Holly Woodlawn.
I stumbled across the site of the famous Holly Woodlawn last night. She was in quite a few of Andy Warhol's films and Lou Reed wrote a song about her, "Holly came from Miami, FLA, Hitch-hiked her way across the USA, plucked her eyebrows on the way, shaved her legs and then he was a she, she says "hey babe, take a walk on the wild side", said "hey, honey take a walk on the wild side."
Actually, it wasn't the first time I found her site, if you check out the guest book, you'll find a previous post by me. (It's strange. If you do a search for my site, this post to her site always comes up!)
Well, anyhow, here's the story...
first some of her own words..
I SURVIVED ANDY WARHOL
A Walk On The Wild Side with the Legendary Holly Woodlawn
By Tom Garretson
TG: What year was that?
HW: That was 1989. But Andy died in 1987. I just stood around a couple of years, and during his memorial I realized that I didn't want to hang around the elephant's burial ground.
TG: I left New York in 1989 as well.
HW: You did? We probably took the same plane!
TG: I moved down to New Orleans.
HW: N'WALINS! Oh my God, honey! I was there doing a play . . . yeeuch! . . . in July! Don't ever! (laughs) I used to hop from bar to bar to bar . . .
TG: And stay on the same block!
HW: . . . because they had air conditioning! And by two o'clock in the after noon I was palatzo !
TG: I've always called it the "Adult Disneyland".
HW: Oh, but it's so fucking fabulous! It's beautiful. The old architecture. But the thing is that I had to work at eight o'clock and actually remember lines for the play, but by two o'clock I was crackola ! I would go home and just die, and then wake up at seven and slap my pussy together, get it all together to do the show.
N'awlins , you have to call it N'awlins . My lawyer comes from there. He represents Micheal Jackson, Barbara Streisand, and of course they handle, me. And that's a toughie! Especially when the only difference is that I have no money and they do!
If you look carefully at the pic, it's from 1991 and she was staying with some very smart theater friends of mine who lived across the street from my deli in the Quarter. She was staying with Carl Walker, who was producing and directing "Women Behind Bars" at the time, and the budget only allowed for her to stay in his spare room. So Holly came into my store everyday, just like all the other theater people who used to live across the street in that row of 1850's three story buildings.
We got to know each other a bit and we talked about Andy Wahol, and all the legendary stories about her and all the very delerious people she hung out with.
There is this interview from her site; it's a great read, I recommend it highly, especially if you have no idea what it was like back then.
One day, she was short of funds, so I cashed her check, (wish I had just kept it now...). She was so much fun to hang around with!
She just loved Bill... and she autographed that 8 x 10 photo that I took a pic of just now for the top of this entry. . she wrote "Hi! Boys, let's do it again! Holly Woodlawn!"
hehe, I wonder if she would like to join a scooter gang...
...durlx
I stumbled across the site of the famous Holly Woodlawn last night. She was in quite a few of Andy Warhol's films and Lou Reed wrote a song about her, "Holly came from Miami, FLA, Hitch-hiked her way across the USA, plucked her eyebrows on the way, shaved her legs and then he was a she, she says "hey babe, take a walk on the wild side", said "hey, honey take a walk on the wild side."
Actually, it wasn't the first time I found her site, if you check out the guest book, you'll find a previous post by me. (It's strange. If you do a search for my site, this post to her site always comes up!)
Well, anyhow, here's the story...
first some of her own words..
I SURVIVED ANDY WARHOL
A Walk On The Wild Side with the Legendary Holly Woodlawn
By Tom Garretson
TG: What year was that?
HW: That was 1989. But Andy died in 1987. I just stood around a couple of years, and during his memorial I realized that I didn't want to hang around the elephant's burial ground.
TG: I left New York in 1989 as well.
HW: You did? We probably took the same plane!
TG: I moved down to New Orleans.
HW: N'WALINS! Oh my God, honey! I was there doing a play . . . yeeuch! . . . in July! Don't ever! (laughs) I used to hop from bar to bar to bar . . .
TG: And stay on the same block!
HW: . . . because they had air conditioning! And by two o'clock in the after noon I was palatzo !
TG: I've always called it the "Adult Disneyland".
HW: Oh, but it's so fucking fabulous! It's beautiful. The old architecture. But the thing is that I had to work at eight o'clock and actually remember lines for the play, but by two o'clock I was crackola ! I would go home and just die, and then wake up at seven and slap my pussy together, get it all together to do the show.
N'awlins , you have to call it N'awlins . My lawyer comes from there. He represents Micheal Jackson, Barbara Streisand, and of course they handle, me. And that's a toughie! Especially when the only difference is that I have no money and they do!
If you look carefully at the pic, it's from 1991 and she was staying with some very smart theater friends of mine who lived across the street from my deli in the Quarter. She was staying with Carl Walker, who was producing and directing "Women Behind Bars" at the time, and the budget only allowed for her to stay in his spare room. So Holly came into my store everyday, just like all the other theater people who used to live across the street in that row of 1850's three story buildings.
We got to know each other a bit and we talked about Andy Wahol, and all the legendary stories about her and all the very delerious people she hung out with.
There is this interview from her site; it's a great read, I recommend it highly, especially if you have no idea what it was like back then.
One day, she was short of funds, so I cashed her check, (wish I had just kept it now...). She was so much fun to hang around with!
She just loved Bill... and she autographed that 8 x 10 photo that I took a pic of just now for the top of this entry. . she wrote "Hi! Boys, let's do it again! Holly Woodlawn!"
hehe, I wonder if she would like to join a scooter gang...
...durlx
