The movies made at the Factory erased the distinction between artist and voyeur, creator and hanger-on.

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The hanger-on who waits until the gallery opening is finishing to overhear where the free dinner with be.

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But, in truth, she was just a hanger-on of the black literary crowd.

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Rigoletto, the Duke's court jester in Piave's libretto, is transformed by Mayer into a hanger-on and comic along the lines of Don Rickles and Joey Bishop.

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As for Mr Edwards, his brazen infidelity with a political hanger-on and videographer, who rambled on about reincarnation and who introduced herself as a witch, only serves to demonstrate that America dodged a bullet in 2004 when Mr Edwards was the vice-presidential nominee.

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