Lucas Michael as François de Menil
	I have known Lucas Michael for years. When he was a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, he dated a friend of mine. And for a while, in the eighties, he and I lived in the same building; and now we live in mirror-image buildings, because he moved around these, dealers, collectors, patrons - playing roles in a semi-factual, semi-fictional narrative about the Rolling Stones. It's also important that every one in the cast is someone I know. Some of the 'actors' are close friends. Some are artists I have worked with or written about or curated into exhibitions. Others have politically or financially assisted or otherwise saved me during the course of my work. Still others are people I know 'from around, 'as we say in New York: by virtue of living and working corner. He is a photographer. He does mostly portraits. He had a show with Marianne Boesky last year, and has shown extensively in his native Argentina. He also does a lot of work with Index, the interview magazine edited by our friend Bob Nickas and owned by the formerly-Sonnabend artist Peter Halley. We have also already worked with him as an actor. In the summer of 1996, we shot a narrative video called Flowers for the Dead in Pennsylvania: Lucas, Leslie and I were in the cast, along with four others. I wrote the script and it was directed by my ex-wife, Sally Sasso. But when she saw the raw footage, Sally decided she didn't like it, so she didn't finish it. But Lucas is a natural performer, so when Leslie and I conceived of The Anita Pallenberg Story, we knew we wanted to create a role for him. It was Leslie's idea to make a place for François de Menil. In keeping with the cross-over concept, the commingling of rock and roll with fine art, François offers a nice late - '60s character. His mother, now deceased, was the biggest collector of art in the United States until the arrival of Peter Norton (see Pizza Delivery Boy). François was part of Warhol's coterie in the late 60s, his name appears all over the Diaries. And more than once, Warhol comments that "François is such a safe driver". A line in our script that we give to Anita Pallenberg. We have no record that François de Menil ever met the Rolling Stones. We only know that, because of his proximity to Warhol, he could of. We knew that Lucas, unlike most of our cast, is capable of memorizing lines. So we wrote him a long lecture, about Warhol's "Shadow" paintings, which Heinrich Freidrich, the founder of the DIA Foundation who married into the de Menil fortune, purchased in the seventies. In 1999 "Shadows" went on long term exhibition at the Dia Foundation, Chelsea, and the paintings are really, really awful. They look like Ronnie Cotrone was on really bad cocaine when he painted them, and some of the canvases are stretched really badly. Andy's inspiration for "Shadows", according to the Diaries, was from a series of photographs of cocks. But in their official notes to the exhibition, DIA claims the installation is a hallmark of transcendence, and that the series establishes Warhol as a great abstract artist!!!
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