CatholicBoy.com -- The Jim Carroll WebsiteList of Character Names for Pork
Developed for Andy Warhol by Jim Carroll
From the Andy Warhol Museum
Circa 1969

Jim Carroll worked for Andy Warhol at the Union Square Factory, circa 1969, and one of his jobs was to come up with character names for Warhol's play Pork. The images below are the actual lists of names Carroll came up with; the handwriting on the list is Carroll's.

A New Job
I've been spending a lot of time up at Andy Warhol's studio, know better to the faithful as "The Factory," doing odd assignments for short money. Andy is a tough man (sic) with a buck. Today I had to come up with a list of thirty names for characters in a new play he's orchestrating for a show in Europe, tentative title "'Pork." I sat in a corner overlooking Union Square Park and watched the passing of continental types visiting, checking out their routines (Andy can really bring out the asshole in a person) and laying a name on each. There was this sporty Italian type, hands constantly fingering a Gucci ascot, and the name "Cosmo Pugio"' jumped onto the page. A seedy type from the land of the rising sun popped in, looking like he had a cache of automatic wapons waiting downstairs in the sidebags of his Kawasaki. What else to call him but "Itinki Soonkum."' Turns out he was an interior decorator trying to unload a van-ful of Bonsai trees on A. W to give the place that sylvan touch. After thirty of these aficionados and parvenus passed in and out, I had my list."
      --Jim Carroll, Forced Entries (p. 33)

List of Names
List of Names


From the Collection of The Andy Warhol Museum
Archives Study Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15212-5890
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