And I think it was a good portrait of some kind of tyrant like that. She’s crazy about power, she’s absolutely sexually deranged. I like her because, one, she’s about power. I mean, not as eclectic as the Mau Maus or Fear or something like that, but why didn’t they go somewhere? When they were raw, they were good.ĪVC: Do you have a particular favorite Miss Hogar line? I thought they were brilliant, I really did. The bands in Los Angeles were incredible, and I liked them, but they never got anywhere. But they were in New York, and the whole punk scene in New York was violently different from the punk scene in Los Angeles. Were you already familiar with the Ramones, then? Club: You said you’d been into punk at the time. I told Allan, “Thank you for this role, because what I need is just a nice TV series, and I’m gonna do it like I’m Eve Arden.” And he said, “That’s fine, Mary.” And then they dressed me up and they gave me makeup, I showed up on set with all these punk-rockers, and… I just turned into Miss Togar. Club, Woronov detailed her experiences on the film as well as her familiarity with the Ramones before taking on the project. In her Random Roles interview with the A.V. In turn, Riff teams up with the Ramones to take back the school, resulting in a famous encounter between Togar and the band when she poses the immortal question, “Do your parents know you’re Ramones?” When Principal Togar (Mary Woronov) takes away Riff’s ticket, she embarks on a quest to find another way to attend the show, ultimately winning a radio contest, but in the meantime, Principal Togar teams up with school parents to host a rock ‘n’ roll record burning event. Soles of Halloween fame as Riff Randell, a student at the notoriously rebellious Vince Lombardi High School, who loves the Ramones with all of her heart, waits in line for three days to buy a ticket to their show - not just to see them live, mind you, but to present Joey with the song she’s written for the band: a little ditty called “Rock ‘n’ Roll High School.” READ MORE: Remembering the Ramones' Rip-Roaring First Album Per an interview with Turner Classic Movies, Corman had originally wanted to have Cheap Trick or Todd Rundgren as the primary musical artist of the film, but when neither panned out due to scheduling conflicts, cast member Paul Bartel pitched the Ramones, and history was made. Case and point: the original title of the project was Disco High, which had emerged out of an initial story idea by Arkush and Joe Dante, and at another point it was tentatively called Heavy Metal Kids. Having made several teen-centered films earlier in his career, Corman was of a mind to offer up a similar sort of motion picture for audiences in the late ‘70s, and to be perfectly honest, he wasn’t so much flying the flag of punk rock as he was trying to latch onto something that was popular with the kids.
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