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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saturday Night Fever. Since a major national magazine recently ran a cover piece on the Vietnamization of Hollywood, maybe a free-lancing stargazer somewhere will write something on the Italianization of its box office idols. John Travolta's disco-dancing Tony has joined Sylvester Stallone's Rocky as one of America's favorite silver screen heroes, and the similarities between the two films do not end there. There is the same low-budget feel to "Saturday Night Fever"--the obscure director, in this case a fellow named John Badham who seems bent on dazzling his audiences with bizarre camera angles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kubrick Gets His Kicks; Hawks Hyperventilates | 4/27/1978 | See Source »

...give us Cheryl Tiegs in a fishnet bathing suit, but not John Travolta in his black bikinis. Give women something to ogle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 24, 1978 | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...impressed with Travolta. His Saturday Night Fever is a racist, sexist and offensive film. It has a Neanderthal mentality with 1970s vulgarity. Recycled mass mediocrity has taken over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 24, 1978 | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...Travolta flys without wings. Does he shuffle and strut on water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 24, 1978 | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

When cloning is perfected, would you send me a copy of John Travolta, please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 24, 1978 | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

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