Chuck Wein
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Chuck Wein | |
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Born | March 24, 1939 |
Died | March 18, 2008 Del Mar, California, U.S. | (aged 68)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Occupation(s) | Promoter and manager of entertainment acts |
Chuck Wein (March 24, 1939 – March 18, 2008) was an American promoter and manager of entertainment acts whose celebrity stemmed from his five-year (1964–1969) association with Andy Warhol and from his discovery of Edie Sedgwick who became a Warhol superstar of 1965. He was also a film director.[1]
Life
Wein graduated from
The celebrity-obsessed Warhol and Sedgwick quickly became fascinated with each other and, by the time Warhol invited Wein and Sedgwick to accompany him to Paris in April 1965 for the opening of an exhibition of his paintings, he announced that Edie Sedgwick would be his new "superstar" and the "Queen of The Factory". Wein wrote and became Warhol's
The years 1965 and early 1966 represented the peak period for the Warhol-Sedgwick-Wein collaboration, resulting in nine films, but before the end of the year, a disillusioned Edie Sedgwick left Warhol, never to return. Little more than two years later, in the wake of Warhol's diminished activity following his near-fatal shooting by Valerie Solanas on June 3, 1968, Wein also departed and began traveling the world, with particular emphasis on the Far East, and managing fringe nightclub acts which usually had some unusual, strange or whimsical characteristics, as well as focusing on the occult. He can be seen in the 1967 documentary short about Warhol, Superartist and, in 1971, was credited as director of the Jimi Hendrix concert film Rainbow Bridge.
Although the day and month of his birth have remained elusive (although see the IMDb entry below), Wein would have marked his 68th (69th?) birthday in 2008, the year he died in Del Mar, California, fifteen months after the release of Factory Girl, director George Hickenlooper's cinematic retelling of Edie Sedgwick's (Sienna Miller) brief life, with particular emphasis on her time with Warhol (Guy Pearce) and Wein, whose portrayal by Jimmy Fallon was tepidly noted by critics as being "convincing" and "adequate".
Filmography
Wein directed the 1971 musical New Age documentary film Rainbow Bridge, which concluded with a concert of Jimi Hendrix playing in Maui near Haleakalā. In 2020 a documentary film titled Music, Money, Madness... Jimi Hendrix Live In Maui[3] was released containing many interviewees who were instrumental in the creation of Rainbow Bridge, including footage of Wein and excerpts of the Rainbow Bridge performance by the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
References
- ^ Wein, Chuck, Rainbow Bridge (Documentary, Drama, Music), Jimi Hendrix, Bob Amacker, Baron Bingen, Charlotte Blob, Antahkarana, retrieved 2021-04-15
- ^ The Allderdice. Seniors: Charles B. Wein: Taylor Allderdice High School. 1956. p. 73.
- ^ "Music, Money, Madness… Jimi Hendrix Live In Maui". UNCUT. 2020-11-30. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
External links
- Chuck Wein at IMDb