What I really missed in “Staying Alive” was the sense of reality in “Saturday Night Fever” — the sense that Tony came from someplace and was somebody particular. There’s no old neighborhood, no vulgar showdowns with his family (he apologizes to his mother for his “attitude”!) and...
Staying Alive: Directed by Sylvester Stallone. With John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes, Steve Inwood. Five years later, Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenge yet: succeeding as a da
Staying Alive in the 90s: (John) Travolta as Star and the Performance of MasculinityFEW MALE MOVIE STARS HAVE BEEN AS OVERTLY spectacularized as the young John Travolta...Zigelstein, JesseCineActionCineaction
Most of it stands up remarkably well--especially John Travolta’s performance, the sinuous, turbocharged disco numbers, Norman Wexler’s slangy slyboots dialogue, and the mostly Bee Gees soundtrack (though--was it Chevy Chase who first said it?--the Brothers Gibb in full cry sound like a c...