Danny Says Page #2

- To do was f*** at Harvard.

- And I got a big chance to do it,

- so I did it.

- Coming back to.

- New York and moving.

To Greenwich Village where...

You know, I stayed in this hotel

and out the back window was

lesbians, literally,

having pissing contests.

- Really, you think.

- That's just a word,

But they really were doing it.

They would press

their pussies, pissies,

and see how strong

they could make it,

so they could pee further.

That's what it means, isn't it?

It's always what it means!

But dykes could do it too and...

Oh, God, welcome to.

Greenwich Village, so...

I had nine years of that

before the Stonewall.

Leee:
When I got to New York and

I met Danny and Jackie Curtis,

it was all gay,

but it wasn't homosexual.

It was really gay, I guess,

the definition of gay

was just ha-ha.

So what?

When you talk about.

Danny being out,

he was never in.

We never came out

to our parents,

what's the point of that?

Why would we want

to upset those old people for?

- (laughs)

- You know?

- We were okay, we don't have.

- To bother them with it.

You know, so gayness was not

a point of reference,

it was certainly

not a definition.

There was a columnist

named Lee Mortimer,

who'd disclose and expose

gay bars in New York.

It's like finding

a protestant in Spain.

They really were

rooting them out.

I didn't feel harassed

by the police,

but I didn't confront them

like they did

at the Stonewall either.

F*** it!

We had a good time and...

we all had to f*** each other

'cause it was like lesbians.

It wasn't like we could go

to the Firemen's Ball.

And with the gay liberation came

all these gay firemen

and stuff like...

Oh!

You know, that's nice,

be happy, but...

I mean, I didn't wait my whole

life for firemen to come out...

as a group.

Who cares?

I was in search of crazy people.

I'd just come from three years

in Philadelphia.

What else would I want?

Christians?

I want my people

with insanity in their blood.

("Blitzkrieg Bop" plays)

It was the same Sunday that

in The New York Times magazine

the lead story was

the soup cans.

That was revolutionary.

I thought that was really...

pushing the bucket,

or whatever you...

Cutting the envelope because

- everything good starts off.

- Being hated.

By The New York Times.

Andy was sitting...

on the sofa with Gerard,

and there was a woman crawling

around the floor screaming,

"Andy, I love you, I love you!"

It was Ivy Nicholson,

it was Andy's girl of the year,

she was in love with him,

and when she got close enough,

he'd kick her in the chin and

she just moaned and

- went over to one of the windows.

- And started to climb out.

I said, "Oh, my God!

That woman is going to jump!"

And I put my arms around her.

And then I said,

"There, there, you know,

- don't do something so silly."

- And then...

- I dunno,

- she took a sleeping pill,

- Or someone gave her.

- A Quaalude.

And then as we were leaving,

someone said to me,

I thought it was Andy,

- "Boy, we were all hoping.

- She would jump!

You sort of spoiled it

for everyone."

I was uncool by saving

this person's life at a party.

But the lesson is,

- it's sort of.

- An upper class thing,

You don't get all excited

about anything.

- I thought,

- "That suits me fine."

That's it!

- I was not worried about.

- Being uncool anymore...

- Because I knew all it took.

- Was to do nothing.

That's the whole model of

what that world was saying.

"You're better of doing nothing.

Look at it,

and let the looking at it

- become the thing.

- That you're doing."

Once you're in those

silver-aluminum rooms,

you were in the world.

- It was like going through.

- The looking glass,

t was action central,

people were coming to you.

- What a good way to be.

- n New York.

- It's the reason.

- Anyone comes to New York.

A point of contact with,

like, whatever is happening,

- recognized and creative,

- and all that.

That was The Factory.

- That was as in.

- As you could get.

So then it's career time.

I'm living in the village and

- going to have a career.

- n publishing,

- And I'm gonna start.

- At the bottom.

So I sold books at Double Days.

Then I got a job through an

agency at Liquor Store Magazine,

the monthly magazine

that goes to all owners

- of all liquor stores.

- n the United States.

The day of the assassination,

we were all sitting around

the receptionist's desk.

She had a radio.

I'm like paralyzed and the boss

came back from lunch and said,

"What's going on here?"

Someone managed to get out that

- the president.

- Had just been killed.

And he said, "Hmm, too bad

they didn't get his brother."

I decided to have a party

because it was one week later.

The Warhols were there,

the San Remos were there,

and also all the people from.

Harvard, and they sorta all met.

- The only thing that.

- We had to drink was.

Vodka and grapefruit juice,

which is just wonderful

'cause it's cheap,

and it's potent

and no one knows

what the proportions are.

You can just turn them up,

or turn them down.

No one on earth can tell,

until you see the effects.

It's like a silent,

tasteless poison.

In the middle of the evening,

the door opened and.

Nico came in, dressed in

tattered levis

and tattered levi jacket.

She came in with two men.

One of whom was a Chilean count,

and the other who was

an English dandy.

And the room of

beautiful people just turned.

She walked over to the table,

- and on which.

- There was a punchbowl,

And...

dipped the ladle in and

threw her head back and just...

Man, showstopper.

("Little Sister"

(by Nico plays)

That's how I met Nico.

She crashed my party,

then she got...

She was in New York so

she and the Warhols

picked up on each other.

She began to sing

with The Velvet Underground.

Being in the world of.

New York in the 60s was

transcending everything to me.

I was with people

who were smart and

sexy and famous and brilliant

and talented and

I had...

what I had always wanted was

a pool from

where I could find friends.

That's what motivates me is

to be in the right crowd.

In 1964, Tommy Goodwin,

everyone's favorite,

most beloved, beautiful guy,

drove down to New York

from Cambridge, and he said,

"Can my friend, Edie,

stay at your apartment tonight?"

("Kangaroo"

(by Big Star plays)

I guess it was the first place

she stayed when she moved here.

I think she was going

to model then, or something,

she was into something fashiony.

Then she met Andy, and then

she changed her hair and

she changed her look.

- I remember.

- The first time he said.

- He was going.

- To do a screen test with her.

- And I thought, "What?"

- You know,

"Gee, she's just

another pretty face."

And then, we saw the screen test

like two days later,

and it was just a revelation

for everybody who was there.

Because Andy had seen

what she'd had,

that she was bigger than life.

And that's what a star is,

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