Rent TV Party: The Sublimely Intolerable Show (1979)
3.0 of 5 from 1 ratings
0h 55min
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- Synopsis:
The first 10% of this show sums up what we don't get on TV anymore. Technical difficulties. 'TV Party' was live and improvised, and this meant casual disaster. This early episode gets off to an artistically agonizing start--the sound person is late, overdosing on drugs, or both. Or it was the broken down equipment. Once the sound kicks in the show gets lively. Compton Maddux, a droll singer songwriter, is backed up by Debbie Harry and Glenn; the unique futurist soprano Klaus Nomi does one of his postmodern arias; Adny Shemoff, of the Dictators, plays the Beach Boys' "Be True to Your School" backed up by pern pom girls Tish and Snooky, the Manic Panic designers. Downtown legend director Eric Mitchell announces the opening of the now famous New Cinema theater and shows a clip from his film "Kidnapped" with Arto Lindsay, Duncan Smith and Anya Phillips. Brit director David Silver and photographer Kate Simon do the "white people talk about reggae" segment. Blondie's Chris Stein and Debbie Harry and the Patti Smith Group's Richard Sohl drop in to smoke a reefer and take calls from all the crazies in cable land. Chris explains all this isn't chaos, it's art. - Actors:
- Glenn O'Brien, Adny Shernoff, Klaus Nomi, Deborah Harry, David Silver, Kate Simon, Andy Shernoff, Eric Mitchell, Compton Maddux
- Directors:
- Amos Poe
- Producers:
- Glenn O'Brien, Danny Vinik, Kai Eric
- Aka:
- TV Party
- Studio:
- Plastic Head
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Documentaries, TV Reality Programming
