Tosh Carillo

Warhol's strange interpretation of "A Clockwork Orange."

In the style of a variety show, staged at the Factory. It features Gerard Malanga, dressed in a tuxedo, as the master of ceremonies, and who also does a poetry reading. Paul Swan, the famous turn of the century modern dancer, re-stages one of his old dances and ends up dancing with Jane Holzer. Jane leaves the film set after her part is done, while the others remain. Mario Montez sings If I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate and dances in drag, while the cameraman zooms frantically in and out. (warholstars.org)

Warhol wanted to put a real steed in a film, so he instructed Tavel to write a Western. In order to generate ideas, Tavel interviewed the film's featured players: art critic Gregory Battcock, French-Canadian runaway Larry Latreille, poet Dan Cassidy, and a bona fide sadist, Tosh Carillo, who, by day, worked as a florist. Tavel's efforts resulted in a scenario that parodied Western movie clichés, brought the genre's latent homoeroticism to the surface, and mixed in a few esoteric references. (studentgroups.ucla.eduz)

Willkie was a liberal Republican who ran against FDR in the 1940's. It mixes B&W footage of Smith's creatures with old campaign footage of Willkie. The climax of the work appears to be the "auctioning" of the candidate at the convention.