Tag: Saturday Night Fever
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John Travolta Is Swoon-Worthy in This Western-Themed Romance
Although now he primarily stars in low-budget crime films, action thrillers, and future cult classics (such as the bizarre stalked film The Fanatic and the misguided mafia biopic Gotti), it’s easy to forget that John Travolta was once the most popular young romantic heartthrob of his generation. Travolta had immediately established himself as an actor…
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This Is the Most Important Film in John Travolta’s Career
In the late 1970s, few actors were bigger and more loved than John Travolta. From Welcome Back, Kotter, to Saturday Night Fever, to Grease, Travolta wowed audiences with not only how cool and charismatic he was, but with his ability to leave audiences in awe due to his singing and dancing prowess. It also left…
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’13: The Musical’ Review: A Teen Musical Too Wholesome for Words, But the Songs Pop
A piece of pop culture can mark a paradigm shift, even when it has no idea it’s doing so. (The lack of calculation is part of why the paradigm shifts.) That’s what happened in the summer of 1978, when the movie version of “Grease” came out. It ruled the way that “Saturday Night Fever” had…
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How we made Short Circuit, by Steve Guttenberg and John Badham
‘A producer said: “Great – but can he dance?” So we got him to move like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever’The second I read the script, about a robot becoming self-aware after being struck by lightning, I put it down and said: “This is a hit.” It was a timeless story about an underdog,…
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Kenneth Branagh to Direct Bee Gees Biopic for Paramount
Kenneth Branagh has been tapped to direct the upcoming Bee Gees biopic for Paramount Pictures.The movie will center on the life and times of the genre-spanning band, following the humble beginnings of brothers Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb into their journey to pop superstardom. Following their first No. 1 hit “How Can You Mend a…
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‘The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart’ Trailer: How Deep Is Your Love for the Trio?
Even if you didn’t grow up during the disco era, you undoubtedly know at least one song by The Bee Gees. The trio of brothers Barry, Maurice & Robin Gibb delivered such hits as “Stayin’ Alive” and “Night Fever” from the hit film Saturday Night Fever, not to mention other classic tunes like “How Deep…
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Alfredo Castro on ‘My Tender Matador,’ Pedro Lemebel
When Pablo Larraín started out, he arrived at the Berlinale in 2008 with extracts from his second feature, “Tony Manero,” starring Chilean actor, playwright and theater director Alfredo Castro as an off-the-rails, impoverished, over-the-hill imitator of John Travolta’s character in “Saturday Night Fever.”A symbol of cultural alienation, Castro’s character practices his disco moves as Augusto…