Installment#2
Casting as Life and Art
Force Yvonne Force as a groupie
 
We intended to invite a lot of groupies at first and then decided the cast for the Backstage scenes was getting too big, so decided to have Yvonne make an appearance is enough.

Yvonne went to art school, at RISD, with Lucas (see François de Menil), so I have known her through Lucas since the mid-eighties. For the past few years, she has been "Yvonne Force, Inc.": she advises one major art collection and also produces various art productions, such as the Vanessa Beecroft performance held at the Guggenheim last year.

In addition, she is without question one of the best-dressed women in the New York art world. I knew if she accepted a part she would look better than any of us: she has long blonde hair and is very svelte and could easily be cast as one of the love interests in a James Bond movie. In addition, she has already worked with more than a few of the artists in our cast. It also occurred to me that she probably knew I don't approve of Vanessa Beecroft (I call it 'Twat Art') and that if I invited her to join us she would accept the offer to mean that I didn't hold the other project against her. And accepting a role in The Anita Pallenberg Story would allow Yvonne to diversify and even balance out her support system: supporting both Laura Cottingham and Vanessa Beecroft constitutes a remarkable range.

Yvonne did better than just say "yes". She also procured us some funding. Yvonne appears in the scene with the Vogue photographer (see
Rainer Ganahl), which is video parody of Richard Avedon's photos of The Factory.

Jones? Where's Brian Jones ?
New York New York is the star of the film
Cottingham How I came to be Mick Jagger
von Bonin Cosima von Bonin as Anita Pallenberg
Eisenman Nicole Eisenman as Keith Richards
Brown Gavin Brown as Andrew Loog Oldham
Nanney Chuck Nanney as Kenneth Anger
Parrino Steven Parrino as Hell's Angel
Ganahl Rainer Ganahl as the Vogue Photographer
Amer Ghada Amer as a Rolling Stone Reporter
Theobald Stephanie Theobald as Julie Burchill
Cobett Aaron Cobett as Aaron, the Band's Make-Up Artist
Michael Lucas Michael as François de Menil
de Land Colin de Land as Robert Fraser
Dalrymple Clarissa Dalrymple as Tony Sanchez, the Band's Drugdealer
Beckwith Patterson Beckwith as David Bowie
Norton Peter Norton as the Pizza Delivery Boy
Yau John Yau as John Yau