The long poster photo of 42’nd St., once sold to tourists and currently on my office wall, shows the Fox hit Aliens playing at the Selwyn in 1986, along with the forgotten Dungeon Master from Charles Band. During the 80s, the Selwyn usually screened major studio new releases – and was next to the convenient Grand Luncheonette b. The Selwyn Theater opened in 1918 in the Brandt Building, headquarters of the Brandt company which owned the majority of theaters on 42’nd St. The picture was re-used in my 2’nd book, The Psychotronic Video Guide (St.
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Martins’ 1990), in-between chapters on Blondie and Springsteen. The article, about 42’nd St., me and Psychotronic, and (the late) Bill Landis (a book could be written about that guy) and his Sleazoid Express, was reprinted in Loder’s book Bat Chain Puller (St. Other pictures were taken of me on a ladder changing the Selwyn marquee letters, but weren’t used. This picture was taken for Night Creatures, a feature article in Rolling Stone (August, 1984 double summer issue) by Kurt Loder.
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