104-468: Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American dance drama film directed by John Badham and produced by Robert Stigwood . It stars John Travolta as Tony Manero, a young Italian-American man who spends his weekends dancing and drinking at a local discothèque while dealing with social tensions and disillusionment in his working class ethnic neighborhood in Brooklyn . The story is based on " Tribal Rites of
208-499: A James Beard Award in 2009, and its Underground Gourmet critics Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld won two National Magazine Awards ), and its service journalism (its "Strategist" department won seven National Magazine Awards in eleven years. Since its sale, redesign, and relaunch in 2004, the magazine has won several National Magazine Awards , including the award for general excellence in 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2016, as well as
312-408: A body double , rehearsing his choreography with Lester Wilson and Deney Terrio for three hours every day, losing 20 pounds in the process. Wilson is credited for providing the look of the dance scenes and "breathing life" into the film. Said Travolta, "He taught me what he called his 'hang time.' He would smoke a cigarette to greet the day, and he infused my dancing with African-American rhythm. I'm
416-562: A home video release on Laserdisc . It was first released to DVD by Paramount on October 8, 2002, as an R-rated special-edition, which included most of the deleted scenes present on the PG version, as well as a director's commentary and "Behind the Music" featurettes. On May 5, 2009, Paramount released Saturday Night Fever on Blu-ray Disc in 1.78:1 aspect ratio. This release retains the R-rated version of
520-529: A 24-hour schedule full-time in December 1981). The R-rated theatrical version premiered on the network at midnight Eastern Time on January 1, 1980. For the film's network television premiere, airing on ABC on November 16, 1980, a new milder version was created to conform with network broadcast standards. The network television version was a slightly shortened cut of the PG-rated version. In order to maintain runtime,
624-461: A 30-page preview of the first issue of Ms. magazine, edited by Gloria Steinem . Gail Sheehy's "The Search for Grey Gardens", a cover story about the notorious mother -and- daughter Beale household of East Hampton, led to the Maysles brothers' acclaimed documentary . As the 1970s progressed, Felker continued to broaden the magazine's editorial vision beyond Manhattan, covering Richard Nixon and
728-511: A book-length history of the magazine and its city, published by Simon & Schuster and titled Highbrow, Lowbrow, Brilliant, Despicable: 50 Years of New York . The magazine also produced a commemorative issue and celebrated with a party at Katz's Delicatessen . That year, The Cut introduced its podcast, "The Cut on Tuesdays", produced jointly with Gimlet Media and hosted by one of the site's writers, Molly Fischer. In December 2018, New York 's fashion and beauty destination site, The Cut, carried
832-463: A competitor. Kosner's magazine shifted the mix of the magazine toward newsmagazine-style cover stories, trend pieces, and pure "service" features—long articles on shopping and other consumer subjects—as well as close coverage of the glitzy 1980s New York City scene epitomized by financiers Donald Trump and Saul Steinberg . The magazine was profitable for most of the 1980s. The term "the Brat Pack "
936-516: A few additional scenes deleted from both theatrical releases were added to make up for the lost/cut material, making the ABC version among the longest cuts of the film. These added scenes included Tony dancing with Doreen to " Disco Duck ", Tony running his finger along the cables of the Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge , and Tony's father getting his job back. The last two deleted scenes were included in
1040-517: A film with different ratings shown concurrently in American theaters. Consequently, Paramount had to remove the film from exhibition for a period of 90 days before they could showcase the alternate rated version, thereby causing a delay in their release plans. Eventually, in 1979, the PG-rated version was made available to the public. Paramount later decided to present it as a double feature along with their other successful John Travolta film, Grease . In
1144-599: A film, Tony Manero , about a Chilean dancer obsessed by the main character in Saturday Night Fever who tries to win a Tony Manero look-alike contest. On April 17, 2012, Fox aired series Glee ' s episode 16, " Saturday Night Glee-ver ", which pays tribute to the film and features various songs from its soundtrack (especially the songs performed by the Bee Gees ), covered by the series' cast. The Red Hot Chili Peppers 2016 music video for their song " Go Robot "
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#17328455307211248-605: A given theme that changed with each installment. (A typical entry, in a competition calling for humorous epitaphs, supplied this one for Geronimo: "Requiescat in Apache.") Altogether, Madden ran 973 installments of the competition, retiring in 2000. Hundreds, sometimes thousands, of entries were received each week, and winners included David Mamet , Herb Sargent , and Dan Greenburg . David Halberstam once claimed that he had submitted entries 137 times without winning. Madden published three volumes of Competition winners, titled Thank You for
1352-779: A lab leak instigated the COVID-19 epidemic; a cover package, "Ten Years Since Trayvon," about the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement; and "The Year of the Nepo Baby ," a widely discussed feature about dynastic career advancement in Hollywood. Lindsay Peoples became the editor of The Cut in 2021, and Vulture hired book critic Andrea Long Chu, who subsequently won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. New York magazine has long run literary competitions and distinctive crossword puzzles . For
