'Sleep': Warhol's 5-Hour Fever Dream

In 1963, as his painting career was taking off and he himself wasn't getting much shut-eye, Andy Warhol began his first major film project, "Sleep" -- in which he hoped to capture his lover, the poet John Giorno, doing nothing but sleeping. Nude. For eight hours .
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-- Lavanya Ramanathan

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