A madcap romp through the 1980's NYC art scene amid the colorful career of painter, Edward Brezinski, hell-bent on making it.

Make Me Famous

20231h 32m

Documentary

An investigation of Edward Brezinski, an ambitious, charismatic Lower East Side painter hell-bent on sucess, who thwarted his own career with antics that roiled NYC’s art elite. Brezinski’s quest for fame gives an intimate portrait of the art world’s attitude towards success and failure, fame and fortune, notoriety and erasure.

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Cast

Kenny Scharf

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Eric Bogosian

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Richard Hambleton

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David McDermott

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Frank Holliday

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Peter McGough

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Patti Astor

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James Romberger

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Heather Spore

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Patrick Fox

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Marguerite Van Cook

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Scott Cover

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Make Me Famous

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