1456-501: A magazine attached." On March 1, 2011, it was announced that Frank Rich would leave The New York Times to become an essayist and editor-at-large for New York . New York 's "Encyclopedia of 9/11", published on the tenth anniversary of the attacks, was described by Gizmodo as "heartbreaking, locked in the past, and entirely current"; the issue won a National Magazine Award for Single-Topic Issue. In October 2012, New York 's offices in lower Manhattan were without electricity in
1560-564: A more national focus to GrubStreet.com. Vulture was launched as a pop culture blog on NYMag.com in 2007. It moved to an independent web address, Vulture.com, in 2012. In 2018, New York Media acquired the comedy news blog Splitsider , folding the operation into the Vulture website. In 2016, New York launched the Strategist , an expansion of a column from the print version of New York Magazine that aimed to help readers navigate shopping from
1664-441: A motorcycle accident some years before. After the success of Saturday Night Fever , Gorney took a break from film acting to work as a dance instructor at a performing arts academy in Brooklyn . Jessica Lange , Kathleen Quinlan , Carrie Fisher , and Amy Irving were all considered for the part before Gorney was cast. Donna Pescow was considered almost "too pretty" by Paramount heads Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg for
1768-405: A movie version of Grease , but because a film adaptation of Grease was not permitted to begin filming until 1978 when its stage run had completed, they made this film first. Travolta's performance as Tony Manero brought him critical acclaim and helped launch him into international stardom. Travolta researched the part by visiting the real 2001 Odyssey discotheque, and claimed he adopted many of
1872-511: A new life, Frank encourages Tony to do what makes him happy. Gus is beaten up and hospitalized, telling his friends that his attackers were the Barracudas, a Puerto Rican gang. Annette grows more and more desperate for Tony's attention, as does Bobby, who tries to ask him for guidance. Tony helps Stephanie move to Manhattan , and comforts her after discovering her past relationship with an older married colleague. Tony and his friends take revenge on
1976-480: A piece titled "Is Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas 's Love for Real?", that drew severe backlash from readers for accusing Chopra of trapping Jonas into a fraudulent relationship and calling her a "global scam artist". The publication removed the piece the following morning and issued an apology. In January 2019, Moss announced that he was retiring from the editorship. David Haskell , one of his chief deputies, succeeded him as editor on April 1, 2019. That spring,
2080-497: A pilot for a weekly. TV show based on its popular back-page feature, the Approval Matrix. New York 's art critic Jerry Saltz appeared as a judge on Bravo's reality competition series Work of Art: The Next Great Artist in 2010 and 2011. Grub Street senior editor Alan Sytsma appeared as a guest on judge on three episodes of the third season of Top Chef Masters . April 2018 was New York ' s 50th anniversary, marked with
2184-423: A relaunch that appeared on August 21. The new site was designed for an enhanced mobile-first experience and to better reflect the topics covered. In January 2018, The Cut published Moira Donegan's essay revealing her as the creator of the controversial " Shitty Media Men " list, a viral but short-lived anonymous spreadsheet crowdsourcing unconfirmed reports of sexual misconduct by men in journalism. That August,
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#17328455307212288-452: A smart, poignant story, a classic soundtrack, and a starmaking performance from John Travolta, Saturday Night Fever ranks among the finest dramas of the 1970s." Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 77 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. It was added to The New York Times "Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made", which
2392-520: A suicidal tirade, before Bobby falls to his death. After the police arrive, a disgusted and disillusioned Tony leaves Double J, Joey, and Annette behind, riding the graffiti-riddled subway into Manhattan. By morning, he appears at Stephanie's apartment and apologizes for his behavior, planning to relocate to Manhattan to start a new life. Stephanie forgives Tony, admitting that she danced with him because he gave her respect and moral support, and they salvage their relationship, agreeing to be friends. The film
2496-418: A year, Felker had assembled a team of contributors who would come to define the magazine's voice. Breslin became a regular, as did Nicholas Pileggi , Gail Sheehy , and Gloria Steinem , who wrote a politics column. Judith Crist wrote movie reviews. Harold Clurman was hired as the theater critic, then replaced a few months later by John Simon , who became notorious for his harsh reviews. Alan Rich covered
2600-691: A year-long relaunch, transforming from a site that principally republished the magazine's content to an up-to-the-minute news- and- service destination. In 2008, parent company New York Media also purchased the restaurant- and-menu site MenuPages as a complement to its own restaurant coverage, reselling it in 2011 to Seamless. With the launch of Grub Street, devoted to food, and Daily Intelligencer (later renamed just "Intelligencer"), its politics site, both in 2006; Vulture, its culture site, in 2007; and The Cut, its fashion-and-women's-interest site, in 2008, New York began shifting significant resources toward digital-only publication. These sites were intended to adapt
2704-672: Is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City . Founded by Clay Felker and Milton Glaser in 1968 as a competitor to The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine , it was brasher in voice and more connected to contemporary city life and commerce, and became a cradle of New Journalism . Over time, it became more national in scope, publishing many noteworthy articles about American culture by writers such as Tom Wolfe , Jimmy Breslin , Nora Ephron , Pete Hamill , Jacob Weisberg , Michael Wolff , John Heilemann , Frank Rich , and Rebecca Traister . It
