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Iggy Pop, is the cover boy of “Dustin Pittman: New York After Dark,” prowling across the stage with the Stooges at Ugano’s Club in 1970.“Iggy did his Iggy thing,” said Pittman. “He was all new, and it was amazing … We just hit it off really well.”So much so that Pittman was granted a very special exception.“Iggy had this one rule that if a photographer got too close, he would break their camera,” he said.

The Andy Warhol Diaries (★★★★☆) is well worth dipping through its many tangents and digressions to gain an informative, artfully assembled portrait of the artist.Executive produced by Ryan Murphy, and written and directed by Andrew Rossi, the series is based on Warhol’s diary entries, as dictated over the phone to his friend and collaborator Pat Hackett starting in 1976.Opening with Warhol’s description of a “perfect” Thanksgiving spent with his lover Jed Johnson at the rustic home of artist Jamie Wyeth, The Andy Warhol Diaries were published in 1989, two years after Warhol’s death.Appearing in the series, along with several Warhol associates, muses, and fellow artists, Hackett has a ready response for anyone who, then or now, might take issue with how Andy portrayed them.“Of course, it’s subjective,” she insists, adding that if anybody has a problem with it, “write your own diary.” From episode one, the show firmly establishes that Andy Warhol’s voice will guide our voyage through his world.To that end, the filmmakers commit to the unexpected, yet oddly apropos, choice of an artificial Andy Warhol to serve as narrator. Created using an AI program, then further synthesized with the vocal performance of actor Bill Irwin, faux-Andy is tuned to sound like the real Andy, and does just enough to perfectly suit a subject who mused for years that he wished he could be a machine.Eventually, a group of roboticists did engineer an Andy Warhol android, an arduous process captured in footage shown in episode three.

If ’70s fashion designer Halston is a creation, a persona, an idea of a person (one with taste), one that eventually gets watered down and then wisps away under the thumb of mass marketing beyond its initial couture means and origins, “Halston,” the glorified SparksNotes posing as prestige mini-series of the rise and fall of the fashion icon created by Sharr White and executive produced by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan is similarly hollow to the mass-marketed garbage he peddled in the ‘80.

There are only a couple of things you need to know before watching the trailer for “Halston.” First, Ewan McGregor is acting his heart out and you can tell that this is going to be a series that will have folks talking about him for a while. And second, this is a Ryan Murphy production, so expect a very slick, stylish, colorful series.

There are only a couple of things you need to know before watching the trailer for “Halston.” First, Ewan McGregor is acting his heart out and you can tell that this is going to be a series that will have folks talking about him for a while. And second, this is a Ryan Murphy production, so expect a very slick, stylish, colorful series.