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80 Blocks from Tiffany’s was what The Warriors
, the cultish and campy Hollywood street gang movie involving roller skates and a race to Coney Island, could never be. It was real. Shot over the course of a couple of weeks in the summer of ’79 (as the seeds of hip-hop culture were slowly sprouting in the BX), 80 Blocks from Tiffany’s
, produced by Lorne Michaels [and directed by SNL director Gary Weis], veers away from the social commentary typically associated with gang exposés. Instead, the 60-minute documentary focuses on the personalities behind the news reports, including a tough NYPD detective from the Bronx Youth Gang Task Force and a sympathetic community activist. Quoted from the introduction to
an interview with Gary Weis.
posted by filthy light thief
on Oct 12, 2011 -
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"Normally subcultures in Australia are taken from other countries and just reproduced here.
Sharps or sharpies are an Australian specific subculture, developed in Australian specific conditions." Sharpies were members of suburban youth gangs in Australia mainly from the 1960s to 1980s,
particularly in Melbourne, but also in Sydney and Perth to a lesser extent. "Everybody was in a gang. Everybody. Every second street there was a gang. Um --
there was like you were either in a gang or you were the victim." The time of the sharpies is part of Melbourne folklore. Forget JFK. Where were you when Frankston erupted after the
AC/DC concert in 1977? While the violence was legendary, so were
the fashion and the music.
Lobby Loyde and the
Coloured Balls,
Buster Brown,
Skyhooks, Fat Daddy,
Hush. And nobody
danced like the sharpies (which resembles
skanking of
some sort).
Anyone over forty who grew up in Melbourne has at least one story to tell about the sharpies (PDF). Some stories are about
gang leaders with missing teeth and shit-eating grins, while others
look back with some sort of fondness.
posted by filthy light thief
on Apr 14, 2009 -
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