I waited for this for a long time. I am halfway through Andy Warhol: Holy Terror (Andy's bio) - I was really hoping to have it finished before I watched this. However, that one was written quite a bit after Edie, so it didn't really matter for seeing the movie. I did however end up reading Edie's bio Factory Girl. Then, sick of waiting for Netflix to send me the movie, I actually bought it at Blockbuster.

It was about Edie Sedgewick, a damaged girl from an upper crust family, that goes to New York, meets Andy Warhol, becomes one of his highly recognized "Superstars", goes to a lot of parties, does a lot of drugs and subsequently falls from grace. Over and over when this was being advertised I heard the phrase, "She was the first It girl". OK, shrug, I guess. I hadn't heard of her till I heard about the movie, but I wasn't really from the right generation, I guess.

The movie also veers toward the opinion that Andy Warhol chewed her up and spit her out, using her for his own ends and then tiring of her. Which pretty much sums it up for me. Judging from Andy Warhol: Holy Terror that is exactly what he did to a lot of people. And I've known people like that and they are terrifying!

It was really good. There were tons of famous people in it to recognize that played their parts well. I loved seeing one of the Olsen twins in a "real" movie. And Sienna did a great job as Edie - she was adorable and at the same time repulsive. The yin and yang of addiction.

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