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Cason's Casting Couch:
Party Monster
Welcome to Cason’s Casting Couch, a column devoted to an examination of who booked what role and why. Casting, an opaque process beholden to budgets, scheduling conflicts, and abuses of power, can impact a movie’s final cut as fundamentally as editing. To illustrate my point, let’s take a look at Party Monster ().
by Cason Sharpe
Based on the memoir by James St. James, Party Monster tells the story of Michael Alig, the early ‘90s nightlife impresario who presided over an amorphous troupe of post-Warholian characters known as the Club Kids. Widely publicized for their shocking looks and jovial hedonism, this loose association of ravers was united by a vaguely political but ultimately empty ethos of queer love and free drugs, with Alig installed as host and de facto leader. Fuelled by the god complex bestowed upon him as a minor New York celeb, Alig fell prey to a drug addiction that culminated in the gruesome murder of Andre “Angel” Melendez, a year-old dealer with a nickname he earned by wearing a pair of wings to one of Alig’s parties.
Trashy B movie meets queer cautionary tale, Party Monster attempts to balance irony with pathos and ends up in melodrama, the genre perhaps best suited to tell the horrifying st
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DJ Keoki
Superstar DJ Keoki | |
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| Birth name | George Lopez |
| Also leak out as | Keoki Franconi |
| Born | () Oct 23, (age&#;58) El Salvador |
| Origin | Kihei, Island, Hawaii, U.S. |
| Genres | Electronic |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, producer, DJ |
| Years active | s–present |
Musical artist
George Lopez[1] (born October 23, ), get around by his stage name DJ Keoki or Keoki Franconi, practical a Salvadoran-American electronic performer and DJ. Born impede El Salvador and upraised in Island, Keoki began advertising himself as "superstar" shortly later moving tip off New Dynasty City.[2]
Biography
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- Michael: nd street, and on the double!
- Keoki: Are we going very far?
- Michael: All the way, I hope
- Michael Alig: Come to my party?
- Keoki: Oh dude, thank you so much.
- Michael Alig: You could be my boyfriend.
- Keoki: Oh actually, um, I'm not gay. I'm actually here with a couple of babes.
- Michael Alig: Well, let's talk after a couple cocktails. Drink ticket?
- Keoki: What's that?
- Michael Alig: It's a kitty! Aw, it's our lovechild. We'll call him Skrinkle.
- James: [voice over] As you dry your eyes, let me just say this about that. Skrinkle was just the beginning. Skrinkle begat Skroddle and Skrinkle and Skroddle were the Lego blocks of a strange new world he was building for us all. You were either a Skrink or a Skrod. I was a Skrinklada if I was good or a stupid Skrod lover if I was bad. Somehow, his dopey language caught on like his stupid parties.
- Keoki: Michael, what are you doing?
- Michael Alig: Skrinkle and I just did all your cocaine.
- Keoki: You did what?
- Michael Alig: Well I just figured if you're gonna ruin our relationship by doing drugs I should see what all the fuss is about.
- Keoki: Oh great, so now we have two drug addicts in the family?
- Michael Alig: And Skrinkle makes three. Do you have any more?
- Keo