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Can't Stop the Music

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Alex Briley

David Hodo

Glenn Hughes

Randy Jones

Felipe Rose

Ray Simpson

Valerie Perrine

Caitlyn Jenner

Steve Guttenberg

Paul Sand

Tammy Grimes

June Havoc

Barbara Rush

Altovise Davis

Marilyn Sokol

Russell Nype

Jack Weston

Leigh Taylor-Young

Dick Patterson

Bobo Lewis

Paula Trueman

Portia Nelson

Selma Archerd

Murial Slatkin

Aaron Colt

Vera Brown

Jacqui Smith Lee

Dodie Draher

Greg Zadikov

Danone Camden

Rasa Alileen

Gabriel Barre

Don Blanton

Roger LeClaire

Cindy Roberts

Maggie Brendler

Bradley Bliss

William Bartman

Victor Davis

William L. Arndt

Jerry Layne

Terry Dunn

Maria Roosakos

Michael Battlesmith

Richard Bruce Friedman

Bill Anagnos

Debbie Ash

Wade Collings

Jane Eve

Edyie Fleming

Roy Hamlyn Gayle

Virginia Francis Hartley

Alison Jane Hierlihy

Richard King

Kim Elizabeth Leeson

Perri Lister

Sarah M. Miles

Gene Montoya

Floyd Anthony Pearce

Blane Savage

Peter Tramm

Robert Warners

Christine Ann Wickman

Jimmy Baron

Linda Conaway-Parsloe

Harold Michelson

Justin Scoppa Jr.

Victoria Hugo

Romaine Greene

Henri Belolo

Jeremy Ritzer

John F. Burnett

Theoni V. Aldredge

Jacques Morali

Howard Feuer

James Lee McCoy

Allan Carr

Neil Machlis

Jane Greenwood

Daniel C. Striepeke

Marvin March

Carol Mercatoris

Raymond Hartwick

Nancy Walker

Bronté Woodard

Arlene Phillips

Bill Butler

Daniel Levins

CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC (1980) - It's interesting to note that disco - a much-maligned and often marginalized style of music - once served as a dynamic catalyst for a serious, streetwise drama about working class dreams and realities; propelled in equal measure by a star entering his absolute zenith as a dramatic actor and sex symbol, as well as the efforts of veteran singers and songwriters who were able to tap into all of disco's strengths while keeping the material intelligent and relevant beyond the dance floor. That film, of course, was SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (1977). This film is what happens after you pop a little too much amyl nitrate and start to operate under the delusion that crossing Busby Berkeley with the Continental Baths has blockbuster written all over it. Nominally a pseudo-factual relating of the formation of the Village People, there are several other story threads, one which somehow involves the American Dairy Association (don't ask). Now obviously, no one is here for plot development; they're here to camp away a few hours - and in that regard, the "Y.M.C.A." sequence delivers: Acres of well-oiled male flesh in startlingly-brief man-Dukes; slow-motion examinations of new techniques in pommel horse; dozens of soapy young men crowding the shower, getting clean before having a good meal or doing whatever they feel (all strategically sudsed to maintain that PG-rating). Otherwise, it's over two hours of mostly cringe-worthy thesping (as actors, the Village People make Bruce Jenner look like the Village People); cringe-worthy dialogue; and yawn-inducing attempts at narrative. And yes, this runs in excess of two hours (even longer than this review). It starts to feel like you've plopped yourself down in front of von Stroheim's uncut GREED (1924) if that film were a gay sitcom. Oh well, at least we'll always have ROLLER BOOGIE (1979) around for credibility.

"Can't Stop The Music" (1980 - Nancy Walker)

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