Article: `I SHOT ANDY WARHOL' TAKES NO PRISONERS.(PREVIEW)(Movie review)

Byline: JANET MASLIN New York Times

``Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.''

Mary Harron, the writer-director making her feature debut with ``I Shot Andy Warhol,'' certainly ought to be admired for spotting that opening passage from ``The S.C.U.M. Manifesto,'' the cri de coeur of the outraged feminist loner named Valerie Solanas, and finding within it the kernel of a scrappy, vibrant, unexpectedly ...

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