2808-550: Is heavily inspired by the film and recreates the opening scene and classic characters from the film who are portrayed by each band member. Dance in film Some films feature recognizable dance forms, demonstrating them, shedding light on their origin, or being the base of a plot. Fred Astaire 's and Gene Kelly 's filmographies may significantly contribute to these lists. With the Whiteys Lindy Hoppers Modern films New York (magazine) New York
2912-411: Is often not about the city—at least not in the overcrowded, traffic-clogged, five-boroughs sense," observing that it was more regularly publishing political and cultural stories of national and international import. The magazine's first website, nymetro.com, was launched in 2001. In the early 21st century, the magazine began to diversify that online presence, introducing subject-specific websites under
3016-468: Is one of the highest-grossing R-rated films released in the U.S. in the 1970s, with a total box office gross of $ 673,899,098 in 2024. Tony Manero is an Italian-American from the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn , living in his family's house and working in a paint store. He escapes his day-to-day life by dancing at 2001 Odyssey, a local discotheque , where he receives the admiration he craves as king of
3120-665: Is paid for by the subject of a story, but it earns revenue through affiliate advertising , including the Amazon Associates Program. In 2018, the Strategist experimented with a holiday pop-up shop called I Found It at the Strategist. In 2020, New York took over the Vox Media website Curbed , which had begun by covering New York City real estate and development since 2005 and had grown to cover urbanism and design news in many American cities. That October, Curbed relaunched as
3224-627: The Biography documentary Inside Story: Saturday Night Fever , producer Robert Stigwood criticized the PG-rated version, stating that it undermined the film's impact and lacked the power of the original R-rated edition. In 2017, the director's cut (running 122 minutes) premiered at the TCM Classic Film Festival at TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Fathom Events hosted special screenings of this version in 2017. Both theatrical versions were released on VHS . The PG-rated version never had
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3328-634: The Bee Gees , is one of the best-selling soundtrack albums worldwide. Travolta reprised his role of Tony Manero in Staying Alive in 1983, which was panned by critics despite being successful at the box office. In 2010, Saturday Night Fever was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry . Adjusted for inflation, it
3432-546: The Bee Gees : " How Deep Is Your Love ", " Stayin' Alive " and " Night Fever ", which they also performed, as well as Yvonne Elliman 's version of " If I Can't Have You ". All four reached No. 1 in the US. In the UK, the album spent 18 consecutive weeks at No. 1. The album epitomized the disco phenomenon on both sides of the Atlantic and was an international sensation. The album has been added to
3536-689: The National Magazine Awards and was named Magazine of the Year by the Society of Publication Designers (SPD) in 2006 and 2007. A 2008 cover about Eliot Spitzer 's prostitution scandal, created by the artist Barbara Kruger and displaying the word "Brain" with an arrow pointed at Spitzer's crotch, was named Cover of the Year by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) and Advertising Age . The next year, another cover, " Bernie Madoff , Monster",
3640-682: The National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress in 2014 for being culturally significant. According to the DVD commentary for Saturday Night Fever , the producers intended to use the song "Lowdown" by Boz Scaggs in the rehearsal scene between Tony and Annette in the dance studio, and choreographed their dance moves to the song. However, representatives for Scaggs' label Columbia Records refused to grant legal clearance for it, as they wanted to pursue another disco movie project, which never materialized. Composer David Shire , who scored
3744-581: The New York perspective. The site joined other product review sites focusing on providing free product reviews to readers, generating affiliate commissions when readers would purchase a product they recommended. The early editorial team included editors David Haskell and Alexis Swerdloff. Popular recurring franchises include the celebrity-shopping "What I Can't Live Without" series, "Strategist-Approved" gift guides, and beauty reviews by influencer Rio Viera-Newton. The Strategist does not publish branded content that
3848-547: The Watergate scandal closely. He also launched New West , a sister magazine on New York 's model that covered California life, published in separate Northern California and Southern California editions. In 1976, journalist Nik Cohn wrote a story called " Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night ", about a young man in a working-class Brooklyn neighborhood who, once a week, went to a local disco called Odyssey 2001;
3952-428: The pay television rights to Saturday Night Fever in 1980, both versions of the film were aired by the network: the PG version during the day, and the R version during the evening (HBO, which had primarily operated on a late afternoon-to-early overnight schedule at the time, had maintained a programming policy restricting the showing of R-rated films to the nighttime hours, a rule that continued long after it switched to
4056-428: The 2008 presidential election that led to his (and Mark Halperin 's) best-selling book Game Change , Jonathan Chait 's commentary, and Olivia Nuzzi 's reporting on the first Trump administration . The New Republic praised its "hugely impressive political coverage" during the presidency of Barack Obama . It is also known for its arts and culture criticism, its food writing (its restaurant critic Adam Platt won
