[>] “I’ll endorse”: Circa January/February 1966: “Andy Warhol Takes Out an Ad,” Andy Warhol Chronology, 1966, http://www.warholstars.org/chron/1966.html.
[>] Barbara Rubin: Rosebud Feliu Pettet, interview with the author, March 25, 2010.
[>] series of “ritual happenings”: Heylin, All Yesterday’s Parties, 140.
[>] lured to America: Cale and Bockris, What’s Welsh for Zen, 39.
[>] under Delmore Schwartz: Bockris and Malanga, Up-Tight, 22.
[>] “a shared interest”: Cale and Bockris, What’s Welsh for Zen, 72–73.
[>] Tony Conrad dropped by: Bockris and Malanga, Up-Tight, 30.
[>] Rubin and her friend: Rosebud Feliu Pettet, interview with the author, March 25, 2010.
[>] “naked as a”: J. Stein, Edie, 267.
[>] something wasn’t working: Shelton, No Direction Home, 361.
[>] jumping at the chance: Belasco, “Barbara Rubin.”
[>] Filmmakers’ Cinémathèque: Bockris and Malanga, Up-Tight, 10.
[>] “Is your penis”: Ibid., 11.
[>] “We all went”: Ibid., 36.
[>] “the last stand”: Mekas, Movie Journal, 242.
[>] “it wasn’t Andy”: Bockris and Malanga, Up-Tight, 37.
[>] “I can’t be”: Ibid., 38.
[>] “What? I don’t believe it!”: J. Stein, Edie, 284.
[>] “the total essence”: Ibid., 295.
[>] “I just started”: Heylin, Revolution in the Air, 295.
[>] “Just listen to that!”: Ibid., 296.
[>] “everybody must get stoned”: Bob Dylan, “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35.”
[>] “pill-box hat”: Bob Dylan, “Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat.”
[>] “amphetamines and her pearls”: Bob Dylan, “Just Like a Woman.”
[>] “We were doing”: Bockris and Malanga, Up-Tight, 39.
recently discovered by Rubin: Rosebud Feliu Pettet, interview with the author, March 25, 2010.
[>] “giant communal”: Bockris and Malanga, Up-Tight, 54.
[>] “You disgusting”: Ibid., 68.
[>] the wake of Delmore Schwartz: Ibid., 73.
[>] “Hare Krisna”: Rivers, What Did I Do?, 463–64.
[>] “nemesis from the past”: Ibid., 466.
[>] “Andy Warhol can’t”: Watson, Factory Made, 265.
[>] “anything to do”: Bockris, Warhol, 255.
[>] camping out: Rene Ricard, “Rene Ricard Presents Chelsea Girls,” Anthology Film Archives, May 1, 2012.
[>] protested the city decision: “City Estimate Board Calls Chelsea Hotel a Landmark,” New York Times, June 11, 1966.
[>] architectural and historic: “Hotel Chelsea, 222 West 23rd Street, Number 15, LP-0125,” Landmarks Preservation Commission, March 15, 1966.
[>] inside of room 121: Malanga, No Respect, 94.
[>] in room 723: Gerard Malanga, “International Velvet Room 723,” in Barros, Chelsea Hotel, 19.
[>] “No matter”: Chelsea Girls (film), directed by Andy Warhol, 1966.
[>] Mr. Normal’s room: Hotel Chelsea (documentary film), produced and directed by Doris Chase, 1992.
[>] Mr. Zolt: Dundy, “Crane, Masters, Wolfe.”
[>] pet margay: Joan Schenkar, “Notes from a Biographer: The Late, Great Theodora Keogh,” Paris Review (August 22, 2011).
[>] “cannot be done”: Dundy, “Crane, Masters, Wolfe.”
[>] Stanley Bard hesitated: Stanley Bard, interview with the author, November 30, 2007.
[>] empty and forlorn: John Cale, “Chelsea Mourning,” Guardian, September 2, 2000.
[>] lesbian torture fantasy: Bockris, Warhol, 256.
[>] visual and psychological resonance: Ibid.
[>] “whatever they are”: Ibid.
[>] “cesspool of vulgarity”: Ibid., 258.
[>] threatened to sue: Stanley Bard, interview with the author, November 30, 2007.
[>] specific room numbers: Raymond Foye, e-mail to the author, April 20, 2012.
[>] “He enjoyed it”: Dominique Nabokov, interview with the author, June 19, 2007.
[>] Shirley Clarke: Bockris, Warhol, 258.
[>] “in the complexity”: Mekas, Movie Journal, 254.
[>] “looking at the face”: Ibid., 24–25.
[>] “a stolen and maybe surplus”: Carl Oglesby, “Let Us Shape the Future” (speech), November 27, 1965, Students for a Democratic Society Document Library, www.antiauthoritarian.net/sds_wuo/sds_documents/og lesby_future.html.
