ZHORA! ZHORA! ZHORA!

The original idea for the club, they were trying to get the use of the Wiltern Theatre on Wilshire Boulevard, which wasn’t nouveau or baroque; there was a theme of ornamentation and the mezzanine is an oval around the ground floor. The idea was to use the stairs coming down to the main floor, put in a plastic ramp to the stage where Zhora would dance. But that never worked out, so the club scene was much reduced in terms of scale and camera angles.