Most Americans have never heard the title Robin Johnson. But in the fall of 1980, she was on the verge of superstardom. And if issues had gone to plan, her name would have been as familiar as Barbra Streisand. She would have been the star of hit films with perhaps a number of Oscars to go along with them. And she would have had platinum selling document albums with a string of high ten hits. At the least she ought to have been a preferred character actress like Kristin Chenoweth with maybe a few top 40 hits. But as a substitute she is barely even a footnote, who’s most outstanding function was as a prostitute in a single episode of Miami Vice.

The Haven is now legend. It was the theater every kid in Queens and most of Brooklyn knew of for one cause alone; they might let any child …