NEW YORK CITY BOY

The disco-era Rangers reached their peak in 1978-79, when Duguay scored 27 goals. He fondly recalled his favorite day of every week that season: “Mondays would look like this: Get a Korean massage, where they’d walk on your back. Then go to Il Vagabondo, the restaurant in the East 60s, and maybe play some bocce. Then at 11:30, I’d go over to Studio 54. My favorite people to go with were Donnie Murdoch or Johnny McEnroe.”Warhol, famous for enjoying the company of beautiful people, put a hand-colored portrait of Duguay on the cover of Interview. And Duguay, a young man from the nickel-mining city of Sudbury, Ontario, found himself hanging around Warhol’s latter-day Factory in the East 30s.“Warhol was a funny character,” Duguay said. “He always had his little Polaroid, snapping pictures. He’d always be quiet, in the background, taking pictures. He liked the fact that we were athletes. He was always very polite, a very gracious man.”

-New York Times
March 20 2009