ENTERTAINMENT
March 21, 2008 | From Bloomberg News
NEW YORK -- In his early 20s, Todd Haimes says, he wasn't cool enough even to attempt getting past the velvet rope into Studio 54, the disco-era playpen for the likes of Andy Warhol, Mick Jagger, Liza Minnelli and Halston. Now, five years after Haimes' nonprofit Roundabout Theatre Company paid $22.5 million for the Midtown Manhattan theater, he's selling naming rights to the house and pretty much anything inside you could stick a plaque on, including roughly 1,000 seats.
NEWS
February 18, 1998 | BILL HIGGINS, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
The Scene: Las Vegas on Sunday when the Rolling Stones and Elton John simultaneously performed club dates--Sir Elton opening the MGM Grand's $8-million Studio 54 disco; the Stones playing the Hard Rock's 1,400-seat space, the Joint. Being a mile apart just begins the distance between them. In October, the two sides exchanged barbed comments that ended with John comparing Keith Richards to an arthritic monkey.
NEWS
January 11, 1998 | FRANK AHRENS, WASHINGTON POST
In the late '50s, Rome was "Hollywood-on-the-Tiber." Glamorous, dissolute celebrities in dark glasses ruled its night life. Director Federico Fellini watched the city's grand debauchery and elegized it in "La Dolce Vita." One of his characters was a ruthless photographer named Paparazzo, the fictional counterpart of a shooter named Felice Quinto. Twenty years later, Quinto was still in the thick of the glitterati. By 1977, he was a New York wire-service freelancer.
HEALTH
January 23, 2006 | Janet Cromley, Times Staff Writer
Once, I loved circuit training, moving from machine to machine, inspecting and admiring the rippling muscles in the mirror -- they weren't my muscles, but I appreciated them anyway. Eventually I moved on to other forms of exercise, but I never got over my affection for those bright, shiny machines. So when I heard about the Sports Club/LA's "themed loop" circuit training classes, I was there.
IMAGE
March 8, 2009 | BOOTH MOORE, FASHION CRITIC
Heavy metal studs, leather leggings, safety pins and sequins, oversized sweaters and boyfriend jackets, power shoulders and flashes of neon. During the shows at Milan Fashion Week, it wasn't a question of whether the 1980s would be referenced, but which part of the 1980s.
ENTERTAINMENT
February 10, 2012 | By Sheri Linden
A self-indulgent pilgrimage to the shrine of '70s fabulousness, "Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston" assembles a fine assortment of archival material but falls far short of its stated goal. Halston, who died in 1990, is a compelling subject - a Midwesterner who became synonymous with Manhattan night life while changing the fashion industry - and his story helps to define an era. That story is trivialized in this glitter-deep overview of familiar Studio 54 terrain. The film combines two documentary subgenres: the fashion doc and the inquisitive-filmmaker-inserted-in-every-scene doc. The spotlight-hogging director is star-struck first-timer Whitney Sudler-Smith.