Tagged With "studio 54"
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Re: The Palladium
Palladium opening night was a zoo. 1984 or 1985 if i remember Jerry Rubin did his wednesday networing parties there after he stopped them at the Fleishman owned studio 54 . . also remembr a big Grammy pre party there around 1992.. model agencies did some christmas parties there in the VIP area MTV did its corporate christmas party there once or twice, which we crashed. fun days. Always did the Michael Todd room. became a necessity when the place turned bridge and tunel.
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Re: Musto names 10 Best Clubs Of All Time
Jackie 60 at #5. But which night out of the week's various parties?
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Re: Musto names 10 Best Clubs Of All Time
I can't believe that I DJ'd at 9 out of the 10 clubs! (Not Studio 54)
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You have me beat, daddy... I worked at only 7 out of the ten.
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I DJ'd at one (Happy Valley) I think and I performed and cocktail waitressed (badly) at another one
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Re: Musto names 10 Best Clubs Of All Time
I only made my living for a time off the plastercated people leaving six of those clubs. The easiest ploy was I would have a pocket full of photocopied twenty dollar bills and ask the plastered idiot if they had change for it. Some nights, like outside Studio 54 and Danceteria I would make as much as a thousand dollars. Once, Biance Jager just gave me a fifty dollar bill and told me to keep the change. Nightlife is great. But Musto should list the 10 alltime easiest clubs to get sex at.
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Re: Musto names 10 Best Clubs Of All Time
seven, Are you kidding? Is that real? If so you are my hero!!! And Lil, Yes, you did cocktail at one of the clubs VERY badly. My advise: Don't give up your DJ career to be a cocktail waitress!
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Hey wait a minute. Getting spilled on by Lilly was arousing. There are thousands of people who would pay for that, uh, but that is a Different nightlife occupation altogether !
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Lilly, a spiller? Who knew? And don't forget who the original Jackie waitress was, Lil... Dee Finley. I doubt if anyone could top Dee in sheer personal volume alone! BTW does anyone else remember the "ghost of Dee Finley" story?
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I completely forgot That de Finley was our first cocktail hag. We were insane. What is the Dee Finley Ghost story?!!!
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Quite a few years ago, Dee vanished. And then finally people began seeing her on the streets, towing a shopping cart and homeless. People tried to help, but it was't much use... this was for about 6 months. The one day, during Clit Club "set up", some of the girls came in and told us she was dead. Sadly enough no one even questioned the story... (this was before Elizabeth Taylor & Dee's miraculous turnaround). A couple of weeks later, Julie Tolentino came into Clit Club "set up" as pale...
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Hat / Thank you so much for sharing that story. I miss Dee and her great humour. I can remember many nights sitting in The Versaille Room with her and hearing her stories. A true original. Here she is at Wigstock with Miss Shannon around 1989
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Oh right! I forgot that Dee was "dead" for a while. That was crazy. We all gagged when she came back from the beyond. Great pic Bobby.
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I noticed that none of the clubs listed are even open anymore. What is gonna be the top club of 2011?
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Re: Musto names 10 Best Clubs Of All Time
Well we should probably wait till the end of 2011 for that but... Have you noticed that there just aren't that many nightclubs anymore to begin with? Let alone good ones. The City has placed so many restrictions on them that only a raving lunatic would open one now. (Although, come to think of it, there always was a bit of the raving lunatic in every club owner...) And it does seem that nightclubs are happy (and lucky) to have just one "hot" night, forget about 7. Of course the definition of...
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Re: Musto names 10 Best Clubs Of All Time
Well since it is about the music and always has been. For House music...Cielo, District 36, and Webster Hall always have the top dj's for that genre of music and are easy to get into and always a fun time!
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Re: Press links and coverage of NOTS 19
hagsontherun is the creation of my dear friend Wendy aka Fluffie who has been holding down the fabulous fag hag fort since Studio 54 where she was a golden girl. She and her cohort Talk Diva who now lives abroad but comes back to NYC often to galivant with Miss Wendy know how to have a good gay time. The blog is worth looking at all the time. So dishy and camp.
