Jagger wore a striped rugby shirt with a white collar for the interview photos. He said “Maxigasm” was being directed by “a few freaks”, and also mentioned his reaction to “2001” (which he saw with all the other Stones and their wives and girlfriends in May 1968) and the Jean-Luc Godard film, “One Plus One” later re-titled “Sympathy For The Devil” that he and the Stones were in.
I think so, mike movies. Mick Jagger mentioned it in a June to September 1968 interview with Jonathan Cott and Sue Cox of “Rolling Stone” magazine. I also saw Tiny Tim mention it on TV sometime in 1968. I’ll check it out on IMDb and post the link to the IMDb page here, ditto “Without A Stitch”.
Hmmmm …. “Change Of Mind” … the ultimate Halloween masquerade ? White man’s brain in a black body, with Star Trek’s lovely “Vina” (Susan Oliver) to canoodle with ? Heady stuff, apropos to the late 1960’s.
Thanks, ErwinM and EdSolero, for the details of the Wienerwald / Jaegerhaus. It reads like a good place. Sorry in retrospect I never ate there. On Friday November 11th 1994, after seeing “Stargate” at the Trylon, my wife and friends and I ate at the Triangle Hofbrau in Richmond Hill instead of the Jaegerhaus. That was the last time I saw a movie at the Trylon and the last time I ate at the Hofbrau. Sorry to see them both go.
I also remember Dinkelacker Beer also. Thanks for the memories.
That was also ten years and eight days after the first film I saw at the Trylon, “Firstborn”, with Teri Garr, Peter Weller and a young Sarah Jessica Parker, fresh out of “Square Pegs” TV show, on Saturday November 3rd 1984.
RobertR, thanks for posting the newspaper ad. I remember that ad for “The Oblong Box”, and when it played at the Ridgewood. I didn’t see it myself there, although my mother and aunt did. I remember almost all the other films except the X-rated one. I remember the film advertised at the left edge, “Change Of Mind”, with Raymond St. Jacques and Susan Oliver, at the RKO Madison, around Halloween 1969.
Thanks, Paul Gifford, gardenguy, for posting your memories of the Garden Theater and of your old neighborhood. I find them to be very interesting, including 101st Avenue once being Jerome Avenue. Please continue.
Chilling, indeed, BklynJim, after having enjoyed Whitaker as the host of the 2002-03 UPN 9 Twilight Zone.
A neat two-movie package, indeed. 1961’s “Homicidal” was Castle’s quick cash-in on “Psycho”, itself, I think, inspired by earlier b & w Castle cheapies, as well as the arty 1955 “Les Diaboliques” by Clouzeau.
Yes, mikemovies, much of the nudity was gratuitous, but at least it was real, not implied, nudity. You actually SAW adult female nipples, and buttocks and genitalia, of both sexes. I prefer that to implied nudity, which I find to be a tease, and hypocritical. I, too, would prefer that to senseless violence. At least you get to see some beautiful nude bodies, without seeing them hacked to pieces by a maniac in a hockey mask.
I agree with you about the older sci fi and horror films, and enjoy them much more. It’s like what a friend of mine said about the original b & w “Twilight Zone” : the scariest ones generated an enormous amount of fear and suspense without showing one drop of shed blood.
Well-put, EdSolero. I agree. It doesn’t say much for our sense of values. The recent succession of re-makes seems to be a symptom or subset of what you have described.
JDennis, you are most welcome. My pleasure. As to our ages, I will be 51 next month. Thanks for the update on Joe Petardi.
The only eatery near Meyer Chevrolet at Fresh Pond and Metropolitan that I know of was the Fresh Pond Diner, on the southwest corner, now gone.
I never attended a Christmas special at the Ridgewood Theater.
The only eating places I know of across Myrtle Avenue from the Ridgewood Theater were the Little Garden Restaurant, many years ago, and more recently, Ding Ho Chinese Restaurant, later replaced by Merry Land Chinese Restaurant about 1995.
I don’t remember a murder across the street from the Ridgewood Theater in the late 1960’s or early 1970’s. Detective Anthony Venditti was gunned down in the Castillo Diner on the triangle formed by Myrtle, St. Nicholas and Woodbine late January 1986. That is across and half a block east on Myrtle Avenue from what used to be the RKO Madison Theater.
Good point, mikemovies, about the films “Peter Proud” and “Lipstick”, yet, regarding the former, I think many people were also disturbed by the sight of Margot Kidder sitting fully frontally nude in her bathtub, quite obviously masturbating while thinking of how her late husband, who Peter Proud was the reincarnation of, had pleasured her many years ago, despite how he had relationally abused her.
