Studio 54 documentary reveals what A-list celebrities REALLY got up to at the world famous nightclub

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Let's be honest.

No one under 50 gives a shit what happened at Studio 54.

So basically, it will be like all of the other2548 documentaries/movies about that scene and era. Got it. If they have any fresh dirt, footage or photos, I'll be stunned. Likely just another rehash we don't need.

What is today's Studio 54? L.A.'s Chateau Mormont?

We all know by now that Studio 54 was the very height of 70's decadence, debauchery, and hedonism. Cocaine was King, and folks readily partook. Sex was going on all around the place, and we shudder to think was was going on in the basement. In other news, Charlotte York's little dog named "Elizabeth Taylor" got gang-banged in Central Park once.

I used to go there when I went to FIT . It's sometimes got wild but not always. No one, as far as I could tell, was forced to do anything so calling it a me too experience is ridiculous.

There’ve been lotsa tales of the cheeto’s Heavy coke use back then and there - wonder if anything concrete will come out about that...?

R2 Then go to the Kesha thread, sweetie. It's more your speed.

[quote]Let's be honest. No one under 50 gives a shit what happened at Studio 54.

You're 100% right. It's always a jarring moment when you are forced to realize or stumble across the realization that time really does march on and what was once really fascinating is now just something that happened somewhere a really long time ago.

R9 gets it.

I was just becoming a teen in the late 1970s and even I don't give a shit what was going on at Studio 54.

Although I liked most of the disco music from this era, I certainly wasn't old enough, nor anywhere near old enough, to go to bars or clubs.

"Ooh, look! They were doing coke on the dance floor!!". Oooooh, so what??

As someone else implied, what "new" info could be gleaned by now. Been there, seen that, done that.

Just watch the 1998 movie "54" with Mike Meyers, sexy Ryan Phillippe, and cutie pie Breckin Meyer.

The Studio 54 story has been told so many times, there can't be anything new to say about it.

I hope they provide footage of Jussy Trudeaus sainted mother, Margaret, giving blow jobs in the balcony.

Here's a review most should be able to click to.

I was supposedly a charter member, one of 3,000 gays on some list. My ex-roommate told me they'd sent me a card, but I hated disco and he wanted to use it to take people there, so I never even actually saw the card. They canceled the charter memberships, I've read, when Studio 54 became "Studio Fucking 54."

I went five or six times, I think. I actually danced with Liza at the opening of the NY Film Festival in 1977. I never had a problem getting in.

What R2 doesn't understand (not that he should be expected to) is the cultural impact of Studio 54, especially on the gay community. Studio 54 brought the gay club subculture into the mainstream - for the first time, celebrities were hobnobbing with disco queens, leather studs, and transgender people and being celebrated and envied for it

Studio 54 made it easier for acidic queens like R2 to live their lives openly, without shame or apology. And more than 40 years after it opened its doors, it's still talked about and movies are still being made about it. Will anyone remember, say, Ke$ha 40 years from now?

It's too bad R2 won't watch this new documentary. It'd be a great educational experience.

At this point, unless they're willing to show actual footage of Roman style orgies from Studio 54, I think we can all put it to bed for once and for all. NEXT!

Maye the will, R15. Maybe they will.

R14 has a good point - disco and Studio 54 most visibly brought gayness into the mainstream. Unfortunately, it spawned a viscous “Death to Disco” backlash which included a bunch of straight white men burning disco records. Which was symbolic of the whole 1980s anti-gay backlash and rejection of a lot of the gay cultural impact from the late 70s.

R14, do you mean drag queens, dear? Transgender did not exist then. There were only a handful of sex changed people In existence.

I met my first man-on-his-way-to-becoming-a-woman in 1978, r18. I don't recall what we called her—other than her name, of course.

A Jewish place of exclusion and a ground zero for AIDS.

Jews kill.

An FF for fakaktamaniac r20, someone?

