andy warhol andy warhol web  Andy Warhol   Notes on Paul America
Paul America   "Paul America was another strange cup of tea. He
was everybody's lover...he was marvelously satisfying to
everyone... People would go to sleep in his arms... Richie
Berlin, me, just everyone! He was the personification of total
sexual satisfaction. Without a brain in his head. Just
beautifully vapid. He was a wonderful creature. Anybody who
wanted anything from Paul could get it. He was there to satisfy.
And he did." (EDIE212)   Paul America (Paul Johnson) was a "six
foot New Jersey youth" which the Warhol crowd had noticed at the
New York discotheque Ondine (no relationship to the superstar
Ondine). (DB211/POP124)  Andy Warhol:  "Lester Persky had
'discovered' Paul at the discotheque Ondine and brought him
around to the Factory. Paul was unbelievably good-looking - like
a comic-strip drawing of Mr. America, clean-cut, handsome, very
symmetrical (he seemed to be exactly six feet tall and weigh
some nice round number). I don't rem