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Article: `Warhol': Solanas's 15 Minutes
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- The Washington Post
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- May 17, 1996
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THE ATTACKING of celebrities by deranged nobodies has been an
ignoble banality for decades. This may explain why "I Shot Andy
Warhol," an arty account of 28-year-old Valerie Solanas's 1968
assault on the pop-art superstar, feels so slight and pointless.
First-time filmmaker Mary Harron takes what amounts to a
mundane, botched gun attack and desperately embellishes it with
tragicomic, radical-feminist significance. Solanas, played with
entertaining swagger by Lili Taylor, is highly intelligent, funny
and sensitive, as she seethes with arch visions of a world populated
only with women.
But as a dramatic character, Solanas's choices are handicapped
by paranoia and delusion. This isn't ...