4160-603: The 2013 award for Magazine of the Year. Since the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism opened to magazines as well as newspapers in 2016, New York ' s critics have won twice ( Jerry Saltz in 2018, and Andrea Long Chu in 2023) and been finalists twice more ( Justin Davidson in 2020 and Craig Jenkins in 2021). In 2009, the Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz wrote that "the nation's best and most-imitated city magazine
4264-492: The 2017 director's cut. Starting in the late 1990s, VH1 , TBS and TNT began showing the original R-rated version with a TV-14 rating , although with nudity removed/censored, and the stronger profanity either being edited or (on recent airings) silenced. However, this version of the TV cut included some innuendo included in the original theatrical release that was edited or removed from the PG version. Turner Classic Movies has aired
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4368-404: The Barracudas, crashing Bobby's car into their hangout and starting a brawl, but are angry to learn that Gus may have identified the wrong gang. After much practice, Tony and Stephanie dance at the competition, sharing a kiss at the end of their performance. They win first prize, but Tony believes that a Puerto Rican couple performed better and the judges' decision was racially biased, and he gives
4472-501: The Bronx, West Indians on Staten Island, and, yes, Italians in Brooklyn." Shortly after Cohn's article was published, British music impresario Robert Stigwood purchased the film rights and hired Cohn to adapt his own article to screen. In the mid-1990s Cohn acknowledged that although his account was presented as factual reporting, he fabricated most of the article. He said that as a newcomer to
4576-666: The Giant Sea Tortoise , Son of Giant Sea Tortoise , and Maybe He's Dead: And Other Hilarious Results of New York Magazine Competitions . Beginning in 1980, the magazine ran an American-style crossword constructed by Maura B. Jacobson . Jacobson retired in April 2011, having created 1,400 puzzles for the magazine, after which the job passed to Cathy Allis Millhauser and then Matt Gaffney. In January 2020, Vulture began publishing daily 10x10 crosswords by two constructors, Malaika Handa and Stella Zawistowski. New York ' s news blog
4680-400: The New Saturday Night ", a mostly fictional 1976 article by music writer Nik Cohn . A major critical and commercial success, Saturday Night Fever had a tremendous impact on the popular culture of the late 1970s. It helped popularize disco around the world and initiated a series of collaborations between film studios and record labels. It made Travolta, already well known from his role in
4784-473: The PG version. Numerous profanity-filled scenes were replaced with alternate takes of the same scenes, substituting milder language initially intended for the network television cut. Paramount initially intended to release the PG-rated version of the film in 1978, as it was already being screened on airlines . However, due to the regulations set by the MPAA at the time, it was not permissible to have two versions of
4888-618: The Sunday-magazine supplement of the New York Herald Tribune newspaper. The Herald Tribune , then in financial difficulty, had recently been sold to John Hay Whitney , and was looking to revitalize its business with an increased focus on editorial excellence, which included a relaunch of the Sunday edition and its magazine. Edited first by Sheldon Zalaznick and then by Clay Felker , the relaunched magazine, called New York , showcased
4992-559: The United States and Canada and $ 237.1 million worldwide. Adjusted for inflation, it is the highest-grossing R-rated film released in the U.S. in the 1970s, with a total box office gross of $ 673,899,098 in 2024. Saturday Night Fever received positive reviews and is regarded by many critics as one of the best films of 1977. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 82% of 55 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The website's consensus reads: "Boasting
5096-450: The United States and a stranger to the disco lifestyle, he was unable to make any sense of the subculture he had been assigned to write about; instead, the article's protagonist (who would become Tony Manero) was based on an acquaintance of Cohn who was an English mod . John G. Avildsen was originally hired as the film's director but was replaced one month before principal photography by John Badham over "conceptual disagreements." Badham
5200-413: The actors it was their film debut. The only actor in the cast who was already an established name was John Travolta , thanks to his role on the sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter . Travolta, who had previously auditioned for Stigwood's film version of Jesus Christ Superstar , was remembered by the producer and signed to a three-movie contract with his company in 1976. Stigwood wanted Travolta to first star in
5304-414: The addition of columnist Jonathan Chait in 2011 and the longtime political blogger Ed Kilgore in 2015. The Cut launched on the New York website in 2008, edited by Amy Odell, to replace a previous fashion week blog, Show & Talk . In 2012 it became a standalone website, shifting focus from fashion to women's issues more generally. Stella Bugbee became editor-in-chief in 2017, and presided over
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#17328455307215408-427: The back seat. Double J takes Joey's place while Tony and Bobby appear uncomfortable. As the others begin their usual cable-climbing antics on the bridge, Tony insults a distraught Annette and blames her for Double J's assault of her. An erratic Bobby behaves even more recklessly than his friends, and Tony tries to talk him down, but Bobby's strong sense of despair and Tony's broken promise to call him earlier all lead to
