{"id":75062,"date":"2014-08-06T19:43:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T23:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=75062"},"modified":"2019-03-04T15:53:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T20:53:44","slug":"birthday-burger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/06\/birthday-burger\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Burger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ejr9KBQzQPM?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday, Andy Warhol. Go on, have that Whopper! You\u2019ve earned it. Ketchup? Sure! Ketchup! Have the whole bottle!<\/p>\n<p>No, no, take your time. We\u2019ve got all day.<\/p>\n<p>This clip is from the Danish filmmaker\u00a0J\u00f8rgen Leth\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0289045\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>66 Scenes from America <\/em><\/a>(1982). He said of the performance:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Warhol] is told that he has to say his name and that he should do so when he has finished performing his action, but what happens is that the action takes a very long time to perform; it\u2019s simply agonizing. I have to admit that I personally adore that, because it\u2019s a pure homage to Warhol. It couldn\u2019t be more Warholesque. That\u2019s of course why he agreed to do it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But we don\u2019t know this. Maybe he was just hungry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy birthday, Andy Warhol. Go on, have that Whopper! You\u2019ve earned it. Ketchup? Sure! Ketchup! Have the whole bottle! No, no, take your time. We\u2019ve got all day. This clip is from the Danish filmmaker\u00a0J\u00f8rgen Leth\u2019s 66 Scenes from America (1982). 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