#eric emerson

[twixnmix]

Warhol Superstars Geri Miller and Eric Emerson photographed by Andy Warhol, 1973.

[bitter69uk]

“Andy Warhol’s Lonesome Cowboys may be a bit too much for many people, but that’s their problem. Lonesome Cowboys is a magnificent and very funny satire of the American Western that is liberally seasoned with our favourite 4, 8, 10 and 12-letter words and a cornucopia of carryings-on that is – in combination – perhaps unprecedented.”

/ Critic John L Wasserman of The San Francisco Chronicle /

Released on this day (5 May 1969) at New York’s Garrick Cinema: Andy Warhol’s joyous, freewheeling homoerotic X-rated Western parody Lonesome Cowboys (tagline: “Definitely not for the young-uns!”). I vividly recall seeing this one at an impressionable age at London’s legendary much-missed grindhouse sleaze pit Scala Cinema in the early nineties. (I say “sleaze pit” with love). I caught many Warhol films there (including Couch (1964), My Hustler (1965) and Chelsea Girls (1966)) and the pattern was consistent: the theatre would start full, there would be a steady drip of walkouts who couldn’t cope with Warhol’s “challenging” pacing and filmmaking choices, and by the bitter end there was just a handful of hardcore attendees left. I for one found Warhol’s underground pop art cinema entrancing (and sexy as hell). I haven’t seen Lonesome Cowboy in decades, but I remember it featuring Warhol’s most beauteous leading men (Joe Dallesandro, Louis Waldon, Eric Emerson and Tom Hompertz), a glorious moment of Dallesandro (in tight white jeans) go-go dancing with Taylor Mead, and a long, meandering monologue from Viva.  

[pierppasolini]

Heat (1972) // dir. Paul Morrissey

[sntg]

[blueiscoool]

Lonesome Cowboys Andy Warhol, 1968

A set of original 16mm presentation reels of the film that sparked the “Stonewall of the South.” Six 35mm film reels housed in 2 metal flight cases. Movielab, New York, pritned ca. 1969.

On the evening of 5 August 1969, a small crowd of seventy settled in to view Andy Warhol’s Lonesome Cowboys at the recently opened art cinema at the Ansley Mall in Atlanta. About fifteen minutes into the homoerotic underground spoof on westerns featuring Warhol stars Viva, Joe Dallesandro, Eric Emerson, Meade, and Tom Hompertz, the film suddenly stopped, and the house lights went up. The police, some in uniform, others in plainclothes, were everywhere, some with cameras taking photographs of the startled movie-goers still in their seats. Those who attempted to depart quickly were blocked at the door and they too were photographed and questioned by Atlanta police officers. Other officers headed upstairs to the projection room to seize the film reels and arrest James Russ, the manager of the Ansley Mini-Cinema. The police mounted the raid not only to enforce local obscenity laws but identify “known homosexuals,” part of a pattern of harassment that members of Atlanta’s gay Midtown neighborhood routinely endured. Abby Drue, a noted LBGTQ activist, was in the audience that night. “They had everybody get up and line up,” she recalled. “We had popcorn in our mouths. I think I had a submarine sandwich I was in the middle of eating. That’s how absurd it was.”

The police raid in Atlanta occurred a little more than a month after the Stonewall riots in New York, and for many members of the city’s burgeoning LGBTQ community, the raid on the Ansley Mini-Cinema was the final straw. Several days after the raid, a group of protesters were pepper-sprayed and some arrested. These events compelled Atlanta’s LGBTQ community to form the Georgia Gay Liberation Front. That organization would mount Atlanta’s first Pride march in 1971 — an unsanctioned march in which many of participants wore paper bags over their heads to protect their identities — starkly demonstrating the risk of physical harm that was an ever-present threat. Despite local hostility, the marches continued, and Atlanta’s LBGTQ community began flourishing over the ensuing decades becoming strong and vibrant. Today, the raid has been dubbed, “The Stonewall of the South.”

Yet the Atlanta police were not the only law enforcement agency to take interest in Lonesome Cowboys. The FBI had been monitoring the film soon after it was filmed in a single day a dude ranch near Tucson, Arizona on 28 January 1968. A Special Agent was dispatched to Arizona to interview witnesses to support a potential charge of “interstate transportation of obscene matter.” The investigation had been prompted by a complaint received at the Pinal County Sherriff, that “some guests at the Rancho Linda Vista Guest Ranch were making an obscene film.” Sherriff’s deputies arrived at the ranch on the afternoon of the 28th and ordered that the filming be halted immediately. The FBI kept a copiously detailed dossier on the film’s production based on eyewitness accounts that offer a window into the chaos of the film’s production covering all aspects from various “unnatural sexual acts” to details on the license plate numbers (redacted) of those on set. One eyewitness recalled that “The movie seemed to have no plot and the actors just said anything that came into their minds.” (Vincent Canby and other critics would take a similar view.) The FBI continued to monitor the film’s production and distribution, noting that Warhol had intended it to be premiered at the Hudson Theatre in New York in late April 1968, but editing was taking longer than planned. Then in early June, Warhol fell victim to an assassination attempt, further delaying production. It finally premiered at the San Francicso International Film Festival on 1 November 1968, and FBI agents were there collecting further evidence.

Meanwhile in Atlanta, the question of whether the film could be considered obscene landed in the courts. Ultimately, Lewis Slayton, the Fulton County District Attorney, allowed the film to be shown after Cradock Films, who held the rights to distribute the film in Georgia, agreed to edit out what the county considered objectionable. By early January 1970, the Ansley Mini-Cinema was once again presenting Lonesome Cowboys. As far as the FBI’s investigation into Warhol’s activities was concerned, federal prosecutors in Arizona, San Francisco and New York ultimately declined to pursue the charges in court, as the film was not considered “obscene within the definition of that word as defined by the Supreme Court of the United States.”

