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Word: nightclubs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Free Press article included on the list of sleazy stops Somerville's six-month, old Choices, the Cantab Lounge, Ed Burke's, as well as The Channel, a Boston nightclub which had received advance notice as being the sleaziest part of the trip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sleaze | 2/13/1985 | See Source »

...COTTON CLUB is epic emptiness. Considering it had a mindboggling budget, a deluge of pre-release hype complete with melodramatic creation story, and a hip-hopping nightclub as its center, one might at least expect to be entertained...

Author: By Rachel H. Inker, | Title: King Cotton | 12/18/1984 | See Source »

...Cotton Club" really was a Harlem nightclub that popped up during the prohibition era. This infamous speakeasy partied socialites, mobsters and movie stars; gang wars were Hemingway's "lost generation" found themselves in the tunes of performers like Duke Ellington, Lena Horne and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson...

Author: By Rachel H. Inker, | Title: King Cotton | 12/18/1984 | See Source »

...riff-raff after he saves the life of arch- mobster Dutch Schultz. The Dutchman hires Dyers to entertain his mistress Vera Cicero (Diane Lane), and the two, unfortunately for the Dutchman fall in love. Vera, however, sticks with the mobster because of his promise to buy her her own nightclub. Meanwhile back at the ranch. Dixie's brother Vince becomes embroiled in New York's gang wars...

Author: By Rachel H. Inker, | Title: King Cotton | 12/18/1984 | See Source »

...long time ago (1979) in a mythical land (Hollywood), a producer named Robert Evans had a dream: to make a $20 million spectacle about Prohibition-era gangsters operating out of a legendary Harlem nightclub, to cast Al Pacino and Richard Pryor as the stars, and to direct it himself from a screenplay by Mario Puzo. But Evans wanted financial as well as creative control of the film. So he snubbed the studios and went elsewhere for money. He made a deal with an Arab arms merchant but returned the dough. He wooed a bunch of Texas oilmen, but that deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Once upon a Time in Harlem | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

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