Lady Miss Kier does not approve of the "Limelight" movie

Lady Miss Kier rules! I went to Limelight when it first opened. I walked past the huge line and told the door nazis that they had to let me in because I was a former parishioner. They let me right in. The scene was lame and I never went back. Why would anyone want to see a movie about it?

Groove is in the fart.

"I went to Limelight when it first opened. I walked past the huge line and told the door nazis that they had to let me in because I was a former parishioner. They let me right in. The scene was lame and I never went back. Why would anyone want to see a movie about it?"

They'd want to see a movie about it so they can tell how easy you're lying. For instance, Limelight opened in 1983. So is that when you were there? In 1983? I highly doubt it.

Limelight also offered something completely different almost every night of the week and had multiple parties going on a night. Saying "the scene was lame" proves you have no idea what you're talking about since "the scene" changed nightly and yearly.

Rock and Roll Church on Sundays FTW!

people liked the limelight because of the availability of drugs
every employee sold them so marks that nobody would deal to could score there
that was the only draw
never about the music
never about the culture
doesn't count as a scene

"people liked the limelight because of the availability of drugs "

Who let Nancy Reagan on here?

Bravo Lady Miss Kier !!
Gatien's dauther was always a prime douche,it comes with the genes.
btw how cameron douglas is doing these days?

not true...never did a drug in my lfie and went there often throughout the late 90's/early 00's. loved that setting for the various electronic music artists/DJ's that came through.

Lady Miss Kier rules. Fuck the Gatiens. Whole family of creeps and losers.

12:39 feels like a dumbass.

I saw sick of it all, H2O and one CIV's first shows there. Suuweet!

1st, There is 100% truth in Lady Miss Kier's post and many truths in the various comments.

I was the only black dancer I saw in my time working there in the early 90's.

I never was aware of their door policies or I would of spat in Peter's and his wife's face.

I assumed my black friends, who the majority came from conservative, middle class backgrounds, thought Disco 2000 and certaintly Rock & Roll Sunday, was to weird, freaky, dirty and lowbrow for their tastes.

2nd, yes the drugs were flowing and it surprised me. I'm not from NYC do assumed, this must be an accepted part of their culture.

But, at the same time, many were their just to dance, hear the music, see the bands. You could be obviously naive amongts the people, in hindsight, who were obviously high.

Many kids like I had no drug reference, we were naive, and when it finally dawned on me what I was in the middle of, I was out the door.

And quite frankly, I was very lucky. A lot of kids who came for the music, left with drug habits.

My youthful vanity saved me as once it dawned on me the "real deal", I notice how less than fierce these kids looked after a month of doing what I declared es nonsense.

I was to young and vain to want to look like that at 20. And most importantly, I luckily don't have a personality that was that curious.

But from the time the realization of what people were purchasing, beyond drinks, and me walking - I was quite astounded at the openess and how freely this thing called E was being brought n sold.

Not to mention what else was, but I was so gone I didnt stick around to take notes.

Once again Lady Kier tells it like it is! I am glad you stand up for what is right.

Supa DJ Dmitry > all other DJ's that have ever played at limelight!

Get on board!

Um why would you sign the release form if you didn't want to be in the film?

1057 - she was being sarcastic.

uh, 10:57 - i think you've missed the point. she didn't get a release form. she's using sarcasm. as in: she never signed one, so it would be impossible for her to have signed one.

2:00am nailed it. I remember seeing Jen Gatien and Cameron Douglas and their friends acting like complete spoiled rotten rich kids at places like Max Fish etc in the LES a few years ago. Such arrogant shitstains. They would regularly go barhopping on weeknights jumping in and out of daddy's chauffeured Lincoln Town Car. Screaming at bartenders and customers all coked up and drunk as fuck. Entitled losers.

12:39 here. I'm not a dumbass, I'm an OLD dumbass thankyaverymuch. But not a lying old dumbass. While Limelight wasn't for me, if memories of that scene make you all weepy with nostalgia, then this movie sounds perfect for you. Ah, movies. I saw Black Lizard back in the day at the Film Forum and Lady Miss Kier sat right behind me. Now I'm all weepy with nostalgia. Glad we had this moment. Time for meds.

12:39 won't quit until we acknowledge he's cool and been around the block.

Love Lady Miss Kier!

Love the blacks!

Fuck Limelight!

I saw Pearl Jam at Limelight in 1992. I'm cooler than all of you

why everybody hate on 12:39? it's a cool story and it's clear s/he's still into music or s/he wouldn't be on this site. respect!

