Herbert Can Be Ever Ready

This was a spectacular career, and even has the shortness and mystery of the contemporary superstar, and is so much in line with all this is a superstar, that her name even reflected it.  With a great-grandfather, Robert Bowne Mintum being one of the central figures in promotion of New York’s Central Park at the very beginning, lineage can be a burden.  At times, it’s harder to live with auspicious beginnings than it is to be born of humble origins, but only at times.  Most of the time, and for most people, being rich and famous at birth is a rather excellent position, and hard to argue with.

But there are temperaments that simply can’t hold the weight of their own destiny, and Edie Sedgwick seems to be born one of those.  She also has that peculiar disease that superstardom is made of, where there’s not enough attention in the world, or even a little is too much, and there’s no way to tell what’s appropriate at the moment.  Stardom takes a bite out of every pillar of stability, and consistently asks for more of everything.  It also convinces the human being holding the star mantle that they deserve more than what they have, and can do more than other people can do.  This is how she got to live in Bob Dylan’s hotel, Central Park grandfather memories lurking somewhere.

It was in her stars to be bigger than she was.  Andy Warhol, who first gave her the leg up and gave her the superstar title, saw an irony in her that she may not have recognized herself.  Arthur Miller saw it, too, and also despaired at her own lack of vision in seeing her own reflection.  But like any good superstar, she reflected.  She ate whatever bitter pills were offered, in order to show us our face, what we looked like in 1971.  There were pockets of culture on the west coast who argued that we were prettier than we imagined, and the east coast showed us things that were darker than we could ever dream, even at 3 in the morning, and the truth was somewhere in between.

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