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Re: New and News, Part 6
The news is, NYC makes the largest amount of arrests, nearly half a million since '97 !, for marijuana possession of any city in the whole world. Against the intent of New York State Law. Here's the authoritative word on NYC police department's continuing crusade to arrest people for possession of small amounts of marijuana. The interesting focus is on the exact technique the cops use to intimidate and fool individuals into getting themselves arrested: "However, police officers can legally...
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Re: It's all about the YouTube Part 3
You've been warned. Here is MOTHER KNOWLEDGE! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5od0mEwW4rk Note: At 0:54 she cuts a big fart.
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Re: Farewell Charming Olde New York, part 4
Whats doing with all the closed stores on 3rd/14th SEcorner are they knockin that corner down for more Yuppie condos perhaps? My chum recently moved to Jackson Heights (37th Av/Indian side) and I must say am loving that area - reminds me allot of West Kensington (London) very Brit/Indian vibe. Fantastic Supermarkets too (DIRT CHEAP one called TradeFair) I carried a back pack with me last Sat. Filled it AND FOUR carrier bags FULL and the total bill $54! Greate Indian too, fun Bollywood...
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Re: Swept Away, part III
OMG I just read it and I'm totally stunned. I know it's a children's book but... Well, Anyway, here's my review: If you loved her in "Swept Away" this book is for you. But in other news, I just found this on Gawker.com
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Re: Party Monster Michael Alig (part 2)
I liked the movie. I think I may had heard of Michael Alig before on American Justice or something. I rented it mainly because I wanted to see the club costumes and make up. I thought it would be a little more telling about NYC club life back then. Around 1996 the raves came to Detroit I was there in my "fat pants" (thank God I burned them) taking x and dancin'. KEOKI was huge here at the time. Even at 17 it seemed fake like we were trying to imitate something that came before us. It was fun...
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Re: Swept Away, part III
Back to her roots? well that would be eatting out of trash cans and working the coat check at Studio 54.
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Re: Fingernails, New Mexico - A Remote Location
Working on this new solar installation I am talking to alot of salt-of-the-earth guys, plumbers, propane gas guys, etc. Everyone is talking Apocalypse. No-one can believe the prices being thrown at us... Copper pipes are up 300% for example. All resources are becoming scarce and very expensive. Yes Bobby, the whole planet IS under the fire.... One guy diatribed about bombing Iran, and NO he wasn't for it... It is really something to see these types going liberal... AND solar! They all...
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Re: Fingernails, New Mexico - A Remote Location
Hi Chi,oooh wish I could jump in the ocean! It's 98 - 105 here every day... Merly, I have to disagree about police blotters and nowhere. Though the place is yes still poor as dirt and it was reported recently that Santa Fe was a "Indian Theme Park..." Hardly though it is pathetically overpriced. A friend has been house-sitting a $7M mansion for five years, and not ONE rich asshole has come to look at it to buy. Anyhow, the NY Post's "Police Blotter" has nothing on the Rio Grande Sun's for...
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Re: Neighborhood Characters
Lucy lives in my building, just two flights up! In the same rent-stablized apartment she was born and raised in no less, and pays about $350 a month for. She lives on her deceased parents pension or something. We've had her over for drinks a few times and she LOVES Napoleon, as do all our neighbors. Her apartment is total "Miss Havisham" realness, every piece of furniture is white and cobwebbed, replete with cockroach-infested kitchen and 4 very stinky cats. Her make-up is always heavy as...
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Re: Neighborhood Characters
Nora is a legend. Chi Chi and I first met her at The Mudd Club. She was the queen of Studio 54, along with Francesca, Fadora and Nicole. They were all absolutely gorgeous! Nora was a BEAUTY!!!!! (still is) Andy loved loved her. I'm sure Bobby has pictures of Nora somewhere. She is really funny too and very smart. Casanova goes bonkers whenever he sees her. They french kiss for hours. I love Nora. I think she is aging very well. She does get a little tipsey though.
