But as a turn of fate, the Schmucks were coming stateside, as business partners Moe Aljaff and Juliette Larrouy had the keys to a new bar in the East Village. Together, they hoped to bring the ...

a true impresario of East Village nightlife in the 1970s. The medieval aspect of the bar makes sense — Luhrmann has been working on a film about Joan of Arc. The bar is like a film set ...