[>] “Conspiracy?”: Hoffman, Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman, 198.
[>] Roger Waters: “Heavy Traffic,” New York Post, February 2, 2008.
[>] some of whom were residents: Turner, At the Chelsea, 68–69.
[>] dead in the corridor: Ibid., 69.
[>] “pure fucking”: Warhol and Hackett, POPism, 294.
[>] “Thanks for the invite”: Shaun Costello, “Risky Behavior: Sex, Gangsters and Deception in the Time of ‘Groovy’” (unpublished manuscript), 28–29.
[>] “The guys just didn’t”: Friedman, Buried Alive, 163.
[>] “Can you imagine”: Ibid., 135.
[>] “Saturday night burn”: Joe McDonald, “Janis Joplin,” Gimme an F, Country Joe’s Place, September 21, 2010, www.blogspot.com/2010/09/Janis-joplin.html.
[>] “She was always”: McDonald, “Janis.”
[>] “Maybe my audiences”: Dalton, Piece of My Heart, 58.
[>] “It was thrilling”: Miller, “The Chelsea Affect.”
[>] O’Connor realized: Hotel Chelsea (documentary film).
[>] the Leonardo da Vinci: Turner, At the Chelsea, 82.
[>] “I just wanted”: Colacello, Holy Terror, 32.
[>] “It seemed destined”: Malanga, Archiving Warhol, 45.
[>] “no life outside”: Ambrose, Chelsea Hotel Manhattan, 11.
[>] white-wine lunch: Costello, “Risky Behavior,” 29.
[>] “We haven’t landed”: Stevens and Swan, De Kooning, 485.
[>] “Everybody was talking”: Smith, Just Kids, 85.
[>] “the lowest point”: Ibid., 86.
[>] a kind of angel: Ibid., 86–87.
[>] hunchbacked little man: Ibid., 93.
[>] Miller High Life: Raymond Foye, “The Alchemical Image,” The Heavenly Tree Grows Downward (exhibition catalog), September 10 through October 19, 2002.
[>] “That sealed things”: Smith, Just Kids, 94.
[>] Bard would confess: Stanley Bard, interview with the author, November 30, 2007.
[>] “He’s not very”: Morrisroe, Mapplethorpe, 187.
[>] “Just trench mouth”: Ibid., 63.
[>] “Bard was skeptical”: Smith, Just Kids, 94.
[>] “We shook hands”: Ibid.
8. Naked Lunch
[>] sparsely furnished: Smith, Just Kids, 95.
[>] saltwater rinses: Ibid., 104.
[>] a resident doctor: Ibid., 95.
[>] blond photographer-filmmaker: Ibid., 101.
[>] part-time job: Turner, At the Chelsea, 87.
[>] her job at Scribner’s: Smith, Just Kids, 96.
[>] Hubert’s former apprentice: Bacon, Ernest Flagg, 11.
[>] visiting Brits: Elaine Dundy, “Crane, Masters, Wolfe, Etc. Slept Here,” Esquire (October 1964).
[>] Helen Johnson, an expert: Turner, At the Chelsea, 86.
[>] the Five-Year Plan: Berch, Radical by Design, 6.
[>] Eugenie Gershoy: Turner, At the Chelsea, 76.
[>] Eliot the junkie: Ibid., 93.
[>] running naked: Juliette Hamelcourt, “Oral Histories at the Chelsea Hotel: Arman,” audio recording, Juliette Hamelcourt collection, SAAA.
[>] the acid: Turner, At the Chelsea, 70.
[>] tiny diamonds: Ibid., 93.
[>] Stormé DeLarverie: Michele Zalopany, interview with the author, February 14, 2012.
[>] Manson murders: Smith, Just Kids, 105.
[>] civil rights activist: “Biographical Note,” Peggy Biderman Photographs of Gregory Corso, CURBML.
[>] significance of cat’s-cradle: Smith, Just Kids, 114–15.
[>] fisherman spearing: Miles, In the Seventies, 173.
[>] Ginsberg performing William Blake’s: Ibid., 16.
