DRIVE-IN SATURDAY
“1997. New York City is a walled maximum security prison. Breaking out is impossible. Breaking in is insane. ” The ad for John Carpenter’s Escape From New York sets up the film’s premise perfectly and, on the way into the screening room, The Dauphin’s “I Love New York” button is met with knowing, ironic smiles.
DRIVE-IN SATURDAY
What’s Green And Smells Like Pork?
Edouard Dauphin
“1997. New York City is a walled maximum security prison. Breaking out is impossible. Breaking in is insane. ” The ad for John Carpenter’s Escape From New York sets up the film’s premise perfectly and, on the way into the screening room, The Dauphin’s “I Love New York” button is met with knowing, ironic smiles. The publicists still frisk me down for weapons and explosives but I’m used to that.
Forget Frank Sinatra and Ed Koch —does anyone really love New York? Traveling to the movie, one has to endure 97 degrees heat, an airless subway car inhabited by Walkman body snatchers, the pleas of winos who look like a cross between Divine and Les Dudek and the screaming of a street crazy who sees a connection between the shooting of the Pope and the cancellation of The Toni Tennile Show