TV WATCHER

Andy Warhol was the first great TV watcher; really talented. I say watcher, but perhaps consumer would be a better word because it was more like a vital, sustaining backdrop for whatever else he was doing – vacuuming, say, in front of a couple of TVs. He watched them in multiples, though not more than four at a time in the bedroom; he wasn't depraved. "When I got my first TV set," he said, "I stopped caring so much about having close relation-ships with other people."If Warhol had lived in the age of Celebrity Big Brother, he'd never have gone out at all, except maybe to appear on it.

The Independent
Jan 25 200