Movie director Paul Morrissey, 86, died on Oct. 28. The prep-school boy and Army vet began making his own films in 1962, and from 1965-72 he ran the film and publicity departments for Andy Warhol (directing most of the “Warhol films”), managed the Velvet Underground, and co-founded Interview magazine. Post-Warhol, he directed such films as Spike of Bensonhurst, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Forty Deuce, and, most recently, 2010’s News from Nowhere. When interviewer Sam Weinberg asked Morrissey about “Warhol films” in 2020, he exploded: “Why are they Warhol films, you stupid son of a bitch?! I produced it, I wrote it, I casted it, I edited it, I photographed it. I did EVERYTHING! Don’t say ‘Warhol films’ when you talk about my films! I have to live through this for fifty years. Everything I did, it’s ‘Warhol this, or he did them with me.’ Forget it. He was incompetent, anorexic, illiterate, autistic, Asperger’s — he never did a thing in his entire life. He sort of walked through it as a zombie and that paid off in the long run.”
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