Andy sees something in her he recognizes. Both are shy, ambitious, from Catholic, working class backgrounds, dubious about sex, and awkward in front of cameras. She agrees to perform in his movie, I, a Man released in , improvising all her dialogue. She makes him laugh. She never stops pushing him to produce her play, Up Your Ass.
Ultimately he tires of her and misplaces the only copy of her play. In , after both are dead, the play will resurface in a trunk owned by Factory archivist Billy Name. In , Mary Harron, a researcher for the BBC, happens upon a copy of the manifesto in a London bookshop, and it takes hold of her. It made me wonder about blighted talents, vanished possibilities, and what might be lurking in the great host of humanity we call failures. On June 3, , Valerie waits outside the Factory on Union Square, rides the elevator up with Andy, then shoots him three times with a.
After the gun jams, she rides the elevator to the street and gives herself up to a cop at Times Square, explaining she is lonely and wants to talk to someone.
It depicts the life of Solanas in a collage of fictional and documentary scenes that skillfully jump between locations and time periods.
Why the time gap? The backward glance is always about now. Her last writings will not be saved. On June 6, , three days after shooting Warhol and gaining headline fame, Valerie is again whisked to the margins when Bobby Kennedy is assassinated. Olympia Press has published some of the great works of suppressed literature, among them: Lolita, Candy, Naked Lunch, Story of O, and books by Bataille and Beckett, among many others.
Girodias recreates the title as an acronym, Society for Cutting Up Men, that Valerie does not endorse. He has written an introduction to the book, and Paul Krassner writes an afterword. Was it a sniper? Only the third bullet hit him, but it was a true shot, entering under his right armpit and exiting through his right lung.
And then the elevator doors opened, and Solanas was gone. At Columbus Hospital, Warhol was declared clinically dead for two minutes. The waiting room filled with veteran Factory members, dressed in their avant-finest, who vied for the swarming reporters. Ex-lovers of the artist wept in the lobby.
Meanwhile, Solanas had approached a young cop in Times Square. High-profile feminists scrambled to distance themselves from her name. Read my manifesto and it will tell you what I am. Warhol was briefly declared dead and had to wear a surgical corset for the rest of his life. He was briefly declared dead at one point, but doctors were able to revive him. He spent two months in the hospital recuperating from various surgeries, and would be forced to wear a surgical corset for the rest of his life to hold his organs in place.
The front page of the Daily News on June 4, regarding Warhol being shot and critically wounded by one of his female stars, Valerie Solanas. Solanas underwent several rounds of psychiatric evaluation and received a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. Despite this, she was found competent to stand trial, and pleaded guilty to assault charges. A judge sentenced her to three years, including time served, and she was released in late As her mental health continued to decline, however, she became increasingly paranoid and unstable.
Wrote her high school principal in a college letter of recommendation, "She is an exceptionally bright girl with lots of courage and determination.
At the University of Maryland, College Park, Solanas supported herself by working in the psychology department's experimental animal laboratory and possibly through prostitution. The aggression was still there — she was disciplined and ordered to counseling multiple times — but Solanas continued to thrive academically and gained a few friends among the artsy-intellectual sect.
She also found an outlet through contributions to the school paper, developing a reputation for letters that railed against sexism in a biting yet hilarious fashion.
Solanas then enrolled in a master's psychology program at the University of Minnesota, where, Fahs suggests, she became frustrated by the realization of the glass ceiling on her career prospects.
She dropped out after a year and hitchhiked to California, before returning to New Jersey in the early s. As she formulated the ideas that would show up in her later works, Solanas was smitten by the allure of the bohemian lifestyle of the artists, poets and musicians who flocked to New York City's Greenwich Village, and she decided to join them in the summer of She initially lived in a women's residence hotel on the Upper West Side and worked in a coffee house, but eventually became a Greenwich Village fixture without ever really finding a community.
She bounced between the Hotel Earle, the Chelsea Hotel and the Village Plaza Hotel, lugging her old typewriter everywhere she went, always hustling for customers to pay for her writing, conversation or sex. She tried finding a producer for the play, even sending it to the city's resident celebrity artist, Andy Warhol who she hadn't formally met yet , but no one wanted to touch the overtly lewd material.
Laying out the mission of her Society for Cutting Up Men, the treatise called for the elimination of the male sex and the establishment of a utopian society of women.
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