Edie (66 page)

VICTOR S. NAVASKY
 is a graduate of the Yale Law School and a journalist whose work has appeared in many forums, from the celebrated Monocle, which he helped to found, to
The New York Times
, where he worked as an editor. His book
Kennedy Justice
was nominated for the National Book Award. Mr. Navasky published
Naming Names,
a book about Hollywood blacklisting. Since 1978 he has been the editor of
The Nation
magazine. He lives in New York City with his wife and three children.

BOB NEUWIRTH
: “I’M well and I continue to make art.”

NICO
: “Edie and I were co-stars and friends. In the Sixties I was modeling and acting and singing. Since then I have been the author of songs and a singer of ‘dirgelike songs themselves full of girlish Gothic imagery and a spacey romanticism’ (John Rockwell,
New York Times,
1979). I have a new album coming out.”

MICHAEL NOVARESE
: I met Edie once at the Santa Barbara Museum when I was doing an evening fashion show. My career has since expanded into men’s wear. I have been making personal appearances across the country in specialty shops for men’s wear and also as a fashion consultant. My dress is a very classic manner. Hair always being closely cut, a well-trimmed mustache, and always sporting a bow tie. I am told that I have a very pleasant outgoing personality. This possibly is one of the reasons making personal appearances and giving personalized fashion shows have always been easy for me.”

NAN O’BYHNE
: “Maybe the reason Edie and I cared for each other and became friends had to do with some very basic agreement that I can’t quite put my finger on. . . . She had a much harder job than I with so many people to please and satisfy. I flunked out of the University of Texas in 1961 and moved to Berkeley. Most of the Sixties I spent out of the country in Italy, Asia, and Mexico—the rest of time I spent in New York, Berkeley, or Austin. In the late Sixties I worked at Capra Press in Santa Barbara, then moved to Los Angeles in 1975. I worked in graphics and book design until the middle of 1980 when I started writing music and that’s what I’m doing now.”

PATRICK O’HIGGINS
 was an editor at the old
Flair
magazine when he first met Helena Rubinstein in 1950. He was her confidant and personal secretary for fifteen years until her death in’ 1965 at the age of ninety-three. He detailed the story of their association in
Madame: An Intimate Biography of Helena Rubinstein
. Mr. O’Higgins was published in
Town and Country, New York, and
Harper’s Bazaar
before his death on June 21, 1980.

ONDINE
: I am living quietly cultivating friendships and relatives, and creating things in a more relaxed way. I’m through with drugs, the Sixties, and most aspects of the film and theater scene of New York . . . but I’m not ruling anything out. I remember Edie fondly and feel no remorse at her death or anyone else’s either. To describe me now I would say that I’m overweight, graying, and have the air of a rather important actor who’s kind of gone to seed around the edges. It’s quite obvious I eat and drink very well and I carry my weight like a dancer. I am knowledgeable in almost everything; but cooking, religion,
Maria Callas, and guilt feelings are my specialties.”

JANET PALMER
 is currently living in England.

JOHN PALMER
 distributed
Ciao!Manhattan
in Europe, with David Weisman. He is now involved in sailing and photography in the South Pacific.

PHILIP PEARLSTEIN
 was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1924, received his B.FA. from Carnegie Institute of Technology and his M.A. from New York University. He has had numerous one-man shows at galleries in the United States, Europe, and Canada, as well as group shows and retrospective exhibits.
Mr. Pearlstein received a Fulbright fellowship, a Guggenheim fellowship and was a National Endowment for the Arts grantee in 1968,

LESTIR PERSKY
 was Edie’s friend, confidant, and admirer. since the sixties he has produced
Equus; Hair,
and
Yanks.
He is now producing
Handcarved Coffins,
by Truman Capote, directed by Hal Ashby; and
Lone Star,
directed by Robert Altman, among other projects.

MICHAEL POLLARD
 acted in
Melvin and Howard.

JEFFKEY POST
 lives in California.