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Re: RIP, VIP - Chapter 3 (10/21/05++)
From Jim Fouratt: Hilly Kristal and the CBGB legacy CBGB's was an extended family and a cultural frontier. Hilly was the dad at the door behind BG eying who came and who paid and who did not. Louise was the tireless booker and she held the telephone frontline. Lisa and Robert the real children grew up in and around the club. No one who observed her can ever forget his first wife, the hectoring, seemingly crazy one, who would pop up when ever she needed money or his last companion who gave...
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Re: RIP, VIP - Chapter 3 (10/21/05++)
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/02/22/2008-02-22...ones_dead_at_53.html Gossip reporter, celebrity art collector and club promoter extraordinaire Baird Jones died in his Greenwich Village apartment Thursday night. He was 53. The cause of death was not immediately known, but police said there were no signs of foul play and no drugs in the apartment. A friend of his told the Daily News that Jones, the son of People magazine co-founder Cranston Jones, recently complained about being...
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Re: Nightclub Crackdown Watch, part II
The creeping onslaught of 2 AM closings has so far received little attention, but it seems that a group of gay clubbers are ratcheting things up with this protest TONIGHT:
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Re: Studio 54
Came across this forum while doing a bit of research on a Studio regular - it was SO entertaining thought Id share the link here.. Studio 54 Forum on discomusic.com
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Re: Studio 54
Totally! I forget if I read it re: 54, or another club covered on that site, but Abba's 'The Visitors' was clearly an important song for many.
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Re: INTERVENTION
OK, INTERVENTION is BLACK !!!! We are doing a special "Disco Intervention" at Mr. Black on Friday December 1. As many of you know I sometimes fill in at Mr. Black for my DJ daughter Sammy Jo (who tours with The Scissor Sisters). I do this party called "IS IT ALL OVER MY FACE DISCO JAG" . On Friday December 1, Jill, Adam (from beyond) and I will be combining forces to bring you "Disco Intervention". It's a look back at the boozey-pill-poppin'-coked-up world of Studio 54. Here Halston feeds...
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Re: INTERVENTION
UNCOVER TO RECOVER The latest installment of JOHNNY DYNELL's infamous "Is It All Over My Face Disco Jag" at MR. BLACK obsesses over the messy back room of Studio 54, with help from the travelling INTERVENTION monthly. Imagine Dynell's scratched-up vinyl nuggets as the soundtrack for Liz and Liza (or Drew and Aimee) at their messiest, and the entire disco oeuvre as one frenetic cry for help! So, take that first step toward regaining your dignity on Friday December 1st. Rehabilitate with...
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Re: DISCO!
I'd be a bigger asshole than i already am if i didn't at least give one "disco moment" thought. Crisco's disco ... vip room .... the 1st and last time a man kissed me on the lips. I've told no one but now ... i'm outta the closet hehehehehehehehe. of course ... it happened like this (for those of you who could care less , go eat a twinkie) as my friend in front of me left ... he kissed the door guy and the guy (some fat old queen) stuck out his face in mine and not knowing what to do ...
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Re: AIDS turns 20
Senate Will Debate House Version of Labor/HHS Appropriations bill for FY2002 Tuesday, Oct. 30 Your Calls to the Senate Urgently Needed to Protect AIDS Programs As Senate offices slowly begin to re-open after the recent anthrax scares,your U.S. Senators will debate and vote on the funding levels for federal HIV/AIDS programs passed by the House (H.R. 3061). Neither the House nor the Senate versions of the bill include sufficient funds for a comprehensive strategy to fight the HIV/AIDS...
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Re: AIDS turns 20
------------------------------------------------- CenterBridge Presents: *World AIDS Day 2001* (Saturday December 1, Free) Noon-2PM...Names of Center members who have died will be read in a ceremony between Noon and 2PM. Call the number below to add a name. 5-7PM...Errol Grime Modern Dance Troupe and Jazz Vocalist Andy Bey are just some of the performers celebrating the "power and resilience of the human spirit." @The Center 208 West 13th Street (212)620-7310...
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Re: Upstairs at Studio 54 Saturdays
the premeir list should be comp! besides 54 is way too close the the police station I was aressted at! lol
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Re: Upstairs at Studio 54 Saturdays
Studio 54??!! Premier Guest List??!! HELLOOOOO, NEW YORK!!!
