Conversation with Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn author and television producer Jeff Copeland

Christina speaks with Jeff about the creation and edit process of his book and shares fun and funny stories about Holly and trying to make it as a Hollywood screenwriter. More about Jeff's book, Love You Madly, Hollywoodlawn...

 

Holly Woodlawn, once lauded by George Cukor for her performance in the 1970 Warhol production, Trash, was washed up. Over. Kaput. She was living in a squalid Hollywood apartment with her dog and bottles of Chardonnay. A chance meeting with starry-eyed corn-fed Missouri-born Jeff Copeland, who moved to Hollywood with dreams of ‘making it’ as a television writer, changed the course of BOTH of their lives forever.

Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn is the story of how an unlikely friendship with a young gay writer and an, ahem, mature trans actress and performer created the bestselling autobiography of 1991, A Low Life in High Heels. This book about writing a book is a celebration of chutzpa and love as Holly, the embodiment of Auntie Mame, introduces Jeff to the glamorous (and sometimes larcenous) world of a Warhol Superstar. In turn, Jeff uses his writing (and typing) talent to give Holly the second chance at fame she craved.

Hilarious and heartwarming, Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn is a portrait of the real Holly who loved deeply, laughed loudly, and left mayhem in her wake. Features dozens of archival and personal photographs, including a full-color insert of rarely seen editorial fashion portraits. Foreword by queer icon and author, Simon Doonan.