Wouldn’t it make sense for streets, that is, the lanes of pavement that wheeled vehicles run on, to be widened, from, say, 1900 to the present, to accomodate those wheeled vehicles becoming longer, wider, and faster ? Even at the expense of sidewalks and even building lots themselves becoming narrower and smaller ?
“Peter…."Lipstick” wasn’t a bad movie. Chris Sarandon played the low life rapist. By today’s standards, this movie is pretty tame."
I suppose, compared to “Saw” or “Hostel”, it is tame. But, generally, there seemed to be far more sex and nudity in films in the early to mid 1970’s than there is now, because, I think, those types of R-rated films do not make enough money nowadays. I’m thinking now of a film I saw at the Madison in July 1975 : “The Reincarnation Of Peter Proud”, particularly the scenes of Margot Kidder.
“Maybe Robert or Ed will post an ad with the exact date it played at the Madison.”
I would enjoy that, and seeing how it compares to my memory.
OK, mikemovies, what was the last film you remember having seen at the RKO Madison ? Me, it was the trashy sexploitation flick, “Lipstick”, in June or July 1976, starring Margaux and Mariel Hemingway, and Chris Sarandon as the bad guy who gets blown away bigtime by Margaux at the end.
August 1976 was the double feature “The Exorcist”(in re-re-release)and “The Yakuza” but I didn’t enter the RKO Madison to see it.
Please post your e-mail address here if you want to discuss movies with me off this board.
Yes, Bway. It’s still more conspicuous, and looks more like a movie theater, than the Kew Gardens Cinema, the former Austin, on Lefferts Blvd. just southwest of Austin St.
Here’s the link for “Without A Stitch” :
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063732/
Couldn’t find anything on IMDb about “Maxigasm”. Perhaps it was never released. Also, IMDb identifies Carlo Ponti as a film producer, not a director.
Jagger wore a striped rugby shirt with a white collar for the interview photos. He said “Maxigasm” was being directed by “a few freaks”, and also mentioned his reaction to “2001” (which he saw with all the other Stones and their wives and girlfriends in May 1968) and the Jean-Luc Godard film, “One Plus One” later re-titled “Sympathy For The Devil” that he and the Stones were in.
I think so, mike movies. Mick Jagger mentioned it in a June to September 1968 interview with Jonathan Cott and Sue Cox of “Rolling Stone” magazine. I also saw Tiny Tim mention it on TV sometime in 1968. I’ll check it out on IMDb and post the link to the IMDb page here, ditto “Without A Stitch”.
Here’s the link to the IMDb page for “Paranoia” :
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063413/
It’s original European release title was “Orgasmo”. Kind of says it all. Reads like it could be Superman’s sexy pet, instead of “Krypto”.
Anyone remember a Carlo Ponti film from 1968 or 1969 titled “The Maxigasm”, or “Without A Stitch” at the RKO Madison in April 1970 ?
Hmmmm …. “Change Of Mind” … the ultimate Halloween masquerade ? White man’s brain in a black body, with Star Trek’s lovely “Vina” (Susan Oliver) to canoodle with ? Heady stuff, apropos to the late 1960’s.
Thanks, ErwinM and EdSolero, for the details of the Wienerwald / Jaegerhaus. It reads like a good place. Sorry in retrospect I never ate there. On Friday November 11th 1994, after seeing “Stargate” at the Trylon, my wife and friends and I ate at the Triangle Hofbrau in Richmond Hill instead of the Jaegerhaus. That was the last time I saw a movie at the Trylon and the last time I ate at the Hofbrau. Sorry to see them both go.
I also remember Dinkelacker Beer also. Thanks for the memories.
That was also ten years and eight days after the first film I saw at the Trylon, “Firstborn”, with Teri Garr, Peter Weller and a young Sarah Jessica Parker, fresh out of “Square Pegs” TV show, on Saturday November 3rd 1984.
RobertR, thanks for posting the newspaper ad. I remember that ad for “The Oblong Box”, and when it played at the Ridgewood. I didn’t see it myself there, although my mother and aunt did. I remember almost all the other films except the X-rated one. I remember the film advertised at the left edge, “Change Of Mind”, with Raymond St. Jacques and Susan Oliver, at the RKO Madison, around Halloween 1969.
Thanks, Paul Gifford, gardenguy, for posting your memories of the Garden Theater and of your old neighborhood. I find them to be very interesting, including 101st Avenue once being Jerome Avenue. Please continue.
Excuse me, that should have been Georges Clouzot.
As opposed to Inspector Clousseau.
Chilling, indeed, BklynJim, after having enjoyed Whitaker as the host of the 2002-03 UPN 9 Twilight Zone.
A neat two-movie package, indeed. 1961’s “Homicidal” was Castle’s quick cash-in on “Psycho”, itself, I think, inspired by earlier b & w Castle cheapies, as well as the arty 1955 “Les Diaboliques” by Clouzeau.
