We are at the end of something and there’s no getting around it and I really felt it that particular day I saw you.īOB COLACELLO: After all that, when Andy introduced you to Ron Nessen that must have really convinced you that something was afoot. We are living through a time when something is afoot. When I saw you suddenly I felt something is afoot. I felt like I really saw what was going on for the first time. HOFFMAN: The city really felt and looked terminal, but exciting. Everybody was terribly unhealthy looking and yet very positive-jogging and running and bicycling and yet white faces with blue veins and red splotches and… The heat was so oppressive and because it was Easter morning I even saw costumes that early. But I don’t think anybody will ever experience what I experienced that morning. There is something about going once around the park that everybody should do on a weekend when it’s closed to traffic. There were a couple hairy moments around 110th Street. I was with my daughters and the baby-sitter later but when I first went in I was by myself. I had gone in the Park at about seven in the morning and I had been bike riding until almost two in the afternoon. HOFFMAN: I didn’t know who he was until you introduced me and then I remembered the name. It was so odd just standing there with you and then to run into Ron and Cindy Nessen. HOFFMAN: You hadn’t been there yet when I saw you? It’s a promenade more than a parade.ĬATHERINE GUINNESS: I heard on the news that they were wearing hats this year but it was so hot nobody turned up to watch. SPRINGER: People dress up in Easter bonnets and walk along up and down Fifth Avenue, mostly from St. HOFFMAN: Didn’t there used to be something past Macy’s with balloons in the air? No? That’s Thanksgiving? JOHN SPRINGER: It’s never been an official parade. WARHOL: No, they haven’t worn hats in a long time. WARHOL: I think when they stopped wearing hats. When did they stop having conventional Easter Parades? And that I thought was terrific but I didn’t know why that was. There was no Easter Parade but everybody had their own parade. HOFFMAN: I didn’t understand it but I liked it. And that day was like that.ĪNDY WARHOL: It looked like something happened because of the Easter Parade. And sometimes nothing happens but something about it was so special you know you’ll never forget it. If you go through a tragedy you know you’re going to remember that for the rest of your life. Sometimes it’s not particularly a big event. Hoffman says it was one of the best days of his life.ĭUSTIN HOFFMAN: Sometimes you spend a day where you have an experience and you just know it will remain with you. Warhol and Hoffman talk about their last meeting, by chance, Easter Sunday at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street.
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