Scene

“Warhol has so arranged his discotheque that his patrons tend to feel that they have wandered into some evangelist's vision of Nineveh and that perhaps it is time to mend their ways.”

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“Rumors of Studio 54’s link with organized-crime figures began when it became known that Ian Schrag­er’s father was the late Louis Schrager, also known as 'Max the Jew,' the legendary chief of Williamsburg loan-shark and racketeer operations.”

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“Every night was a different club, one after another, and there were real­ly no barriers: blacks and whites, gays and straights... ”

Debating "Art vs. Politics" at the Village Vanguard with LeRoi Jones, Larry Rivers, Archie Shepp, and Jonas Mekas

“The supreme package, blonde, glit­tering, gilded, beautiful beyond belief, high priestess, eternal virgin on the brink of rape, queen of films, queen of the universe, the last laugh at them all.”

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