[>] “was just life”: Patti Smith, e-mail correspondence with the author, December 21, 2005.
[>] an artist’s muse: Smith, Just Kids, 12.
[>] en route to Woodstock: Ibid., 105–6.
[>] “inmates in a hospital”: Ibid., 100.
[>] Chelsea’s own Edith Sitwell: Janssen, Not at All What One Is Used To, 252.
[>] weekly poetry workshop: Ibid., 265.
[>] $325 per month: Ibid., 255.
[>] appetizers at El Quijote: Smith, Just Kids, 110.
[>] the tragic fact: Singh, Think of the Self Speaking, 93.
[>] as he had done: Ibid., 80.
[>] time and labor spent: Ibid., 89.
[>] only psychopaths funded: Ibid., 306.
[>] Egyptian eyes: Carroll, Forced Entries, 7.
[>] escaping to San Francisco: Smith, Just Kids, 77.
[>] “poetic curse”: Ibid., 34.
[>] Dylan Thomas’s floor: Ibid., 119.
[>] until Danny Fields: Morrisroe, Mapplethorpe, 71.
[>] “stars, freaks”: Woodlawn and Copeland, A Low Life in High Heels, 160.
[>] “living works of art”: Highberger, Superstar in a Housedress, 42.
[>] Harold Ajzenberg: Woodlawn and Copeland, A Low Life in High Heels, 3.
[>] correctional facility: Ibid., 44.
[>] “a misfit”: Ibid., 73.
[>] “Honey, in those days”: Ibid., 150.
[>] “If anyone can”: Ibid., 65.
[>] “madcap-redhead”: Ibid., 76.
[>] Robert De Niro Jr.: Ibid., 97.
[>] “Are you a folksinger?”: Smith, Just Kids, 140.
[>] Outrageous Lie: Bockris and Bayley, Patti Smith, 63.
[>] half of a second-floor loft: Smith, Just Kids, 128.
[>] reviewing records: Ibid., 146.
[>] state-of-the-art video: “About: Pleasure Palace Video of the Future,” http://teepeevideospacetroupe.org/?page_id=91.
[>] Diane Arbus rushed upstairs: Smith, Just Kids, 138.
[>] Jonas Mekas slipped past: Turner, At the Chelsea, 99.
[>] Bobby Neuwirth: Smith, Just Kids, 141–42.
[>] “stocking feet”: Smith, “Prayer,” Early Work, 3.
[>] “Next time I see you”: Smith, Just Kids, 142.
[>] For a few years: Singh, Think of the Self Speaking, 93.
[>] “until the whole thing”: Ibid.
[>] “You may do”: Perchuk and Singh, Harry Smith, 163.
[>] “where the sun is shining”: Brecht, Rise and Fall, 96.
[>] Arnold Weinstein: Scott Griffin, interview with the author, November 14, 2007.
[>] “If Mahagonny”: Alan Rich, “From Those Wonderful Folks Who Brought You ‘Mack the Knife,’” New York (March 2, 1970): 40.
[>] rent the entire floor: Smith, Just Kids, 145.
[>] new friend David Croland: Morrisroe, Mapplethorpe, 86.
[>] “my kind of place”: Smith, Just Kids, 155.
[>] as a poet: Ibid., 158.
[>] it was the Velvet Underground: Ibid., 159–60.
[>] the audience slipped out: Sewall-Ruskin, High on Rebellion, 237.
[>] Port Authority bus station: Maureen Dowd, “The Chelsea Hotel, ‘Kooky But Nice,’ Turns 100,” New York Times, November 21, 1983.
[>] getting his left nipple pierced: Morrisroe, Mapplethorpe, 86–87.
[>] seemed to free Robert up: Ibid., 87.
[>] physicality of the quick snap-and-pull: Smith, Just Kids, 154.
[>] surrounded by iconic objects: Ibid.
[>] “the best poet”: William Grimes, “Jim Carroll, Poet and Punk Rocker Who Wrote ‘The Basketball Diaries,’ Dies at 60,” New York Times, September 14, 2009.
