Factory Girl A Go-Go

Distributed by The Weinstein Company (Bob and Harvey, who had formerly founded
Miramax which was later usurped bought by Disney, who eventually weeded out
pursued an option to void the brothers’ contract, thus tightening their
stranglehold furthering their conquest for world domination) and penned
by Captain Mauzner (Wonderland), Factory Girl (a reference to Andy Warhol’s
work-living space) will tell the tumultuous life of Edie Sedgwick, with Sienna
Miller (Layer Cake) in the title role and Guy Pearce (L.A. Confidential) as
Warhol, along with Hayden Christensen (Shattered Glass…say, wasn’t
this guy supposed to do the whole world a big favor by quitting acting and becoming
an architect or something?), Mena Suvari (American Beauty) and Jimmy Fallon
(umm… Taxi?).

A little background info on Factory Girl and who this film is about: an American socialite and
heiress, Edie Sedgwick moved to New York in 1964 to pursue a modeling career.
It was the next year that she met Andy Warhol, thus becoming his muse and starring
in many of his movies (Vinyl, Poor Little Rich Girl, Chelsea Girls). It was
also during that time she was introduced to the wonderful world of drugs. She
then dated folk legend Bob Dylan, who introduced her to even more drugs like
LSD, and she is believed to have inspired the timeless ballad Lay Lady Lay,
among a slew of other Dylan classics. Edie was hospitalized/institutionalized
many times during her turbulent years, and it was on one fateful morning in
1971 that her husband, Michael Post, woke up next to her lifeless body; her
death was ruled as an accidental suicide/drug overdose.

Now doesn’t it seem that her whole life revolved around sex, drugs, and
rock ‘n’ roll? It would appear so, and that’s what has The
Velvet Underground’s (at one time managed by Warhol) Lou Reed throwing
a hissy fit, going so far as to say the script is “one of the most disgusting,
foul things I’ve seen – by any illiterate retard – in a long time. There’s no
limit to how low some people will go to write something to make money.”
Woah, keep your socks on there, Lou. He’s probably just pissed ‘cuz
he found out that Danny DeVito is gonna portray him in the film. I just made
that last part up.