It was that event that launched him to international stardom and I remained part of his inner circle until the day he died. By this time I was regularly appearing in magazines and gossip columns, and I became director of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia where, in 1965, I arranged a retrospective of Andy's work. This was the Sixties: such behaviour wasn't really considered so bizarre then. Attractive young women - and men - fell over themselves to show how liberated they were by stripping for us, and the well-to-do were happy to have naked young people cavorting in their homes. We spent one summer persuading wealthy socialites to let us film naked models in their bathrooms. He and I were ambitious and determined to insinuate ourselves into the elevated social circles that the art world attracts. When I was 24, I put on an exhibition of established artists, such as Roy Lichtenstein, but included some of Andy's stuff. He was very funny, with amazingly original ideas. He was a few years older than me but we started to hang out together and got on really well. At that time he had been working as an illustrator and was not yet famous as an artist. I wonder if I could interest you in seeing my work.' Later, after we had become firm friends, Andy confided that he had assumed by my surname that I was the gallery owner's son, so he'd made a point of cultivating me. I'm an artist.' I shook his extended hand. The real Barbara Baekeland in Hollywood in 1941 In 1962, the year after my arrival, I was managing the well respected Green Gallery when an unprepossessing man came in one day and introduced himself. After studying at art school, I moved to New York and sought whatever work I could get in galleries. He instilled in me a lifelong love of art and architecture. My parents were university professors, so while my friends went to baseball games with their dads, mine would take me to see houses of architectural interest. I was born in a small town in Connecticut in 1941. Later, I became so close to John Lennon that in his will I was named guardian of his son Sean. I had become a close friend of Hollywood legend Greta Garbo and I had launched Andy Warhol's career. I'm taking legal advice because the film has damaged me and distorted a life that certainly needs no exaggeration.īy the time I met Barbara, who was married to the heir of the Bakelite plastics fortune, in the late Sixties, I was already well known in my own right. The movie producers have changed my sexual orientation but couldn't be bothered to change my name. It is true that almost 40 years ago I did have an affair with Barbara, but I certainly never slept with her son, and nor did she, to the best of my knowledge. I am Sam Green.īarbara was subsequently murdered in London by Tony - a crime that made headlines all over the world in 1972.ĭeadly depravity: Hugh Dancy, centre, as Sam Green in the film's shocking sex scene with Julianne Moore as Barbara and Eddie Redmayne as her son, Tony They make love and, as they writhe ecstatically, the viewers squirm unhappily. The three kiss and caress each other passionately. The beautiful and exciting socialite Barbara Baekeland, played by Julianne Moore, is in bed with her handsome young lover, the art curator Sam Green, and another good-looking young man: Tony, her own son. There's a scene in the controversial new movie Savage Grace that the audience finds especially uncomfortable.
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