Chuck Nanney as Kenneth Anger
	Chuck is a wonderful artist and one of my best friends. We met in Paris in 1992, when Chuck was living there and I was visiting for six months as a critic-in-residence at the Fondation Cartier, when they still had a residency program in Jouy-en-Josas, a small village just down the road from Versailles. I was present at Chuck's Paris exhibition that year at Galerie Jouse-Seguin, with whom he still works. In my apartment at the Cartier Foundation I made a one-day exhibition of wall texts of phrases artists gave to me. Chuck was in the exhibition, called "The Wor(l)d", and so were Felix Gonzales-Torres, Sue Williams, Susan Silas, Marlene McCarty, Donald Moffet, John Lindell, and Frederic Coupet. It was May, 17, 1992. It was a Sunday and the weather was good, so some of our friends from Paris came down for the day. Gracia Quaroni, a curator at the Cartier, made sure that the foundation supplied wine and snacks for the event (Jean de Loissy was still director then, and he's a really nice guy). Frederic Coupet, an artist from Marseilles, was a resident at the same time - he showed me which Rosé to purchase from the supermarket. One of my favorites things about the French is that they think it is a bit chic to have potato chips (they say crisps, like the English) with drinks. I remember Seton Smith, Armelle Leturcq, Frank Perrin, Jerome Sans, Beat Streuli, Seamus Farrell and Cecil Bourne were all there. Marie-Claude Beaud, who was then the director of the Cartier's international art program (before she became director of the new American Center in Paris) also stopped by. At the end of the afternoon, a group of us decided to go into Paris for dinner and we had to catch a certain train. We each picked up a few of the remaining bottles of wine and went to the station. Before we could reach the platform, we saw the northbound train approaching, and we had to make a quick run for it. There were seven or eight of us running along the platform to the open train doors, our collective gait made exceedingly clumsy due to the number of wine bottles we harbored. It was like a Truffaut movie. Chuck moved back to New York that same year, in 1992. So our friendship has continued. He's a really intense and idiosyncratic artist and I like everything he thinks about and does. This year he made an exhibition with the gallery Debs & Co. and I wrote the exhibition essay. The show was titled "Space Oddity (A Lesson in Survival)," taken from David Bowie, who Chuck got to see on the Ziggy Stardust tour in Memphis, where Chuck grew up. Chuck has also had experience performing; he did some work with Ann Magnason, when she was still doing the East Village circuit in the early 80s, before she went to Los Angeles. I didn't know what part exactly I wanted Chuck to play but I knew I wanted him to do something on Anita Pallenberg. Leslie and I first approached Chuck about being backstage with the Stones as a friend of the band. We had this idea that there would be some people just hanging out, that they didn't have to play anyone famous or recognizable, that they could just play themselves, just be there. Chuck agreed to be in the movie and since we didn't have a script - we didn't write anything until after we casted - we weren't worried about what he would say or do. And then, I think it was an idea that came from Steven Parrino (see the Hell's Angel), that Chuck should be the underground filmmaker and Warhol rival Kenneth Anger. Kenneth Anger was indeed a friend of the Stones in the late sixties. He met them through his London art dealer, Robert Fraser (see Colin de Land). Anger introduced the Stones to Satanic worship; he was an especially close consort of Anita's. Leslie and Chuck both love Kenneth Anger. And even though I think Anger never finished a movie properly, I agreed that it would be great to have Kenneth there and that it made sense for Chuck to be him.
	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
	Clarissa Dalrymple as Tony Sanchez, the Band's Drugdealer
	Patterson Beckwith as David Bowie
	Peter Norton as the Pizza Delivery Boy
	John Yau as John Yau
	Yvonne Force as a groupie
	Where's Brian Jones ?
	New York is the star of the film
	How I came to be Mick Jagger
	Cosima von Bonin as Anita Pallenberg
	Nicole Eisenman as Keith Richards
	Gavin Brown as Andrew Loog Oldham