This PBS documentary is populated by hollow talking heads. Warhol's work is brilliant, so it is a treat whenever one of his pieces appears on screen. However, his circle of friends who form the commentary/voice-over track are ridiculous in their worship of this dead man. You get the sense that if someone excavated a piece of Andy Warhol excrement they would bow down beside it and praise it for its "genius" texture. To these idiots, Warhol could do no wrong -- everything he did was "genius" and changed popular culture forever. Enjoy the man's work if you can, but this account of Warhol's life did little for me. It is dark and depressing.
Written 12/31/07
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