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SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER is one of those movies you would probably enjoy if you let yourself. Leave home your preconceived notions about what a movie about disco dancing, set in Brooklyn, starring John Travolta of Sweathog fame is going to be like--you should find the movie a pleasant surprise...
...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...
...seniors graduate from Harvard College, trampling and tearing up the carefully and expensively manicured lawns of Harvard Yard in the process. In his Commencement Address, Freddie Laker comments, "The line for the airbus forms right behind the Phi Beta Kappa procession." Honorary degrees are awarded to John Travolta, Nona Hendryx, Alex Haley, Jann Wenner, Larry Flynt, and Jack Ford. The highlight of the ceremony is a stand-off duel between the clam serving as Mayor of Cambridge and the "rootless" Yale Bladderball...
James C. Thompson, curator of the Nieman Fellows, announces the selection of this year's fellowship recipients. The winners include William Colby. Richard Helms, Jason Robards, John Travolta, Chuck Barris, KAL, Peter Marshall, Paul (Secret Square) Lynde, and Buffalo Bob Smith...
Success has come easily to Travolta: since he was 16, he has never been turned down for a part. He dropped out of his Englewood high school-a harsher, drug-ridden version of the happy school in Kotter after his second year, and soon landed summer stock roles, a part in an off-Broadway revival of Rain and the first of his 40 TV commercials. The role of Barbarino was a natural for him-"I knew that character from high school," he says-and soon after Roller's Dremiere in 1975 he was receiving 5,000 fan letters...