A hit book and a movie revive a '60s underground star
"What would you wear on the moon?"
That was the big question of the Sixties.
— Designer Betsey Johnson in Edie
Were there other questions worth asking in that turbid decade—about wars, revolutions, anything more dramatic than a lunar hemline? There were, but few seem interested in them now. The frenetic world of '60s sex and drugs makes for a kickier nightmare than Viet Nam or Watts or Kent State. It offers an escape into Hollywood melodrama, but with the frisson of real names and...