5512-404: The best-selling soundtrack albums worldwide, with sales figures of over 40 million copies. In the United States, the album was certified 16× Platinum for shipments of at least 16 million units. The album stayed atop the charts for 24 straight weeks from January to July 1978 and stayed on Billboard ' s album charts for 120 weeks until March 1980. The soundtrack included material written by
5616-444: The character's swaggering mannerisms from the male patrons. Travolta said when he would get recognized, "[Guys'] girlfriends would come up, and they'd say, 'Hey, stay away from him, don't bug Travolta,' and they’d actually push the girls away. Tony Manero's whole male-chauvinist thing I got from watching those guys in the discos." He insisted on performing his character's own dance sequences after producers suggested he be substituted by
5720-415: The classical-music scene. Barbara Goldsmith wrote a series called "The Creative Environment", in which she interviewed such subjects as Marcel Breuer , I. M. Pei , George Balanchine , and Pablo Picasso about their process. Gael Greene , writing under the rubric "The Insatiable Critic", reviewed restaurants , cultivating a baroque writing style that leaned heavily on sexual metaphor . The office for
5824-505: The co-creator of Spy , a humor monthly of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Andersen quickly replaced several staff members, bringing in emerging and established writers (including Jim Cramer , Walter Kirn , Michael Tomasky , and Jacob Weisberg ) and editors (including Michael Hirschorn, Kim France, Dany Levy , and Maer Roshan), and generally making the magazine faster-paced, younger in outlook, and more knowing in tone. In August 1996, Bill Reilly fired Andersen from his editorship, citing
5928-532: The competition. Tony is pleased to no longer be the black sheep of the family when his older brother Frank Jr, the pride of their parents and grandmother, quits the Catholic priesthood. Frank Jr admits that he only became a priest to make their parents happy, and later advises Bobby, who is under pressure to marry his pregnant girlfriend, that the Pope is unlikely to grant him dispensation for an abortion. Leaving to start
6032-468: The couple his trophy and award money. Outside in Bobby's car, Tony tries to force himself on Stephanie, who declares that she was only using him to win, before fighting him off and running away. Tony's friends arrive with an intoxicated Annette, who has agreed to have sex with everyone. Tony tries to lead her away but is subdued by Double J and Joey, and they all drive to the bridge as Joey has sex with Annette in
6136-457: The dance floor is like a peacock on amphetamines. He struts like crazy." Siskel even bought Travolta's famous white suit from the film at a charity auction. Film critic Pauline Kael wrote a gushing review of the film in The New Yorker : "The way Saturday Night Fever has been directed and shot, we feel the languorous pull of the discotheque, and the gaudiness is transformed. These are among
6240-576: The dance floor. Tony and his friends Joey, Double J, Gus, and Bobby C spend their nights at the disco, trying to have sex with women in Bobby's car, and climbing on the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge . Neighborhood girl Annette is infatuated with Tony, much to his annoyance, and he agrees to be her partner in an upcoming dance contest. Annette's happiness is short-lived when Tony is mesmerized by a better dancer, Stephanie Mangano, who rejects Tony's advances but eventually agrees to be his new partner in
6344-439: The decade, including James Brady , Joe Armstrong (who also served as publisher), John Berendt , and (briefly) Jane Amsterdam . In 1980, Murdoch hired Edward Kosner , the former editor of Newsweek , to replace Armstrong. Murdoch also bought Cue , a listings magazine founded by Mort Glankoff that had covered the city since 1932, and folded it into New York , simultaneously creating a useful going-out guide and eliminating
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#17328455307216448-473: The film in both versions: the original R-rated version (rated TV-MA on the network) is the cut commonly broadcast, although the PG cut has been presented as part of TCM's family-oriented "Funday Night at the Movies" and "Essentials Jr." film showcases. The film grossed $ 25.9 million in its first 24 days of release and grossed an average of $ 600,000 a day throughout January to March going on to gross $ 94.2 million in
6552-401: The film was in development, at some point after the film's release. In 2024, David Letterman said that he was sent to an audition for the series. The 1980 comedy Airplane! by directors David & Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams , included a flashback scene that directly parodied the dance competition scene at the disco in Saturday Night Fever . In 2008, director Pablo Larraín made
6656-434: The film's content was re-edited into a 112-minute, toned down, PG-rated version, not only to attract a wider audience, but also to capitalize on attracting the target audience of the teenagers who were not old enough to see the film by themselves, but who made the film's soundtrack album a monster hit. The R-rated version's profanity, nudity, fight sequence, and a gang rape scene in a car, were all de-emphasized or removed from
6760-419: The film, and included bonus features from the 2002 release as well as new extras. The 4K director's cut (122 minutes) was released on Blu-ray on May 2, 2017. This disc includes both the director's cut and the original theatrical version, as well as the bulk of the bonus features from the prior release. On November 8, 2022, Paramount released the film as a special edition 4K HD Blu-ray. When HBO acquired
6864-465: The film, had to in turn write a song to match the dance steps demonstrated in the scene and eliminate the need for future legal hassles. However, this track does not appear on the movie's soundtrack. The song "K-Jee" was used during the dance contest with the Puerto Rican couple that competed against Tony and Stephanie. Some VHS cassettes used a more traditional Latin-style song instead. The DVD restores
