Disco of Saturday Night Fever was real

[Marcio**]

It was a real disco called "Brooklyn's 2001 Odyssey" :)
The club of Al Pacino's "Cruising" was real too :)

[Disco Funk]

And do you know the connection between SNF and Al Pacino?

Disco Funk

[Blooeyz2001]

When the movie was filmed, the Marquee outside the Brooklyn club says Carol Douglas was appearing there, although she was not in the film. I went to the club in the early 1980's & Tony Robinson (the real person who the Tony Manero character was based on) was there schlepping around in a white suit. It was a pitiful sight to behold, to say the least. In the mid-80's it was turned into a gay club called The Spectrum, with the "SNF" dance floor still intact...From IMDB.com: Travolta's 'Fever' Dance Floor Up for Sale
23 February 2005 (WENN)
The dance floor John Travolta strutted across in Saturday Night Fever is expected to fetch $80,000 when it goes up for auction. The multi-colored floor, which featured in the 1977 movie classic, has been retrieved from a doomed Brooklyn nightclub, which closed last week, and will be up for sale on April 1 to bidders on internet auction eBay. Organizer Brian Chanes says, "We're getting international interest from all sorts of people. We have interest from private collectors who want the dance floor for themselves, and from club owners who know the commercial value of having the floor made famous in Saturday Night Fever." The 2001 Odyssey nightclub's former owner Jay Rizzo adds, "Over the years, we've had thousands of people who come here just to see it. It is incredibly popular with tourists - particularly from Europe. It has literally been the heartbeat of this club."

[Marcio**]

Originally Posted by Disco Funk

And do you know the connection between SNF and Al Pacino?

No !!! :o


The bar where "Cruising" was filmed is/was called "Eagle's Nest" on 11th Avenue. Gay people said the film is not true :)

[Disco Funk]

Originally Posted by Marcio

No !!! :o

It's just a cheesy one. In the movie Tony Manero (John Travolta) has a poster of Al Pacino (from Serpico I think), and he wakes up one morning wishing he were like Al Pacino, and walks around in his underwear shouting 'Attica!' from Dog Day Afternoon.

Disco Funk

[Videoskooter]

Originally Posted by Disco Funk

he wakes up one morning wishing he were like Al Pacino, and walks around in his underwear shouting 'Attica!' from Dog Day Afternoon.Disco Funk

Yeah, and he shocks his poor old grannie, madre madonna :evil: :lol:

[DiscoMan]

"Serpico" is correct. "Serpico" was a very popular Pacino film among young people in the early '70s. Frank Serpico, as portrayed by Pacino, was THE definition of early '70s cool.

[Marcio**]

Another version of Tony Manero is Vincent Lauria (Tom Cruise) in 'The Color of Money' :) .