An unflinching, close-up account of the love-triangle of Melanie Cain, Buddy Jacobson, and Jack Tupper reveals the confrontations leading to Tupper's murder and Jacobson's sensational trial and eventual escape from prison

Bad Dreams

Politics & Social Sciences

Haden-Guest, Anthony

Social Sciences

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Studio 54 was the icon of excess—a place where Andy, Mick, Bianca, and Elton lounged in the VIP section while patrons did drugs in the fabled unisex bathroom, and wannabes waiting for hours outside hoped to catch the eye of the nineteen-year-old doorman who was, for a brief moment, the ultimate gatekeeper of cool. The Last Party is the story not just of Studio 54 but of the whole Nightworld, vividly recalled by a writer and reveler who was there on opening night and on many, many nights thereafter. Anthony Haden-Guest takes us past the velvet rope, down onto the pounding dance floor, up into the polymorphously perverse balcony, and into owner Steve Rubell's office, where millions of dollars were surreptitiously skimmed from the golden goose. Vibrant, shocking, nonstop, and revealing, The Last Party is as packed with sparkle, scandal, and celebrity as Studio 54 itself.

The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night

Humor & Entertainment

It Books

Down the programmed rabbit hole: Travels through Muzak, Hilton, Coca-Cola, Walt Disney and other world empires

Hart-Davis, MacGibbon Ltd

An unflinching, close-up account of the love-triangle of Melanie Cain, Buddy Jacobson, and Jack Tupper reveals the confrontations leading to Tupper's murder and Jacobson's sensational trial, escape from prison, and eventual recapture

Biographies & Memoirs

Regional U.S.

Ballantine Books

From the Introduction: The emblem of the Walt Disney World, that ample terrain if the Florida scrublands, portrays the planet Earth with Mickey Mouse ears. A telling enough device, and I had thought of beginning with my account of that magic (and now entirely computerised) kingdom. But, no. It is a journal, and should begin at the beginning. Not quite at the beginning perhaps because it began on the periphery, and with details. Marshal Tito's Diner's Club card. A Playboy centre-fold tacked up among the oleographs of Krishna in a Malaysian kampong. A girl in Leningrad, whose Western collection included two volumes of the Reader's Digest Condensed Books. A Paramount Chief in Sierra Leone, one of whose ceremonial robes anticipated a couture motif of 1972, by featuring a design of Coca-Cola bottles on a poly-chrome ground. It has been a journey through an occasionally unnerving terrain, but fertile in spots of dark fun. Monkeys imported for Tarzan movies infest Florida, and super-computers are built half in positive, half in negative. The Muzak satellite is to wing through the heavens no doubt in convenient proximity to the Orbital Hilton. The surreal becomes banal. The chances are that if the world grows Mickey Mouse ears, nobody will notice.

The Paradise Program: Travels Through Muzak, Hilton, Coca-Cola, Texaco, Walt Disney, and Other World Empires

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

William Morrow Company

Reveals the inside story behind the glitz, glamour, and decadence of New York City's hottest 1970s disco, from the legendary celebrity parties to the fate of the flamboyant owners of Studio 54

Self-Help

Relationships

William Morrow & Co.

Studio 54 was the epicenter of disco culture and pre-AIDS debauchery. Now, journalist and nightworld denizen Anthony Haden-Guest takes us behind the velvet rope that separated the celebrities from the wanna-bes, into an all-night world of revelry, sensation, and decadence.
Going beyond the endless partying with Liza, Bianca, Halston, Andy, and Mick, Haden-Guest probes the seamy underside of Studio 54: the drugs, the deaths, and the corruption that eventually shuttered the club. It is the story of Studio 54's flamboyant owners, Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, who achieved early success beyond their wildest imaginings, came within a hair's breadth of great power, and then crashed and burned.

The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, And The Culture Of The Night

Harper-perennial

A look at the horrifying yet beautiful paintings of Joe Coleman.

BOOK OF JOE

Coleman, Joe

Literature & Fiction

Last Gasp

Covering a period in which the prevailing artistic fashion has rapidly shifted and when art, money, talent, and celebrity have been confused, a study of the last twenty-five years of the contemporary art world offers vivid portraits of key artists as they strive to fulfill their ambitions. Tour.

True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Atlantic Monthly Pr

Atlantic Monthly Press

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