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I like these manuscripts
- Maybe we'll come across something - This looks juicy
- Notes on BAD - There you go
Wow, this is the one movie that
the only movie that Andy made, it was the one time a critic said it was like my movies
and it kind of was. They threw babies out the window and stuff
I love Bad, I was on the set of Bad
with Brigid, who was so on speed that day, still wrapping in Queens
and of course Jed directed this.
Yes, and this actually looks like Jed's handwriting.
Yeah, and these are notes, and this was Andy's, I mean, I think it was his money and I think they never got it back either.
-It was sort of the one really professional thing they tried to make. -But I think it was a nightmare for them.
They had problems with the distributor, and they never got the money, and it was, for the first time, Andy's real money.
But this is the script, we'll see what else is in here.
These are notes. I wonder who sent notes? I can't imagine Andy sent producer notes here.
These are like, "part of this is inside, this scene is too long." This is like a real movie producer
-It's 133 pages, which is really long for a script. -Well Andy liked long movies.
But I think Andy was, you know, and I think Paul was gone too, from this.
-Pretty much, yeah. He wasn't really involved. -He let Jed do it, and I remember once
I told you once, Carroll Baker said to me "the teamsters directed this movie", which made me laugh.
But I was there, I mean I saw Jed as the director.
-and Nancy Davis -What did you see Jed do, when he was directing?
Well he said "action" and stuff. I don't remember, I don't remember.
-Not very much. -No, I'm not saying that, I don't remember much.
I guess these are script pages
But these are also headshots of people trying out for the role.
Joseph Bottoms. That's an unfortunate name.
-It works for other people. -Yeah.
It might not be so unfortunate. It looks like he was up for the running.
I don't remember him being in it. He was probably when they were looking for the fake Joe Dallesandro.
Which was Perry King
Every movie after Joe, there was a fake one. Tom Baker, and they were never as good.
As great as Joe, because Joe was the greatest leading man in underground films ever
-and they never could really find a new one. -Yeah.
-And Perry King was great in it and all, but he wasn't Joe. -But he was professional.
Joe was good, Joe's good, I think, in Heat. Joe's great.
-Joe's done a lot of stuff since then. -Yeah.
Jennifer Leigh. Does that ring a bell?
Here's a note to her.
Let's see here, she's trying to get the casting couch or something.
I'm kidding.
Oh she went to Stella Adler. That would get her just thrown out.
That's not a name to drop to Andy, I don't think.
Sally Kirkland, as we know, then was a really new star.
and she did all this great radical stuff, she turned
very different, when you see Sally Kirkland today, when she crashes The Oscars every year.
She's pretty far out there.
-Was she in it? -I don't think so.
-Now Susan Tyrrell, who was in it -She was, yeah
Was the most insane woman I ever met
And she was in one of my movies
Every person she met she said "Hi, I'm Susu, and I have the *** of a 10 year old"
I said 'don't say that to my mother' and she said "why? I do!"
and she would say that to every single person.
She died this year, and she had her legs amputated, and she put ads in magazines for amputee sex, and got it!
So she was a scary lady, but I liked her
She was in Bad.
She was in Crybaby, she was Johnny Depp's grandmother in Crybaby.
Let's see here, a lot of ingenues
A lot of ingenues.
Warhol Group. I wonder what this is. It says 'Dog Day Afternoon, French connection'
I don't know.
'Butch Cassidy, Killer Elite, Performance or Production'
Oh, I guess this must be that this person was a production assistant on those
These are just all resumes of people that
wanted to be in the movie.
Here's Jed Johnson, what's this?
Producer, Jeff Thornburg, who is that?
Tornberg, yeah he was the producer
But do you know anything about him?
Not really.
Vincent would know, I'm sure
But that name's familiar to me.
Oh here's the budget!
$1,254,000, that was really a lot for an Andy Warhol movie.
Story rights and continuity, $431,000. Who got that?
Direction: $22,000.
Producer's got $170,000
-I think Pat Hackett wrote it -Pat Hackett, ok
Cast got $95,000 total
That means they all got scale
Let's see here,
Editing, $53,000
Music, I don't remember music, do you?
