Matters That Count Lifestyles 2022-3 & Everything Else: June 23 to Jly 25, 2025 @BookTour @RABTBookTours presents: Love You Madly Holly Woodlawn by #JeffCopeland #Memoir

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A Walk On The Wild Side With Andy Warhol's Most Fabulous Superstar

Memoir / Biography

Date Published: 02-11-2025

Publisher: Feral House

A young, aspiring writer desperate for a break…and the legendary Andy Warhol superstar who gave him the story of a lifetime.

“Jeff's affection for Holly, even as she drunkenly claims, ‘You ruined my life!’ makes this romp worth the journey.” —Michael Musto

By the mid-1980s, Holly Woodlawn, once lauded by George Cukor for her performance in the 1970 Warhol production and Paul Morrissey directed Trash, was washed up. Over. Kaput. She was living in a squalid Hollywood apartment with her dog and bottles of Chardonnay. A chance meeting with starry-eyed corn-fed Missouri-born Jeff Copeland, who moved to Hollywood with dreams of ‘making it’ as a television writer, changed the course of BOTH of their lives forever.

Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn is a story of how an unlikely friendship with a young gay writer and an, ahem, mature trans actress and performer created the bestselling autobiography of 1991, A Low Life in High Heels. This book about writing a book is a celebration of chutzpa and love as Holly, the embodiment of Auntie Mame, introduces Jeff to the glamorous (and sometimes larcenous) world of a Warhol Superstar. In turn, Jeff uses his writing (and typing) talent to give Holly the second chance at fame she craved.

In turns hilarious and heartwarming, Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn is a portrait of the real Holly who loved deeply, laughed loudly, and left mayhem in her wake.

The truth is Holly could barely work the cash register at Wacko. She

always pressed the wrong buttons and was lousy at counting change. A

friend of mine told me he tried to buy a two-dollar postcard once and Holly

got so flustered with the register buttons she threw her hands in the air and

said, “Oh, honey, just take it!”

Then one day, Harriet showed up. Holly told me she came in with a shopping

bag that was the size of a wheelbarrow. When she got to the register and

dumped her take onto the counter, Holly was beside herself. Harriet reached

into her pocketbook, pulled out five dollars, and handed it to Holly.

“Harriet, what are you doing?” Holly asked.

“I’m paying my bill,” said Harriet. “Here’s five bucks.”

“Honey! You’ve got at least two hundred dollars’ worth of stuff here.”

“I know,” said Harriet. “Take the five bucks.”

“No!” Holly was aghast. “You can’t give me five dollars for all this! I’ll

get fired.”

“Oh, all right!” huffed Harriet as she crammed all the stuff back into her

shopping bag. “Here’s twenty.”

She begrudgingly slapped two tens on the counter, grabbed her shopping

bag, and walked out the door.

“Honey, I was plucked,” Holly told me afterward. “The nerve of that

broad. She robbed us blind!”

But now Harriet’s nerve was paying off in ways Holly never imagined, and

within a few weeks, I received a postcard from Paris that read:

“Bonjour from La Tour Eiffel! Paris is f lawless. The people suck!

See you soon. Love you madly, Holly.”

About the Author

For nearly 30 years, Jeff Copeland worked as a show biz hobo, hopping from one gravy train to the next. He was nominated for an Emmy (yay!) and lost (boo!), and has enjoyed working on fun, interesting, and exciting content for a variety of TV networks and film studios, including ABC, FOX, and HGTV.

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