MICHAEL B. POST
 lives in California.

SHARON PREMOLI:
 “I knew Edie when she first moved to Cambridge. It was her gray Mercedes period—we lived in her car. I never wanted to get out, but I finally did and moved to New York for a while before moving to rome. I had trouble leaving there as well. After several years and an ex-Italian husband, I have returned to New York where I live with my daughter Sasha. she goes to School, and I am involved in real-estate investments and try to return to Italy as often as possible.”;

BICHABD RAND:
 “;I am a New York-based scholar and writer.–

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG
 was born in Port Arthur, Texas, in 1925 and was educated at the Kansas City Art Institute, the Academie Julien in Paris, the Art Students League in New York (where he studied with Bytlacil and Kantor), and Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where he worked with Josef Albers. His work has been shown in the United States and Europe since 1951. He has received many prizes and awards, including the grand prize at the Venice Biennale. Rauschenberg is active in the politics of art, having founded Change, Inc., a foundation aiding artists in coping with financial emergencies, and Iobbying in favor of tax-exempt status for works donated by artists to nonprofit institutions.

RANDY REDFIELD:
 “I am now the Comtesse Charles-Constantin de Toulouse-Lautrec, and I was a friend of Bobby Sedgwick, Edie’S brother. widowed in the early Sixties, I spent several years on the road (Europe studying Japanese and the Far East putting it to use) with my infant daughter, then married a Frenchman and lived a provincial housewife’s life for the rest of the decade. In 1970, I bought a farm and started learning how to raise sheep and horses. I’m stI’ll farming and stI’ll learning. Through it all, I fit right in with the scenery at hand.”

JACK REILLY
 was the bartender at the Casablanca when Edie lived in Cambridge. He now owns Ryles Bar in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

RENÉ RICARD
 was seventeen when he hitchhiked to New York from Boston and ended up appearing in the Warhol film
Kitchen
with Edie Sedgwick. He has traveled extensively since 1965. He is an art critic, publishing essays in
Art Forum
and
Art in America,
and has done catalogues for galleries in the Netherlands and France. He is also a poet whose work has appeared in anthologies. The Dia Art Foundation published a book of his poetry,
René Ricard:
1979-80.

DOMENIQUE ROBERTSON:
 “;I was a good friend of Edie’s and a freelance journalist for French-Canadian newspapers and magazines during the Sixties. I am now writing poetry and raising three children, keeping a sense of humor.”

EDUARDO AGUSTO LOPEZ DE ROMAÑA:
 “After dropping out from mathematics in 1969, I received my M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California. I worked for Sierra Audio before joining Disco Vision Associates in 1980. Today I work at managing video disc mastering equipment at their Watson plant. I am stI’ll not married.”

BARBARA ROSE
 is a writer and art critic. She received a B.A. from Barnard, and studied at the Sorbonne before receiving an M.A. from Columbia University. Ms. Rose has taught at Sarah Lawrence and Yale, and has worked as a contributing editor for
Art International; Art in America and Artforum
, and
Arts Magazine.
She is the author of
Claes Oldenberg; Pavilion
—
Experiments in Art and Technology
(co-author);
American Art since 1900 and Readings in American Art; American Painting,
and
Patrick Henry Bruce.

PAUL ROTHCHILD:
 “During the early and mid-Sixties I was involved in the folk movement. Produced sixty albums, including albums by Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

“During the rock years produced fifty albums, including all of the Doors except their last album; Janis Joplin’s last album,
Pearl
; two by Bonnie Raitt,
Sweet Forgiveness
and
Home Plate;
and the first two albums by The Outlaws. Most recently musical director on
The Rose
, which was nominated for a Grammy Award and an Academy Award.”

LILIAN SAARINEN
, born in New York in 1912, studied art with Alexander Archipenko while she was stI’ll a teenager. Her sculpture is in the collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, and the Addison Museum Gallery, Andover, Massachusetts.

