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    Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort Of - TAYLOR MEAD IN PERSON

    Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort Of - TAYLOR MEAD IN PERSON

    Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive

    October 23, 2011

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    Directed by Andy Warhol. With Taylor Mead, Naomi Levine,
    Gerard Malanga
    US 1970, 16mm, color, 87 min
    Andy Warhol's first partially scripted film grew out of a visit to Los Angeles with Taylor Mead, Wynn Chamberlain and Gerard Malanga in 1963. Mead takes credit for the idea – inspired by a highway sign indicating an exit for the town of Tarzana – and the editing. Accordingly, he was cast as the lead, with the swimming pool of the Beverly Hills Hotel serving as a jungle lagoon. Mead's slender torso and less-than-macho demeanor make for an immediate contrast from the usual Hollywood Tarzans, instantly announcing the project's ironic attitude towards the archetypal duo of the title and the culture industry that produced them. Tarzan and Jane proceeds as a series of episodic encounters shot at several locations around southern California, with the other members of the entourage as supporting players, while providing fascinating glimpses of the Los Angeles art world at the time, including appearances by Wallace Berman and Dennis Hopper, who shows up as Mead's stunt double. After the Village Voice published a letter by a viewer complaining that Tarzan and Jane "focus[ed] on Taylor Mead's ass for two hours," Warhol made a film that was just that.


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