CANDY DARLING: "CANDY SAYS"
"Candy dice he llegado a odiar mi cuerpo y todo lo que requiere en este mundo." - Lou Reed, "Candy Says"
Candy Darling nació como James Lawrence Slattery en Brooklyn, el 24 de noviembre de 1946. Vivió sus primeros años en Massapequa Park , Long Island , donde ella y su madre se mudaron después del divorcio de sus padres. Pasó gran parte de su infancia absorbiendo las influencias de la televisión y los viejos clásicos de Hollywood y aprendió a imitar a sus actrices favoritas, como Joan Bennett y Kim Novak . Candy afirmó haber aprendido acerca de los misterios del sexo "con un vendedor de zapatos de niños de una tienda local". Más tarde, comenzó a vestirse de mujer.
Su nombre femenino fue primero Hope Slattery. De acuerdo con Bob Colacello , Candy adoptó este nombre en algún momento de 1963/1964, después de que empezó a ir a bares gay en Manhattan y visitar a un médico en la Quinta Avenida para recibir inyecciones de horrmonas femeninas. Jackie Curtis dijo que Candy adoptó el nombre de una conocida actriz de Off -Off Broadway llamada Hope Stansbury, con quien vivió durante unos meses en un apartamento detrás del Caffe Cino. Holly Woodlawn recuerda que el nombre de Darling fue evolucionando desde Hope a Candy Dahl, y luego a Candy Cane. Jeremías Newton creía que ella había adoptado su nombre de pila por su amor a los dulces. En su autobiografía, Woodlawn recordó que Candy había adoptado el nombre porque un amigo de ella cariñosamente la llamaba "darling" tan a menudo que terminó acostumbrándose.
Andy Warhol descubrió a Candy en 1967 en un club llamado The Tenth of Always e inmediatamente la becó como modelo de pasarela en el Instituto de Estudios de Arte de Wharhol. Pronto se convirtió en su estrella favorita y protegida. Candy participó en las películas Flesh (1968) y Women in Revolt (1971).
Después de Warhol, Candy Darling apareció en algunas películas independientes. Además de actuar en una de sus obras, Small Craft Warnings, Candy fue muy amiga de Tenesse Williams y llegó a actuar en teatro al lado de actrices como Jane Fonda y Sophia Loren.
El 21 de marzo de 1974, con sólo veintinueve años, Candy Darling murió de leucemia. Antes de morir, escribió una carta a todos sus amigos:
A quien pueda interesar
Cuando lean esto, ya me habré marchado. Desgraciadamente, antes de mi muerte no me quedaban deseos de vivir. Incluso con el apoyo de todos mis amigos y de mi prometedora carrera, me siento demasiado vacía como para continuar con esta existencia irreal. Estoy tan aburrida de todo... Podría decirse que estoy mortalmente aburrida. Puede sonar ridículo, pero es verdad.
He organizado mi propio funeral, incluida la lista de invitados, y lo he pagado todo. Me gustaría decir adiós a Jackie Curtis, creo que eres fabulosa. A Holly, a Sam Green, un verdadero amigo y una persona noble, a Ron Link, nunca te olvidaré. A Andy Warhol, qué te puedo decir, a Paul Morrissey; Lennie, sabes que te amé, Andy, tú también; Jeremiah, no lo pases demasiado mal, recuerda lo zorra que fui; Geraldine, supongo que lo viste venir. Richard Turley y Richard Golub, sé que podría haber sido una estrella pero decidí que no quería serlo. Manuel, estoy mejor ahora, lejos de aquí. Terry, te quiero. Susan, lo siento, sabías que no podría durar, yo siempre lo supe.
Ojalá nos volvamos a encontrar todos de nuevo.
Adiós por ahora.
Los quiere siempre,
Candy Darling
Al funeral de Candy asistieron multitudes. The New York Times honró su solicitud de que su necrológica apareciera en la portada. Candy Darling fue incineradoa y sus cenizas fueron enterradas por su amigo Jeremías Newton en el Cherry Valley Cemetery, ubicado en Cherry Valley, Nueva York , un pequeño pueblo histórico situado a los pies de las montañas Catskill.
A su muerte, la familia de Candy destruyó muchos de sus objetos y documentos personales más íntimos, pero dos libros escritos por ella fueron publicados de manera póstuma: sus diarios, bajo el título de Candy Darling, en 1992 y My Face for the World to See: The Diaries, Letters, and Drawings of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar, en 1997.
Lou Reed escribió la canción “Candy say”, inspirada en Candy Darling y publicada por The Velvet Underground en su tercer álbum, que lleva como título el nombre de la banda (1969). “Candy dice odio las grandes decisiones que causan revisiones eternas en mi mente.Voy a observar los pájaros azules volar sobre mi hombro, voy a verlos pasar tal vez cuando sea mayor. Qué crees que vería si pudiera alejarme de mí.”
