• MAX’S KANSAS CITY – Lily Hatchett

    Date posted: June 18, 2006 Author: jolanta

    MAX’S KANSAS CITY

    Lily Hatchett

     

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    style="mso-spacerun: yes">   Last year at the Sundance Film
    Festival, I ran into Yvonne Sewell-Ruskin. She gave me a VHS short about the
    notorious max’s kansas city. Aside from being an extremely well put together little
    film, the come-hither seductiveness of that scene reached out and grabbed all
    who saw it. A full length documentary is in the works. Yvonne is seeking any
    and all film or video footage of that era that may be hidden away.
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    About:

    The max’s
    kansas city project is
    a 501C3 non-profit, dedicated to serving the arts. The mission of the max’s
    projects is to minimize the suffering of those in need by providing emergency
    funding and resources to financially distressed individuals in the arts for
    housing, medical aid and legal aid. (Special consideration is given, but not
    limited to max’s extended family). The organization was founded in 2001 by
    Yvonne, in memory of her late ex-husband, Mickey Ruskin. Mickey was the creator
    of max’s kansas city, the seminal club once located at 213 Park Avenue South, NYC. The
    place where Andy Warhol held court nightly, Aerosmith got signed to a record
    contract, Debbie Harry of “Blondie” waitressed, and Sargent Shriver met
    transvestite Jackie Curtis. It flourished from December of ’65 to the spring of
    ’81. According to Andy Warhol, “…max’s kansas city
    style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’> was the exact spot where Pop
    Art and Pop
    Life came
    together…” The organization is also developing programs to educate youth on the
    dangers of substance abuse and addiction. For more information go to
    href="http://www.maxskansascity.com/">www.maxskansascity.com
    name="_Hlt58756279"> or www.maxskansascity.org.

     

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