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artists—not techno, which had not yet been invented, but soul, R&B, and disco. As the seventies progressed, and money flowed into discotheques like Studio 54, the Loft kept serving a crowd seeking a purer, more spiritual experience of dance, who shared an understanding that exclusivity and celebrity came with economic
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others, Hamilton and Pam are going to drive you nuts.They spend their days shooting up and watching biography videos about the Duchess of Windsor, Studio 54, and Hollywood stars. They're losing themselves back in time. They talk all crazy." "I can handle it." "Hey Jared, you haven't answered many
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pretzel sticks while sitting on your Wayfair couch” train. Every car on a wine train, at the bare minimum, should be noisy and messy like Studio 54 in its heyday: people loudly having a good time, sequins everywhere, and a nipple slip from Grace Jones. Okay, okay. Look, I understand that people
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, practicing our classroom French on the bartenders, ordering martinis. We took cabs downtown, had dinner at John’s Pizza in the Village, and danced at Studio 54 or Danceteria, flashing the bouncers our fake college IDs, procured at Playland on Forty-Second Street. We bought pot in Washington Square Park to take
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from philosophical introspection to brash acquisitiveness. Cocaine had none of the mess associated with shooting up—just a quick snort and then head out to Studio 54. It wasn’t long before everyone wanted a piece. “No longer is it a sinful secret of the moneyed elite,” reported Time in a July
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. He had spent much of the 2000s in finance; in 2011, after his private equity firm invested in Morgans Hotels, a boutique chain run by Studio 54 founder Ian Schrager, Gross was installed as CEO. WeWork had talked with Morgans about building a music-themed space—WeRock—at one of its New
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two former steak restaurateurs named Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, who went on to make and lose a fortune as co-owners of the notorious Studio 54 discotheque. Later, if you asked them where they were from, they would never say, “from Queens,” but always, “from 54th Street.” Queens has always occupied
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years ago, Richard Lovett went out and said, “We’re going to represent everybody. We want 100 percent market share.” It was like he took Studio 54 at its height—when you couldn’t get in because it was so exclusive—and just said, “Fuck it, we’re letting everybody in.” Some
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is in her mid-fifties, like I am. We met in Carl Schurz Park when our daughters were small. “I had my sixteenth birthday at Studio 54,” she told me with a wistful smile that day, the first time I ever remember reminiscing about how things used to be when I was
So Me
by Graham Norton · 2 Jan 2005 · 269pp · 95,221 words
room that would have been described as ‘a bit cramped’ in the property section of the Toy Town Gazette. The hallway looked like a mini Studio 54, while the bathroom and kitchen both looked like ads for Flash cleaning powder circa 1972 – Avocado and Donkey Brown respectively – but for ninety pounds a
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