“You Should [Still] Be Dancing”: Saturday Night Fever at Forty

For all of us children of the 1970s, forty years have passed since John Travolta strutted down that Brooklyn street swinging his hips and a paint can to the tune of the Bee Gees’ hit song “Stayin’ Alive.” Film critic Gene Siskel once called Saturday Night Fever his favorite movie–and with good reason. The opening scene is perhaps one of the most memorable in movie history, and many Americans will

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