Otras canciones inspiradas en Candy Darling:
- “Walk on The Wild Side” (Transformer, 1972) – Lou Reed: “Candy llegó de Island. En la pieza de atrás era la querida de todos, pero nunca perdió la cabeza, ni siquiera cuando la chupaba. Dice, hey bebé, date una vuelta por el lado salvaje. Dice, hey bebé, date una vuelta por el lado salvaje. Y las chicas de color dicen, du,du,du,du...”
Otras referencias a Candy Darling:
- "Queen of War" - Electrosexual: La canción de este artista francés cuenta con una muestra de la voz de Candy, de la película Flesh.
-I Am a Bird Now, segundo álbum de la banda Antony and the Johnsons, cuenta en su portada con una foto que Peter Hujar le tomó a Candy poco tiempo antes de morir, “Candy Darling en su lecho de muerte”. Algunas de las canciones del disco en cuestión parecen referirse a Candy Darling.
-"Sheila Take A Bow", single del grupo inglés The Smiths cuenta en su portada con una imagen de Candy tomada de la película Women in Revolt.
Fuente: http://todosobrelosabrazosrotos.blogspot.com/2010/05/candy-darling.html
Early life Candy Darling was born James Lawrence Slattery in Forest Hills, Queens, daughter of Theresa Phelan, a bookkeeper at Manhattan's Jockey Club, and James (Jim) Slattery, who was described as a violent alcoholic.[1] There is some conjecture around her year of birth. According to former Warhol associate, Bob Colacello, Candy was born in 1946, while IMDb has listed her year of birth as 1948. Her friend, roommate, and posthumous editor, Jeremiah Newton, states that she was born on November 24, 1944. Early years — before transition — were spent in Massapequa Park, Long Island, where she and her mother had moved after her parents divorced. Her half-brother Warren, a product of Theresa Slattery's first marriage, left home for the U.S. military, leaving Jimmy as the only child; Warren later denied his connection to her. She spent much of her childhood absorbing the influences of US television and old Hollywood movies, from which she learned to impersonate her favorite actresses, such as Joan Bennett and Kim Novak. She claimed to have "learned about the mysteries of sex from a salesman in a local children's shoe store" and finally revealed an inclination towards dressing as a female when her mother confronted her about local rumors which described her dressed as a girl frequenting a local gay bar called The Hayloft. In response Jimmy left the room and reappeared in full feminine attire. Her mother later said that, "I knew then... that I couldn't stop Jimmy. Candy was just too beautiful and talented." Late at night, Darling would often take a cab (thereby avoiding the attention of neighbors she would receive if she walked) a short distance to the Long Island Rail Road station for the train to Manhattan, frequently sitting across from Long Island starlet Joey Heatherton. Once there, she referred to her Cape Cod-style home at 79 First Avenue in Massepequa Park as her "country house" and hung out in Greenwich Village, meeting people through the circle of Seymour Levy on Bleecker Street. Her first assumed name was Hope Slattery. According to Bob Colacello, Darling adopted this name sometime in 1963/1964 after she started going to gay bars in Manhattan and making visits to a doctor on Fifth Avenue for hormone injections. Jackie Curtis stated that Candy adopted the name from a well-known Off-Off Broadway actress named Hope Stansbury, with whom she lived for a few months in an apartment behind the Caffe Cino so that she could study her. Holly Woodlawn remembers that Darling's name evolved from Hope Dahl to Candy Dahl and then to Candy Cane. Jeremiah Newton believed she adopted her forename out of a love for sweets. In her autobiography, Woodlawn recalled that Darling had adopted the name because a friend of hers affectionately called her "darling" so often that it finally stuck. [edit] The Warhol years Before they actually met in 1967, Darling saw Andy Warhol at the after-hours club called The Tenth of Always. Candy was with Jackie Curtis, who invited Warhol to the play she had written and directed called Glamour, Glory and Gold. It was being performed at Bastiano's Cellar Studio on Waverly Place. Taylor Mead brought Andy to see it and afterwards went to the club Salvation in Sheridan Square, where he was joined by Candy and Curtis at his table. Warhol cast Darling in a short comedic scene in Flesh (1968) with Jackie Curtis and Joe Dallesandro. After Flesh, Candy was cast in a central role in Women In Revolt (1971). She played a Long Island socialite drawn into a woman's liberation group called PIGS (Politically Involved Girls) by a character played by Curtis. Interrupted by cast disputes encouraged by Warhol, Women in Revolt took longer to film than its predecessor and went through several title changes before a consensus was reached. Darling wanted it called Blonde on a Bum Trip since she was the blonde, while Curtis and Woodlawn told her it was more like "Bum on a Blonde Trip" — titles which were both used in the film during Candy's interview scene. Women in Revolt was first shown at the first Los Angeles Filmex as Sex. Later it was shown as Andy Warhol's Women, an homage to George Cukor. Unable to get a distributor for the film, Warhol rented out the Cine Malibu on East 59th Street and launched the film with a celebrity preview on February 16, 1972. After the screening there was a dinner in Candy's honor