[>] Within five months: Raymond Foye, e-mail to the author, April 20, 2012.
[>] looked “as if it had been”: “Art of Light and Lunacy: The New Underground Films,” Time (February 17, 1967): 99.
[>] “when Chelsea Girls”: Cohen, “Bob Dylan.”
[>] same place twice: Shelton, No Direction Home, 358.
[>] “a boy who hardly seemed”: Heylin, Revolution in the Air, 12.
[>] “an authentic poet”: Shelton, No Direction Home, 256.
[>] passed-out figure on the floor: Spitz, Dylan, 366–67.
[>] “I really”: Dylan, Chronicles, 116.
[>] “like a sex”: J. Stein, Edie, 315.
[>] “a sense of freedom” Ibid., 307.
7. The Price
[>] “Happenings: The Worldwide Underground”: Life cover, February 17, 1967.
[>] “this is a golden”: Hill, A Grand Guy, 154.
[>] sheets with holes in them: Juliette Hamelcourt, “Oral Histories at the Chelsea Hotel: Arman,” audio recording, Juliette Hamelcourt collection, SAAA.
[>] Roderick Gheka: Maureen Dowd, “The Chelsea Hotel, ‘Kooky But Nice,’ Turns 100,” New York Times, November 21, 1983.
[>] “like two worn breasts”: Richard Goldstein, “Beautiful Creep,” Village Voice, December 28, 1967.
[>] two of his songs: Simmons, I’m Your Man, 149.
[>] February 1967, relocating: Ibid., 162.
[>] gravitated to Harry Smith: Ibid., 207–9.
[>] religious supplies: Ibid., 162.
[>] “hold a conversation”: Ibid., 79.
[>] “Chelsea Surf”: Richard E. Lingeman, “Where Home Is Where It Is,” New York Times Book Review, December 24, 1967.
[>] a rooftop pool: Elaine Dundy, “Crane, Masters, Wolfe, Etc. Slept Here,” Esquire (October 1964).
[>] python slid up: Bill Wilson, interview with the author, December 12, 2005.
[>] “a snail bit me”: Turner, At the Chelsea, 76.
[>] “in a time”: Cowie, Revolution, 111.
[>] “swallowed” by the establishment: Mekas, Movie Journal, 175–76.
[>] “sponsored” art: Ibid., 114.
[>] as little as three hundred dollars: Ibid., 87.
[>] “Soon you’ll be able”: Ibid., 135–36.
[>] “fighting our ‘cases’”: Ibid.
[>] “A revolution”: Ibid., 199–201.
[>] “something that has been”: Ibid., 238.
[>] the “moneybags”: Ibid., 278.
[>] “vérité underground movie”: J. Stein, Edie, 318–19.
[>] “What’s this film about?”: Painter and Weisman, Edie, 140.
[>] nearly everyone else: J. Stein, Edie, 321.
[>] “time to sound a warning”: Mekas, Movie Journal, 278.
[>] freedom for the underground filmmaker: Ibid., 87.
[>] “most important thing”: Ibid., 235–36.
[>] “whoever wants them”: Ibid., 238.
[>] plan to film: Daniel Belasco, “Barbara Rubin: The Vanished Prodigy,” Art in America (December 2005).
[>] wondered what would happen: Mekas, Movie Journal, 289.
[>] “lack of know-how”: Ibid.
[>] “smash through the lines”: Ibid., 175–76.
[>] philanthropist named Jerome Hill: “About/Essential Cinema,” Anthology Film Archives, http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/about/essential-cinema.
[>] “Five guys”: Amy Taubin, “O Pioneer,” Village Voice, October 1
4, 1977.
[>] leaped out of the car: J. Stein, Edie, 315.
[>] Danny Fields’s invitation: Simmons, I’m Your Man, 180.
[>] “Order? Please!”: Ibid., 181.
[>] “evacuation” cocktail: Juliette Hamelcourt, “Oral Histories at the Chelsea Hotel: Arman” (tape recording), Juliette Hamelcourt collection, SAAA.
[>] “Whatever happened”: Helen Dudar, “Edie Sedgwick: Where the Road Led,” New York Post, May 2, 1968.
[>] “invented quotes”: Viva Hoffmann, e-mail correspondence with the author, November 15, 2013.
[>] Miller insisted he be placed: Gottfried, Arthur Miller, 346–47.
[>] “something out of”: Suzanna Andrews, “Arthur Miller’s Missing Act,” Vanity Fair (September 2007).
[>] took his revenge: Brightman, Writing Dangerously, 506.
[>] American draft resisters: Ibid., 515.
[>] in a Chanel suit: Ibid., 541.
[>] “the whole Saran-wrapped”: Ibid, 543.
