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...family owns Coronet juvenile furniture in Westbury, N.Y., have appeared in commercials since 1980. One of their popular spots features the Greensteins sitting in baby cribs and musing about a "talking orangutan." Customers routinely barge into Coronet demanding to see the TV stars, and trendy Manhattan nightclubs such as Danceteria, Chuckles and the Comic Strip have hired them to perform the orangutan skit onstage. Chortles Wayne: "We've become cult figures...
...have a set policy for getting in," says Rudolf, who manages the New York club Danceteria. "If our bouncers make 10 or 15 mistakes a night, they'll go unnoticed...
Those who do get in will usually confront a scene designed to stir the imagination. From the shark tank at Area to Danceteria's "Wuthering Heights" elevator, the purpose of the physical accoutrements is to draw the clubgoer out of quotidien life and into a netherworld of unusual activity. The nightclub's ideal role is no longer to provide singles with potential partners or to satiate the hungry dancer with the charm of the bass. Though there is concern with sex and song here, these clubs, more than anything else, attempt to capture and define the sub-culture that...
Just six blocks north, the style is different. At Danceteria the design does not highlight individuals but blends them in with the crowd. There are no balconies, no crow's nests for the surveyor. Rather, the surfaces are unelevated and there is a darkness here which effectively obscures any attempt at glitz. This is not to say that egomania cannot thrive at Danceteria; let us not forget Madonna was born here...
EXHIBIT C: Tyrone Hayes' flamboyant outfit would have been well suited to the rock-'n'-ready atmosphere of New York's Danceteria. Sporting a Prince coif and pointy, sparkling shoes, the crowning jewel of Hayes' snazzy saturnalia was a pair of unlinked handcuffs, which he wore as arm bracelets...