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Opinion: The dance floor from ‘Saturday Night Fever’? It’s stayin’ alive
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Opinion: The dance floor from ‘Saturday Night Fever’? It’s stayin’ alive

LA Times  

There’s that floor again, that famous floor — geometric, primary colors, flashing in the perpetuity of pop culture memory, an icon of the long-ago disco era. Surely you’ve seen it, pulsing beneath John Travolta’s platform shoes in the 1977 film “Saturday Night Fever.” It’s up for auction in Los Angeles later this month along with other items of Hollywood lore, …

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How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to disco diva Anna Kendrick
2 years ago

How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to disco diva Anna Kendrick

LA Times  

In Sunday Funday, L.A. people give us a play-by-play of their ideal Sunday around town. But she says that she’s “very much looking forward to getting enough rest” — once her work is complete — so that she can have ample energy for her “aspirational” Sunday, which involves day drinking by the pool, going on an hours-long hike and attending …

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How deep is our love for "Saturday Night Fever," which changed how John Travolta and disco were seen
2 years ago

How deep is our love for "Saturday Night Fever," which changed how John Travolta and disco were seen

Salon  

Recent releases by Beyoncé, Lizzo, and even the up-and-coming new act Say She She have incorporated aspects of disco music into their songs. While disco had been bubbling up from the underground, its moment to shine came with the release of the movie and soundtrack to "Saturday Night Fever," which premiered in December 1977. Following the release of "Saturday Night …

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How 2 L.A. immersive Halloween horror shows keep changing the way we scare
3 years, 2 months ago

How 2 L.A. immersive Halloween horror shows keep changing the way we scare

LA Times  

There are scares — one courtesy of synchronized puppetry — and there are impressive, in-the-flesh special effects, such as a head and neck that materialize out of a closet and keep growing. Caiti Wiggins is “Priss” in “Reaper’s Remorse,” the new immersive theater show from “Delusion.” It can be startling in this late-pandemic age when the performers of “Creep LA” …

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Nowadays, disco and the Bee Gees are widely beloved. But that sure wasn’t the case 40 years ago
4 years ago

Nowadays, disco and the Bee Gees are widely beloved. But that sure wasn’t the case 40 years ago

LA Times  

Any retelling of the 1970s disco boom has to reckon with Disco Demolition Night, a shameful promotional event staged by Chicago shock-jock DJ Steve Dahl between games of a White Sox doubleheader on July 12, 1979. In “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart,” an HBO documentary that premieres Saturday, oldest brother Barry Gibb makes it clear …

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Kylie Minogue reflects on the power of disco through 5 massive hits
4 years, 2 months ago

Kylie Minogue reflects on the power of disco through 5 massive hits

ABC  

Kylie gives you her take on her disco heroes, from Donna Summer to Daft Punk Kylie Minogue released Disco, her 15th album, in 2020 and it couldn't come soon enough. "It felt like this day would never arrive," Minogue told Double J's Zan Rowe recently. " Loading Disco may have felt like the right next step for Kylie, but it …

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Marcia Hines reflects on Paulini Curuenavuli's 'fat shaming' incident
5 years, 9 months ago

Marcia Hines reflects on Paulini Curuenavuli's 'fat shaming' incident

Daily Mail  

Ian 'Dicko' Dickson was accused of 'fat shaming' Paulini Curuenavuli when she took to the stage in the 2003 season of Australian Idol in a figure-hugging gold frock. 'Body image is such a big thing': Marcia Hines, 65, reflected on Paulini Curuenavuli's infamous 'fat shaming' incident on Australian Idol back in 2003, as the pair reunite for Saturday Night Fever. …

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