The Factory

His death brought an end to a career that had stretched from experimental shorts and low-budget exploitation films to television, cult cinema, and character acting, but Eating Row will remain the work most closely associated with him.

Mary Woronov continued building the kind of wonderfully unconventional career that had already taken her from Andy Warhol's Factory to Roger Corman's Death Race 2000 and Rock and Roll High School.

She followed eating Raoul with appearances in such films as Get Crazy, Chopping Mall, Terror Vision, Black Widow, Scenes from a Glass Struggle in Beverly Hills, and Dick Tracy.

while also becoming a familiar face on television through guest appearances on shows such as Murder, She Wrote, Amazing Stories, St.

Elsewhere, and Babylon 5.

She also continued writing and painting, eventually publishing books including her memoir Swimming Underground, My Years in the Warhol Factory.

Robert Beltran took a somewhat different path after playing Raul Mendoza.

His next major role came opposite Chuck Norris and David Carradine in Lone Wolf McQuaid in 1983, followed the next year by Night of the Comet, in which he played Hector Gomez, one of the survivors of the comet disaster.

Her 2010 memoir, Just Kids, won the National Book Award for its brilliant portrayal of the late '60s Bohemian art scene in New York, and Patti's experience living in the Chelsea Hotel with famed photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

During those years, Patti hung out with Andy Warhol at The Factory and was mentored by great writers like William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.

Today, Patti publishes near-daily offerings of poems, songs, and serialized fiction on her Substack.

It's a journal of sorts that she started during the solitary days of the pandemic.

That's why, I, I mean, in South Jersey, there wasn't a lot of work, and then they had the New York shipyard close down in 1967 or '66, and 30,000 people went out of work.

And there wasn't any work.

I mean, you had the Columbia record pressing plant near, near where I lived or the Campbell Soup plant, but all the factory jobs, any kind of, in Philadelphia, any kind of bookstore job, anything was taken, and I had no real skills.

So I, I, I actually went to New York looking for work.

Number three is Joe Dallesandro.

He began his career posing for homoerotic photographs before joining Andy Warhol's Factory and starring in Lonesome Cowboys.

He also starred in the Warhol films Flesh, Trash, Heat, Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, and Andy Warhol's Dracula.

He went mainstream with the movie The Cotton Club.

You know, in the meantime, I can't get you, you know, to, to, to, to, to film me with Austin Pendleton.

We missed that summer with Vincent Fremont from the, from, uh, the Warhol Factory there, who knows me from a panel that I, that I ran.

I'm thinking, "What else did I..." Whit Stillman.

I'm, uh, ha- you know, hanging out with Chloe Sevigny.

These were the two high popes of underground cinema.

And this house isn't like Andy Warhol's factory.

Yeah, yeah, but I think it was Anger's attempt at a factory.

Totally,