In 1981 I was that guy in this shot. Almost. It didn't happen on a Fifth Avenue apartment balcony overlooking Central Park, but on an apartment building rooftop during a fairly wild party on a hot July night. I was wearing a suit and she was dishy and a little bit bombed, and she smelled like soap and flowers and had cigarette breath. We came close to forgetting ourselves. It all came back when I happened upon this DVD Beaver frame capture from the just-out Bluray of Woody Allen's Manhattan.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on January 24, 2012 at 3:01 PM
comment #1
Travis Actiontree
says ...
Yeah I made out with a chick on a roof, too.
Posted by Travis Actiontree
at January 24, 2012 4:26 PM
comment #2
Jeffrey Wells
says ...
In Weehawken, New Jersey?
Posted by Jeffrey Wells
at January 24, 2012 6:29 PM
comment #3
Glenn Kenny
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July 4, 1987, E. 39th St.: me, a Puerto Rican transvestite hooker, a fifth of Jack Daniels, two tabs of speed-laced acid. Rooftop of a three-story walk up, but far enough East to see the fireworks. Oy vey, good thing Gordon Willis wasn't around to chronicle THAT. Still. Beats WEEHAWKEN, for God's sake.
Posted by Glenn Kenny
at January 24, 2012 7:43 PM
comment #4
George Prager
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When these ancient Oscar voters start getting me down
And LexG is just too much for me to take
I climb way up to the top of the stairs
And all my cares just drift right into space
On the roof, Albert Brooks always gets the Oscar nom for Drive
and Moneyball always wins the ultimate prize
Let me tell you now
When I come home feelin' tired and beat
I go up where the wifi is free and sweet (up on the roof)
I get away from the LA Latino crowd
And that Hispanic Party elephant noise down in the street (up on the roof)
On the roof, the only place I've been
Where no one questions the need to reduce BluRay grain
Let's go up on the roof (up on the roof)
At night the stars put on a show for free
And no one contradicts what the correct aspect ratio of Barry Lyndon should be
I keep a-tellin' you
Right smack dab in the middle of town
I've found a paradise that's Eloi proof (up on the roof)
And if this world starts getting you down
There's room enough for two
Up on the roof (up on the roof)
Up on the roo-oo-oof (up on the roof)
Oh, come on, baby (up on the roof)
Oh, come on, honey (up on the roof)
Everything is all right (up on the roof)
Posted by George Prager
at January 24, 2012 8:17 PM
comment #5
scooterzz
says ...
the year was 2001 and i was officially experiencing my mid-life crises (i called it my 'bridges of madison avenue' period)...traveling from l.a. to nyc every week, i hooked up with a young actor who actually picked me up in a bar...the affair lasted two years and almost killed my current relationship that has lasted twenty-five years...making out on the top floor terrace of the regency is just the best...
Posted by scooterzz
at January 24, 2012 8:58 PM
comment #6
Jesse Crall
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George Prager, well done sir.
Posted by Jesse Crall
at January 24, 2012 9:14 PM
comment #7
Bob Hightower
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Marlon Brando let me mess around with his pigeons on the rooftop during the making of ON THE WATERFRONT. That's all I will say about it.
Posted by Bob Hightower
at January 24, 2012 10:33 PM
comment #8
Raising_Kaned
says ...
This thread's about 40 different kinds of crazy, wrapped up in one.
With all the deleted posts that go on around here (accidental or otherwise), it's probably for the best that this entire thread just disappear wholesale by sometime Wednesday morning (early in the ayem).
Posted by Raising_Kaned
at January 24, 2012 11:11 PM
comment #9
Glenn Kenny
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"The wi-fi is free and sweet," nice.
Posted by Glenn Kenny
at January 25, 2012 4:53 AM
comment #10
JLC
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"She was looking like Jill Clayburgh in the underwritten second act of An Unmarried Woman and I had come straight from getting a new head shot for my press credentials. Not since I played cowboy as a kid had I experience a moment so emotionally vivid."
Posted by JLC
at January 25, 2012 5:36 AM
comment #11
vansmith
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She was a red head that lived on 8th st in the village of NYC, the 5th floor of a 5 floor walk up. On her roof July 4th eve of 1992, the world trade center was to the south and the empire state building draped in red white and blue was to the north, there were fireworks everywhere..
Posted by vansmith
at January 25, 2012 7:53 AM