After last night, artists aged 83 and over finally get their day in the sun.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 05/28/09

Writer and actor Taylor Mead's turns in Ron Rice's seminal experimental film classic, The Flower Thief (1960), and, later, as Tarzan in Andy Warhol's Tarzan and Jane Regained . . . Sort of (1964) went a long way toward etching out his place as America's first underground matinee idol.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/30/08