Pat Hackett

Pat Hackett (born before 1968) is an American writer , screenwriter and former associate and confidante of Andy Warhol .

Life

Pat Hackett, a graduate of Barnard College , met Andy Warhol in 1968. At Warhol's Factory , Hackett initially helped transcribe the magazine Interview , published by Warhol and Paul Morrissey . She later became the magazine's main editor, Warhol's secretary and ultimately his closest confidante. She co-wrote the 1971 screenplay for Andy Warhol's Bad .

In 1976, Hackett and Warhol began to write down Warhol's daily routine by telephone. What was initially only supposed to function as morning bookkeeping quickly turned into an extremely intimate exchange of private experiences between the Pop Art artist and his secretary. Warhol, who was already “addicted to the phone”, chatted with Pat about the delicate details of the New York scene and half-scene celebrities, but also about very simple and trivial private experiences. In the countless phone calls he described her practically his entire life: from love stories to her own fears and worries such as For example, AIDS , which emerged in the mid-1980s, tells Warhol about purchases and general business matters such as his meticulously noted expense reports and his two dachshunds.

Pat Hackett's Andy Warhol Notes . The diary (The Andy Warhol Diaries) not only offer deep insights into the life of the always shy and closed Pop Art artist; they also reflect the scene of the New York sub - or counterculture of the late 1970s and 1980s and often sketch the rise and fall of various stars and "starlets", the New York party scene and their "locations" in a very sarcastic , but sometimes also humorous way “Such as the Studio 54 .

Others

Gerard Malanga , a Warhol employee from the very beginning, referred to Hackett in the imprint of the 3rd issue of Interview magazine as "Tippse", which led to a dispute and Malanga 's break with Warhol. Malanga then left the factory.

Hackett's book "The Warhol Diaries" aroused considerable resentment in New York high society and the international jet set. Some celebrities are said to have taken legal action to ban the book.

bibliography

• Andy Warhol. The diary of Pat Hackett, Droemer Knaur, Munich, 1989, ISBN 3-426-26429-3 (German)
• Popism: The Warhol Sixties by Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett, Harvest Books, new edition 1990, ISBN 0-15-672960-1 (English)
• Journal . by Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett, reissued 1990, ISBN 2-246-42871-8

Web links

• Pat Hackett in the Internet Movie Database (English)