Pie In The Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story

Stifle that yawn. Vincent and Shelly Dunn Fremont's documentary about Warhol Factory fixture Brigid Berlin isn't simply another "Andy and me" memoir. This sleek and cleverly assembled film is a brutally honest portrait of an obsessive personality, a woman whose mania for control over her weight and the world around her fed her demons and fueled her art. Berlin — the daughter of powerful, ultra-conservative Hearst Corporation chairman Richard Berlin and his socialite wife, Honey — was born into the upper echelon of New York City society where, from a very young age, she ate with abandon. Her chic mother, embarrassed by her daughter's ballooning weight, had h...