[>] “a born star”: Ted Berrigan, “Jim Carroll,” Culture Hero 5 (1969).
[>] “truly new poet”: Ibid.
[>] “Tijuana suite”: Carroll, Forced Entries, 37.
[>] “the real thing”: Berrigan, “Jim Carroll.”
[>] “had been a long time”: Smith, Just Kids, 163.
[>] “modest heroin habit”: Ibid.
[>] “like the darker side”: Ibid.
[>] “She is as clear”: Carroll, Forced Entries, 3.
[>] “she lands feet first�
�: Ibid., 4.
[>] “Fire of Unknown Origin”: Smith, Just Kids, 164.
[>] “I work hard”: Ibid., 166.
[>] “That’s my song”: Ibid.
[>] He told her he was that way: Ibid., 169.
[>] tossed into jail: Woodlawn and Copeland, A Low Life in High Heels, 16–17.
[>] Bani was strangled: Turner, At the Chelsea, 93.
[>] Barry Miles and his new girlfriend: Miles, In the Seventies, 61.
[>] “sump canals”: Carroll, Forced Entries, 13.
[>] “viper-lipped suits”: Ibid., 7.
“a vision”: Patti Smith, “Wing.”
[>] “Seeing Big John”: Miles, In the Seventies, 63.
[>] one could get high: Arthur Miller, “The Chelsea Affect,” Granta 78 (Summer 2002).
[>] awakened early one morning: Miles, In the Seventies, 64.
[>] instant gratification: C. Ondine Chavoya, “Michel Auder: Chronicles and Other Scenes,” Afterimage 32, no. 4 (January 2005): 4–7; 12.
[>] a threatened lawsuit: Michel Auder, “Excerpts from Taped Conversations between Michel Auder and Mark Webber, 2000,” http://www.miche lauder.com/excerpts.html.
[>] Cleopatra that featured Viva: Elisabeth Kly, “Keeping Busy: An Inaccurate Survey of Michel Auder,” Artnet (July 2010).
[>] “We don’t really”: Jud Yalkut, “Electronic Zen: The Alternative Video Generation Talking Heads in Videospace: A Video Meta-Panel with Shirley Clarke, Bill Etra, Nam June Paik, Walter Wright and Jud Yalkut,” WBAI-FM Radio, February 4, 1973.
[>] “a magnificent”: Jonas Mekas, “A Personal Note on the Work of Michel Auder,” ScheiblerMitte, May 1991, http://www.aurelscheibler.com/files/documents/artists/press_infos/mekasonauder.pdf.
[>] Les Blank visited: Turner, At the Chelsea, 127–28.
[>] her trusty Bolex: Miles, In the Seventies, 178.
[>] Godard first came: Ibid., 179.
[>] expressed as far back: Perchuk and Singh, Harry Smith, 258–59.
[>] “The movie springs”: Gottfried, Arthur Miller, 340.
[>] fair game for the camera: Harry Smith, Mahagonny (film), 1970–1980, Harry Smith Collection, Getty Research Institute.
[>] beer and marijuana: “Robert Polidori, Our New Yorker of the Month for April 2010,” April 1, 2010, http://askanewyorker.com/robert-polidori-our-new-yorker-of-the-month-for-april-2010/.
[>] “ill-behaved gnome”: Miles, In the Seventies, 166.
[>] true value of pi: Ibid.
[>] Marty Balin, lead singer: Ibid.
[>] drink, take drugs, and have sex: Janssen, Not at All What One Is Used To, 272.
[>] whose father may: Ibid.
[>] throwing parties: Ibid., 273.
[>] hosted a group show: Smith, Just Kids, 175–76.
[>] “the great geniuses”: “William S. Burroughs, Jacques Stern, and The Fluke,” Reality Studio: A William S. Burroughs Community, http://realitystudio.org/publications/jacques-stern/william-s-burroughs-jacques- stern-and-the-fluke/.
[>] “frantically twisting”: Miles, In the Seventies, 68.
