many and especially by Mary.
Her defining of the Mole People - only seen in evening wear sunglasses and skin pallor is pale. Tunneling to greater insanity.
When you read this book be prepared to enter a world of madness and destruction and sometimes violence and it is told as if it is the normality. Mary was violent at a very very young age and again to her this was normal.
For many people like me this is a very very very difficult book to read cause of the madness of the way these people live. On the other hand if you are interested in a druggie's life and what they see and hear this is fascinating.
She has very bland things to say about Warhol and it is important to say here and anywhere that he was not one of the Mole People and he warned her to avoid them. He was as Mary says content "with his little yellow pills" (Obetrol a meth given by prescription).
Mary in that world outside of the Mole People is known for her role in Chelsea Girls as Hanoi Hannah. She did eventually leave there and she continued with drugs until she had no liver and then she changed after surgery in 90s. She did become a somewhat known actress and she is a painter
It is to her credit that she is alive. Ondine died who she loved and revered as the voice of truth and wisdom.
Judy
I never read a book like this Swimming Underground. Mary Woronov is alive born in 43 grew up in Brooklyn (my hometown) with brother mother and stepfather a cancer surgeon. While a student at Cornell she met Gerard Malanga who was the first Assistant to Warhol Andy due to his knowledge of silk screen print. Eventually Mary met him again and he was the source of many people who came to Warhol's place Silver Factory in new york city. he was more into women than men and yet there were both interests. He brought in most of the women and he was drop dead gorgeous.
This book is about Mary not about Gerard tho she was connected to him.
Its interesting to me that she wrote this or it was published in 95 and it was about her life in mid sixties. Did she keep a diary? Malanga did
After an innocent beginning this book enters a sphere that is really horrific. Mary became one of the Mole People at the Warhol Silver Factory severely drug addicted. That group within the whole Warhol group was led by two men - Rotten Rita the drug dealer and Ondine who was revered for his wisdom by many and especially by Mary.
Her defining of the Mole People - only seen in evening wear sunglasses and skin pallor is pale. Tunneling to greater insanity.
When you read this book be prepared to enter a world of madness and destruction and sometimes violence and it is told as if it is the normality. Mary was violent at a very very young age and again to her this was normal.
For many people like me this is a very very very difficult book to read cause of the madness of the way these people live. On the other hand if you are interested in a druggie's life and what they see and hear this is fascinating.
She has very bland things to say about Warhol and it is important to say here and anywhere that he was not one of the Mole People and he warned her to avoid them. He was as Mary says content "with his little yellow pills" (Obetrol a meth given by prescription).
Mary in that world outside of the Mole People is known for her role in Chelsea Girls as Hanoi Hannah. She did eventually leave there and she continued with drugs until she had no liver and then she changed after surgery in 90s. She did become a somewhat known actress and she is a painter
It is to her credit that she is alive. Ondine died who she loved and revered as the voice of truth and wisdom.
Judy
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