READ : The original article that inspired the movie SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER

[remicks]

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I've always wanted to read this : :icon_biggrin:

TRIBAL RITES OF THE NEW SATURDAY NIGHT


This is the article that appeared in NEW YORK magazine in 1976 (June 7) that was drawn from to create the script for SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER.


here's a piece of it :

Two blocks farther on, Joey was waiting in the car. Joey and Gus in the front, Eugene and John James and now Vincent in the back, trundling through the icy streets in a collapsing ’65 Dodge. Nobody talked and nobody smiled. Each scrunched into his own private space; they all held their distance, conserved their strength, like prizefighters before a crucial bout. The Dodge groaned and rattled. The radio played Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. Everything else was silence, and waiting.

John James and Eugene worked in a record store; Gus was a house painter. As for Joey, no one could be sure. In any case, it didn’t matter. Not now. All that counted was the moment. And for the moment, riding out toward 2001 Odyssey, they existed only as Faces.

Faces. According to Vincent himself, they were simply the elite. All over Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, even as far away as New Jersey, spread clear across America, there were millions and millions of kids who were nothing special. Just kids. Zombies. Professional dummies, going through the motions, following like sheep. School, jobs, routines. A vast faceless blob. And then there were the Faces. The Vincents and Eugenes and Joeys. A tiny minority, maybe two in every hundred, who knew how to dress and how to move, how to float, how to fly. Sharpness, grace, a certain distinction in every gesture. And some strange instinct for rightness, beyond words, deep down in their blood: “The way I feel,” Vincent said, “it’s like we have been chosen.”

to read the rest:

Inside the Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night -- New York Magazine :icon_cool: :icon_cool: :icon_cool:



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[drlove]

that was great (and historic) reading -- thanks remicks for posting.

Particularly loved the occasional listings of various (circa '75) tracks the disco was playing on Saturday nights (they even listed Track of the Cat -- I believe that was by Dionne Warwick, though her song "Take It From Me" was a bigger early-disco hit for her).

[johnnyd1788]

Wooow... Thanks for this! I've been meaning to read this!