Slightly odd experience of seeing ‘Scandal’ here: the poster for it at the entrance showed John Hurt in front of a 1960s image of the neon signs of Piccadilly Circus - and then I turned around and saw the 1989 version of the same view!
Saw Rollerball here in 1975! Then in 1988-89 worked in the office building that sadly replaced it, ‘Mayfair House’. Early history: http://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/national_amphitheatre
It’s mentioned in Tom Wolfe’s first book, ‘The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby’ (1966), in a piece called ‘Putting Daddy On’. He accompanies a friend named Parker (who seems to be an advertising executive) down to Avenue B to seek out Parker’s son, who has dropped out of Columbia:
“Here is Parker with his uptown clothes and his anointed jowls, walking past the old Avenue B cinema, a great rotting building with lions' heads and shattered lepers' windows…Here is this ripening. forty-six-year-old agency executive walking along amidst the melted store fronts…Everything is collapsing under New York moss, which is a combination of lint and soot.”
Slightly odd experience of seeing ‘Scandal’ here: the poster for it at the entrance showed John Hurt in front of a 1960s image of the neon signs of Piccadilly Circus - and then I turned around and saw the 1989 version of the same view!
It was used as the exterior for a cinema in the 2018 film ‘Ladies in Black’, set in Sydney the late 1950s.
Saw Rollerball here in 1975! Then in 1988-89 worked in the office building that sadly replaced it, ‘Mayfair House’. Early history: http://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/national_amphitheatre
It’s mentioned in Tom Wolfe’s first book, ‘The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby’ (1966), in a piece called ‘Putting Daddy On’. He accompanies a friend named Parker (who seems to be an advertising executive) down to Avenue B to seek out Parker’s son, who has dropped out of Columbia:
“Here is Parker with his uptown clothes and his anointed jowls, walking past the old Avenue B cinema, a great rotting building with lions' heads and shattered lepers' windows…Here is this ripening. forty-six-year-old agency executive walking along amidst the melted store fronts…Everything is collapsing under New York moss, which is a combination of lint and soot.”