$7000
Oh wow, that's amazing that we'd see this
The actual budget for Bad, that's pretty great.
-Here's budget detail -I'll have to watch it again
I love Bad, Bad's great.
When they throw the baby out the window
And it got an X, which then
wasn't so bad, like it is today
Lets see if we see, Star Cast
Starring leads, $70,000
It doesn't say how much each person got
Here's the baby, I guess not the one they threw out the window
I guess that was a doll
Carroll Baker, 7 days at $1000 a day
-I would take it -Yeah
Carroll's great in it, Carroll's really good in it
This is, I mean really, the other Warhol movies never had this
Here's the Baby Fall, New York,
Dayrate: $4750, that was the baby
they didn't throw out, but I guess the close-up one
Window jump: New York, I guess that was a stunt?
Or something they had to do, but this says
'Baby fall, Port Authority, Window Jump'
So it was less than fifty bucks
Right but that's for one, times ten, yeah 'cause $475 total
That was a big stunt for that baby, and who threw it out the window?
It was, what's her name,
She was great, she was a big record publicist that they loved
-Susan Blond? -Yeah, Susan Blond
That's who threw it out the window, yeah.
'Welfare baby' I hope they didn't get one
This is great, this is really like, the breakdown of
I better go through my stuff and destroy some things
That's what you think when you're looking through this stuff
-You don't want to wind up in a museum -It does!
Mine does! It all goes to Wesleyan Film Archive
They have everything
I think I better go through and see what I gave them
This is really good, this is everything, every possible cent spent
Which is quite good, quite good
It's quite, revealing, and I wonder who did this?
They must have had a real producer, because I don't think
they ever had somethings this detailed and a professional budget
-For his other movies
Well, when they did Dracula and Frankenstein
-I'm sure they did, because that was produced by -That's true, yeah
-And that was maybe just three years before this
But they didn't, they didn't
Andy as producer was name only
and Paul directed them, and they were produced by
they were produced by Carlo Ponti
-Yeah, Carlo Ponti was involved in that, but I think, wasn't there some problem with that?
-I think he wouldn't pay, or something
Here's more Liz Smith
But this is, I wonder if this is about Bad
It probably isn't
Nope, lets see
It's just different, maybe this is what
"Building Falls, Kills Girl & Dad"
Well, that's not exactly baby falls out window
Lets see what these other headlines are
That's "Polanski May Be Deported"
That was, I dont' know which one that was for
This was in this folder, so I'm going to leave them in here
There's other stuff in this folder that isn't about Bad
-Oh this is Jamie Wyeth
The portraits they made of each other
It's weird that these are in this folder
Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
I wonder if they tried to get him in Bad
You never know. So this is also in here
Cameraman and DP's for Bad
Polish Film Institute
These are just resumes and stuff that people send
Editors
All of the people that applied for the job of editor
Lots of them
Well this was done, you know, without all Factory help
It wasn't like, edited by Ingrid Superstar
Now what happened to her?
I remember the New York Post said
-And they never found her -It was just about a month before Andy died
But did they ever, find her? -No, she went out to get some cigarettes or something
And never came back? And has never been found since? There was no follow up
-As far as I know she is still missing But what happened?
-No one knows. And they never found her body?
Not that I know of.
I want to know
I think we should find out. -Well Andy would want to know too.
You know, there's a great line in his diaries, where he says that
he wasn't really paying attention when his staff told him one of the superstars went missing
and when he realized, when he found out it was Ingrid, he was really upset
He really cared about her.
But when she left the Factory, she just went back to normal life and lived with her mother in New Jersey or something, right?
I think so, yeah, but she did try to do some things
I think she tried to do some acting or something
But you saw the New York Post article about her missing
But then they never followed up, but did you try to follow up?
-I never did I mean, did anyone ever try to call her mother?
-I don't know. Please do.
What Happened to Ingrid? -Yeah
She might be alive
I mean, maybe she just took a vacation for a week, I don't know
-Changed her name
She wasn't, I don't think, living under Ingrid Superstar then -No
-No, Ingrid Von Scheflin Yeah