THREE-CARD TRICK

I once played against a good three-card trick man for over an hour.  I knew exactly what he was doing and how he was doing it and he still beat me three times out of five. That was how the Oberholzer game worked. Only we had been winning five tricks out of five, until I lost one that made it necessary to change not only the name of the game but also some of the rules.

The Clash: Three Card Trick (Link)

Text: Eric Ambler, Send No More Roses (1977)

ULTRA VIOLET (1935-2014)

Ultra Violet, one of the best known of Andy Warhol numerous “superstars,” died Saturday, aged 78, at a Manhattan hospital. The French-born artist, whose real name was Isabelle Collin Dufresne, was in her late 20s when she met Warhol in 1964 while having tea at the St. Regis Hotel with her then-lover Salvador Dalí, according to an obituary in The New York Times. Warhol was immediately interested in casting her in his films and she made her screen debut the following year in The Life of Juanita Castro, an improvised political comedy. She later appeared in I, a Man (1967), as well as more than a dozen other films. She also made an appearance in the seminal 1969 film Midnight Cowboy with fellow Factory members Viva, International Velvet, and Paul Morrissey.

In 1988 Ultra Violet penned her memoir Famous for 15 Minutes: My Years with Andy Warhol, in which she outlined her return to religion after a nervous breakdown. She denounced the person she had been during the earlier years as “an unleashed exhibitionist chasing headlines.” In a 2005 interview she stated: ” I survived by grace alone.” The book also addressed affairs with Rudolf Nureyev, Ed Ruscha, and film director Milos Forman. Ultra Violet had appeared in Forman’s 1971 film Taking Off.

She worked as an artist up until her death. A show at the Dillon Gallery in Manhattan “Ultra Violet: The Studio Recreated,” closed three weeks ago. Recent work focused on the terrorist attacks of September 11, using the Roman numerals IX and XI as “a graphic palindrome,” according to the Times.

Note:  I will miss the beautiful Ultra Violet.  I always felt good knowing that she was around and about. 

Article: Eileen Kinsella, Artnet.com, 6/16/14