All Comments on 'Valerie in New York Ch. 04'

"So here you are in New York, the opportunities are here."

You seem to not know when to use a period and when to use a comma. This is all stuff regurgitated from Wikipedia, with some made-up dialogue thrown in. She had shrimp and rice or french fries and beer? Who cares about this minor human failure or what she ate, anyway?

I suspect we can't help ourselves in wondering about them . On the positive side maybe they offer cautionary tales for the rest of us. Consider the attention given to Charlie Manson (Helter Skelter is a great book), to the killers in Cold Blood, to Lee Harvey Oswald in Don DeLillo's novel. There recently was a good documentary about the bumbling but violent Symbionese Liberation Army and Patty Hearst's time with them.

The french fries idea came from a 1960s interview in The Village Voice. She arrived at the restaurant that time hungry and under-dressed for the weather and she ordered extra food beyond what the writer bought for her.

I am also reminded: Lou Reed, who was close to Warhol during his Velvet Underground days, was dismayed when the movie came out. He said, "It's like making a movie about Mark David Chapman."

Then ten years later Chapter 27 came out with Jared Leto playing Chapman.