Party Out Of Bounds

A new documentary digs up a forgotten post-punk TV classic and a lost cultural moment

A A A Comments By Joy Press Tuesday, Apr 19 2005

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Halloween memories: Glenn O'Brien, Fab Five Freddy, and Chris Stein

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April 27, 29, and 30 Tribeca Film Festival
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TV Party quietly disappeared in 1982. The gang dissolved along with the scene itself: O'Brien got distracted by Downtown 81, Stein got sick, Basquiat got famous, and a bunch of people went into rehab. Plus, says O'Brien, "It got harder to live on no money in New York." It almost seems like a hallucination now, an idyll before the '80s art and real estate booms kicked in. As Poe wonders in the documentary, "Was it some kind of folly or some kind of genius?"

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