Brigid Berlin Dead to Me!
Robert Spencer 
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Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 23, 2020 3:29 PM |
Damn. I worked at the Factory answering phones as a 17 year old. Have posted before on other threads about this experience. Got a text yesterday from one of the old factory crowd. Brigid was my favorite of all. Funny. Sharp. Ascerbic. Brilliant. Didn’t give a damn about anyone’s social status. She made me laugh so many times. Raising a toasted plain bagel with cream cheese and tomato slices to you Brigid!!
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 19, 2020 3:40 PM |
One of the few (maybe only) person who didn't sell their soul to Warhol
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 19, 2020 5:15 PM |
I'll have a key lime pie in her memory. The whole pie.
RIP, you wonderful, one of a kind woman.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 22, 2020 11:08 PM |
Lena Dunham owes B. her career.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 22, 2020 11:08 PM |
Watch the Berlin documentary Pie In The Sky. It’s good.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 22, 2020 11:12 PM |
She was so young for more than 15 minutes.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 22, 2020 11:12 PM |
Lena could stand to learn a thing or two about humor and humility from Brigid Berlin, whose saving grace was not taking herself too seriously, ever.
I also commend Brigid Berlin (and Viva) for calling Ultraviolet out on her reactionary shit when UV published her (mostly fictitious and homophobic) autobiography.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 22, 2020 11:13 PM |
On one hand she seemed like a character of the best kind, but on the other hand she became a deplorable late in life. I can see someone of her generation and social class being an old-school Republican, but a Fox News–loving Trump supporter?
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 22, 2020 11:33 PM |
No one is perfect all the time
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 22, 2020 11:39 PM |
Her art is what matters, not her political opinions.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 22, 2020 11:59 PM |
Very good artist in her own right, visual, conceptual, performance. At the center of it all. Knew everyone. Did some very original things. She made fun of her family. I couldn't see it for myself. Anything for a laugh, Brig. She and Andy were tight, man. She was his muse in a peculiar way. They loved to laugh at phonies.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 23, 2020 12:25 AM |
from the Times obit:
[quote]At 19, she married John Parker, a window dresser who was gay, in large part to shock her parents. According to Warhol, her mother gave her a wedding present of $100 and told her to buy some new underwear, adding, “Good luck with that fairy.” The two ran through much of her money and shortly divorced.
[quote]In the late 1960s, Ms. Berlin presented a running performance called “Brigid Polk Strikes! Her Satanic Majesty in Person,” in which she called people on the telephone and — unbeknown to them — amplified the conversation for the audience. At one performance, she told a friend she needed $100 for an abortion, then left the nightclub and returned with the money. At another, Mr. Fields recalled, she called her mother and got into an argument, then asked the audience, “You see, did I ever exaggerate what a monster my mother was?”
Whatever happened to her sister Richie?
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 23, 2020 12:34 AM |
Richie died four years ago. In her later years she looked like a patrician Tan Mom.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 23, 2020 12:42 AM |
"Andy, your wig's on crooked again!"
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 23, 2020 1:00 AM |
She and Bob Collacello were the stealth conservatives in the Warhol circle. Especially Bob who slavishly worshipped the Reagan’s.
Brigid’s political beliefs mirrored her yellow journalism piece of shit father and his boss William Randolph Hearst... the Rupert Murdoch of his era.
Even when the documentary was filmed in 2000 they showed her watching Fox News practically all day long in her apartment. She drank the kool aid and went from simply conservative to being a right wing zealot.
Politics aside, she was a real character.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 23, 2020 2:26 AM |
In OP's picture, she looks like Gert Frobe in drag.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 23, 2020 7:00 AM |
"I'm a real conservative. When I was with Andy in the ’70s, I was voting for Nixon."
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 23, 2020 7:09 AM |
Andy Warhol mentioned in his diary once that Brigid , during one of her eating binges, went to the Grand Central Oyster Bar alone and ordered a 3 pound lobster.
When it came to the table, she told the waiter it was NOT 3 pounds. The waiter insisted it was.
Brigid argued with him and finally said , “fine, let’s go weigh it in the kitchen, and if you’re right, I’ll give you $10.”
They went to the kitchen and it weighed a pound, so she got a free meal.
He also describes in detail how she would devour entire sheet cakes and how nasty she was when was drunk. One year he offered to paint her portrait for Christmas and she told him she wanted a washer and dryer.
She knew how to push his buttons like a wife, like nobody else could-but he did help her get off drugs. Alcoholism and binge eating he encouraged, however.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 23, 2020 7:14 AM |
[quote] He also describes in detail how she would devour entire sheet cakes
A girl after my own heart!
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 23, 2020 7:24 AM |
She and Bob Coca-cola (editor of Interview Magazine) would toke up and ghost write books for Warhol -- which were praised as being brilliant. Bob said fuck this, I'm out -- unless I get a Hammer & Sickle painting, which was not forthcoming. "Awwww, not THAT one, BOB, I only have a couple left!" After storming off, he had his revenge by writing an hysterically funny book about his Warhol experiences called Holy Terror. It came out at the same moment the Diaries were released -- Warhol's posthumous revenge.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 23, 2020 3:26 PM |
I love the story she tells in the PIE IN THE SKY documentary about renting a house in The Pines for her fag husband and his fuck buddies, buying him a huge diamond from Tiffany as a gift, and then flying over the house in a seaplane and dropping it like a bomb into the pool.
And embellished tale no doubt, but she apparently really did blow through most of her trust fund with him.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 23, 2020 3:29 PM |
