Places of Yesteryear

The Embassy Theater 1, 2, 3

The Embassy Theatre was opened by Loew’s Inc. on August 26, 1925 with Eric Von Stroheim’s “The Merry Widow”. Designed by famed theatre architect Thomas Lamb in a French Renaissance style, seating was provided for 556, all on a single floor. Decorative details were the work of the Rambusch Studio, and murals on the walls were by Arthur Crisp. The entrance on the east side of Broadway, Times Square, is a long narrow corridor, lined with polish wood panels. The concept of the Embassy Theatre was to provide movie entertainment to a refined audience, and initially when first opened almost all the staff were female. The Embassy Theatre was equipped with a Moller 3 manual, 15 ranks theatre organ, which remained in the theatre until around 1927. In 1929 the Embassy Theatre was taken over by Guild Enterprises, and on November 1, 1929, it became the first movie theatre in the United States to operate as an all newsreel theatre, renamed Embassy Newsreel Theatre. In 1949 it became a first run movie theatre again. Later renamed New Embassy 46th Street Theatre on August 13, 1968 the World Premiere of “Targets” starring Boris Karloff was held at the New Embassy 46th Street Theatre. It was finally renamed Embassy 1 Theatre (the nearby former Mayfair/DeMille Theatre had been renamed Embassy 2, 3, 4 Theatre). In 1987, the interior of the Embassy 1 Theatre was designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The Embassy 1 Theatre was closed as a cinema in 1997. Renovations were carried out and it reopened in 1998 as the Times Square Visitors Center. Sadly this closed in June 2014. Contributed by Ken Roe Cinema Treasures

Note: My second job, and the only job I was ever fired from (circa 1990)

The Goddess Bunny

aka Sadie Crisp aka Johnnie Baima
Sandra "Sandie" Crisp (born November 25, 1960), also known by her stage name The Goddess Bunny, is an American entertainer, drag queen, actress, and model.^[1]
Crisp is transgender and was born stricken with polio and was subject to the malpractice of multiple doctors resulting in the further disfigurement of her body. She grew up in various foster homes for disabled children. During her childhood, she routinely endured physical and sexual abuse from members of her foster care families largely due to her gender identity and disability. 
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The Goddess Bunny Documentary

 

And the award goes to...

Ellen Burstyn for Requiem for a Dream

2001
Who Won: Julia Roberts (“Erin Brockovich”)Who Should’ve Won: Ellen Burstyn (“Requiem for a Dream”)Who Else Was Nominated: Joan Allen (“The Contender”), Juliette Binoche (“Chocolat”), Laura Linney (“You Can Count On Me”)

Julia Roberts dishes up some plucky charm in Steven Soderbergh’s whistleblower docudrama “Erin Brockovich” — the film that got Hollywood to take the seasoned romcom movie star seriously. But no brassy courtroom verbiage compares to Ellen Burstyn’s indomitable performance as starry-eyed spinster housewife Sarah Goldfarb. Yes, there’s that famous “red dress” monologue where she spills her broken guts to her drug addict son (watch it after the jump), but let’s not forget all the manic pill-popping, amphetamine-addled delusion that showcases her fearlessness as an actress — while at the same time dragging us down to hell.

-IndieWire