at the restaurant, Le Parc Périgord on Park Avenue at 63rd Street, followed by a party at Francesco Scavullo's townhouse round the corner, where they watched TV reviews of the movie. They watched it being called "a rip-off", that it "looked as if it were filmed underwater," and "proves once again that Andy Warhol has no talent. But we knew that since the Campbell's Soup cans." Among the guests at Darling's party were D.D. Ryan, Sylvia Miles, George Plimpton, Halston, Giorgio di Sant 'Angelo and Diane and Egon von Furstenberg. Jackie Curtis stood out in the cold, along with other gate crashers. When a security guard asked, "My God, what are they giving away in there?" one of the guests responded, "Would you believe, a transvestite?" The day after the celebrity preview a group of women wearing army jackets, pea coats, jeans and boots and carrying protest signs demonstrated outside the cinema against the film, which they thought was anti-women's liberation. When Darling heard about this, she said, "Who do these dykes think they are anyway?... Well, I just hope they all read Vincent Canby's review in today's Times. He said I look like a cross between Kim Novak and Pat Nixon. It's true - I do have Pat Nixon's nose." [edit] After Warhol Candy Darling went on to appear in other independent films, including Brand X by Wynn Chamberlain, Silent Night, Bloody Night, as well as a co-starring role as a victim of trans-bashing in Some of My Best Friends Are... She also appeared in Klute with Jane Fonda and Lady Liberty with Sophia Loren. In 1971 she went to Vienna to make two films with director Werner Schroeter; The Death of Maria Malibran, and another one that was never released. Her attempt at cracking the mainstream movie circuit — by campaigning for the leading role in Myra Breckinridge (1970) — led to rejection and bitterness. Theatre credits include two Jackie Curtis plays, Glamour, Glory and Gold (1967) and Vain Victory: The Vicissitudes of the Damned (1971), and Tennessee Williams' play, Small Craft Warnings, at the invitation of Williams himself. She also starred in the 1973 Off-Broadway revival of The White Whore and the Bit Player, a 1964 play by Tom Eyen. Darling's character, a Hollywood actress known only as "the Whore", was based on Marilyn Monroe. As a review of the play stated, "With her teased platinum hair and practiced pouts, Miss Darling looks like her character and resolutely keeps her acting little-girl-lost. The role-playing aspect works to her advantage. She could, after all, be a male lunatic pretending to be the White Whore."[2] [edit] Illness and death Darling died of leukemia on March 21, 1974, aged 29, at the Columbus Hospital division of the Cabrini Health Center.[3] In a letter written on her deathbed and intended for Andy Warhol and his followers, Darling said, "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."[4] Her funeral was attended by huge crowds, including friends Pat Ast and Julie Newmar; a piano piece was played by Faith Dane; Gloria Swanson was remembered for saluting Darling's coffin. The New York Times honored her request that her obituary should appear on the front page. Candy Darling was cremated, her ashes interred by her friend Jeremiah Newton in the Cherry Valley Cemetery, located in Cherry Valley, New York, a tiny historical village located at the foot of the Catskill Mountains.
Fuente: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_Darling
CANCIONES SOBRE CANDY
The Velvet Underground - Candy Darling
(Verse)
Candy says I've come to hate my body
And all that it requires in this world
Candy says I'd like to know completely
What others so discreetly talk about
(Chorus)
I'm gonna watch the blue birds fly over my shoulder
I'm gonna watch them pass me by
Maybe when I'm older
What do you think I'd see
If I could walk away from me
(Verse)
Candy says I hate the quiet places
That cause the smallest taste of what will be
Candy says I hate the big decisions
That cause endless revisions in my mind
(Chorus)
I'm gonna watch the blue birds fly over my shoulder
I'm gonna watch them pass me by
Maybe when I'm older
What do you think I'd see
If I could walk away from meHolly came from Miami, F.L.A.
Hitch-hiked her way across the USA
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
Hey honey
Take a walk on the wild side
Candy came from out on the Island
In the backroom she was everybody's darlin'
But she never lost her head
Even when she was giving head
She says, Hey babe
Take a walk on the wild side
I Said, Hey baby
Take a walk on the wild side
And the coloured girls go
Doo do doo do doo do do doo..
Little Joe never once gave it away
Everybody had to pay and pay
A hustle here and a hustle there
New York City's the place where they say,
Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
I said, Hey Joe
Take a walk on the wild side
Sugar Plum Fairy came and hit the streets
Lookin' for soul food and a place to eat
Went to the Apollo
You should've seen em go go go
They said, Hey shuga Take a walk on the wild side
I Said, Hey babe
Take a walk on the wild side
All right, huh
Jackie is just speeding away
Thought she was James Dean for a day
Then I guess she had to crash
Valium would have helped that bash
Said, Hey babe,
Take a walk on the wild side
I said, Hey honey,
Take a walk on the wild side
And the coloured girls say,
Doo do doo do doo do do doo
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