Viva

Viva (born Janet Susan Mary Hoffmann on August 23, 1938 in Syracuse, New York) is an American actress, writer and a former Warhol superstar. Hoffman was born into a Roman Catholic family. She was given the name Viva by Andy Warhol before the release of her first film with him but later used her married last name (Auder). She appeared in several of Warhol's films and was a frequent guest at The Factory. After she began making films for other direc... more

Viva (born Janet Susan Mary Hoffmann on August 23, 1938 in Syracuse, New York) is an American actress, writer and a former Warhol superstar. Hoffman was born into a Roman Catholic family. She was given the name Viva by Andy Warhol before the release of her first film with him but later used her married last name (Auder). She appeared in several of Warhol's films and was a frequent guest at The Factory. After she began making films for other directors she also began writing. Her first book, Superstar, was an insider's look at the Factory scene, a partly fictional autobiographical account of her time there. It was distinguished from other "tell-all" memoirs by virtue of her writing, which incorporated various stylistic effects, including the use of taped conversations, arguably one of the first times such a technique had been used in a novel. She also wrote for various publications, including The Village Voice. Viva incorporated the tapes into her second book, The Baby. These tapes were... less