Anton Perich Presents: Andrea Feldman (1970) How can a son be a lesbian? No one remembers her… even the internet dismisses her with “American actress, committed suicide at 24,” while another exceptional information source refers to her as “76-year-old actress still alive”…
She was the third of Warhol, after Nico and Edie.
Compared to them, Andrea appeared more provocative, vulgar, and masculine. “Andrea Whips,” they called her after she performed a kind of whip dance at the Exploding Plastic events in her show “Showtime,” along with tricks using cans of Coke.
Too beautiful, sensitive, fragile, uninhibited, and add as you please the classic yet true cliché.
People went to the Factory to try to be someone, enchanted by the cunning puppeteer.
She would have roles in a few films, with “Heat” being the most “famous,” released with her already deceased.
“A lot of people in the Warhol scene pretended to be crazy, but Andrea really was.”
From a wealthy family, just before Heat and after yet another breakdown, her doctor advised her parents that “she needed a job.” Her response seems to have been: “What should I do? Be a waitress?”
Hospitalizations, breakdowns, collapses, depression…
“I’m heading towards the big moment, I’m going up there with James and Marilyn.” In her last and only true leading role, she called former boyfriends, friends, and girlfriends on August 8, 1972.
While they waited downstairs wondering about this gathering… she appeared at the window and then jumped from the 14th floor with a rosary in one hand and the Bible in the other…
I don’t even know of a song dedicated to her…
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