James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, C | dG1fN1g4WTEwTF9vUlE
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:13 Candy was a man who wanted to be a film and movie star,
00:17 and fell into the clutches of Andy, who told her she was.
00:22 I call myself Candy Wormhole now.
00:24 [LAUGHTER]
00:28 A 25-year-old man who becomes a 25-year-old woman
00:31 is not a woman at all, because a woman first
00:33 has to be a little girl.
00:35 OK, a man first has to be a boy.
00:37 Candy was never a girl.
00:40 Candy was a fantasy.
00:41 She created her star.
00:43 To those people that want to call Candy a he,
00:45 you are transphobe, and you shut your mouth.
00:48 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:51 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:58 And the thing about Candy was kind of curious in that here
01:01 she was in the middle of this very avant-garde scene
01:04 of Andy Wormhole's factory and underground filmmaking
01:08 and pop art.
01:09 And she really was a throwback.
01:11 She was someone who wished the studio system still existed
01:15 and sort of saw Andy as Louis B. Mayer,
01:18 except Andy in some ways was, but he didn't have
01:21 the resources of a Louis B. Mayer.
01:23 And she wanted to be Kim Novak.
01:25 She wanted to be the kind of queen of the studio.
01:29 Candy fit in perfectly, because she
01:31 was like a real movie star from MGM or something at the time,
01:35 only in a world that was filled with LSD and speed, really.
01:40 Speed.
01:41 Our tits are flying now.
01:43 Let's go.
01:44 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:47 It was Tennessee Williams who finally
01:49 decided to champion her.
01:51 Hi.
01:52 I'm Candy Dive.
01:54 She was with Tennessee Williams.
01:57 And Tennessee Williams didn't suffer fools.
02:00 I mean, maybe if there were a cute guy,
02:02 but they weren't sleeping together.
02:03 He liked her, plain and simple.
02:05 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:08 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:17 She was beautiful in a way that really put people off
02:21 and drew them to her at the same time, because it confused them.
02:25 She's a true star.
02:26 She's a real movie star.
02:27 I don't think there's anything that ironic about her.
02:31 Someday, I'll be a movie star.
02:35 That's it.
02:36 And I'll be rich and famous and have all the friends I want.
02:40 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:44 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:47 (upbeat music)