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Brand X

1970-05-18 · 87 min · ★ 4.5

Comedy

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.

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Directors
Win Chamberlain
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Top Cast

Taylor MeadTaylor MeadViewer / President / Minster / Nurse
Sally KirklandSally KirklandPatient / President's Wife
Abbie HoffmanAbbie HoffmanPoliceman (Lawren Order)
Candy DarlingCandy DarlingMarlene D-Train
Ultra VioletUltra VioletSinger
Tally BrownTally BrownTalk Show Hostess
Frank CavestaniFrank CavestaniDoctor
Susanna BaumgardPatient
Paul FaganSurfer
Jane Holzer
Sam ShepardSam Shepard
John Rainer Long
Pat PaulsenPat PaulsenPresident
Joe Stevens
Fran Victor

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