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Second Heat: *W. T. Pope '42, time 4:25.5; M. D. Gorney '45; R. S. Morrison '45; S. McLean...
...them advertise in newspapers, on billboards and even on TV with come-ons such as "Has your breast-implant surgery gone wrong? We can help." Doctors find this alarming. "They're scaring the hell out of the women who have had these things put in," complains Dr. Mark Gorney, medical director of the Doctors' Co., a large malpractice insurer. "Any woman with an implant who has a twinge in her shoulder says, 'Oh, my God, I'm going to die.' " Many attorneys also worry about the appearance of a feeding frenzy...
...John Badham who seems bent on dazzling his audiences with bizarre camera angles when the mere sight of Travolta on a dance floor would have been enough; and the same schmaltz-filled discovery of love, in this case--Tony's ultimately Platonic crush on a fellow Brooklynite (Karen Lyyn Gorney) trying to elbow her way onto the promised island of fame and fortune on the other side of the East River. True to the spirit of "Rocky," "Saturday Night Fever" amounts to little more than another serving of accessible cinematic pulp; as such it has furnished Travolta with his very...
...would fail miserably. Luckily, the film goes much deeper than that. The central dynamic in the film is the increasing tension between Tony and his Bay Ridge world. Tony is growing up, moving apart from this Italian ghetto. And that growth is immeasurably accelerated by Stephanie Mangano (Karen Lynn Gorney), another Bay Ridge dancer whom Tony meets at the 2001 and with whom he inevitably falls in love. Stephanie looks down on Tony and his neighborhood because she works in a Manhattan record agency, where everything is beautiful: "The people are beautiful, the offices are beautiful, lunch hours are beautiful...
Travolta is funny throughout the movie, in the tough yet naive way he has perfected in his 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...