Remembering The Roxbury, Plus Playhouse Hosts BPM’s Biggest Bash
By Lina Lecaro
Friday, July 17, 2009
In this week’s Nightranger, we toddle around Hollywood’s newest super-club, Playhouse, a gorgeous mega-production-geared space opened by club impresarios Elie Samaha and Rob Vinokur.
Samaha, also a movie big-wig, is best known for famed ’90’s hotspot The Roxbury nightclub on the Sunset Strip, and during a chat with him at Playhouse, he revealed that a sequel to the 1998 club-themed classic, Night at the Roxbury, is in the works. Inspired by “The Roxbury Guys,” the beloved head-bobbing Saturday Night Live skit starring Chris Kattan and Will Farrell (before he became a box office giant), the film told the story of the Butabi brothers, two nightlife-loving fellas on a quest to get past the velvet ropes of Samaha’s venue. It seems funnier than ever, probably because the ubiquitousness of upscale club culture means everyone’s in on the joke these days (even if the joke’s on you, ’cause ya cant get in).
Information from: LA Weekly
