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23 June 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Andy Warhol's film-making partner Paul Morrissey is recovering in hospital after he was hit by a truck on a New York street.

The 71-year-old Chelsea Girls and Trash director was struck by the rental U-Haul van as he crossed 86th street in Manhattan on 8 June.

A source tells the New York Post, "He's in a Manhattan rehabilitation facility. He can walk and talk but he may have lost some short term memory."

Friends claim Morrissey has been trying to keep his accident a secret to avoid worrying his 96-year-old mother.

A pal tells the Post, "He instructed friends to tell her he hadn't called her in five days because he had laryngitis." »

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1 April 2009 10:11 PM, PDT | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »

Did black magic and a curse play a role in the death of Ronald Tavel -- the Obie-winning playwright and Andy Warhol collaborator who mysteriously died aboard a Thailand-bound jet last week?

Tavel, 68, who was returning to his Bangkok home from an art conference in Berlin on March 23, "drank and over-drank and became dehydrated during the flight, and then his heart just stopped," a source told us.

Fellow playwright and friend Larry Myers says Tavel -- who penned the Obie-winning "Boy on the Straight-Back Chair" and "Bigfoot," and scripted Warhol's "Chelsea Girls" -- had been »

2 articles from 2009