6968-525: The film, including the addition of a $ 15,000 lighted floor, which was inspired by a Birmingham, Alabama establishment Badham had visited. A similar effect was achieved on the club's walls using tinfoil and Christmas lights . Since the Bee Gees were not involved in the production until after principal photography wrapped, the "Night Fever", "You Should Be Dancin'", and "More Than a Woman" sequences were shot with Stevie Wonder tracks that were later overdubbed in
7072-585: The first year of the magazine's existence, the composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim contributed an extremely complex cryptic crossword to every third issue. Sondheim eventually ceded the job in order to write his next musical, and Richard Maltby, Jr. took over . For many years the magazine also syndicated The Times of London's cryptic crossword. Beginning in early 1969, for two weeks out of every three, Sondheim's friend Mary Ann Madden edited an extremely popular witty literary competition calling for readers to send in humorous poetry or other bits of wordplay on
7176-714: The following March, reducing from 42 issues per year to 26 plus three special editions. In April 2016, the magazine announced the launch of Select All, a new vertical dedicated to technology and innovation. In 2019, Select All was shuttered and folded into the broadened "Intelligencer" news site. In the mid-2010s, New York launched several podcasts jointly produced with other outlets, all short-lived. Its first independently owned podcast, Good One: A Podcast About Jokes, hosted by Jesse David Fox, launched in February 2017. The magazine also expanded into television, collaborating with Michael Hirschorn's Ish Entertainment and Bravo to produce
7280-441: The kind of dancer who needs thought and construction—an idea—before I dance. I need an internal story. Lester would put on some music and he would say, 'Move with me, motherfucker—move with me!'" Karen Lynn Gorney was nine years older than Travolta when she was cast as his love interest Stephanie. Although Gorney had dance experience before she was cast, she found it difficult to keep up with her co-star due to injuries sustained in
7384-488: The magazine about the best place to get a croissant or a beret, it was clear that Wasserstein wanted a publication that was the best place to learn about the complicated apparatus that is modern New York. In enabling as much, Mr. Wasserstein recaptured the original intent of the magazine's founder, Clay Felker ." Wasserstein's children retained control of the magazine, which continued to be overseen by his deputy Anup Bagaria. In 2006, New York 's website, NYMag.com, underwent
7488-501: The magazine laid off several staff members and temporary employees. On September 24, 2019, Vox Media announced that it had purchased the magazine's parent company, New York Media LLC. Pam Wasserstein, the CEO of New York Media, became Vox Media's president, working closely with its CEO, Jim Bankoff . After the merger with Vox Media, May 2020, Vox Media announced it was merging the real estate site Curbed into New York and refocusing
7592-426: The magazine was on the top floor of the old Tammany Hall clubhouse at 207 East 32nd Street, which Glaser owned. The magazine did not consistently turn a profit in these early years: One board member, Alan Patricof, later said that "it may have touched into the black for a quarter, then out of it, but it was not significantly profitable." Wolfe, a regular contributor to the magazine, wrote a story in 1970 that captured
7696-419: The magazine. The magazine's first website, under the url nymetro.com, appeared in 2001. In 2002 and 2003, Wolff , the media critic Miller had hired in 1998, won two National Magazine Awards for his columns. At the end of 2003, New York was sold again, to a family trust controlled by financier Bruce Wasserstein , for $ 55 million. Wasserstein, early in 2004, replaced Miller with Adam Moss , who had founded
7800-454: The morning as possible before people caught on – often at the crack of dawn. They would also generate fake call sheets . The tactics worked well enough that Badham was usually able to get the scenes done before significant crowds had time to gather. The soundtrack was released on November 15, 1977. Prior to the release of Thriller by Michael Jackson , Saturday Night Fever was the best-selling album in music history , and still ranks among
7904-470: The most hypnotically beautiful pop dance scenes ever filmed ... Travolta gets so far inside the role he seems incapable of a false note; even the Brooklyn accent sounds unerring ... At its best, though, Saturday Night Fever gets at something deeply romantic: the need to move, to dance, and the need to be who you'd like to be. Nirvana is the dance; when the music stops, you return to being ordinary." American Film Institute Lists A television show based on
8008-474: The nameplate, backed by Wall Street bankers led by Armand G. Erpf (the magazine's first chairman, who Felker attributed as the financial architect of the magazine ) and C. Gerald Goldsmith (Barbara Goldsmith's husband at the time), and reincarnated the magazine as a stand-alone glossy weekly. Joining them was managing editor Jack Nessel, Felker's number-two at the Herald Tribune. New York 's first issue
8112-408: The nightlife of city emerging from Covid lockdown; "The Year I Ate New York", written in 2022 by Tammie Taclamarian and in 2023 by E. Alex Jung; and a collection of limited-series newsletters devoted to Succession , …And Just Like That , and prominent New York City court cases. Notable stories published by New York in this decade include Nicholson Baker 's investigation of the possibility that
8216-403: The nymag.com umbrella: Vulture , The Cut , Intelligencer, The Strategist, Curbed , and Grub Street . In 2018, New York Media, the parent company of New York magazine, launched a digital subscription product for those sites. On September 24, 2019, Vox Media announced that it had purchased New York magazine and its parent company, New York Media. New York was created in 1963 as
