Episode 59: I Shot Andy Warhol, Starring Lili Taylor as Failed Murderer Valerie Solanas

Gay Pride Month continues with 1996’s seminal I Shot Andy Warhol, Mary Harron’s feature debut, starring Lili Taylor as titular shooter and firebrand Valerie Solanas, and Jared Harris as titular shooting victim Andy Warhol.

We’re back in that wildly unimportant summer of 1968, and discussing what we call “the Stephen Dorff problem” (casting a decidedly super-hetero male as beautiful woman Candy Darling), the Velvet Underground tribute band “the Satin First Floors,” dinner theater, and stuff we loved when we were teenagers.

I Shot Andy Warhol was directed by Mary Harron and stars Lily Taylor as Valerie Solonas, Jared Harris as Andy Warhol, Stephen Dorff as Candy Darling, Martha Plimpton as Stevie and Michael Imperioli as Ondine.

Sources:

Candy Darling: Dream, Icon, Superstar by Cynthia Carr

Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol) by Brianne Fahs.

Me, by Elton John.

Warhol’s Muses: The Artists, Misfits, and Superstars Destroyed by the Factory Fame Machine, by Laurence Leamer

From Artsy: “Grappling with the Legacy of the Woman Who Shot Andy Warhol” by Alina Cohen. 

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-grappling-legacy-woman-shot-andy-warhol

The New Yorker review of Candy Darling: Dream, Icon, Superstar by Cynthia Carr, written by Hilton Als https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/15/candy-darling-dream-icon-superstar-cynthia-carr-book-review 

And a great interview with Jeremiah Newton from the Village Voice : https://www.villagevoice.com/candy-darling-and-jeremiah-newton-qa-with-the-man-behind-beautiful-darling/ 

Beautiful Darling 2010 Candy Darling Documentary