“Hail Brigid, full of attitude, Warhol is with thee. Blessed are thou among superstars and blessed is the fruit of blue blood privilege,” reads John Waters’ poem to Brigid Berlin, the reluctant debutante who became Andy Warhol’s best friend and the brightest of all the superstars. A failed member of Manhattan’s aristocracy – "My mother wanted me to be a slim respectable socialite... Instead I became an overweight troublemaker," she once stated – Berlin substituted high…
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