8320-402: The original recording. The album, like its parent film, has been added to the Library of Congress via the National Recording Registry . Two theatrical versions of the film were released: the original R-rated version and an edited PG-rated version in 1979. The R-rated version released in 1977 represented the movie's first run , and totaled 119 minutes. After the success of the first run,
8424-510: The pop-science rubric Science of Us , which previously existed as a standalone site. In 2024, 'The Cut' published an article in which a woman confessed to abusing and neglecting her pet cat, Lucky. Advocates take to social media by storm seeking justice for Lucky. Grub Street , covering food and restaurants, was expanded in 2009 to five additional cities served by former nymag.com sister site MenuPages.com. In 2013 Grub Street announced that it would close its city blogs outside New York and bring
8528-555: The popular TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter , a household name. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, at the time becoming the fourth-youngest nominee in the category. The film showcases aspects of the music, dancing, and subculture surrounding the disco era, including symphony-orchestrated melodies, haute couture styles of clothing, pre- AIDS sexual promiscuity, and graceful choreography. The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack , featuring songs by
8632-481: The priesthood. "I think what Norman did so well was to create a family situation that had real truth, an accurate look at how men related to women in that moment, in ways that you would never get away with now," said producer Kevin McCormick . The film's relatively low budget ($ 3.5 million) meant that most of the actors were relative unknowns, many of whom were recruited from New York's theatre scene. For more than 40% of
8736-658: The publication's financial results. According to Andersen, he was fired for refusing to kill a story about a rivalry between investment bankers Felix Rohatyn and Steven Rattner that had upset Henry Kravis , a member of the firm's ownership group. His replacement was Caroline Miller, who came from Seventeen , another K-III title. In part owing to the company's financial constraints, Miller and her editors focused on cultivating younger writers, including Ariel Levy , Jennifer Senior , Robert Kolker , and Vanessa Grigoriadis . She also hired Michael Wolff , whose writing about media and politics became an extremely popular component of
8840-464: The role of Annette. She corrected this matter by putting on weight. She also had to relearn her native Brooklyn accent, which she had overcome while studying drama at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts . The film was shot entirely on-location in Brooklyn , New York . The 2001 Odyssey Disco was a real club located at 802 64th Street, which has since been demolished. The interior was modified for
8944-500: The short-lived New York weekly 7 Days and then edited The New York Times Magazine . That fall, Moss and his staff relaunched the magazine, most notably with two new sections: "The Strategist", devoted mostly to service, food, and shopping, and "The Culture Pages", covering the city's arts scene. Moss also rehired Kurt Andersen as a columnist. In early 2006, the company relaunched the magazine's website, previously nymetro.com, as nymag.com. New York in this period won design awards at
9048-414: The site also published "Everywhere and Nowhere," Lindsay Peoples's essay about the fashion industry's inhospitability to Black voices and points of view. In 2019, The Cut published an excerpt from E. Jean Carroll 's book, What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal, mostly about Donald J. Trump 's sexual assault on her. In 2021, Peoples became the site's next editor-in-chief. The Cut also incorporates
9152-748: The site on its roots in New York City. That year, New York also expanded its podcast business, adding Pivot , On With Kara Swisher , Where Should We Begin with Esther Perel , Switched on Pop , and Into It With Sam Sanders to its lineup. The company also saw an expansion of its intellectual property into television and movies, notably with Hustlers , a feature film adapted from a story by Jessica Pressler. In 2022, three television series adapted from New York properties appeared: Inventing Anna and The Watcher on Netflix, and Sex Diaries on HBO. The magazine also moved into publishing an array of digital newsletters, including "Are U Coming?", which documented
9256-755: The sound mix. During filming, the production was harassed by local gangs over use of the location, and was even firebombed. The dance studio was Phillips Dance Studio in Bensonhurst , the Manero home was a house in Bay Ridge , the paint store was Pearson Paint & Hardware, also in Bay Ridge. Other locations included the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge , John J. Carty Park , and the Bay Ridge Promenade. To try to throw off Travolta's fans who might disrupt filming, Badham and his team took to shooting exterior scenes as early in
9360-476: The soundtrack, they told Stigwood they disliked the title Saturday Night . It was after this that the film's final title of Saturday Night Fever was decided upon. After Cohn finished a single screenplay draft, he was replaced by Norman Wexler , a screenwriter with Oscar nominations for Joe (1970) and Serpico (1973). Among the elements Wexler added to the story was Tony's younger sister, as well as older brother Frank who disappoints his parents by leaving
9464-537: The spirit of the magazine (if not the age): " Radical Chic : That Party at Lenny's". The controversial and often criticized article described a benefit party for the Black Panthers , held in Leonard Bernstein 's apartment, in a collision of high culture and low that paralleled New York magazine's ethos and expressed Wolfe's interest in status and class. In 1972, New York ' s year-end issue incorporated