@2:17 - By the late '90s/early '00s, the scene this movie is about was long over. This Doc is about the drug fueled early '90s "club kid" rave scene...not Jeff Mills and Richie Hawtin early '00s techno nights.

The Limelight is now a mall. Appropriate.

Nothing like a good ol'fashioned club diva like Miss Kier!

And she's right 100% about Limelight. I saw 808 State - with Moby opening - sometime around 1990. The club was fun to walk around, but there seemed to be coked-up technoguidos around every corner.

I heard they wouldn't even let Mark White in in '93 even though PFOK was topping the charts.

Where is towa tei these days?

remember when Lady Miss Kier sued Sega because she thought one of their Japanese video game characters looked like her? Yeah, THAT turned out great.

After she lost, she had to pay Sega $600K in court costs. It's sad when celebrities have to resort to litigation (or just threatening litigation in blog posts) as a way to keep their names alive.

come on you fuckers! '90s and '00s. get yer shit straight, bitches!

I saw Guns N' Roses at Limelight in '88 and Pearl Jam's in-store at the Yonkers Tower Records in '91 - I win.

10:15

You old fuck. Hang it up bro.

i used to go to the limelight in the '80s. now i live in my parents basement.

I used to do lots of special k at limelight, now I'm making 70k a year.

"Selling yourself for a nickle at a time."
--Mark Twain

Saw SUPERSUCKERS there in 1995

the important thing to note here is that lady miss kier HAS NOT SEEN THE MOVIE. until she does, why should we take her vitriol at face value? why should we trust hearsay and paranoia? who cares? go watch the film, and then supply us with an informed take on what you saw.

12:41, that does not make sense.

Lady Miss Kier's statement is based on her personal experiences in said club, correct? That is not hearsay.

No one will see this. And no one has seen this. It's so irrelevant that it did not even generate the measly $5k required to get onto box office meters like mojo. Zzz.

Who are these people? No one cares.

^---- no one with any sense of NYC history cares. Those of us who are interested in culture (whether we were for or against a particular aspect of it) do, indeed, "care".

You were probably born in the 90s... this is why you don't care.

^
spot on.

"You were probably born in the 90s... this is why you don't care."

I was born in the 70's and I couldn't give a fuck less. Lamelight, like all clubs of that era that I ever set foot in, was cheesy. After the mild high school curiosity faded, there were just too many cool places to go in the city to waste any time around weirdos and dweebs.

Limelight was at best a footnote in the 'history' of NYC. Referring to it as culture-- you're joking, right? It was a scene, a trend, with minimal lasting artistic value. It had about as much depth as Paris Hilton and her ilk, and just as vacuous.

^ Nope... The limelight was a legendary moment in time.
For some people it was actually more then a club. It was a way of life.
A way of life that revolved around drugs, dance music, and platform sneakers. Which can be a really good time if you dig that sort of thing.

^ Whatever on the legendary moment in time drivel. I liked the movie better the first time when it was called "24 Hour Party People."

Limelight was legendary for what? dayglo homos ? techno guidos? K-holes?

"it was a way of life" -so is sitting around watching tv for some people. doesn't mean it has any lasting or inherent artistic value.

Went to the 2001 Black and Blue Ball there on a second date and got laid that night.

she does have enough money for an attorney.

"Limelight was legendary for what? dayglo homos ? techno guidos? K-holes?"

Exactly. It's one thing to announce to everyone that you're a loser, but it's a whole different deal to announce that you're a loser while being wholly oblivious to that reality. This is even more pitiful than hipsters thinking they're actually cool.

^ Hey... I knew a lot of cool k-heads.

Lady Kier rules. It's just her side of the story, her take, her perspective and opinion. It doesn't have to be a matter of debate, antagonistic. I mean, everybody has a right to share their experience, opinion, etc...and should be able to do so free of judgment, or am I naive? If people are OK w/ racist door and employment policies, etc...then that is their right, too, but the truth about Limelight owners' "intolerance" to diversity seems to be the only undisputed aspect of Limelight history. Lady Kier didn't sue Sega to keep her name out there. She's never cared about attracting mainstream publicity of any kind. She would never file a bogus lawsuit that she didn't truly believe in the merits thereof--Not for money and certainly not fore attention. She believes the character illegally borrows her likeness. She has her reasons for feeling this way, whether or not Sega is %100 guilty or had never heard of Deee-Lite or Lady Kier in their lives. Just my opinion. Throwin' it in. I've never lived in NYC.