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Mother’s residence. “What’s the big deal? The
Queen’s got ’em,” she quipped, to the delight of the
half dozen reporters in attendance.
The cast all stayed in an apartment complex called
Langham Mansion in the Earls Court section of
London. Reporters from the News of the World
would come to dub it “Pig Mansion” and followed
these kids wherever they went in hopes of getting a
headline.
“To be recognized by Warhol was to be
recognized as art yourself,” Cherry Vanilla
remembers. “We were living art for him.” Vanilla had
the unlucky task of having to memorize Pork’s
speed-freak logorrhea and act alongside actors who
didn’t even bother to get off book. “I’ll tell you, every
night was an adventure in Pork. When you’re
memorizing a script you can often put some logic to
it. You know, A goes to B goes to C. ‘Would you like
a cup of tea?’ The next line is ‘Do you take sugar?’
But in Pork, the conversations were so disjointed. I
was talking about having abortions one minute, and
in the middle of the sentence I’d be going into what
society ladies my mother was serving tea to, to go to
what a bitch my maid was. Tony Zanetta played
Andy and he’d be sitting there and all he had to say
was ‘ Mmm-hmm. Interesting. Uh-huh.’”
David Bowie, already besotted with Warhol’s
discovery the Velvet Underground for nearly a half
decade, was instantly drawn to the cast of Pork. He
and Angie took in multiple performances, including
opening and closing nights. The cast embraced the