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Word: palfriend (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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-and falls for Laura, the show's star (Finola Hughes). Tony gets the job because, as the musical's choreographer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: 42nd Street Meets Flashdance | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

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