DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Looking back, "</s>CNN 20": a cultural icon passes away.</s>ANNOUNCER: Bringing you the world for 20 years, this is CNN.</s>BILL TUSH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We fist started the "SHOWBIZ" show, I think, in 1984, and that's when I first came to New York. And I used to go to parties, and everywhere we went we saw Andy Warhol.</s>THOMAS SOKOLOWSKI, DIRECTOR, ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM: Andy Warhol, probably the most famous cultural icon of the second half of the 20th century, was born to immigrant parents of Carpatho-Rusyn heritage in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1928. The first public manifestation of Andy Warhol has a fine art artist came in late 1962 when he first displayed his now famous Campbell Soup paintings. The notion was that objects that were beautiful for everyday use could be the subject of art. He liked the fact that, whether rich or poor, the soup tasted the same for everyone. Remember, at that time, the notion in advertising was, sell the sizzle and not the steak. When he created pop art and made images of Liz Taylor and Jackie Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, he certainly made them sizzle. And he thought that, whereas for the Renaissance, people made subjects of angels and saints and kings and heroes, that the modern day should be about divas of the movie screen and products like Brillo and Campbell Soup and Heinz Ketchup, they were our great treasures.</s>TUSH: Andy Warhol had gone into the hospital for minor surgery -- I think it was gall bladder surgery -- and should have just gone in and a couple days later come out, because his death was totally, totally unexpected.
CNN 20: Andy Warhol Dies, February 22, 1987