Yup, Norton. Regular laff riot !
Thanks, BklynJim. Yes, “Bone-chilling Emergo !”
“You MUST have your blood pressure taken in the lobby before seeing this film.”
No, that was “Macabre”. Or, as Stephen King and his pals called it, “McBare !” I first mispronounced it as “MACK-UH-BREE”.
I saw the 1999 remake of “The House on Haunted Hill” on TV in 2001. I liked the Vincent Price lookalike it included.
I saw something on TV about the Amin film. Forest Whitaker stars as Amin ?
Yes, mikemovies, much of the nudity was gratuitous, but at least it was real, not implied, nudity. You actually SAW adult female nipples, and buttocks and genitalia, of both sexes. I prefer that to implied nudity, which I find to be a tease, and hypocritical. I, too, would prefer that to senseless violence. At least you get to see some beautiful nude bodies, without seeing them hacked to pieces by a maniac in a hockey mask.
I agree with you about the older sci fi and horror films, and enjoy them much more. It’s like what a friend of mine said about the original b & w “Twilight Zone” : the scariest ones generated an enormous amount of fear and suspense without showing one drop of shed blood.
Well-put, EdSolero. I agree. It doesn’t say much for our sense of values. The recent succession of re-makes seems to be a symptom or subset of what you have described.
I recall a “JaegerHaus” on Queens Blvd. in November 1994. I never ate there.
JDennis, you are most welcome. My pleasure. As to our ages, I will be 51 next month. Thanks for the update on Joe Petardi.
The only eatery near Meyer Chevrolet at Fresh Pond and Metropolitan that I know of was the Fresh Pond Diner, on the southwest corner, now gone.
I never attended a Christmas special at the Ridgewood Theater.
The only eating places I know of across Myrtle Avenue from the Ridgewood Theater were the Little Garden Restaurant, many years ago, and more recently, Ding Ho Chinese Restaurant, later replaced by Merry Land Chinese Restaurant about 1995.
I don’t remember a murder across the street from the Ridgewood Theater in the late 1960’s or early 1970’s. Detective Anthony Venditti was gunned down in the Castillo Diner on the triangle formed by Myrtle, St. Nicholas and Woodbine late January 1986. That is across and half a block east on Myrtle Avenue from what used to be the RKO Madison Theater.
Good point, mikemovies, about the films “Peter Proud” and “Lipstick”, yet, regarding the former, I think many people were also disturbed by the sight of Margot Kidder sitting fully frontally nude in her bathtub, quite obviously masturbating while thinking of how her late husband, who Peter Proud was the reincarnation of, had pleasured her many years ago, despite how he had relationally abused her.
Wouldn’t it make sense for streets, that is, the lanes of pavement that wheeled vehicles run on, to be widened, from, say, 1900 to the present, to accomodate those wheeled vehicles becoming longer, wider, and faster ? Even at the expense of sidewalks and even building lots themselves becoming narrower and smaller ?
“Peter…."Lipstick” wasn’t a bad movie. Chris Sarandon played the low life rapist. By today’s standards, this movie is pretty tame."
I suppose, compared to “Saw” or “Hostel”, it is tame. But, generally, there seemed to be far more sex and nudity in films in the early to mid 1970’s than there is now, because, I think, those types of R-rated films do not make enough money nowadays. I’m thinking now of a film I saw at the Madison in July 1975 : “The Reincarnation Of Peter Proud”, particularly the scenes of Margot Kidder.
“Maybe Robert or Ed will post an ad with the exact date it played at the Madison.”
I would enjoy that, and seeing how it compares to my memory.
OK, mikemovies, what was the last film you remember having seen at the RKO Madison ? Me, it was the trashy sexploitation flick, “Lipstick”, in June or July 1976, starring Margaux and Mariel Hemingway, and Chris Sarandon as the bad guy who gets blown away bigtime by Margaux at the end.
August 1976 was the double feature “The Exorcist”(in re-re-release)and “The Yakuza” but I didn’t enter the RKO Madison to see it.
Please post your e-mail address here if you want to discuss movies with me off this board.
mikemovies, that may be a matter of opinion. What would you consider to be “interesting and fun messages” ?
Thanks, Warren. It reminds me of another Castle film, “Thirteen Ghosts”, recently remade.
Thanks, Warren. Interesting, in that the Willard was neither in Richmond Hill nor Kew Gardens, but in Woodhaven.
Thanks, Warren. What newspaper was that from ?
EdSolero, I’ve grown tired of flame wars.
Thanks, Lost Memory !
Bway, I vaguely remember that also.
Yes, Bway. It’s still more conspicuous, and looks more like a movie theater, than the Kew Gardens Cinema, the former Austin, on Lefferts Blvd. just southwest of Austin St.