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Saturday Night Fever

May 2024

  • John Travolta mid-dance in Saturday Night Fever

    Saturday Night Fever dancefloor to be auctioned with $300,000 estimate

    Multicoloured floor is part of sale along with Raiders of the Lost Ark prop prototype and The Big Lebowski costumes

January 2024

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    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

April 2023

  • The white polyester suit and black shirt displayed on a mannequin

    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

May 2021

  • teen kicks carrie fox

    Teenage kicks
    Kerry Fox: ‘I still see myself as a teen: pot, joyriding and trying to have sex’

    The Shallow Grave and Intimacy actor on driving at 15 in New Zealand, her parents’ disco dancing and starting an Abba fan club in her shed

December 2020

  • teenage kicks 201204 Diane Lane

    Teenage kicks
    Diane Lane's teenage obsessions: 'I'm still scarred by A Clockwork Orange'

    With the release of her new film Let Him Go, the actor recalls the sex and violence of 70s movies, doing the hustle to Troglodyte and falling in love with John Travolta’s cool desperation

September 2020

  • Suzanne Vega … ‘I’ve started dancing at my shows, but yet to go full disco.’

    Teenage kicks
    Suzanne Vega's teenage obsessions: 'Taxi Driver captured something awful but made it beautiful'

    In the first of a weekly series where film and music stars discuss their youthful fixations, the US singer recalls silly walks and Saturday Night Fever dance classes

October 2019

  • The Bee Gees – Robin, Barry and Maurice Gibb – in their 70s disco pomp.

    Bohemian Rhapsody producer to make Bee Gees biopic

    Graham King secures rights to Bee Gees songs, following £687m success of Queen and Freddie Mercury movie

September 2019

  • Givenchy flares.

    The Fashion autumn/winter 2019
    Wide boy: what the return of flared trousers means for men

    Fun, frivolity and freedom – the sweeping silhouette made famous in the era of Saturday Night Fever is back in full swing. But how to make it modern?

June 2018

  • 1977, SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER<br>JOHN TRAVOLTA Film ‘SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER’ (1977) Directed By JOHN BADHAM 14 December 1977 CTH24002 Allstar/Cinetext/PARAMOUNT **WARNING** This photograph can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film. For Editorial Use Only

    John Travolta keeps Brooklyn stayin' alive at event honoring actor

    Hundreds of fans gathered outside pizzeria featured in Saturday Night Fever 41 years ago to catch glimpse of – and dress like – the actor

April 2018

  • John Travolta and Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction.

    From Travolta’s twist to strobe-lit raves: 10 of the best dancefloor scenes in cinema

    Here’s our rundown of the best dancing scenes on screen – moments that are often more about humanity than spectacular choreography

December 2017

  • Bruno Tonioli presents Saturday Night Fever: The Ultimate Disco Movie.

    TV review
    Saturday Night Fever: The Ultimate Disco Movie review – Bruno Tonioli hits the floor

    The Strictly judge took a loving look behind the scenes of the film that made John Travolta an A-list star and made disco a global phenomenon

May 2017

  • a movie still from mystic pizza

    Cook: the pizza issue
    Filmic pizza: Our top 10 scenes for pizza lovers

    On screen pizza: These might be star-studded iconic flicks, but the real scene stealer in every one is a more two-dimensional character, smothered in sauce and cheese

January 2017

  • Disco dream … on the dance floor in Saturday Night Fever.

    Music blog
    From Singles to Saturday Night Fever – the film soundtracks that caught a musical moment

    A deluxe edition of the Singles soundtrack marks its status as one of the unlikely but enduring artefacts of the grunge era

June 2016

  • John Travolta as Tony Manero, the character based on Nik Cohn’s Vincent, in 1977’s Saturday Night Fever.

    Disco's Saturday Night Fiction

    Saturday Night Fever was the prism through which the world viewed disco. But its actual inspiration was a British mod called Chris...

January 2016

  • Marco Rubio’s boots: one heel of a controversy.

    Devilish history of Cuban heels proves they're too sexy for Rubio's God squad

    The high heel has a storied past, championed by a who’s who of 20th century pop icons. No wonder the conservative base thinks Marco Rubio’s gone too far
  • Robert Stigwood speaking at the Brits after the Bee Gees received their outstanding contribution to music award in 1997.

    Robert Stigwood obituary

    One of the entertainment industry’s most powerful tycoons, he produced Saturday Night Fever and turned the Bee Gees into international stars
  • The Bee Gees with Robert Stigwood in 1970

    Robert Stigwood, mentor to the Bee Gees, Eric Clapton and Cream, dies at 81

    Australian-born manager was also known for his work as a musical producer and worked on Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar

October 2015

  • Saturday Night Fever

    Readers suggest the 10 best …
    Readers suggest the 10 best walks in culture

    Last week we bought you our 10 best walks in culture. Here, we present your thoughts on the marches, meanders and lopes we left out

June 2013

  • 12 O'Clock Boys

    This week's new film events

    Open City Docs fest | I Am Nasrine | Future Cinema Presents Saturday Night Fever | Edinburgh International Film Festival

February 2005

  • In brief: Travolta's Saturday Night Fever dancefloor goes under the hammer

    Plus: Chris Rock puts Oscar story straight and The Corporation wins Humane documentary award

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