blogs.westword.com – By Jef Otte
Candy Darling was probably the sexiest transvestite that ever lived, but s/he wasn’t just sexy — she was also talented. A star of stage and screen, she worked with luminaries from Andy Warhol to Tennessee Williams and was, during the course of her short life, such a fixture on the New York scene that she inspired songs by the Rolling Stones (“Citadel”), the Kinks (“Lola”) and a couple by the Lou Reed (“Walk on the Wild Side” and, with the Velvet Underground, “Candy Says”)…