(03-22-2024, 02:55 AM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: 50 years ago, Candy Darling, transsexual actress and friend of Andy Warhol, dies of lymphoma in New York City. She was 29. Best known as a Warhol superstar, she starred in Andy Warhol's films Flesh (1968) and Women in Revolt (1971), and was a muse of the Velvet Underground.
She left a sad letter on her deathbed:
Quote:Finally, having spent most of his life emulating Hollywood's great tragic divas, Candy became one herself: "By the time you read this I will be gone," she writes in a letter to Warhol and other friends from her death bed. "Unfortunately before my death I had no desire left for life . . . I am just so bored by everything. You might say bored to death. (D)id you know I couldn't last. I always knew it. I wish I could meet you all again."On March 19, 2024, Cynthia Carr published Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar, a biographical portrait of the queer icon and Warhol superstar.
Candy Darling is mentioned in verse two of Lou Reed's epic song, Walk on the Wild Side. Verse one refers to Holly Woodlawn a person of similar persuasion and another Warhol associate.
Holly came from Miami, F.L.A.
Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A.
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"
Candy came from out on the Island
In the back room she was everybody's darling
But she never lost her head
Even when she was giving head
She says, "Hey, babe
Take a walk on the wild side"
Said, "Hey, babe
Take a walk on the wild side"
And the colored girls go
"Doo do doo do doo do do doo..."
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.