"Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film" on PBS last night - Part Two tonight. Long before Andy Warhol died in 1987, he had achieved the thing he wanted most: fame.
But it didn't turn out to be the saving grace he'd imagined. While creating a persona for himself as the icon of cool, Warhol used and abused the people who fluttered around him, then placidly watched them self destruct, as if they were nothing but shadows on a screen.
Eventually, one of those troubled hangers-on, a young woman writer, showed up at Warhol's studio with a gun and blasted the celebrity artist in the chest, nearly killing him. She later told police she had to do it: In her mind, Warhol had too much control over her.
Narrator: Laurie Anderson
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