Paul Morrissey

While working at an insurance office job in Manhattan was inspired to make movies by critic-filmmaker Jonas Mekas' Monday evening programs at an Off-Broadway theater

Made own short films in the 1960s, including "Ancient History" (1961), a five-minute "rearranged newsreel", and "Taylor Mead Dances" (1963), a 14-minute profile of underground "superstar" Taylor dancing with wild abandon at the Second City nightclub

Introduced to Andy Warhol through mutual friend, poet Gerard Malanga

Managed the celebrity of Warhol, using the "underground" films to raise the artist's profile and ultimately the price of his art; put Warhol on the lecture circuit, allegedly going back and forth across the country the first year with a Warhol impersonator, owing to Warhol's fear of speaking in public; discovered Nico and the Velvet Underground and signed them to a management agreement and was instrumental in the production and selling (to Verve Records) of their first album; also served as the first editor of Interview magazine until he turned it over to Bob Colacello who worked as editor from 1970-1982

First Warhol film on which he considers he had input in the direction, "My Hustler", his third or fourth project with Warhol; convinced Warhol that a panning camera produced footage superior to that captured by a fixed camera, putting an end to Warhol's use of the fixed camera