All the kids go to the third floor of the Spotted Pig nowadays..

I can't understand why today's young people, who have such a shit culture, are so dismissive of what came before them.

The attitude of many of the first posts here does not bode well for colleges and universities continuing to offer a major in History, I guess. Of course the saving grace is that this is datalounge, which is sadly not a hotbed for opinions that are massively supported. and no, I am not being ironic. oh hell, may I am.

Xenon was better.

What happened to great nightclubs in NYC?

A young Alec Baldwin was a shirtless bartender there!

[quote]The attitude of many of the first posts here does not bode well for colleges and universities continuing to offer a major in History, I guess.

You can't be serious. Not really caring about Studio 54 is not exactly an ignorance of history.

Labias were flipping around like fish out of water on the dance floor. Just picture that. sounds delish.

R18 must have an IQ in the low two-digits.

Coke and sex

Got it

I don't think any single club has achieved such prominence again. I mean, I was a nerdy teen on the west coast in those days, and even I knew that Studio 54 was THE place to be! I've never paid attention to night life, but Studio 54 was so fucking famous that even people who had no interest in disco or hitting the scene knew about it. There hasn't been anything like that since.

And BTW the "Disco Sucks" movement wasn't anti-gay, or wasn't entirely anti-gay. Some of us just hated the music, which was largely awful and fucking everywhere! I couldn't get away from it, no matter how hard I tried.

[Quote] BTW the "Disco Sucks" movement wasn't anti-gay, or wasn't entirely anti-gay. Some of us just hated the music

You know nothing.

R18 is not unintelligent, at least not based on that post alone.

No one was called “transgender” back then, they were transsexuals. Haven’t any of you PC geeks seen Dressed To Kill? The episode of Phil Donohue? The copious use of the term “transsexual” at the end of the movie? That was 1980.

It’s perfectly fine to call trans people from that time “transsexuals”, or, even better, trannies, or he-shes.

Out past her bedtime on a school night?

Newer generations love retro things. According to Riverdale (yeah, LOL!) speakeasies are the next new retro thing.

Nureyev and NINE YEAR OLD Ricky Schroeder dancing together at Studio 54 - shit, the pic won't post - google it, it's at the top of the page

"...the "Disco Sucks" movement wasn't anti-gay or wasn't entirely anti-gay. Some of us just hated the music, which was largely awful and fucking everywhere!"

Keep telling yourself this. It was also racist.

Here's little Drew Barrymore at Studio 54.

Can any of our Eldergays tell us what was on the Studio 54 childrens menu?

Kiddie Coke.

But it came with a side of fries.

[quote]Keep telling yourself this. It was also racist.

Let's be 1978.

We already know what they were doing. Fucking each other over and over. Spreading disease and doing tons of drugs.

R43 Mrs. Peabody

Look at little Drew holding her head upthread - she had one too many - damn, WTF was wrong with her parents?!! Here's Schroder with Nureyev

Studio 54 wasn't even the most interesting club in NYC at the time. Why would anyone care about a bunch of useless celebrities, a cunt on the door, and mediocre music?

Here's the old lady who was a regular and eventually died of a coke overdose (at least in the movie she did)

r47 Disco Sally?

R46 agreed. Celebrities are GROSS.

Kids were allowed in? I've never heard of that happening at a nightclub before.

R18 is correct

^ Disco Sally - The one and only. Let's hope the horny stud holding her didn't take her up to the balcony

No one cares anymore. This could have been interseting 25 years ago

R53 Says the bitter queen who cares enough to come to the thread, scroll through the comments, then care enough to post a comment about how no one cares.

Margaret Trudeaux (Justin's mama) with Ryan O'Neal

R10: 54 was extremely disappointing. It had so much potential to be really good.

Studio 54 was the original Starck Club.