The present copy is believed to have been printed as early as 1969, but no earlier. According to the FBI report on the film’s screening in San Francisco in November 1968, the film opened with “the woman [Viva] and her male nurse [Taylor Meade] on a street in the town,” but the present copy, opens with a sex scene between Viva and Tom Hompert which appears to be consistent with the currently-known copies. The markings found on the paper sleeves include a red stamp for “INTERNATIONAL AMUSEMENT CORP,” a short-lived distribution and production company based in North Carolina established in 1974. This would suggest this film was in circulation in various art houses up until at least the mid to late 1970s.

The current number of original copies used during the film’s showings in 1969 and 1970 is unclear, but the present set of reels is marked as “Print No. 10” on each of the surviving paper sleeves. Original reels of the film are known to have survived including a master print at the Andy Warhol museum and copies at the Museum of Modern Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. It is not clear if other copies survive in any private collections.

[dearmistermuse]

Chelsea Girls

Andy Warhol, [Unknown Eric Reel], 1966. Pictured: Angelina “Pepper” Davis, Sam, Susan Bottomly, Eric Emerson, Ingrid Superstar

[internatlvelvet]

Susan Bottomly, Rene Ricard, Eric Emerson, Mary Woronov, Andy Warhol, Ronnie Cutrone, Paul Morrissey, Pepper Davis.

[asoftepiloguemylove]

"I BELIEVE THERE IS A GOD. BUT I'M NOT SURE HE STILL BELIEVES IN US." // MUSINGS ABOUT GOD

Vi Khi Nao Fish in Exile // pinterest // Ada Limón The Echo Sounder, from "Lucky Wreck" // Mitski Bug Like an Angel // Margaret Atwood Half Hanged Mary // Ethel Cain American Teenager // Supernatural (2005-2020) cr. Eric Kripke // Elle Emerson Regarding the Röttgen Pietà // Yves Olade Belovéd // Kim Addonizio Wild Nights from "Tell Me" // Jensen McRae Machines // Supernatural (2005-2020) cr. Eric Kripke // Anna Kamienska A Nest of Quiet: A Notebook (tr. Clare Cavanagh) // Tom Waits Day After Tomorrow // pinterest // Lauren Camp Upon Taking the Universe One Thing at a Time

[whitehartlane]

"What you did, what you are doing, and what you will do for this fantastic football club, for us... very proud to have you as our captain."

Spurs lads of past and present send their congratulatory messages to Sonny for his 400 appearances for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. 🤍

[archie-gray]

compilation of the past and present players congratulating sonny 🥺🤍

[twixnmix]

Warhol superstars Eric Emerson, Jay Johnson, Tom Hompertz, and Gerard Malanga photographed by Richard Avedon, New York, 1969.

[starskykarofsky]

Anyone else have a I’m gonna fuck that old man top 4?

[lydiamaya]

PL Teams as baby : Tottenham Hotspur

Hugo Lloris 🤍💙

Pierre Emile Højbjerg 🤍💙

Son Heung-Min 🤍💙 (please tell me if this child is actually Sonny and not some random child again 😭)

Harry Kane 🤍💙

Richarlison 🤍💙 (side note but I would die for Richarlison but especially baby Richarlison)

Matt Doherty 🤍💙

Oliver Skipp 🤍💙

Davinson Sánchez 🤍💙

Bryan Gil 🤍💙

Emerson Royal 🤍💙

Eric Dier 🤍💙

Cristian Romero 🤍💙 (I tried okay, I tried very hard 😭😭)

Ryan Sessegnon 🤍💙

Fraser Forster 🤍💙 (Furthest I could find, from 2007)

Dejan Kulusevski 🤍💙 (loan from Juve)

Djed Spence 🤍💙 (The 1st circled child is him, the other is ESR)

Japhet Tanganga 🤍💙

Papa Matar Sarr 🤍💙 (He's 20 now, the 1st pic is from 2020)

Rodrigo Bentacur 🤍💙

Ben Davies 🤍💙

Clément Lenglet 🤍💙 (loan from Barca)

Yves Bissouma 🤍💙

Brandon Austin 🤍💙 (I am sorry this is the furthest I could find 😭, 1st pic from 2017)

Harvey White 🤍💙

Bonus —: Antonio Conte 🤍💙

[gothamslostboy]

Who Do I Write For?

A/N: I’m doing a bit of an overhaul to my blog bc let’s be real, it’s kind of a huge mess at the moment. I’m not gonna delete any fics or headcanons I’ve already made, but I am changing which shows/movie I write for. This includes going through the characters as well. Sorry for the ramble, just wanted to explain all the potential posts I’ll be making soon

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The Lost Boys

Michael Emerson

David

Paul

Star

Dwayne

Marko

Interview With The Vampire

Lestat de Lioncourt

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Claudia (no romantic requests)

Gotham

Oswald Cobblepott

Edward Nygma

Victor Zsasz

Butch Gilzean

Jervis Tetch

Jerome Valeska

Bones

Seeley Booth

Zack Addy

Colin Fisher

Vincent Nigel Murray

Finn Abernathy

Jack Hodgins

Miscellaneous

Tiffany Valentine

Stu Macher

Eric Forman

Aaron Hotchner

[noirgasmweetheart]

"Skip the pleasantries Leyden. You called me here for a business proposal. Let's hear it."

"I need you to pretend to be my fiancé at an upcoming occasion. People are starting to ask a lot of questions about me and Eric..."

[sorebelflower]

BRO I AM BORED! ANYONE FREE TO TALK OR RP?