In Sunday's magazine, Taffy Brodesser-Akner writes about the child star Gaby Hoffmann, she of the intense hot-dog scene in "Field of Dreams," who grew up in Lower Manhattan as the daughter of, as Brodesser-Akner puts it, "New York artistic royalty." Her father was the actor Anthony Herrera, who played a villain on "As the World Turns," and her mother, Viva, was part of Andy Warhol's crew.
After we posted the profile online, I saw a tweet from Matt Haber, who said our article sent him "back to the crates" to find a 1968 New York magazine article about Viva.
So I went back to the crates, too, to check out the article by Barbara L. Goldsmith, a founding editor of New York. At the time, Viva was neither a downtowner nor a mother. She had not yet married the video artist Michel Auder, with whom she would have her first daughter, Alexandra, and she lived in a brownstone apartment on East 83rd Street. "Every night I think I'll die from the smell of dust and that cockroach powder," she told Goldsmith. "Just look at those filthy windows. I've got to do something about this, but I don't own a vacuum, and I can't buy one. I'm penniless, absolutely penniless. My rent is paid by a man I know." (While Goldsmith was there, Viva answered a call from Con Edison, threatening to cut off her electricity; Viva, blasé, told Goldsmith she would borrow the money from Warhol.)
Viva had just appeared in Warhol's "Lonesome Cowboy," which Goldsmith describes as "a melange of homosexual sex, conversation, rape, conversation, transvestitism, conversation, homosexual incest, conversation, masturbation, conversation, homosexual seduction, talk, talk, talk and an orgy."
Here are a few excerpts from Goldsmith and Viva's own talk, talk, talk.
Viva on religion:
I was with the nuns until I was 20. I was a virgin until I was 21. Then I spent the next two years making up for it. Now I can't stand the whole clergy, Pope, bishop, priest, nun, anti-sex, authoritarian thing about the Catholic Church. But I think that Christ was probably really groovy.
Viva on men:
My view of men is that they are pathetic, they are creatures that need help.
Viva on her recent film shoot in Tucson:
I didn't get any sleep. The first two nights I slept with John Chamberlain, who is an old lover of mine. I slept with him for security reasons. Well, then, it was a different one every night. One night Allen Midgette and what's his name, Tom Hompertz, both made it with me. Andy looked in the window and said: "What are you doing in there? I told you not to. You're supposed to save it for the camera."
Viva on her own nudity:
I'm nude because Andy says seeing me nude sells tickets. It's hard to believe. I think I look like a parody, a satire on a nude, a plucked chicken.
Read the rest of Viva's conversation with Goldsmith, accompanied by photographs by Diane Arbus.
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