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Gary's Strawberry Brother

posted 18 years ago by Devans00
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Who was the actor who played Gary's strawberry blonde brother who went around wearing a dress and masturbating? I don't know that anyone ever called him by name.

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[–] vernonpurnell 18 years ago

Eric Emerson

[–] Devans00 18 years ago

Thanks

Sad to read that he died shortly after this film. Just like one of the actresses.

"MAY 1975: ERIC DIES.

ERIC EMERSON's body was found near the West Side Highway early one morning. Eric had overdosed earlier and his body placed by the road by the people he had been doing drugs with in order to make his death look like an accident. Eric was 31 years old at the time he died."

http://www.warholstars.org/indfoto/ieric.html

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

[–] undomiel152003-1 9 years ago

I'ts funny in a pathetic way how many of those people who were satellites to Andy Warhol's planet had early, terrible endings to their lives.

Quit ya moanin

[–] Devans00 9 years ago

undomiel152003-1
I'ts funny in a pathetic way how many of those people who were satellites to Andy Warhol's planet had early, terrible endings to their lives.

I wouldn't put the drug overdose on Andy Warhol or his circle of friends. In general, I think Baby Boomer counter culture was into ingesting many chemicals and natural substances to get high. If enough youth do it, a certain percentage of them are going to die from drugs. No matter who they hung out with.

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