[>] “well groomed”: Ginsberg, Letters of Allen Ginsberg, 363–68.
[>] “When the endless”: Luc Sante, “The Mother Courage of Rock,” New York Review of Books, February 9, 2012.
[>] “cowboy mouth”: Smith, Just Kids, 171.
[>] steaks stolen from Gristedes: Ibid., 172.
[>] she sometimes slept: Ibid., 179–80.
[>] “sophisticated”: Robert Having His Nipple Pierced, Sandy Daley, director, Film Study Department archives, Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
[>] she wrote a poem: Smith, Just Kids, 180.
[>] “be aggressive”: Ibid.
[>] “I was totally”: Ibid., 181.
[>] “criminals from Cain”: Ibid.
[>] calling out, “Christ died”: Ibid.
[>] “a declaration of”: Ibid., 247.
[>] the first time: Ibid., 182.
[>] “something primal”: Sharon Niederman, “That Night at St. Mark’s: Sharon Niederman on Patti Smith,” Miriam’s Well: Poetry, Land Art, and Beyond, June 14, 2010, http://miriamswell.wordpress.com/2010/06/14/that-night-at-st-marks-sharon-niederman-on-patti-smith/.
[>] besieged with offers: Smith, Just Kids, 182.
[>] “glamorous and razor-tongued”: “Town Bloody Hall: First Blood in the Debate on Women’s Liberation,” Pennebaker Hegedus Films, http://phfilms.com/index.php/phf/film/town_bloody_hall_1979/.
[>] “Until all women”: Rivers, What Did I Do?, 408.
[>] to live the bohemian life: Waitzkin, The Last Marlin, 197.
[>] “words are no longer”: Fred Waitzkin, interview with the author, October 25, 2007.
[>] Juliette Hamelcourt: Juliette Hamelcourt, “Oral Histories at the Chelsea Hotel: Margit Cain Interviews Juliette Hamelcourt,” (audio recording), Juliette Hamelcourt Collection, SAAA.
[>] “I put perfume”: Turner, At the Chelsea, 75.
[>] Davis’s sister Fania: Ibid., 82.
[>] intellectual “dirty book” authors: Lisa Zeidner, “Sex and the Single Woman: Rediscovering the Novels of Iris Owens,” American Scholar (Winter 2012).
[>] “blue-veined globe”: Turner, At the Chelsea, 80.
[>] the day she saw: Smith, Just Kids, 183.
[>] lacelike tattoos: Menichetti, Vali Myers, 91.
[>] keep the animals fed: Ibid., 60.
[>] poet and filmmaker Ira Cohen: Ibid., 71.
[>] Warhol who taught: Ibid., 74.
[>] star-studded cocktail party: Ibid., 77.
[>] tossed out on their ears: Woodlawn and Copeland, A Low Life in High Heels, 180.
[>] “You should be worried about people!”: Menichetti, Vali Myers, 80.
[>] “Who else”: Hotel Chelsea (documentary film), produced and directed by Doris Chase, 1992.
[>] Smith had been reading: Smith, Just Kids, 183.
[>] spiritual gift: Menichetti, Vali Myers, 92.
[>] screen her paired films: “Thirty Years of American Independent Cinema on Exhibition: Recent Acquisitions,” Museum of Modern Art, Department of Film, July 3–31, 1979. http://www.moma.org/docs/press_ archives/5752/releases/MOMA_1979_0052_43.pdf?2010.
[>] Depression-era Gibson: Smith, Just Kids, 184.
[>] “hubcaps, an old tire”: Shepard, Fool for Love, 147.
[>] pushed the typewriter over: Smith, Just Kids, 331.
[>] “rock-and-roll Jesus”: Shewey, Sam Shepard, 73.
[>] its presentation: Ibid., 72.
[>] the next night: Smith, Just Kids, 186.
[>] “I drew no line”: Ibid.
[>] “the panicking woman”: Germaine Greer, “Wrestling with Diane Arbus,” Guardian, October 8, 2005.