GLORIA SCHIFF
 was the fashion editor,
Harper’s Bazaar,
senior editor.
Vogue
magazine, and she says she is “now passionately interested in Chinese studies and tennis.”

JOEL SCHUMACHER
 has lived in Los Angeles since 1972. He writes and directs movies:
Sparkle; Car Wash; The Wiz; Amateur Night at the dixie bar and grill; The Incredible Shrinking Woman.

ETHEL SCULL:
 “I have studied art since I was nine years old. I went to Parsons and the Art Students League. Painted privately in Larry River’s class in Great Neck. Good talent but no genius, so I collected. In the Sixties I was one of the foremost art collectors, especially of Pop Art. It was hectic . . . stimulating
. . . effervescent Meeting the artists in their studios and galleries, I discovered the major artists of the Sixties: Johns, Rauschenberg, Rosenquist, and Segal, etc. My life had all the glamor and glitter of a Hollywood starlet’s. I broke my back in 1971 and art life ceased until 1980 when I began lecturing on art at the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, universities, and for private tours.”

ALEXANDER SEDGWICK:
 “I am Edie’s second cousin. I was a college teacher in the Sixties and am soil the same.”

FANNIE P. SEDGWICK (FAN):
 “Youngest child of Helen and Minturn Sedgwick. Having completed a happy earlier career at three levels of government in Washington, D.C., and in New York, I am now savoring the rewards of entrepreneurism, recruiting computer professionals. I am presently living in San Francisco.”

HARRY SEDGWICK:
 “I am Edie’s first cousin. I was heavily involved in New York City politics and in my business world of new ventures during the Sixties. My life was on a very conventional track: family, business, civic affairs. Then, prodded by intense and successful psychoanalysis, I began to look in and move out. The late Sixties and Seventies were a random walk–growing up with my kids and exploring or, rather, groping through a series of relationships with women who were important to me. Looking back on it, I suppose I was stI’ll conventional . . . only the rules had changed. Life gets better and better. My children are flying. My businesses flourish as I do. So beginneth the Eighties!!!”

JONATHAN SEDGWICK
 is living in California.

ROBERT MINTURN SEDGWICK
 was graduated from Harvard in 1921, where he had played on the football team that won the Rose Bowl in 1920. After teaching at Groton, Mr. Sedgwick became an investment counselor with Scudder, Stevens and Clark from 1937 to 1963, when he formed his own concern, Sedgwick Financial Services, Inc. He was a member of the Porcellian club; trustee of Groton School; chairman of the board, Garland School, Boston; board of directors of the State Street Trust Company of Boston; board of directors of Riggs Foundation, and chairman of the board of the Massachusetts Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Mr. Sedgwick died January 5, 1976, at the age of seventy-six.

SAUCIE SEDGWICK
 is married and mother of one son. She lives in New England, where she works for a scholarly publication.

SUKY SEDGWICK
 is living in California.

GEORGE SEGAL
 is a native New Yorker, born in 1924. He was graduated from New York University and earned a master’s degree at Rutgers. He was a member of Hansa Gallery and first showed his paintings in 1955. Mr. Segal made his first sculpture in 1958, and has become famous for his tableaux of white figures, done from live models, in real-object environments.

PATTI SMITH
 moved to New York from Pitman, New Jersey, in 1967 when she was nineteen. Although she was initially interested in drawing, she soon began writing poetry and gave readings accompanied by musicians. she is a published poet (books include seventh
Heaven; Kodak
, and Witt), playwright and a rock musician. Her albums include Horses;
Easter; Radio Ethiopia,
and
Wave.

PETER SOURIAN:
 
“I
knew Edie through her brother Bob, who was my roommate at Harvard, Eliot House, 1953-55. I was in the U.S. Army—finished in late Fifties and began publishing novels in the Sixties (The
Gate; The Best and Worst of Times; Miri
). I have taught college English, especially at Bard College, since 1965. Since 1970, I have been TV critic for
The Nation
.”