Today’s scene that I love comes to use from an underground 1965 film called Vinyl! Believe it or not, this adaptation of A Clockwork Orange was directed by Andy Warhol and predates the famous Kubrick film by 6 years!
This is a film that I hope to get a chance to review very soon but until then, check this out scene of Edie Sedgwick and Gerald Malanga dancing to Nowhere to Run by Martha and The Vandellas.
Watching her in this scene, it’s sad to think that, in just six years (and at the same time that Stanley Kubrick was releasing his version of A Clockwork Orange), Edie Sedgwick would die at the age of 28. Like all of us, she deserved much better than what the world was willing to give her.
Edie Sedgwick (1943 — 1971)
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Edie Sedgwick was used, and eventually used-up, by those around her. At least that’s what I assume from what’s known about her life, and by what I’ve learned from a few people I’ve known who knew her.
The best description I can come up with for them is the infamous term; “tragically hip.” When they didn’t have a good answer, they just made stuff up, hoping with all their hearts that they sounded deep.
If that reminds anyone of L. Ron Hubbard’s band of crazies, or any other half-baked group of enablers, then; bingo.
Like you said; she deserved better.
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