Gothamist: Dylan Takes on "Factory Girl"

silver spray

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:08:49 -0500

This Hollywood movie is a perfect example of the kind of falsity that Edie hated- She always said "It must be real" otherwise it wasn't worth doing. The lies that this film has perpetrated about Dylan are terrible, and I am glad he is doing something about it, but the real horror is the way in which they have treated Edie's life- She deserves to have her real story told, because that kind of truth telling is what she was passionate about. -www.edienation.com

Nick

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:55:13 -0500

How could Warhol have used the painting as a dart board if he gave it to Dylan?

L

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:20:47 -0500

"It's also been reported that after Warhol gave Dylan that Elvis painting, above, he used it as a dart board." Actually I'm pretty sure he traded it to Albert Grossman, his manager, for a couch.

mikey

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:01:20 -0500

Interesting point. I guess publicity is a shared affair. "If Not For You." Dylan is usually pretty wise allowing for a variety of multiple meanings.

Doctor Memory

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:29:09 -0500

"Right of publicity"? That's a new one.

lawyer hate

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:17:25 -0500

I give credit to Lou Reed for having balls. Dylan had to get a team of lawyers to spit on the First Amendment to protect his ass. Reed's comments were more effective, and he didn't even have to clog up our legal system to make his case.

jamesy

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:47:15 -0500

Who cares? It's just a movie. I remember when the concept of a movie was to suspend disbelief for an hour and a half and, after that, we go back to our real lives.

Mikey

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:25:39 -0500

"Gotta Serve Somebody" was pretty great also

drewo

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:13:16 -0500

Bobby Z wrote "Quinn the Eskimo".

Mikey

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:06:39 -0500

Weezer Playing The Velvet Underground: Sickening .....I hate that fucking Buddy Holly song with a passion. I don't hate Weezer, my old roommate the sketch comedian was friends with a few of them back in Boston in the 90's and they sound like cool enough people. I love the Velvet Undeground, depressing or atonal, most modern rock music originates from them when it is not coming from the Beatles or Stones, which came from southern blues. We all know that. Lately in the press, Dylan has been whining about not killing the Warhol chick Edie Sedgwick or whatever, but all those chicks were over dramatic druggie suicide cases. We all know the type. What a bunch of self-centered bores. Dylan dude it wasn't your fault...it is never anyone's fault in a suicide except the coward that gets really high then low and makes a retarded decision to speed up their personal reincarnation to water bug faster than necessary. Get off it, if the people that watch this movie are too dim-witted in the noggan and actually believe Bob Dylan killed some great artist in the making, well how many great artists did Dylan save? What's more believable? I guess that's why I always prefer musicians over actors. It gets confusing when you can do both. Funny how it pisses so many people off and makes a good debate. We all must be really tired of what's going on. Morons pick your sides. Legalize abortion, an eye for an eye build your own electric chair, we can all drink from the same water fountain and drugs make you a better person, let's let the governement control them along with the media that is not on the internet, but noone's reading this editorial or self-indulgent rant anyway, everyone's eyes and genitals are too sore from the blaring porn and empty orgasm after orgasm. What a bunch of Hollywood Fucking Garbage! Go see this movie and make the people in it really rich and hopefully they'll all overdose on barbituates like Edie Sedgewick and then we can make ridiculously off the mark movies about those assholes. http://nyccheckitout.blogspot.com/ (originally posted on local blog)

jack oneil

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:46:32 -0500

Hands up, who cares??

Tim N.

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:39:03 -0500

Wasn't it Bobby Newwirth (Dylan's right hand man) who coupled up with Edie, not Bob himself? I was kind of psyched to see it, but now not so much. Either write a thinly-disguised fiction or just tell the true story... somebody should, it's a great tale.