Plato's Retreat Articles

Jon Hart and Mathew Kaufman's entertaining documentary American Swing chronicles the rise and fall of Larry Levenson, whose nightclub & sex club Plato's Retreat became, along with Studio 54, one of the top New York City hangouts of the late 1970s. Jon Hart (right) has kindly answered (via e-mail) a few brief questions about American Swing. See below. American Swing is currently playing at the [...]

American Swing (2009) Direction: Mathew Kaufman and Jon Hart Screenplay: Keith Reamer Interviewees: Buck Henry, Annie Sprinkle, Melvin van Peebles, Ron Jeremy, Jamie Gillis, Helen Gurley Brown, and others     By way of interviews, photos, and home movies, Mathew Kaufman and journalist Jon Hart's American Swing humorously chronicles the rise and fall of all-American entrepreneur Larry Levenson, free-sex advocate and self-proclaimed "King of Swing," [...]