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Travolta mania stopped filming on Saturday Night Fever

John Travolta's frenzied fans forced the director of Saturday Night Fever to use decoys, fake schedules and early-morning shoots during filming.

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John Travolta mania stopped filming on Saturday Night Fever

Saturday Night Fever director John Badham has revealed how overwhelming fan attention forced filmmakers to use decoys, fake schedules and early-morning shoots during production.

BANG Premier

Saturday Night Fever review – this cheap knockoff leaves you pining for the Travolta film

Athenaeum Theatre, MelbourneThis take on Saturday Night Fever is best enjoyed as a family-friendly nostalgia trip, rather than a fully realised repositioning of a cultural icon

The Guardian - AU

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“We wrote it in a farmyard in France. We’d never heard of ‘disco music’ at the time. We were singing about the state of the times, and the human condition”: How the Bee Gees channelled angst and despair to create the greatest dancefloor-filler of all time

Ah, ah, ah, ah...

MusicRadar

The 32 greatest '70s movie characters

Journalists, crooked cops, kung fu masters, the 1970s have them all

Total Film

TV tonight: a fresh and freaky drama about a coven of modern witches

Siena Kelly sucks the life out of the men she dates in BBC Three’s supernatural series. Plus: painters vie to be Landscape Artist of the Year. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem to Control – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

The pizza-loving amphibians get a zippy, funny reboot featuring a vintage hip-hop soundtrack, while Anton Corbijn’s stark biopic is graced by an absolutely uncanny impersonation of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis

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Director Pablo Larraín: ‘Chile is my world. How can I not be allowed to talk about the things that happened to us?’

Augusto Pinochet returns as a bloodsucking vampire – together with Margaret Thatcher – in El Conde, the Chilean director’s black comedy horror. He talks about his fascination with the dictator and why, despite his family ties, he feels empowered to keep telling stories about his country

The Guardian - UK

John Travolta’s Saturday Night Fever suit up for sale – with ‘authentic’ sweat marks

One of two identical white three-pieces worn by star in 1977 role expected to fetch $250,000

The Guardian - UK

"Saturday Night Fever's" legacy at 45

From the Bee Gees to "Pulp Fiction," the music and movie industries would not be the same if not for this 1977 film

Salon

Brooklyn’s rich cinematic history detailed in new book

“Filmed in Brooklyn" by Margo Donohue; Arcadia Publishing (176 pages, $23.99)

Tribune News Service

Edinburgh Playhouse to welcome Saturday Night Fever show this November

The Saturday Night Fever musical is a homage to the famous Travolta film and will be a journey through some of the biggest Bee Gees hits for Edinburgh attendees.

Edinburgh Live

Saturday Night Fever review – don’t drop that glitter ball!

Big-hearted production ticks all the visual boxes of the 70s classic, and pro dancers tidy the raw edges but at times the floor fails to light up

The Guardian - UK

Saturday Night Fever review: soft, safe - but the hoofing’s top notch

Leading man Richard Windsor charms the audience like a hen do Hugh Jackman

Evening Standard

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