Rob Lindley, an actor playing Andy Warhol, sits on a sofa on the left. He wears a silvery white wig, a blue blazer, blue jeans, a white shirt, and a red-and-white striped tie. Several cameras are on the coffee table in front of him. On a chair in front of a desk to the right sits Hamid Dehghani, who plays Farhad, an Iranian revolutionary. He is in a white shirt and dark trousers, and he is looking quizzically at Lindley's Warhol as the latter makes a point, motioning with his hands.

Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol on June 3, 1968, out of anger that he wouldn’t produce her play/manifesto Up Your Ass. Sirhan Sirhan shot Robert F. Kennedy on June 5, 1968, out of anger at the senator and presidential candidate’s support of military aid for Israel. In Jean Stein’s 1982 oral history of Warhol’s Factory […]

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