CANDY DARLING

She hung out with artists like Andy Warhol and crossed paths with musicians like David Bowie. The filmmaker Paul Morrissey put her in two of his movies. Lou Reed wrote the Velvet Underground song “Candy Says” with her in mind and included a verse about her in his “Walk on the Wild Side.”And she inspired Jeremiah Newton, now the film, television and video liaison at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, to begin assembling the only known archive of items associated with Candy Darling, including diaries, letters, photographs and her cremated remains. After providing the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh with part of the collection a year and a half ago, Mr. Newton delivered the rest of the items last week.

New York Times
Feb 25 2009