Edie Sedgwick News

To some, she was a just a society heiress who did a lot of drugs. But to Andy Warhol and Bob Dylan, Edie Sedgwick was a muse - a wild blonde superstar who defined the look and excesses of the Sixties.

Edith Minturn Sedgwick was born on April 20th, in 1943, in Santa Barbara, California, to a very wealthy family.

Mary Woronov may not have been up there with Edie Sedgwick, Viva, and Jane Holzer as one of Andy Warhol's "superstars," but she got a lot of mileage out of terrorizing International Velvet in his 1966 Chelsea Girls .

IN THE '60s , Andy Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick and Velvet Undergrounder John Cale sported wild-child clothes by Betsey Johnson .

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Dir. Eric Mitchell . Complete with cameos by Jackie Curtis and Taylor Mead , Eric Mitchell's first 16mm feature transposed Sunset Boulevard to the Warhol Factory as a vehicle for washed up superstar Edie Sedgwick .

Betsey Johnson , uptown girl? She is, patently, the quintessential downtown designer; Edie Sedgwick was even her fit model at one time.

Who's your style icon? Edie Sedgwick was awesome. I just pull ideas from different people.

The weather may be cooling off, but Sockets isn't quite ready to pack up the shorts and deflate the beach balls.

NBC's Today picked up Jenna Hager to be an occasional correspondent on education for the morning show.

Edie: Girl On Fire was a film that was supposed to come out at the same time as Factory Girl to show the real story about Andy Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick since people who knew her were upset about the script to Factory Girl.

How's this for a birthday celebration on a summer's eve? This past Saturday, indie-rock stalwart Dean Wareham popped the cork on his 46th in Brooklyn's Prospect Park with wife Britta Phillips - as well as Lou Reed, Dennis Hopper, Nico, and Edie Sedgwick.

Edie Sedgwick 's last Warhol film was a prescient disaster-inspired by the 1944 death of film star Lupe Velez who planned an elegant suicide by Seconal but wound up drowning in the toilet bowl.

After a long day spent trying to knock some sense into those sentences, I rode the R train down to the Not Fade Away Gallery for the publication party of Allen Tannenbaum's photo extravanganza " New York in the 70s ," a bash that featured a sexy DJ, the "sexy DJ" being an enviable niche to fill in any decade.

Summary: "You better do something quick, she's your lover now," sang Bob Dylan. Edie Sedgwick blazed a path across the public consciousness in the mid-60s and has, despite serious problems and even death itself, stayed there.

Miller studied Warhol for her role as his muse Edie Sedgwick in Factory Girl - and an interview with his mum helped her understand one of his most famous pop art creations.

The Obamas may have left Paris off their European tour, but a trio of US blockbusters in the city makes it clear where world power lies even so.