television
Though previous efforts have either been
big silly messes or
soul-crushingly boring, Showtime has taken up the task of depicting New York's glittery, powdery, bewigged disco era. They've ordered a pilot for a series which begins in the months before Steve Rubell opened his legendary
Studio 54 nightclub/cocaine & anonymous sex emporium.
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photo album
Bob Colacello's party photographs from the 1970s—when the reporter edited Andy Warhol's
Interview magazine and chronicled New York's social scene—are strangely poignant. To think that immortal Chelsea boy
Calvin Klein (top) was once so debonair! Grizzled mogul
Barry Diller (pictured with
Diane von Furstenberg then and now) had such a seductively wicked smile. It's hard to imagine
Vogue's André Leon Talley (pictured next to
Studio 54's Steve Rubell and Warhol) as anything other than the imposing African cardinal he plays on the red carpet. And then one remembers that today's socialites will one day appear equally ludicrous to the generation that comes after them, evidence that they were ever young buried in Patrick McMullan's photo database.
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studio 54
Studio 54, now a theater company, turns 30 this year.
New York magazine sent aged historian Philip Nobile to kick around the entrails of Steve Rubell and
Ian Schrager's 70's hotspot. Have the intervening three decades yielded any insight? Why yes, they have!
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