Clarissa Dalrymple as Tony Sanchez, the Band's Drugdealer
	Clarissa Dalrymple is a living legend on the New York art scene. She has been in New York since the late sixties. She is the closest we have to Julie Christie in all of Manhattan. Her green card marriage (she is English born) is documented in a 1968 film made by her former boyfriend, Jim McBride, titled My Girlfriend's Wedding. The film was screened as part of Gavin Brown's (see Andrew Loog Oldham) Christmas party last year, but I missed it. In the early 1980s Clarissa had a gallery, with Nicole Klagsbrun, called Cable Gallery, located in the Cable Building on Houston and Broadway. I went to a lot of their exhibitions there. Then Clarissa had another gallery called Petersburg Press for a while, which was located in the Baker Building on Prince Street. She made a wonderful show with Rene Ricard, that included bouquets of fresh fading flowers in front of Ricard's paintings. For the past few years, she has curated exhibitions for other people's galleries; in particular, she was active, with Barbara Gladstone, in the introduction of the Young British Artists (YBAs) into the New York scene during the 1990s. Initially, we wanted a collector to play the Tony, the drug dealer. The conceptual premise being that money is to 90s gallery artists what drugs were to 60s rock stars: what they live and die for. First, I invited collector and computer genius Peter Norton (see Pizza Delivery Boy) to play Tony, but he declined. We had a few other ideas - but the New York collectors who we knew would take the part, we didn't especially want on the set. A film shoot is rather like a small dinner party: one has to be careful, considerate and conscientious regarding the guest list. Otherwise, EVERYONE will have a bad time. Then I heard from someone that Clarissa Dalrymple thought SHE might like to play Tony. Though she is a dealer more than a collector, she has a captivating appearance and a wonderful voice. And perhaps the distinction between dealer and collector is negligible. I decided to telephone her. Her telephone style is so captivating that I am certain if I were a real producer, or real casting agent or real director, she would get a part sight unseen! Even Hollywood should be able to hear the magic in her voice. (Really, I wish I had written more lines for her!) She agreed to play the part. She also said something quite charming and witty, like "I have often said that dealing art is rather like dealing drugs." I encouraged her to repeat this wisdom in the front of the camera, but sadly she didn't. She performed her scripted lines perfectly however.
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	Peter Norton as the Pizza Delivery Boy
	John Yau as John Yau
	Yvonne Force as a groupie
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	Cosima von Bonin as Anita Pallenberg
	Nicole Eisenman as Keith Richards
	Gavin Brown as Andrew Loog Oldham
	Chuck Nanney as Kenneth Anger
	Steven Parrino as Hell's Angel
	Rainer Ganahl as the Vogue Photographer
	Ghada Amer as a Rolling Stone Reporter
	Stephanie Theobald as Julie Burchill
	Aaron Cobett as Aaron, the Band's Make-Up Artist
	Lucas Michael as François de Menil
	Colin de Land as Robert Fraser