voted "one of the ten best rock and roll movies of all time".) Gallery owner Astor went on to co-found the Fun Gallery in 1981 with partner Bill Stelling. This tenement storefront gallery, was the first of the 1980s East Village galleries, and specialized in showing graffiti artists, like Fab 5 Freddy, Lee Quiñones, Zephyr, Dondi, Lady Pink, and Futura 2000. It also gave important shows to Kenny Scharf (in 1981), Jean-Michel Basquiat (November 1982), and Keith Haring (February, 1983), artists with a street background who showed elsewhere. For a while the mix of worlds was unique, with the FUN crew of downtown artists and hipsters, beat-boys, rock, movie and rap stars mixing with both neighborhood kids and the official art world: museum directors, art historians and uptown collectors in their mink coats and limos. The gallery closed in 1985, by which time many other East Village galleries had opened, the interest in graffiti painters in the art world has subsided, and rents in the East Village were rising dramatically. Later years After closing Fun Gallery, Astor moved to Hollywood where she acted in, wrote and produced Get Tux'd starring Ice-T in one of his first movie roles and Assault of the Killer Bimbos awarded by People magazine "Trash Pick of The Week". Bibliography “The True Story of Patti Astor” in Johnny Walker, Janette Beckman, Patti Astor, Peter Beste, No Sleep 'til Brooklyn Perseus Distribution Services. . Dan Cameron, Liza Kirwin, Alan Moore, Penny Arcade, Patti Astor. East Village USA New Museum of Contemporary Art, 0915557886. Filmography References External links Interview with Patti Astor No Sleep ‘til Brooklyn: A powerHouse Hip Hop Retrospective promotional clip (8:40) for documentary “Patti Astor's FUN Gallery,” Robert David Films, Inc. Interview with Patti Astor on Fun Gallery, 149th St. website 1950 births Living people American film actresses 20th-century American actresses Actresses from Cincinnati Actresses from New York City Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute alumni Barnard College alumni 21st-century American women