Her sassy, improvised dialogue and her vulnerability touched audiences and critics, many of whom were desperate to find a glint of redeeming light in a relentlessly sordid film. “Holly Woodlawn, especially, is something to behold,” Vincent Canby wrote
The mordant humor, impeccable comic timing and matchless deadpan that Holly Woodlawn brought so vividly to the screen as a welfare cheat married to Joe Dallesandro's heroin addict in “Trash,” and as man-hating nymphomaniac fashion model in “Women
Woodlawn, the transgender woman who inspired the first verse of Reed's 1973 hit "Walk on the Wild Side," died of cancer Sunday. She was 69. Originally broadcast in 1991. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. We're going to remember Holly
Prior to starring in films such as Trash and Women in Revolt in the early '70s, Woodlawn ran away from her Miami home at 15 and hitchhiked to New York City. This story inspired the first verse of Lou Reed's 1972 hit "Walk on the Wild Side: "Holly came
The mordant humor, impeccable comic timing and matchless deadpan that Holly Woodlawn brought so vividly to the screen as a welfare cheat married to Joe Dallesandro's heroin addict in “Trash,” and as man-hating nymphomaniac fashion model in “Women