[>] “quickly silently”: Victor Bockris, “The Mystery of Terry Southern,” Gadfly Online (January/February 2000), http://www.gadflyonline.com/archive/JanFeb00/archive-southern.html.
[>] “eyes so crazy”: Arthur Miller, “The Chelsea Affect,” Granta 78 (Summer 2002).
[>] May Wilson, a former Baltimore housewife: Bill Wilson, interview with the author, December 12, 2005.
[>] Warhol’s offer to make it up: Bockris, Warhol, 272–73.
[>] “As I slowly”: Miller, “The Chelsea Affect.”
[>] “nothing is true”: Geiger, Nothing Is True, 146.
[>] “pope of the music”: Friedman, Buried Alive, 99.
[>] “Seventy-five thousand”: Ibid., 92.
[>] mistook him for a bellman: Cross, Room Full of Mirrors, 190.
[>] “ambulatory black hole”: Lesh, Searching for the Sound, 111–12.
[>] Graham’s best hope: Stanley Bard, interview with the author, November 30, 2007.
[>] “Victorian fru-fru”: Joe McDonald, “Janis,” February 2010, Country Joe’s Place: Notes for an Autobiography, http://www.countryjoe.com/autobio.htm.
[>] one of the smaller rooms: Amburn, Pearl, 158.
[>] the aura of history: Friedman, Buried Alive, 115.
[>] “very famous literary”: Joplin, Love, Janis, 262.
[>] “good energy and focus”: Stanley Bard, interview with the author, November 30, 2007.
[>] who’d strung the beads: McDonald, “Janis.”
[>] playing on the jukebox: Friedman, Buried Alive, 335.
[>] had been cropped: Amburn, Pearl, 162.
looking for some company and a drink: Simmons, I’m Your Man, 199.
[>] further coverage: Ibid., 167.
[>] Columbia’s John Hammond: Ibid., 164.
[>] a painful process: Ibid., 168–70.
[>] “released from jail”: Ibid., 171.
[>] took her back with him: Ibid., 173.
[>] the I Ching: Ibid., 174.
[>] Jimi Hendrix: Ibid., 161.
[>] Nico had once done: Ibid.
[>] “living with Beethoven”: DrHGuy, “Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell—Just One of Those Things,” One Heck of a Guy (blog), http://1heckofaguy.com/2007/03/31/leonard-cohen-and-joni-mitchell-just-one-of-those -things/.
[>] “boudoir poet”: Simmons, I’m Your Man, 175.
[>] Then John Simon: Ibid., 184.
[>] the rights to “Suzanne”: Ibid., 176.
[>] “one of the few”: DrHGuy, “Leonard Cohen, Janis Joplin, and the Chelsea Hotel: What He Said—and Now, What She Said,” One Heck of a Guy (blog), April 17, 2012, http://1heckofaguy.com/2012/04/17/leonard-cohen-janis-joplin-the-chelsea-hotel-what-he-said-and-now-what-she-said/.
[>] “the money and the flesh”: Leonard Cohen, “Chelsea Hotel No. 2.”
[>] “We are ugly”: Ibid.
[>] “the most staggering”: Richard Goldstein, “Pop Music: Ladies Day, Janis Joplin . . . Staggering,” Vogue (May 1, 1968).
[>] “a very sensitive”: Hotel Chelsea (documentary film), produced and directed by Doris Chase, 1992.
[>] “because they wore”: Ibid.
[>] “The corridors filled”: Turner, At the Chelsea, 68.
[>] “I liked being”: Ibid.,67.
[>] “crawl back”: Ibid., 70.
[>] former Communist Party member: Turan and Papp, Free for All, 126.
[>] thrust into Papp’s hands: Ibid., 183.
[>] “alive and a sign of life”: Jack Kroll, “Making of a Theater,” Newsweek (November 13, 1967).
[>] “overexposure and rampant”: Mele, Selling the Lower East Side, 175.
[>] Ergo, an expressionist tale: Turan, Free for All, 195.
[>] full-frontal nudity: Ibid., 196.
[>] clownish behavior and frequent spats: Joan Schenkar, interview with the author, July 7, 2006.
[>] “seeming chaos”: Miller, Timebends, 548.
[>] “Well, that’s the end”: McAleer, Arthur C. Clarke, 208.
[>] planned to buy the Chelsea Hotel: Turner, At the Chelsea, 99.
[>] “like freaked-out Wobblies”: Hoffman, Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman, 86.
[>] “the way you live”: Chicago 10: Speak Your Peace, written and directed by Brett Morgan, 2007.
[>] “hippie wedding”: Hoffman, Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman, 98.
[>] “See Canada Now”: Ibid., 109.
[>] “There are lots”: Ibid., 1.
[>] “Fuck Lyndon”: Schumacher, There But for Fortune, 169.
[>] “get all those”: Hoffman, Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman, 129.
[>] “citadel of napalm”: Sanders, Fug You, 277.
