Manhattan was my legal residence then.
Was MTV still on West 57th street? In the early 80s, I used to see Goodman and Blackwood and JJ out in the street in front hailing cabs and Goodman frequented the China Club uptown on Broadway same as me....85 or so.
Can you elaborate how the place was sexist and particularly racist?
Just curious.
I worked on the show REMOTE CONTROL. We filmed it at a studio on 9th Ave. I believe those VJ's were gone by that time.
The problem with MTV was that it was run by 20 somethings. They were given million dollar budgets and did, what 20 year olds do. The programming was childish and sexist. I was sexually harrassed by a guy named Joe Davola. He was the Producer of Remote Conrol, and I believe it was the first show he ever produced. I won't go into what he did to me (nothing physical), but lots psychological. I finally confronted him as I had advised others to do. He did back down, but I wasn't asked back for the second season, although the rest of my team was. THAT'S SEXUAL HARRASSMENT.
If you find the name JOE DAVOLA familiar sounding, it's because there was a running joke in the Seinfeld show about CRAZY JOE DAVOLA stalking Jerry. I guess others found him creepy as well!