David Weisman, an Academy Award nominee as producer of Kiss of the Spider Woman and an accomplished graphic artist, died on October 9 from complications from neuroinvasive West Nile virus. He died …
In 1967, with a splinter-group from Andy Warhol’s Factory, Weisman began the five year long production of the “aboveground-underground” cult classic , which he co-wrote and co-directed with Warhol alumnus John Palmer. A “chronicle-à-clef” about sixties-icon Edie Sedgwick, the film features Sedgwick, Roger Vadim and Factory luminaries Brigid Berlin, Viva and Paul America.
The film, released that fall by independent distributor Island Alive, broke box office records in New York and went on to gross nearly $18 million, at that time an unheard-of sum for an independent film title. The film received Oscar nominations for Best Picture , Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and the 1986 Oscar for Best Actor went to William Hurt., starring Sasha Mitchell, Ernest Borgnine and Sylvia Miles.
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