[>] “one glorious night”: Hoffman, Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman, 129.
[>] “made people”: Ibid., 133.
[>] dress rehearsal: Ibid., 132.
[>] working with Barbara Rubin: Sanders, Fug You, 275–77.
[>] “raise the Pentagon”: Marc Campbell, “44th Anniversary of the Exorcism of the Pentagon,” http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/44th_ anniversary_of_the_exorcism_of_the_pentagon/.
[>] hippie demonstrators: Hoffman, Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman, 134.
[>] “Out, demons, out!”: In “Exorcising the Evil Spirits from the Pentagon, October 21, 1967” (audio recording), Rhino/Warner Brothers, October 15, 2012, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ0RkMcPbQA.
[>] brandished a pentagram: Sloman, Steal This Dream, 100.
[>] “helicopters with spotlights”: Hoffman, Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman, 135.
[>] “before our very”: Ibid.
[>] “the perfect”: Sloman, Steal This Dream, 105.
[>] “the authority of the Pentagon”: Ibid., 100.
[>] broke down sobbing: Fraser and Gerstle, Ruling America, 245.
[>] “Tell the President”: Ibid.
[>] “Wow, we toppled”: Sloman, Steal This Dream, 118.
[>] “The exclamation point”: Hoffman, Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman, 137.
[>] “Convention of Death”: Ibid., 144.
[>] after Joseph Stalin: Bill Belmont, “Country Joe McDonald: The Early Years,” Country Joe’s Place, http://www.countryjoe.com/cjmbio.htm.
[>] welcomed the activists: Joe McDonald, “My Testimony at the Chicago Seven Conspiracy Trial,” Country Joe’s Place, http://www.countryjoe.com/chicago.htm.
[>] “hippies must like fruit”: Paul Millman, interview with the author, May 5, 2010.
[>] “shoot to kill”: Hoffman, Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman, 143.
[>] “niggers, commies”: Ibid.
[>] “Fuck you, so what!”: Sloman, Steal This Dream, 119.
[>] “rich bastard”: Schumacher, There But for Fortune, 183.
“The Democratic Convention”: “Abbie Hoffman on Yippie Tactics—1968” (video), New Republic All-Blogs Feed, http://www.youtube.com/social/blog/tny-blogs.
[>] “We’re gonna burn”: Sloman, Steal This Dream, 117.
[>] “roll
ed through”: Turner, At the Chelsea, 35.
[>] “was always huddled”: Barros, Chelsea Hotel, 77.
[>] table at Max’s: Bockris, Warhol, 280.
Girodias who fell: Freddie Baer, “Andy Warhol Chronology: Valerie Solanas,” http://www.warholstars.org/warhol/warhol1/warhol1b/valerieso lanas.html.
[>] lunch at El Quijote: Krassner, Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut, 256.
[>] “This is Valerie’s”: Bill Wilson, interview with the author, December 12, 2005.
[>] the clerk informed her: “The Shooting of Andy: An Account by Paul Morrissey,” artnetweb.com/moobird/news/taylor.html.
[>] “bouncing slightly”: Watson, Factory Made, 379.
[>] “funny look”: Ibid.
[>] “No! No!”: Ibid., 380.
[>] “there’s the elevator, Valerie”: Ibid., 381.
[>] “take a long look”: Arthur Miller, “Topics: On the Shooting of Robert Kennedy,” New York Times, June 8, 1968.
[>] “Now we can go”: Sloman, Steal This Dream, 126.
[>] Diggers commandeered: Friedman, Buried Alive, 122.
[>] a new great society: Sloman, Steal This Dream, 136–37.
[>] to cover the convention: Ibid., 148.
[>] “to help keep peace”: Schumacher, There But for Fortune, 195.
[>] “The only way”: Miles, William Burroughs, 179.
[>] “so incredibly vicious”: McDonald, “My Testimony.”
[>] one of every six: Schumacher, There But for Fortune, 194.
[>] “probably considering”: Hill, A Grand Guy, 177.
[>] “the blue pants”: Ibid.
[>] “We had no idea”: Ibid., 176.
[>] “They are killing”: Miller, Timebends, 545.
[>] “Gestapo tactics”: Ibid.
[>] “in his overcoat”: Ibid.
[>] “You motherfucker”: Hoffman, Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman, 157.
[>] set fire to his draft card: Schumacher, There But for Fortune, 199–200.
[>] scrawling the word: Hoffman, Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman, 159.
[>] “I don’t think”: Ibid., 160.
[>] “The revolution?”: “Abbie Hoffman 1968—What’s Your Price?” (video), 1968, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4LJKSMVFPo.
[>] “Chicago, 1968”: Miller, Timebends, 544.
[>] retreated to a farm: Schumacher, Dharma Lion, 522.
[>] “the formal death”: Schumacher, There But for Fortune, 201.
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