9568-462: The story was a sensation and served as the basis for the film Saturday Night Fever . Twenty years later, in a followup story in New York , Cohn admitted that he had made up the character and most of the story. In 1976, the Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch bought the magazine in a hostile takeover , forcing Felker and Glaser out. A succession of top editors followed through the remainder of
9672-415: The urbane sensibility of the print magazine for a national and international audience, and attract readership that had been lost by print magazines in general, particularly fashion and entertainment outlets. By July 2010, digital ads accounted for one-third of the company's advertising revenue. David Carr noted in an August 2010 column, "In a way, New York magazine is fast becoming a digital enterprise with
9776-403: The week following Hurricane Sandy , so the editorial staff published an issue from a quickly constructed temporary newsroom in the midtown office of Wasserstein & Company. The issue's cover, shot by photographer Iwan Baan from a helicopter and showing Manhattan half in darkness, almost immediately became an iconic image of the storm; Time called it the magazine cover of the year. The image
9880-514: The work of many talented Tribune contributors, including Tom Wolfe , Barbara Goldsmith , Gail Sheehy , Dick Schaap, and Jimmy Breslin . The Tribune went out of business in 1966, and New York was briefly revived as part of a combined paper, the World Journal Tribune , that lasted until May 1967. Shortly after the WJT closed, Felker and his partner, Milton Glaser , purchased the rights to
9984-427: Was a lesser-known director who, like his star, had mostly worked in television. His sole prior film credit, The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings , was released while Saturday Night Fever was already well into production. The film went through several different titles, including Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night and Saturday Night . After the Bee Gees wrote " Night Fever " and submitted it for
10088-498: Was among the first " lifestyle magazines " meant to appeal to both male and female audiences, and its format and style have been emulated by many American regional and city publications. New York in its earliest days focused almost entirely on coverage of its namesake city, but beginning in the 1970s, it expanded into reporting and commentary on national politics, notably Richard Reeves on Watergate , Joe Klein 's early cover story about Bill Clinton , John Heilemann 's reporting on
10192-455: Was coined for a 1985 cover story in the magazine. Murdoch got out of the magazine business in 1991 by selling his holdings to K-III Communications , a partnership controlled by financier Henry Kravis . Subsequent budget pressure from K-III frustrated Kosner, and he left in 1993, taking over the editorship of Esquire magazine. After several months during which the magazine was run by managing editor Peter Herbst, K-III hired Kurt Andersen ,
10296-644: Was dated April 8, 1968. Several writers came from the magazine's earlier incarnation, including Breslin, Wolfe (who wrote "You and Your Big Mouth: How the Honks and Wonks Reveal the Phonetic Truth about Status" in the inaugural issue), and George Goodman , a financial writer who wrote under the pseudonym " Adam Smith ." Glaser and his deputy Walter Bernard designed and laid out the magazine and hired many notable artists, including Jim McMullan , Robert Grossman , and David Levine , to produce covers and illustrations. Within
10400-499: Was inspired by a 1976 New York magazine article entitled " Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night " by British writer Nik Cohn . The article centers on working class Italian-Americans in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and on the lives of young men who work dead-end jobs but live for their nights dancing at the local discotheque. Cohn later wrote that "the [disco] craze had started in black gay clubs, then progressed to straight blacks and gay whites and from there to mass consumption—Latinos in
10504-474: Was introduced under the name Daily Intelligencer, expanding upon the weekly magazine's front-of-the-book Intelligencer section. Launched in 2006, it was initially written mostly by Jessica Pressler and Chris Rovzar, whose coverage focused on local politics, media, and Wall Street but also included extensive chatter about the television show Gossip Girl . Over its first half-decade, the site expanded in reach and became more focused on national politics, notably with
10608-521: Was named Best News & Business Cover by ASME. New York won back-to-back ASME Cover of the Year awards in 2012 and 2013, for "Is She Just Too Old for This?" and "The City and the Storm" respectively. Design director Chris Dixon and photography director Jody Quon were named "Design Team of the Year" by Adweek in 2008. When Bruce Wasserstein died in 2009, David Carr of The New York Times wrote that "While previous owners had required constant features in
10712-497: Was published in 2004. In 2010, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Film critic Gene Siskel , who would later list this as his favorite movie, praised the film: "One minute into Saturday Night Fever you know this picture is onto something, that it knows what it's talking about." He also praised John Travolta's energetic performance: "Travolta on
10816-606: Was republished as a poster by the Museum of Modern Art, with proceeds benefiting Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. The following spring, New York took the top honor at the National Magazine Awards, again receiving the Magazine of the Year award for its print and digital coverage. In December 2013, as readership for its digital sites continued to build, the magazine announced plans to shift the print edition to biweekly publication
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