(Cohn later admitted the piece was pure fiction.
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Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” (yikes).Īfter reading Nik Cohn’s 1976 New York magazine article titled “Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night,” Stigwood pitched Paramount Pictures CEO Barry Diller and Paramount’s movie studio chief Michael Eisner on a movie adaptation of Cohn’s strikingly original chronicle about the working-class subculture in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, where once a week the neighborhood twentysomethings would spend their hard-earned money at the disco 2001 Odyssey, where they would hit the dance floor and blow off steam. Did you know that the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever was originally supposed to be titled Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night, based on the New York Magazine article that inspired it It was then shortened to Saturday Night, referencing the fact that main character Tony and his friends inhabited the 2001 Odyssey on Saturday nights.
First, though, we learn about Stigwood’s days in the 1960s promoting and managing the likes of Cream and Eric Clapton and the Bee Gees, producing the first theatrical production of “Jesus Christ Superstar” and then his expansion into the film adaptations of “Superstar,” “Tommy,” “Grease” and “Sgt.
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Saturday Night” tracks the Australian-born Stigwood’s trailblazing career in its entirety - but a great deal of focus is on the fascinating tale of how “Saturday Night Fever” came to be. Bee Gees (Saturday Night Fever OST) - Night Fever. Told in solid, straightforward, traditional documentary style and relying heavily on voice-over interviews from unspecified time periods, old TV clips, behind-the-scenes footage and period-piece still photos, “Mr.