Installment#2
Casting as Life and Art
Theobald Stephanie Theobald as Julie Burchill
 
Stephanie Theobald is the only member of our cast and crew who is not involved with the fine art community. She is a fashion and entertainment journalist who lives in London. I met her in Paris in 1993, at a party of British journalists that my friend Shere Hite, the famous feminist and sex researcher, took me too.

Initially, we wanted Stephanie to play Marianne Faithful, because for some reason Leslie and I both thought we should have someone with a real English accent play Marianne. But Stephanie didn't really relate to the part, so we shifted gears and asked her to be Julie Burchill, the English music and popular culture critic. (Julie Burchill is in fact too young to have interviewed the Stones in '68, but she of course met them later, when she came on the music scene in the seventies, and she is a cultural icon in the United Kingdom so we wanted to feature her.) Since Stephanie, in real life, is a real journalist, it made sense for her to play a journalist. In addition, Stephanie, like Burchill, is from Cornwall, which means they have the same accent. And accents mean everything in England you know: your accent is more important to your identity than your face or your clothes are in England.

Since playing Julie Burchill for us in April 1999, Stephanie has since appeared at a "Julie Burchill Look-a-Like Contest" sponsored by the Institute for Contemporary Arts (ICA), London. When her time came, Stephanie went to the microphone and repeated one of her lines from the script of The Anita Pallenberg Story: "Where's Brian Jones?" She didn't win the contest, but that's the ICA.
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
Force Yvonne Force as a groupie
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