Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sake of authenticity, three Los Angeles high schools were rented for background, and shooting began last summer, the day after school was out. It ended exactly eleven weeks later, the day before the beginning of the fall semester. Producer Allan Carr treated the whole filming as one of his continuous giant parties, and as soon as Travolta bought his DC-3, he flew several members of the crew to Las Vegas for a weekend. There was so much jollity on the Paramount set that Jack Nicholson, who was making Goin' South on the next sound stage, sent over...
Several student CHUL members and a faculty member in psychology last week criticized the breakfast questions on the poll as presenting background information from only one side of the issue...
...Always a Woman" has a bright arpeggio guitar part in the background, but the song lacks the vitality that comprises so much of Billy Joel's work, and never goes anywhere...
Travolta plays Tony Manero, king of the Bay Ridge, Brooklyn disco scene. From the opening shot, a sweeping glance of Bay Ridge streets complete with pizzerias, neighborhood stores and the F train rumbling overhead, we know Tony is in control of his environment. In the background float the strains of "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gees, who wrote and performed the movie's score. Tony works in a paint store, a job that proves singularly unpromising. But he really lives for Saturday night, when he and his friends hit the 2001: Odyssey discotheque...
...role as Vinnie Barbarino on T.V.'s "Welcome Back, Kotter." He turns in a creditable performance, even if his range of emotions is somewhat limited. As for Gorney--well, she is best when dancing and not saying much, so she never rises above her phony pretensions or her background, as Tony finally does. The rest of the cast is routine, but for the most part they play their parts adequately...