Overview - Brand X

Overview

In 1969, Taylor Mead complained to his friend artist Wynn Chamberlain that Andy Warhol had never paid him for any of the work he had done for him and Wynn said he would make a film especially for Taylor. Inspired by the banality of 1960's television, Chamberlain wrote and directed Brand X, an 87 minute series of faux television shows spoofing the politics and mass media of the day, complete with commercials for Sex, Sweat, Computer Dating and Peanut Butter. BRAND X follows Taylor Mead through a day in a wacky television studio as he portrays an exercise guru, a talk show host, a veteran returning from the American Civil War, a hospital patient in a soap opera, the President of the United States and a televangelist giving the Nightly Sermon. BRAND X satirizes President Nixon, the Vietnam War, sex, drugs, computers, money and race relations.

Cast

• Name: Taylor Mead

  Character: Viewer / President / Minster / Nurse

  Popularity: 0.7564

  

• Name: Sally Kirkland

  Character: Patient / President's Wife

  Popularity: 2.1514

  

• Name: Abbie Hoffman

  Character: Policeman (Lawren Order)

  Popularity: 0.4853

  

• Name: Candy Darling

  Character: Marlene D-Train

  Popularity: 0.3677

  

• Name: Ultra Violet

  Character: Singer

  Popularity: 0.337

  

• Name: Tally Brown

  Character: Talk Show Hostess

  Popularity: 0.9739

  

• Name: Frank Cavestani

  Character: Doctor

  Popularity: 0.7493

  

• Name: Susanna Baumgard

  Character: Patient

  Popularity: 0.2322