I read a lot about Andy Warhol as a teenager, and I had some early access to downtown loft parties, but Liquid Sky taught me as much about androgyny, drugs and the Avant Garde NYC dream as anything. So I am verrrry interested to see what happens with the sequel director Slava Tsukerman promises. The story will be about Margaret's return from space into today's New York, which. as Tsukerman has alluded, ain't what it used to be. Anne Carlisle, who played the lead role and cowrote the screen play, will apparently be involved—though not playing Margaret. One assumes she will have been miraculously preserved in outer space to allow for a gorgeous young woman in the lead. I hope Anne will still be writing. Because what would that movie be without gems like this:
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"So I was taught that I should come to New York, become an independent woman. And my prince would come, and he would be an agent, and he would get me a role, and I would make my living waiting on tables. I would wait—till thirty, till forty, till fifty. And I was taught that to be an actress, one should be fashionable, and to be fashionable is to be androgynous. And I am androgynous not less than David Bowie himself. And they call me beautiful, and I kill with my cunt. Isn't it fashionable? Come on, who's next?"
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Above: "Me And My Rhythm box", which still gets stuck in my head on a regular basis, thirty years later.
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