CALLIE ANGELL

It breaks my heart to see that Ms. Angell is dead. I had the pleasure of meeting her shortly after I graduated from NYU, I'll never forget her. Her books on Andy Warhol were good, but her one book, "The Films of Any Warhol. Part II." was dynamite! She died too young, but she lives on in her brilliant writing.

I met Ms. Angell twice in the past three years. She was always kind and gracious, even to a lowly Warhol groupie like me. I have been researching for the past four years a book on my friend, Beverly Grant, also known as "Queen of the Underground Movies," and Ms. Angell was due to give a lecture on Warhol's "Batman/Dracula" in which B appeared, just this week. I had asked her for a copy of her lecture via email--I'm sure she would have complied--but I guess she needed to be somewhere else. ...

She was so admirable in her approach to and her tenacity with the Warhol material, that, only knowing her through emails, I feel a friendship has ended so sadly, and would wish to send whatever condolences are possible, especially to her amazing father.

Callie Angell’s work was and will remain an inspiration to Warhol scholars. Callie was, as many other scholars and colleagues have noted, one of the most generous sources one could wish for in the contentious world of Warhol scholarship and criticism. And, as Amy Taubin has noted in her review of Angell’s book, “she is a wonderful writer with a rare ability to combine rigorous scholarship, an abundance of ideas, and empathetic, dryly witty observation in a direct style that's a pleasure to...

I cannot believe this news. Callie was a most wonderful person. She shared her immense knowledge so freely; the world will miss an irreplaceable scholar, but it is her kindness and friendship that I will miss most. She often helped me with research, about Warhol, Barbara Rubin, and others, but we also emailed each other photos of our dogs (both dachshunds) and stupid you tube videos of dachshunds we'd be too embarrassed to share with others... What a terrible, terribly shocking loss.

Callie was generous indeed when I began exploring an area of film history she knew the best (AW). In 1999 she accepted my invitation to speak at the first Orphan Film Symposium in Columbia, South Carolina. Now the event is in New York, and she again shared her expertise with the symposium, less than a month before her death. Which makes her passing all the more shocking and deeply sad. I will miss her.