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| | dOc DVD Review: Ciao! Manhattan (1972) |
 | | Manhattan, and died just three months after the film's completion, at age 28, in 1972; she was more than just a Warhol creation, certainly, and her notoriety and influence persist to this day. |
 | | She plays Susan, child of Los Angeles, now living on her mother's run-down estate—Susan eschews a proper bedroom and sleeps instead in the drained swimming pool, while in the house her mother (Isabel Jewell) bakes pie after pie, and Susan revisits, in her own mind, her fabulous years in New York. |
 | | The first image of Edie in the movie is startling: a beautiful, wasted, topless young woman, hitchhiking in Southern California, spilling herself into an ancient, decrepit Mercedes. |
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