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...Travolta Fever...
...early sign of this stress is school phobia, a major crisis involving fever, depression, even autism and suicide. It accounts for almost half of the mental illness among Japanese youngsters under 18 and takes an average of two years of drug therapy and counseling to cure...
...current state of near exhaustion, the Japanese cinema has returned to the exotic isolation of its earliest years. Moviegoing in Japan at the turn of the century was an experience more closely allied to other national arts than to the nickelodeon fever of the West. Until 1918 female roles were played by Kabuki actors in drag. Until the arrival of talking pictures in 1931, audiences depended upon spellbinding narrators called benshi to interpret the on-screen action; many were more popular than the country's movie stars. Though Japanese cinema was a strong force in Asia (so much...
...sounded like a match made in show business heaven. John Travolta: instant superstar when he strode down a Brooklyn sidewalk, the white-suited knight in a grungy Camelot, as Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever; consolidation of stardom in Grease and Urban Cowboy; a sensitive actor with a stud's lean physique. Sylvester Stallone: instant superstar when he laced up his gloves and socked it to the champ for the full 15 in Rocky; consolidation of stardom in Rockys II and III, which he directed as well as wrote, mixing sentimental bravura with slam-bang action sequences...
Staying Alive doesn't make it anywhere: not as character study, not as an ersatz Chorus Line, not even as a canny exploitation of the good will engendered by Saturday Night Fever. Six years after Tony crossed the Brooklyn Bridge into the city of everyone's tattered dreams, he is stuck in a rut just off Broadway, teaching jazz dance by day, tending bar at night. Encouraged by his palfriend Jackie (Cynthia Rhodes), Tony auditions for the chorus of a musical called Satan's Alley-a sort of rock musical comedy version of Dante's Inferno...