Studio One Forever | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer
A documentary film about Studio One which, from 1974 to 1994, was the center of queer nightlife in West Hollywood as wel | dG1fXy1UdGRTSDhpUWc
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00:00Okay, guys, used to be paradise.
00:05Studio!
00:06Hot!
00:07Nice!
00:08Anybody who tells you that they were there in the 70s
00:11and remembers it wasn't there.
00:12You were in the middle of a group of the most beautiful men
00:16you'd ever seen.
00:18Most of the guys were shirtless.
00:20You felt like you belonged,
00:21a kind of alternative reality.
00:24Everybody just rockin' Hollywood!
00:27WAC was really my entrance into life.
00:29I was wide-eyed.
00:31It was Hollywood.
00:32Opening night, you had 1,500 people,
00:34and the turntable would jump.
00:37I said to Scott,
00:38call RCA, get someone down here to fix that damn turntable.
00:42It was not uncommon to put whatever cocaine they had
00:45and we would just take from the pile as it went along
00:48and went back to serving drugs.
00:50My, or serving drugs, serving drinks.
00:53Welcome to an evening at Studio One's backlog.
00:56All of a sudden, I looked over,
00:58and I see Cary Grant walk through the doors.
01:00Oh, my God, it's Cary Grant!
01:03I remember seeing Betty Davis.
01:05To see Rock Hudson, I thought, wow!
01:07The whole place was packed with celebrities.
01:09And all that jazz!
01:11Knowing that Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire
01:14and all of these great stars
01:16were coming through this dance hall,
01:18I thought the worlds were combining.
01:20The fact that they made the decision to bring me with them
01:24the night of the fundraiser,
01:25if something's going to happen
01:26and the place is going to get blown up,
01:28at least we're all there together.
01:31He's gone, he's gone, he's gone.
01:33That so-and-so, he's gone.
01:34It's just shocking.
01:36Like, within a week,
01:37if you went on vacation and you took a trip,
01:39you'd come back to find out who had died.
01:41Not only did you lose people who were, um, not...
01:47I've got to stop.
01:49It's so horrible, you know?
01:51So there's a proposal now to actually tear the building down.
01:54West Hollywood lost 10,000 people
01:57and their spirits are still here
01:59because this was the place where they were happiest.
02:07God bless Studio One forever.