Early life (1928–1949)
New York City became Andy Warhol's home in what year?
Andy Warhol
La Dolce Viva Matt Wrbican Edie (Ciao Baby) Jed Johnson (designer) Warhol superstars
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"La Dolce Viva" is an interview story with "superstar" Viva, who is one of the many actresses in Andy Warhol's movies. Yet Viva, was headlined as 'The Last of Andy Warhol's "superstars".' Warhol would simply film them, and declare them "superstars". Along with being an actresses, Viva is a model who influences the fashion trends of the time. Viva's modeling and acting career was launched with the help of Andy Warhol and his many friends. Being in Andy Warhol's inner circle made Viva the perfect character for this interview. Viva grew up in a very Catholic home surrounded by figures of the Virgin Mary, Bibles, and pictures of First Communion. At home, religious values were imposed upon Viva from her family. Viva lived with the nuns until she was twenty years old. Once Viva turned twenty, she left the religious ways of her family and the Catholic Church and she started to explore what is now her derogatory lifestyle of sleeping around with multiple partners. The book details Viva's experience with sex, drug, and love in Warhol's factory. Along with sleeping with a different guy almost every night, Viva also was turned on to drugs by Timothy Leary. Viva started doing drugs out of curiosity but quickly became addicted and could not stop. The environment of Andy Warhol and his inner circle did not help her addiction to these drugs due to the fact that everyone else was using them as well. Once Viva became tired of drugs and sex, she decided to return home to her parents and asked to be put into a mental institution. Once viva say the institution, she became scared and begged her mother to take her home. When Viva returned home, she realized that she missed the lifestyle that she had with Andy Warhol and decided to go back to New York with her sister. Viva started out back in New York with her sister but that quickly ended when she realized her dependency upon Andy Warhol and she decided to leave her sister and move back into Andy Warhol's inner circle. Her promiscuous ways and drug use led Viva to become very dependent upon men. Even though in the interview Viva tries to portray herself as an independent woman, she greatly depends on Andy Warhol to not only help pay her rent and electricity bill but to help her keep up with her lifestyle of drug use and fitting in with the crowd. Having to have Andy Warhol pay for everything Viva needed clearly shows just how dependent she was on someone else. 
Matt Wrbican is an American archivist and authority on the life of the artist Andy Warhol. Beginning in 1991 in New York City, Wrbican, as the archivist of The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, has been unpacking, processing, preserving, and documenting an estimated 500,000 objects in Warhol's Time Capsules.  
The Edie in the song is Edie Sedgwick, one of Andy Warhol's actresses. According to a 1989 interview with vocalist/lyricist Ian Astbury:  "Edie was inspired when I was in New York City when we were recording the Electric album. I have several friends there involved in the fashion industry and one in particular turned me on to a movie called Ciao Manhattan! I became extremely interested in the Velvet Underground and the Warhol period." .  
In 1967, Johnson and his twin brother Jay moved from Minnesota to Manhattan. Two weeks later, he delivered a telegram to the Decker building which was being renovated by Paul Morrissey before it became the new home of Andy Warhol's Factory. Johnson accepted an on the spot job offer to sweep floors, but quickly moved into directing "Andy Warhol's Bad" and editing several films including "Andy Warhol's Dracula" and "L'Amour". He picked out a townhouse for Warhol on East 66th street and designed its interiors. He lived there with Warhol for a number of years. 
Warhol superstars were a clique of New York City personalities promoted by Andy Warhol during the 1960s and early 1970s. These personalities appeared in Warhol's artworks and accompanied him in his social life. They epitomized Warhol's famous dictum: "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." Warhol would simply film them, and declare them "superstars". 