Anderson Cooper's Studio 54 Memories With Michael Jackson

Tonight was supposed to be Anderson Cooper's Big Fat Coming Out party (Allegedly!). Instead he's covering Michael Jackson's death for CNN, where he just shared a special memory—Partying at Studio 54 with Jacko when he was 10! More »

Studio 54 Show To Remind People Why They Hated Disco

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. More »

When They Were Young

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. More »

'NY' Mag: AIDS Was Steve Rubell's Lying Karma

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! More »