Steven Spielberg Admits Swallowing a Transistor to Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger

in Television | January 3rd, 2009 7 Comments

In 1979, Andy Warhol spent $40,000 on a broadcast-quality camera and started dabbling in creating television programs that he aired on Manhattan public access cable channels. (Get more on the story here.) One episode featured Warhol, Bianca Jagger and Steven Spielberg simply hanging out on a bed. And here’s how their conversation went down:

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