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Re: Upstairs at Studio 54 Saturdays
LOL. We were all giggling recently when we noticed that the carefully guarded secret about the Suzanne Bartch comeback affair on Valentines day is its at China Club! No wonder they only printed the address on the flier.. As far as Studio 54 goes, this might not be the best forums to refer to studio as "the greatest nightclub that ever was" or whatever you called it blondebuddy. These would probably be the forums celebrating everything that studio 54 WASNT. So it is fine for you to post your...
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Re: Upstairs at Studio 54 Saturdays
If you want a clue as to what Studio 54 was like, go and get a copy of Bobby's book. Then put us all on the guest list. We promise to scare the crap out of all of the rest of the crowd. T
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Re: Upstairs at Studio 54 Saturdays
Holy shit! I post one inocuous (sp?) plug of my Saturday night party at Studio 54, and whatdya know, 17 responses -- some of them even personal (I promise to remove your gag from you Daddy if you come to my party....) At the risk of sounding sophmoric, this site rocks! Goblin, Martini's aren't $17, I swear. Beers are $5, well drinks $6, and yea, cosmos etc. range from 8-10. Not cheap in this recession era but you'll live. And hey, I get a bottle -- introduce yourself and I'll fix you some...
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Re: Upstairs at Studio 54 Saturdays
Well done, Blonde John. Well done indeed. Take that negative energy and transform it into something else, just like Mother Sabrina says. I know that you're trying to raise the roof and make something big happen, and 54 ought to be able to do it, if it isn't too commerche. Don Quixote and the windmills, why not? Pay no mind to the poo-poo's' and give it everything you've got; but dammit, you've gotta even out that 30-70 percentile if you want it to get a proper lift-off. However, it's worth...
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Re: Upstairs at Studio 54 Saturdays
Speak it Minerva! Oh yeah...3 freaks to 7 geeks..Those are great odds if you're a geek. Why would anyone except the truelly desperate want to go UPTOWN and be in the minority with a bunch of straight people in a club that saw its hey day about 20 years ago, Ooooohhhhh so cutting edge. I'll pass. Besides the greedy owners wanted to sell my Studio 54 book if they could buy it from me for less than cost and mark it up about 1000 percent. Nice people. How about getting a NEW idea...something...
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Re: Upstairs at Studio 54 Saturdays
Hi blondebuddy - well, you certainly can promote a topic here - I haven't seen this much interest in Studio 54 since the Pet Shop Boys had their afterparty there a few years back. I was never very interested in Studio even in its heyday (there were so many better scenes to obsess over) but would be interested to visit one night just to see what you are doing there. I would appreciate if you'd post a pic in your profile so we or other Motherlovers would know you when we got there and could...
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Re: Upstairs at Studio 54 Saturdays
Blonde Buddy, I give you alot of credit standing up for youself. (against us devil bitches from hell) Either you are a complete idiot or you are really fierce. Either one is ok by me. I'm with girl on this, I like big balls and you have them! But please tell me... and I'm being completely serious. What is it that you do? Are these your parties? Do you come up with the concepts? Are there concepts? Do you design the invites? Do you have invites? Do you book performers? Do you have...
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Re: Upstairs at Studio 54 Saturdays
Hey John, I applaud your understanding of these boards as a fun forum for us girls to talk trash and be bitchy yet not take ourselves too seriously (except of course when it comes to *). While we run 54 through the mud (mudd), it's only because we like to hang out at places like the Cubby Hole, Crazy Nannies, and Denim & Diamonds. No one wants to dissuade someone from trying to promote nighttime activities in this city. Carry on! Oh, and can I get 6 comps for this Saturday?
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Re: Upstairs at Studio 54 Saturdays
John, We girls are always up for a party. I'll check out Studio 54. I met this hot bartender at Meow Mix and I'm thinking about asking her out. This would be a great place for me to take her. I hope she doesn't have a girlfriend already. So put me down, Pat plus Jessica Rabbit for Staurday.