A Night in Heaven
Just recently, I came across a title on Netflix that jarred a long since dormant memory, A Night in Heaven. It came out in 1983, when I was a scant age eight or nine. We had just gotten HBO and Cinemax at some point and we had a subscription to a color printed periodical similar to that of the old TV Guide and I was thumbing through it for local listings. MTV had just arrived as well, I cannot recall my first time viewing anything on that channel, but for some reason I did (and still do) remember seeing the ad for the movie A Night in Heaven. It was a single photo of teen heart throb Christopher Atkins in sort of a John Travolta finger pointing up and down (you know that move, but I don't know what kind of dance move it's called) on a disco light dance floor. Years later, I would actually see this cinematic gem (whose term I use sarcastically, of course). It was about this guy who works nights as a male stripper who has an affair with his communi...