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Andy Warhol muse annoyed by Blue Movie screening

Veteran actress Viva is upset by a New York screening of her Andy Warhol sex film Blue Movie.
The star, the mother of Girls actress Gaby Hoffman, famously had sex on camera with the late Louis Waldon for the 1969 art film, which was subsequently confiscated as pornography by police.
Bosses at the Whitney Museum in Manhattan screened the controversial movie for fans on Thursday (07Apr16), but Viva reveals she tried to halt the special event by reaching out to the venue’s general counsel Nick Holmes – to no avail.
“I said I didn’t want it shown. He kept asking me ‘Why?’ and I continued to tell him I didn’t want it shown. Period,” Viva wrote in Facebook.com post. “Mr. Holmes told me they didn’t need a signature from me because it was ‘art.’ I said ‘Art, schmart (sic), it’s porn.'”
Viva was reportedly annoyed because she receives no compensation for screenings of the picture, which has been cited as the inspiration behind Marlon Brando’s 1972 classic, Last Tango in Paris, which was directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.
Despite her attempt to stop the screening, Viva admits the film “was actually my idea, my conception…”, according to the New York Post.
“(Producer and filmmaker) Paul Morrissey was there to turn on the camera and set the aperture, and then (he) disappeared into another room because he disapproved of the whole thing,” she recalled.

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