One minute, you’re the king of New York City’s nightlife, enlivening and shocking the lives of others, and the next minute, you’re in prison for ten years on a drug-related manslaughter charge for almost 20 years. Such is the fate of Michael Alig, a prominent member of New York City’s infamous “Club Kids,” a group of drug-taking club-going provocateurs who ruled New York City nightlife during the late ’80s and early ’90s.
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The new documentary “Glory Daze: The Life and Times of Michael Alig” traces the rise and fall of Alig, from when he moves to New York and slowly becomes a fixture in the city to when he murdered fellow Club Kid and drug dealer Andre “Angel” Melendez. The doc tries to get to the heart of a man who has been described as a “fame-hungry...
Read More: There’s a Party Monster On The Loose!
The new documentary “Glory Daze: The Life and Times of Michael Alig” traces the rise and fall of Alig, from when he moves to New York and slowly becomes a fixture in the city to when he murdered fellow Club Kid and drug dealer Andre “Angel” Melendez. The doc tries to get to the heart of a man who has been described as a “fame-hungry...
- 7/26/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Party monster Michael Alig's release from prison on May 5 outraged many of his detractors. And a video that hit the Internet showing him celebrating at dinner with former club kids didn't win him any fans. "The dinner was probably not a good way to gauge my sense of remorse," he told People at an Ihop in New York on Thursday, three days after becoming a free man. "It was the first time I could really be myself again and be who I really am in front of my friends. I may have gone a little bit overboard with my exhilaration.
- 5/12/2014
- by Carlos Greer
- PEOPLE.com
Notorious "club kid" killer Michael Alig has been released from prison after serving 17 years for killing his roommate over a drug debt. Alig was released from the Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy, N.Y., on Monday. Alig, 48, was part of a decadent 1990s party scene characterized by wild costumes and rampant drug use. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 1997 for killing Andre "Angel" Melendez. Story: 'Party Monster' Michael Alig to Be Released From Jail Alig admitted that he and co-defendant Robert "Freeze" Riggs killed Melendez, cut the body up and dumped the parts in the Hudson
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- 5/6/2014
- by The Associated Press
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Lawyer who defended Proposition 8 at Supreme Court says his views on gay marriage evolving. Because he learned one of his own kids is gay.
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‘Party Monster’ Michael Alig Is Getting Released From Prison
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Caleb Landry Jones (who you may remember from X-Men First Class and Friday Night Lights) will be joining the cast of Stonewall as “an eccentric gay street hustler named Orphan Annie.”
Did we need a sequel to Mrs. Doubtfire? Well, we’re getting one. Mara Wilson is not impressed.
For the record, no, I do not have anything to do with the Mrs. Doubtfire sequel,...
Lawyer who defended Proposition 8 at Supreme Court says his views on gay marriage evolving. Because he learned one of his own kids is gay.
Openly Gay College Athletes Explain What It’s Like To Come Out To Their Team (warning – annoying auto play)
‘Party Monster’ Michael Alig Is Getting Released From Prison
James Franco’s Interior.Leather.Bar is now available on Vimeo for rent or purchase.
Caleb Landry Jones (who you may remember from X-Men First Class and Friday Night Lights) will be joining the cast of Stonewall as “an eccentric gay street hustler named Orphan Annie.”
Did we need a sequel to Mrs. Doubtfire? Well, we’re getting one. Mara Wilson is not impressed.
For the record, no, I do not have anything to do with the Mrs. Doubtfire sequel,...
- 4/17/2014
- by snicks
- The Backlot
A version of this review ran as part of our coverage of the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival.
Billy Corben is the drug documentary kingpin of indie film. He's made two docs about cocaine, one about marijuana, and now "Limelight," about New York City's ecstasy soaked club scene in the 1990s. His particular specialty are films that ape their subject's pharmacological effects: "Cocaine Cowboys" is twitchy and paranoid; "Square Grouper" is mellow and easygoing to a fault. "Limelight" sends us tripping on a relentless 100-minute roll.
The man who leads us on this journey is Peter Gatien, a one-eyed club empresario from Canada who moved to the Us and started opening upscale discos all along the Eastern seaboard. New York, Miami, Atlanta, and then back to New York where he created his crown jewel: Limelight, a massive dance complex housed in a former Episcopal church. The AIDS epidemic of the mid-1980s nearly killed his business,...
Billy Corben is the drug documentary kingpin of indie film. He's made two docs about cocaine, one about marijuana, and now "Limelight," about New York City's ecstasy soaked club scene in the 1990s. His particular specialty are films that ape their subject's pharmacological effects: "Cocaine Cowboys" is twitchy and paranoid; "Square Grouper" is mellow and easygoing to a fault. "Limelight" sends us tripping on a relentless 100-minute roll.
The man who leads us on this journey is Peter Gatien, a one-eyed club empresario from Canada who moved to the Us and started opening upscale discos all along the Eastern seaboard. New York, Miami, Atlanta, and then back to New York where he created his crown jewel: Limelight, a massive dance complex housed in a former Episcopal church. The AIDS epidemic of the mid-1980s nearly killed his business,...
- 9/12/2011
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
Billy Corben is the drug documentary kingpin of indie film. He's made two docs about cocaine, one about marijuana, and now "Limelight," about New York City's ecstasy soaked club scene in the 1990s. His particular specialty are films that ape their subject's pharmacological effects: "Cocaine Cowboys" is twitchy and paranoid; "Square Grouper" is mellow and easygoing to a fault. "Limelight" sends us tripping on a relentless 100-minute roll.
The man who leads us on this journey is Peter Gatien, a one-eyed club empresario from Canada who moved to the Us and started opening upscale discos all along the Eastern seaboard. New York, Miami, Atlanta, and then back to New York where he created his crown jewel: Limelight, a massive dance complex housed in a former Episcopal church. The AIDS epidemic of the mid-1980s nearly killed his business, but when a tough guy from Staten Island with the temerity to...
The man who leads us on this journey is Peter Gatien, a one-eyed club empresario from Canada who moved to the Us and started opening upscale discos all along the Eastern seaboard. New York, Miami, Atlanta, and then back to New York where he created his crown jewel: Limelight, a massive dance complex housed in a former Episcopal church. The AIDS epidemic of the mid-1980s nearly killed his business, but when a tough guy from Staten Island with the temerity to...
- 4/28/2011
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
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