[>] dyslexic, hyperactive: Loud and Johnson, Pat Loud, 64.
[>] “Take a look”: J. Stein, Edie, 410.
[>] “ride the wild surf”: Ibid.
[>] “Free pussy!”: Woodlawn and Copeland, A Low Life in High Heels, 294.
[>] “attractive, articulate”: Loud and Johnson, Pat Loud, 88–89.
[>] “a lovely family”: Ibid., 90.
[>] “Wouldn’t anybody”: Ibid., 92.
[>] “I was so tired”: Ibid., 105.
[>] “a nice, quaint”: Ibid., 96.
[>] “what was going on”: Ibid.
[>] “shocking mom”: Ibid., 97.
[>] “live process”: “Shirley Clarke: An Interview,” Radical Software 2, no. 4 (1972): 25–27.
[>] completely nude: Mike Hausman, “Milos Forman and La Vida Loca para Chelsea Hotel,” http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_ embedded&v=K8IVNyHAzkc.
[>] in town to help Walter Cronkite: McAleer, Arthur C. Clarke, 239.
[>] “mightier than”: Clarke, The Promise of Space, 102.
[>] “Video Ferris Wheel”: Andrew Gurian, “Thoughts on Shirley Clarke and the TP Videospace Troupe,” Millennium Film Journal 42 (Fall 2004).
[>] close-up shot: Michel Auder, Th
e Valerie Solanas Incident, 1971.
[>] Lee Crabtree: Smith, Just Kids, 196–98.
[>] Irving confessed: Irving and Suskind, What Really Happened, 343.
[>] “but the world is mad”: Ibid., 53.
[>] irritation over the disruption: Julius Lester, e-mail to the author, October 3, 2007.
[>] dinner with the Irvings: Edinger, Chelsea Hotel, 47.
[>] bottle of Spanish wine: Ibid., 376.
[>] young Vietnam veteran: Frank Cavestani, interview with the author, December 9, 2011.
[>] “made for a breathtaking”: Forman and Novak, Turnaround, 191.
[>] ran for their Portapaks: Frank Cavestani, interview with the author, December 9, 2011.
[>] barefoot Clifford Irving: Forman and Novak, Turnaround, 190–91.
[>] “Stop taping”: Frank Cavestani, interview with the author, December 9, 2011.
[>] “But the moment”: Forman and Novak, Turnaround, 191.
[>] “Our Chelsea”: Turner, At the Chelsea, 89.
[>] “Four years ago”: Ibid., 116.
[>] looking sadly older: Ibid., 99.
[>] a sort of new-age guru: Forman and Novak, Turnaround, 196.
[>] selling his notebooks: Janssen, Not at All What One Is Used To, 253–54.
[>] virtual isolation: Ibid., 274.
[>] “the serious political situation”: Mekas, Movie Journal, 419.
[>] “virtual slave”: Janssen, Not at All What One Is Used To, 277.
[>] “cess-pool cum lunatic asylum” : Ibid., 290.
[>] “dank” and “soul-eroding”: Owens, After Claude, 139.
[>] “a humanity rare”: Ibid., 1.
[>] “Make sure”: Frank Cavestani, interview with the author, December 9, 2011.
[>] population of pimps: Miles, In the Seventies, 66.
[>] “beautiful tailoring”: Hotel Chelsea (documentary film).
[>] prostitutes and narcotics agents: Turner, At the Chelsea, 72–73.
[>] Vicente Fernandez: Ibid., 72.
[>] trying to lure their offspring: Joan Schenkar, interview with the author, July 7, 2006.
[>] a memorial service: Turner, At the Chelsea, 72.
[>] not managed to find: Hoffman, Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman, 282.
[>] a room with maid service: Frank Cavestani, interview with the author, December 9, 2011.
[>] Chief Z. Oloruntoba: Robert Palmer, “Ornette Coleman and the Circle with a Hole in the Middle,” Atlantic Monthly (December 1972): 91–93.
[>] so much going on: Frank Cavestani, interview with the author, December 9, 2011.
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