It was some kind of spectacle mixing mostly over the top good looking gay men with celebrity culture (my brother and his straight preppy friends could be found there as well on any give night)- it was hardly the first place where gay men mixed with celebrity- Hurrah comes to mind, and there were other clubs in the early 70s. Most of all, gay clubs like Flamingo were in full swing earlier and at the same time. It was quite an era and I had a blast. You could go out any night of the week and the concentration of gorgeous men was, well, a lot of fun- understatement of the week. Nothing like it now- I try very hard to avoid the ole "when I was young...." But I quietly feel very lucky to have been young then and survived. Now the Saint... lol

They never let me in!

No, r33, you’re wrong. Taking it personally as a gay person is beyond preposterous. I hated disco too and I’m as gay as Richard Simmons. Other people I grew up with who also hated disco never once even associated disco with gayness. It was always the greasy Tony Manero polyester shirt with the gold chain thing we railed against.

[quote]I can't understand why today's young people, who have such a shit culture,

No culture at all actually. Tide pods, anyone?

“We already know what they were doing. Fucking each other over and over.”

No, usually just the once.

This club is abusive. Never speak its name again.

Was it kid's night with Ricky? There is another kid there. So bizarre.

Anderson Cooper talks about his mom dragging him there as a little kid too. Maybe taking your tot to the club like a trendy accessory was the cool thing to do in the 70s. Millennials take their babies to breweries and bars nowadays too, but that's probably because childcare costs too much nowadays.

Drug abuse in music predates rock and disco.

I’m sure Anita Bryant wasn’t a big disco fan either.

All you disco haters are to blame for the fact that what came after has mostly been total crap. You killed disco only to replace it with the most crassly commercial douchebaggy White hetero gentile male crapola ever recorded. Give me “Copacabana” any day over these metal morons.

Why don’t they make 50 documentaries on how crazy Roxy was in the early 90’s? That was a great mixture until the shirtless Chelsea queens took over and made it exclusively gay.

One thing in my early 20's (I was 20 years old in 1984) was caring for people with HIV. The stories they told were amazing. But the reality is up to my ankles in shit then and I have a cast iron stomach in my 50's now. Puke, blood, doesn't bother me. Just clean it up, bleach the hell out of the surface and move on.

Margaret Trudeau would probably be diagnosed with borderline personality disorder these days. There's a fantastic 2002 Canadian TV miniseries with Colm Feore and Polly Shannon about Justin's parents. BTW to snicker over Margaret giving blowjobs at Studio 54 is like ridiculing a fish for swimming.

Liza liked to suck off Nureyev and lots of other men at 54, but she denies it all.

Ne plus ultra ménage à trois.

R23, I can't understand why old people are so dismissive of young people when old people are responsible for the fact that Donald Trump is president

R34, are you Tucker Carlson? You seem pretty dumb and reactionary

I am low key obsessed with Studio 54. It really seemed like it was the last truly carefree, consequence free party atmosphere. It was a snapshot of the 70s, a decade of enormous change. It still interests me, the 70s in NYC.

[quote]I can't understand why today's young people, who have such a shit culture, are so dismissive of what came before them.

Every generation is dismissive of the ones before it.

It shows an appalling lack of introspection and observation for you to walk around thinking otherwise.

R17 being gay or bisexual was already well known about in the USA long before studio 54 ever opened. The loft parties in NYC, stonewall riots, and pride events were much more effective.

The disco sucks backlash was because disco was overplayed everywhere in the 1970s, and mass-produced. It had nothing to do with racism or homophobia. There was good disco like Donna Summer, and bad disco like disco duck and other songs.

It was straight white guys leading the Disco Sucks backlash and, yes, racism and homophobia had a lot to do with it

Studio 54 was not the "first time" gays and celebs clubbed together. You were a gayling who didn't know or respect pre-Stonewall gay history, but you expect new generations to sit at your feet and absorb your wisdom.

And sorry R78 but you were both a racist and a homophobe back then. Just own it and claim you're a better man now.

Ne plus ultra ultra ménage à trois.