Transcript: Film Review of `I Shot Andy Warhol'

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NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
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May 4, 1996
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Scott Simon and Elvis Mitchell discuss the film "I Shot Andy Warhol" , based on the true life experiences of Valerie Solanas, an aspiring playwright to actually did shoot Andy Warhol in 1968.

SCOTT SIMON, Host: This is Weekend Edition, I'm Scott Simon. Coming up, 40 years of advice from Ann Landers, but first, the real-life anti-heroine of the new film I Shot Andy Warhol is Valerie Solanas, who was the founder, and sole member in fact, of the Society for Cutting Up Men. You might remember it as SCUM. Her claims to 15 minutes of fame include writing the crazed, but riotous, SCUM Manifesto, authoring a play so appalling even the Warhol crowd was offended, ...

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